SHADY SPRING- The Greenbrier East Spartans track teams, both boys and girls, competed in the Joey Beckett Memorial Invitational on Thursday night, April 23 at Shady Spring High School, and even though they only competed in a select few events, the boys placed fourth overall (55) and the girls placed second (112).
For the limited events the Spartans participated in with their upcoming meet Saturday, they set 16 seasonal PRs in the boys’ events and 19 PRs in the girls’ events.
Those finishes are pretty impressive considering they semi took the night off.
The big highlight of the evening was the boys’ 4×100 team of Aiden Denning, Devin Penn, Nate Suttle, and Jy Green. Those four shattered a 49-year-old record and ran a time of 43.88 to break it. That same group also won the 4×200 (1:32.35) and Suttle, Green, Denning, and Kaden Stone placed second in the 4×400.
Suttle also placed first in 100-meters with a time of 11.16. In the 400m, Stone (55.92) finished sixth while Adam Patriacca placed 10th (58.35). Cash Ridpath came in sixth in the 1600-meters with a time of 5:13.11 while Grayson Adams (11:03.66) and Kalem Mahon (11:44.53) placed third and sixth, respectively in the 3200m.
Grayson VanBuren (39-11.00) and Patrick Bostic (37-04.00) were sixth and eighth in the shot put and Zayir Lee was third in the Discus with a throw of 126-11.
For the girls, it was just another day at the office.
Their top 10 finishes for the evening:
100m:
Kala Waller (fifth, 13.65)
Mia Rowan (sixth, 13.86)
200m:
Annie Whited (first, 24.82)
Noelle McClintic (third, 26.68)
Emma Erskine (seventh, 28.67)
400m:
Neena McClintic (first, 59.70)
Kiana McClung (third, 1:01.26)
Avery Thompson (fourth, 1:03.01)
800m:
Jilian Styles (second, 2:33.28)
Maddie Lilly (fifth, 2:40.73)
Kate Adkins (sixth, 2:41.24)
1600m:
Caroline Perilli-Hancock (first, 5:54.99)
3200m:
Neena McClintic (first, 11:19.86, re-broke school record)
100m Hurdles:
Mykah Judy (second, 17.39)
Emma Palmer (third, 17.60)
Penelope Campbell (fifth, 18.65)
4×100 Relay:
Greenbrier East (first, 49.19- Thompson, Whited, No. McClintic, Mcclung)
4×200 Relay:
Greenbrier East (fourth, 1:57.89- Judy, Palmer, Waller, Rowan)
Shot Put:
Hydee Wykle (ninth, 25-08.00)
Discus:
Hydee Wykle (first, 104-00)
Bryleigh Goodwin (fifth, 84-11)
Long Jump:
Penelope Campbell (10th, 12-05.50)
The Spartans will compete in the 60th Capital City Classic this weekend, April 25.
