JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Area relay teams were electric. Rheinhardt Harrison was blazing. And the Bolles girls, well, they were everywhere.
The final day of the state track and field meet at UNF’s Hodges Stadium wrapped up with more than a dozen individual championships and a team title for the Bolles girls. The Bulldogs flashed tremendous depth across the Class 2A field to pull in the fourth team championship in program history.
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The stories of the meet — Harrison in the distance events in Class 4A, and area relay squads in 2A.
Harrison continued his storied running career with a sweep of the distance events on Saturday night. A two-time champion in cross country, Harrison had to wait an extra year to nail down his first track and field championships. Last season’s state finals were wiped out by the pandemic.
Harrison won the 1600 in 4 minutes, 8.14 seconds, and added the 3200 crown in 9:02.26.
Teammate Bradley Ball finished third in the 1600 and runner-up in the 3200. Coupled with hurdler Cyrus Ways’ state runner-up effort in the 110 hurdles and a third in the 300, Nease (53.5) finished runner-up behind Niceville (67) in the team standings. Atlantic Coast’s Kevin Davis Jr. added the third individual championship in 4A when he upset the field in the 300 hurdles in 37.95.
Earlier Saturday, the girls swept the relays, with Paxon pulling a 400/1600 double, and Bolles winning the 3200.
The boys nearly made it a First Coast relay sweep, winning two of the three events.
What a morning for the locals.
Bolles had just two individual state championships, one in with the 3200 relay with Catherine Kunz, Hadley Ropp, Leila Bata and Layne Rivera, and the other by pole vaulter Audrey Wuerffel.
But the depth of the Bulldogs was showcased everywhere.
Bolles put three finishers in the top eight in two events, the pole vault and the 3200. In the 1600, javelin and 800, the Bulldogs had two athletes finish in the top eight. Bolles had 62 team points to beat South Walton (54).
The Paxon relay teams were stellar. The 1600 squad of Adriel Strickland, Rose-Esther Saint Germain, Asia Stanford and Danielle Gill edged Episcopal for the state championship. Stanford, Saint Germain, Serenity Wade and Kennedi DeVoux won a state crown, too, taking gold in the 400 relay.
The Raines squad of Quincy Burroughs, Kareem Burke, Jaquon Kirkland and Kenton Kirkland dusted the field in the 1600 relay, winning by nearly 4 seconds. And Jackson’s squad of Justyn Bland, Cornelius Cooks, Ronald Hargrove and Traunard Folson edged Bishop Moore in the 400 relay. The only relay that area teams didn’t win was the 3200, and Bolles finished third in that one.
Palatka’s Torryence Poole won a state crown in the shot put for the Panthers girls, and Raines’ Harrison Robinson won in the 110 hurdles for the other individual championship. As a team a team, the Vikings finished third (43) behind Bishop Moore (64) and Satellite (59).
Domictress Robinson of Ribault was state runner-up in the 100 and 200. Bolles’ George Duffy took a second-place finish in the shot put and a third in the discus. Bishop Kenny long jumper Noah Straley was state runner-up.
Class 4A track and field area results
Girls (finishers in top 8 shown)
100: 2. Sydney Campbell (Creekside), 12.04.
200: 3. Sydney Campbell (Creekside), 24.40.
400: 6. Alyssa Williams (Oakleaf), 57.01; 7. Terren Peterson (Mandarin), 57.09.
110 hurdles: 7. Brittney Jennings (Sandalwood), 14.93.
300 hurdles: 7. Brittney Jennings (Sandalwood), 44.88.
400 relay: 3. Creekside, 47.29.
1600 relay: 5. Sandalwood, 3:55.79.
High jump: 7. Hannah Klein (Bartram Trail), 5-1.75.
Pole vault: 6. Vivian Stovall (Creekside), 10-4.
Triple jump: 4. Arianna Eason (Oakleaf), 37-8.
Shot put: 3. Damoni Kelly (Mandarin), 42-4.25; 5. Aliyah Robertson (Mandarin), 40-9.
Discus: 5. Qua’liyyah Taylor (Bartram Trail), 138-2.
Javelin: 3. Emma Richard (Fleming Island), 118-2.
Boys (finishers in top 8 shown)
100: 8. Jeffrey Stiles (Bartram Trail), 11.03.
200: 2. Jeffrey Stiles (Bartram Trail), 21.78.
1600: 1. Rheinhardt Harrison (Nease), 4:08.14; 3. Bradley Ball (Nease), 4:13.76.
3200: 1. Rheinhardt Harrison (Nease), 9:02.26; 2. Bradley Ball (Nease), 9:08.09.
110 hurdles: 2. Cyrus Ways (Nease), 14.45; 3. Christian Washington (Sandalwood), 14.77; 8. Thaxton Johnson (Bartram Trail), 15.03.
300 hurdles: 1. Kevin Davis Jr. (Atlantic Coast), 37.95; 3. Cyrus Ways (Nease), 38.28; 5. Coy Sauceman (Creekside), 38.64.
