Lakota East girls win first regional track title

Clark and Heath went 1-2 in the 100- and 200-meter dash events, and joined teammates Dawn Hilton and Arariyah Bryant on the winning and record-setting 400 relay team.

Clark bettered her own regional record in the 100 with a winning time of 11.72 seconds. Clark, Heath, Hilton and Bryant combined on a new record time of 46.50 in the 400 relay.

Clark won the 200 in 24.10 and Bryant won the long jump with a leap of 17 feet, 10.25 inches. East’s Danni Stoughton won the 400 in 56.88.

The top four regional placers in each event qualified to next week’s D-I state meet at Ohio State’s Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium on Friday and Saturday.

Also advancing for East was Jada Bouyer (fourth, long) and the 800 (second) and 1,600 relay (third) teams. Stoughton, Hilton, Bryant and Camiyah James made up the 800 team and Stoughton, Heather Strauss, Joi Terry and Leighton Heiner made up the 1,600 team.

Talawanda’s Kyra Koontz finished second in the 100 hurdles.

• Lakota West finished sixth with 38 points in the boys meet. Centerville and Wayne tied for first with 57.

The Firebirds were led by their winning 400 relay team. Malcolm Rencher, JJ Ross, Riley Meek and Julian Wagner won in 42.43.

Rencher finished second in the long jump

Middletown’s Shandon Morris won the high jump with a leap of 6-feet, 10 inches. Teammate DeYon Brown was fourth in the 100.

Lakota East’s Justin Dwyer was third in the 400.