Overall, last weekend turned out to be a successful one for Gallatin track athletes in terms of state hardware.
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Kailey Salmon capped her high school career with a seventh place finish in the Class 2 1600-meter run as three of the four runners from Sectional 4 came away with medals. Salmon ran a season-best 5:31.46 in bringing home her tenth state medal.
Kailey Salmon, 7th, 1600-meter run | Trystan Sunby, 7th, pole vault | GHS 4×800 relay, 8th: Jacob Boyd, Brandon Bradley, Braydon Walker, Morgan Corwin. (Photos by Lesli Lin.)
Trystan Sunby reached the awards podium in the pole vault, clearing the bar at 12’3” to finish seventh. Teammate Tanner Johnson finished 11th in his first trip to state, clearing at 12’.
Harris Cameron and Michael Stanley each medaled in the discus event. Cameron finished third with a toss of 147’10”. Stanley placed eighth with a throw of 141’2”.
Harris Cameron, 3rd; Michael Stanley, 8th, discus. Click to enlarge. (Photo by Lesli Lin.)
The GHS boys came home with a pair of eighth place relay medals. The 4×800-meter relay team of Braydon Walker, Morgan Corwin, Jacob Boyd and Brandon Bradley ran 8:34.47. The 4×400-meter relay team of Sunby, Walker, Boyd land Bradley ran 3:38.86 in the final after matching the GHS boys’ school record of 3:32.33 in the preliminaries.
Leonard leads
Winston’s Jordan Leonard turned the best preliminary times in sprint races into gold on Saturday. The Redbird junior won both the 200-meter and 400-meter dash in the Class 1 meet.
Leonard ran 22.64 to win the 200 and took the 400 in 51.08.
Gilman City’s Joslyn Newton finished 11th in a 300-meter hurdles preliminary in 50.02 and did not qualify for the final. Teammate Hailey Burrows placed 11th in the high jump by clearing the bar at 4’8”.