1600 relay: 8. Flagler Palm Coast, 3:23.45.
3200 relay: 5. Nease, 7:58.23; 7. Fleming Island, 7:59.64.
High jump: 6. Marcus Freeman (Flagler Palm Coast), 6-3.5; 8. Cameron Mackenzie (Fleming Island), 6-1.5.
Pole vault: 6. Samuel Martins (Bartram Trail), 13-9.25.
Long jump: 4. Elo Modozie (Bartram Trail), 22-2.5.
Shot put: 7. Logan Wylie (Bartram Trail), 50-10.
Javelin: 5. August Beckler (Creekside), 166-6; Thaxton Johnson (Bartram Trail), 159-10.
Class 2A track and field area results
Girls (finishers in top 8 shown)
Long jump: 7. Chloe Selmer (Episcopal), 16-10.
Pole vault: 1. Audrey Wuerffel (Bolles), 11-3.75; 4. Presley Wolfe (Bolles), 10-4; 8. Elizabeth Smith (Bolles), 9-4.25.
High jump: 6. Marisol Sinti (Kenny), 5-1.75.
Javelin: 2. Katherine White (Kenny), 114-1; 5. Layne Rivera (Bolles), 108-1; 7. Emily Rohan (Bolles), 104-7.
Shot put: 1. Torryence Poole (Palatka), 42-2.25.
Triple jump: 8. Presley Wolfe (Bolles), 36-0.75.
Discus: 8. Kennedy Hill (Raines), 116-7.
3200 relay: 1. Bolles, 9:31.46; 3. Episcopal, 9:44.88; 6. Bishop Kenny, 9:57.13.
100 hurdles: 7. Elizabeth Smith (Bolles), 15.48.
1600: 3. Maxine Montoya (Bolles), 5:07.01; 6. Jillian Candelino (Bolles), 5:11.13.
400 relay: 1. Paxon, 48.37; 3. Bishop Kenny, 49.61; 4. Episcopal, 49.64.
400: 4. Adriel Strickland (Paxon), 56.70; 7. Destiny Phoenix (Ribault), 57.54; 8. KaMyya Haywood (Kenny), 57.84.
300 hurdles: 4. Asia Stanford (Paxon), 45.42.
800: 2. Leila Bata (Bolles), 2:18.80; 8. Catherine Kunz (Bolles), 2:22.98.
200: 8. Rose-Esther Saint Germain (Paxon), 25.04.
3200: 4. Maddie Popp (Bolles), 11:14.92; 7. Maxine Montoya (Bolles), 11:17.32; 8. Ella Mickler (Bolles), 11:19.47.
1600 relay: 1. Paxon, 3:56.36; 2. Episcopal, 3:56.96; 8. Bolles, 4:06.59.
Boys (finishers in top 8 shown)
Long jump: 2. Noah Straley (Kenny), 22-10.75.
Discus: 3. George Duffy (Bolles), 142-0; 6. Rashard Hall (Raines), 140-3; 7. Cedric Newsome (Bolles), 137-5.
Triple jump: 4. Adontae Balfour (Bradford), 45-9.75; 8. Reshawn Latimer (Raines), 43-2.25.
Javelin: 5. Garrison Beach (Suwannee), 154-7; 6. Ryan Anderson (Bolles), 152-0.
Shot put: 2. George Duffy (Bolles), 53-3.75; 4. Carlton Skinner (Bolles), 50-9.25.
High jump: 3. Jayden Harris (Kenny), 6-3.5; 6. Zebreke Bellamy (White), 6-3.5.
3200 relay: 3. Bolles, 8:02.58.
110 hurdles: 1. Harrison Robinson (Raines), 14.29; 3. Samuel Thompson (Yulee), 14.94; 4. Reshawn Latimer (Raines), 14.94; 8. Garrison Beach (Suwannee), 15.50.
100: 2. Domictress Robinson (Ribault), 10.54; 3. Aubrey Bryant (Paxon), 10.60; 4. Cornelius Cooks (Jackson), 10.64.
400 relay: 1. Jackson, 41.55; 5. Raines, 42.75; 6. White, 42.77; 7. Ribault, 42.80.
400: 3. Kenton Kirkland (Raines), 48.79; 5. Kavon Miller (Bolles), 49.40; 7. Noah Straley (Kenny), 49.60.
300 hurdles: 6. Garrison Beach (Suwannee), 39.75; 7. Harrison Robinson (Raines), 40.11.
800: 4. William Brady (Bolles), 1:58.
200: 2. Domictress Robinson (Ribault), 21.12; 3. Cornelius Cooks (Jackson), 21.46.
3200: 6. Matthew McClure (Bolles), 9:33.04; 8. Aidin Hasan (Bolles), 9:36.70.
1600 relay: 1. Raines, 3:17.60; 8. Episcopal, 3:28.19.
Shot put wheelchair: 3. Blake Donnelly (Creekside), 15-6.25.