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5/21/2015
By Dan Manley
Advocate Sports Editor
The Bryan Station girls and Henry Clay boys captured regional track and field championships Friday evening at the Montgomery County High School Track as the school hosted the Class AAA Region VI event for the first time ever.
Coach Ed Stepanchuk and his staff along with numerous volunteers got rave reviews from those on hand for hosting arguably the premier regional track meet in Kentucky.
“Things went really well,” Stepanchuk said. “Thanks to a great effort by everyone involved I think that the teams that came in here left with a positive feeling about our program and our facilities and would welcome the chance to come back again and that’s what we were shooting for.”
Along the way the MCHS squad qualified five athletes in six events for the Kentucky State High School Track and Field championships this Saturday at the University of Kentucky.
“We have a lot of young athletes that are coming on,” he added. “It’s great to see a couple of our seniors get a chance to compete at state along with three of our up and coming athletes.”
Region VI entrants will go into the state with some of the best times and distances in the state.
The top two finishers in each event in the regional qualifies for the state and then everyone else goes into a pool with competitors from across the state with the remaining entrants coming from the best finishers in terms of time and distance.
MCHS senior Aiyanna Jones qualified for the state meet in both the shot put and discus.
Jones finished third in the discus with a toss of just over 114 feet, three inches short of runner-up Halee Hudson, a Scott County senior and less than a foot behind regional champ Chelsea Ford of Woodford County.
Jones threw just over 34 feet in the shot put, less than a half foot out of second place and reached the state thanks to her being one of the top finishers in the regions overall.
Sophomore April Eling qualified in the 800 meter run after finishing second, less than a tenth of a second behind Dunbar’s Annie Vandenberg.
Another MCHS sophomore, Breanna Bowling, qualified for the state in the high jump. She finished second, clearing the same height as Scott County senior Kena Christopher, who won the regional title with fewer misses.
Bowling also made a strong showing in the 100 meter hurdles where she came in fifth in a strong field.
Senior pole vaulter Elizabeth Newkirk was fifth in the region but her height was good enough to place her in the state meet while junior Dustin Townsend was in the same position, finishing fifth in the region but also getting into the state meet.
The MCHS track and field program continues to gain ground, even competing in arguably the toughest region in the state.
With the five Lexington public schools plus Scott County in the region the MCHS competitors were facing a real challenge.
“You have to look at things from the proper perspective and we’re really pleased as a coaching staff in how far so many of our kids have come,” Stepanchuk said. “It’s not always about winning or placing, sometimes it’s just in competing and improving. And we’ve certainly seen a lot of that here in the last couple of seasons.”
Coming up on Saturday at the state meet, Jones will be competing in the discus at 4:30 p.m. and in the shot put at 6 p.m.
Bowling competes in the high jump at 4:30 p.m. with the pole vault competition also getting underway at 4:30 p.m.
Eling will be running in the 800 meter run at 7:40 p.m.
“It’s a beautiful complex and a great event to get to be a part of,” the coach added. “I hope in the years to come we have more and more individuals and relay teams that get a chance to be a part of this.”
Girls Regional
1. Bryan Station 140.60; 2. Henry Clay 76; 3. Paul Laurence Dunbar 75; 4. Scott County 69.60; 5. Tates Creek 62.20; 6. Lafayette 49; 7. Montgomery County 32; 8. Woodford County 23.60; 9. Anderson County 17; 10. Clark County 13.
Boys Regional
1. Henry Clay 118; 2. Tates Creek 105; 3. Bryan Station 91; 4. Lafayette 65; 5. Paul Laurence Dunbar 64; 6. Scott County 49; 7. Anderson County 38; 8. Woodford County 23; 9. Montgomery County 3; 10. Clark County 2.
Girls 4x100 Relay
1. Henry Clay 10:15.81; 5. MCHS (Marissa Forrest, April Eling, Maja Engler and Skyler Peyton) 11:03.62.
Boys 4x100 Relay
1. Paul Laurence Dunbar 8:18.10; 6. MCHS (Connor Jackson, Cruz Ortiz, Zach Centers and Jarrett Forrest) 9:17.06.
Girls 100 meter hurdles
1. Kaleshia Harris, Bryan Station :15.46; 5. Breanna Bowling, MCHS :18.00.
Boys 110 meter hurdles
1. Isaiah McCall, Bryan Station :14.82.
Girls 100 meter dash
1. Brooke Raglin, Bryan Station :12.07; 12. Emily Lapelle, MCHS :13.75; 15. Lanea Hayden, MCHS in :14.98.
Boys 100 meter dash
1. DeQuan Robinson, Henry Clay :10.70; 14. Austin Joseph, MCHS :11.97; 17. Chris Price, MCHS :12.53.
Girls 4x200 meter relay
1. Bryan Station 1:41.39; 8. MCHS (Lacey Johnson, Emily Lapelle, Lanea Hayden and Maja Engler) 2:02.72.
Boys 4x200 meter relay
1. Henry Clay 1:26.68; 9. MCHS (Zach Centers, Austin Joseph, Peyton Napier and Chris Price) 1:44.40.
Girls 1600 meter run
1. Annie Vandenberg, Paul Laurence Dunbar 5:17.30; 15. Katie Johnson, MCHS 7:20.91.
Boys 1600 meter run
1. Ben Young, Tates Creek 4:26.31; 9. Cruz Ortiz, MCHS 5:01.83; 12. Jarrett Forrest, MCHS 5:13.35.
Girls 4x100 meter relay
1. Tates Creek :49.48; 8. MCHS (Maja Engler, Lanea Hayden, Lacey Johnson, Emily Lapelle) :56.61.
Boys 4x100 meter relay
1. Henry Clay :42.66; 8. MCHS (Austin Joseph, Peyton Napier, Chris Price and Zach Centers) :47.81.
Girls 400 meter dash
1. Laura Edwards, Paul Laurence Dunbar :57.13; 10. Sydney Claypoole, MCHS 1:04.82.
Boys 400 meter dash
1. William Allen, Paul Laurence Dunbar :47.60; 13. Zach Centers, MCHS :55.39; 16. Richard Risner, MCHS :59.41.
Girls 300 meter hurdles
1. Teairra Payton, Bryan Station :46.88.
Boys 300 meter hurdles
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