WINNING THE GOLD
Two Lady Tiger relay teams take state titles; PB girls tie for fifth
The Inter-Mountain photos by Joey Kittle Members of the Elkins High School state-winning 4x800 relay team include, from left to right, Kiley Edwards, Samantha Sproul, Anna Belan and Katie Collins.
Senior Anna Belan celebrates with her Lady Tiger teammates after winning one of two state relay titles Thursday afternoon at University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley FIeld. Belan was part of both the 4x800 and 4x400 units that won the gold.
Philip Barbour senior Callee Collins is shown during the 100 hurdles. She placed sixth in the event.
The Inter-Mountain photos by Joey Kittle Members of the Elkins High School state-winning 4x800 relay team include, from left to right, Kiley Edwards, Samantha Sproul, Anna Belan and Katie Collins.
Senior Anna Belan celebrates with her Lady Tiger teammates after winning one of two state relay titles Thursday afternoon at University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley FIeld. Belan was part of both the 4x800 and 4x400 units that won the gold.
Philip Barbour senior Callee Collins is shown during the 100 hurdles. She placed sixth in the event.
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The Inter-Mountain photos by Joey Kittle
Members of the Elkins High School state-winning 4×800 relay team include, from left to right, Kiley Edwards, Samantha Sproul, Anna Belan and Katie Collins.
Senior Anna Belan celebrates with her Lady Tiger teammates after winning one of two state relay titles Thursday afternoon at University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley FIeld. Belan was part of both the 4×800 and 4×400 units that won the gold.
Philip Barbour senior Callee Collins is shown during the 100 hurdles. She placed sixth in the event.
CHARLESTON -- The Elkins High School girls captured state titles in two relay events, while Philip Barbour tied for fifth in the team standings on the final day of the Class AA portion of the state track and field meet Thursday at UC Stadium at Laidley Field.
The Lady Tigers, who finished seventh with 28 points, won the 4×800 and the 4×400.
The 4×800 unit was comprised of Kiley Edwards, Katie Collins, Anna Belan and Samantha Sproul. They finished with a time of 8:54.25 to outdistance runner-up Liberty by more than six seconds.
Kiley Edwards, Belan and Sproul were members of last year's winning 4×800 unit.
Kiley Edwards and Belan joined Laney Fletcher and Gracelin Corley in running to first in the 4×400 with an effort of 4:11.25 to outdistance North Marion's time of 4:16.78.
It was personal bests for both state champion relay units, and the 4×400 missed setting a new school record by just two seconds.
Belan, Corley, Fletcher and Kaleigh Edwards teamed to place fourth in both the 4×100 (52.17) and 4×200 (1:49.91).
Hazel Jackson, Zayah Hedrick, Emma Morgan and Alyson Evick, meanwhile, finished 10th in the shuttle hurdle relays in a time of 1:16.03.
"I was so proud of our kids and their performances the last two days," EHS coach Shellie Burda said. "They fought for every second.
"While we didn't place in every event we entered, we had so many (personal records) and you can't ask more than that out of your athletes."
The Lady Colts racked up 33 points to tie fellow Big 10 Conference school Liberty.
Lydia Phillips placed second in the 300 hurdles (48.09) and Emily Denison was runner-up in Wednesday night's 400 (59.70) to pace Philip Barbour.
Denison was also sixth in the 100-meter dash (13.31), while Callee Collins was fourth in the 100 hurdles (16.75) and Aubrey Williams seventh in Wednesday evening's 3,200 (12:31.85).
The Lady Colt 4×100 relay comprised of Phillips, Collins, Desiree Knotts and Denison was second in a time of 51.75 and the 4×400 (Knotts, Riley McCartney, Williams and Denison) was fourth in a time of 4:18.86.
Winfield captured the team title with 145 points in outdistancing North Marion's 67.
Point Pleasant (62) was third and Fairmont Senior (52) fourth.