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Antler squads run to title at Piedmont Invitational
by okcfriday
Capturing four individual gold medals, along with a pair of relay crowns, both Deer Creek boys and girls track teams won the Piedmont Invitational championship last weekend.
Several other Fridayland teams garnered high finishes as the Heritage Hall girls and McGuinness boys both placed second, followed by the McGuinness girls in fourth, the Casady girls in fifth, along with the Crossings Christian girls and Heritage Hall boys in sixth.
Four Antler athletes earned gold medals at Piedmont. Lloyd Washington picked up the 100-meter title by under a quarter-second in 10.81 seconds.
Tabitha Fox and Tyler Schwarz swept the 800 meters with Fox winning in 2:29.95 over teammate Maddie Cottier and Schwarz finishing in 2:08.85, just ahead of Crossings Christian’s Trey Bishop.
Both Eagle squads are set to visit Classen SAS this Tuesday.
Milin Kumar provided Casady’s only singles win in three matches in the No. 3 slot.
On Friday, Kumar joined Thomas Rudnicki to claim victories in No. 1 and 2 singles, respectively, as Casady cruised to a 4-1 triumph over Dallas Episcopal
The Cylcones also swept the doubles matches, as Thein and Hayhurst rolled to straight sets win in No. 1 doubles along with Wallis and Johnson in No. 2 doubles.
Cadee Shannon rounded out the quartet with a gold medal in the 3200 meters in 12:27 and McGuinness Margot Knudtson grabbed the runner-up spot.
The Irish also boasted a pair of gold medalists, as Tyrell Bruner won the 110meter hurdles in 15.01 seconds and Reid Henderson cleared 11 feet, 6 inches in ascending to the pole vault crown.
Crossings Christian’s
Savanna Meek outdueled McGuinness’ Taby Roy and Mary Loftiss for the 100 hurdles title in 15.78 seconds.
Five different teams also earned titles in the relay events. Deer Creek swept the 4-by800 relays with the girls finishing in 10:01.86 and the boys in 8:35.98. The Heritage Hall girls picked up the 4-by-200 relay in 1:50.04 as did the McGuinness boys in 1:32.01.
Meanwhile, the Casady girls beat Heritage Hall by nearly a second in 49.98 seconds to claim the 4-by-100 relay crown. Finishing second were both Deer Creek squads in the 4by-200 and the Irish boys in the 4-by-800 relays.
In addition, Casady’s Riley Dumigan came away with a silver medal in the 100 meters, as did McGuinness’ Olivia Fosbenner in the pole vault.
Other third-place finishers included Heritage Hall’s Andy Bass in the 100 meters, PC North’s Ricky Young in the 800 meters and Deer Creek’s Spencer Carlson in the 3200 meters.
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