Trojans edged for team title at Charles City Invitational

By Andre Jones | March 25, 2018 1:05 am

New Kent's Magnolia Lang (center) tussles for position in the girls' 3200-meter run with Walsingham Academy's Alexandria Haggerty (left) and Tabb's Jenna Leinonen (right).

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New Kent’s boys’ track and field team were edged for the team title at Charles City’s Invitational meet last Saturday.

The Trojans scored 71 points to finish runner-up at the meet, being edged by Clover Hill who took the title with 76 points. Thomas Dale rounded up the top three with 67 points. Charles City’s boys did not score at the meet.

C.J. Reeders leap of 42’6½” and Kyle Coles airborne launch of 41’9” helped the Trojans go one-two in the boys’ triple jump. Reeders and Coles joined Evan Branch and Julius Jacobs in the 4×100 relay to run a time of 44.71, finishing second in the event.

On the girls’ side, New Kent’s Lady Trojans scored 28 points to finish tenth out of 20 teams. Charles City’s girls scored three to finish in 16th place. Thomas Dale took home the team title with 101.5 points.

Other results (CC/NK only)

Girls: 3200- 6. Lang (NK) 13:54.02. 100 hurdles- 6. Brown (CC) 19.37. 4×100 Relay- 4. NK (Bassett, Lawson, Harris, Sligh) 55.90. 4×400 Relay- 3. NK (Frazier, Summe, Harris, Matlock) 4:43.41. 4×800 Relay- 6. NK (Corrales, Lang, Lysek, Cross) 11:54.12. High Jump- 6. Lawson (NK) 4’2”. Triple Jump- 4. Harris (NK) 32’4”. Discus- 5. Ekert (NK) 84’0”.

Boys: 100- 4. Branch (NK) 11.63. 200- 6. Kalo (NK) 24.39. 800- 4. Frazier (NK) 2:05.51. 1600- 7. Snead (NK) 5:00.87. 3200- 3. Johnson (NK) 10:28.62. 5. 4×400 Relay- 5. NK (Kalo, Frazier, Tolley, Curry) 3:41.53. 4×800- 2. NK (Frazier, Johnson, Hathaway, Walker). High Jump- 5. Curry (NK) 5’6”. Long Jump- 3. Reeders (NK) 19’11½”, 7. Coles (NK) 19’4½”. Discus- 7. Hathaway (NK) 112’2½”.

Charles City’s Steven Williams tries to make up ground on Varina’s Jason Richards in the 200-meter dash.