By Fred Kroner
The Heritage Hawks earned team honors in the IESA girls’ eighth-grade Class 1A sectional track and field meet on Saturday (May 8) at Catlin.
Heritage amassed 138 points to outdistance runner-up Prairieview Ogden (75 points).
The Hawks scored in all 13 events and had double placers in eight events.
Heritage athletes won nine events, including two first-place performances apiece from Kiara Jones, Kamryn Soard and Loran Tate.
Jones, a seventh-grader, was dominant in the 800 meters (2 minutes, 50.03 seconds) and the 1,600 meters (6 minutes, 1.02 seconds).
Tate captured top honors in the 200 meters (29.51 seconds) and the long jump (14 feet 2 inches).
Soard’s victories were in the high jump (4 feet, 4 inches) and shot put (24 feet ½ inch).
The Hawks’ other individual winner was Gracie Tate (discus, 9 feet, 8 ½ inches).
Heritage was first in two relays and third in another.
The Hawks’ 800-meter unit of Loran Tate, Alex Tatman, Maykayla Thomas and Madisyn Wilson was triumphant in 2:07.77. They won the race by 17.87 seconds.
Also producing a first-place finish was the 1,600-meter relay foursome of Thomas, Tatman, Jones and Wilson. Their combined time was 5:00.89, good enough for a slender margin of victory (.22 seconds).
Placing third was the 400-meter group of Bailey Lubben, Soard, Gracie Tate and Kiara Jone. Their time was 1:02.35.
Soard and Wilson ran third and fourth, respectively, in the 100-meter hurdles. Soard’s time was 20.51 seconds. Wilson closed in 20.78 seconds.
Thomas produced a third-place finish in the 400 meters (1:14.14) and a fifth-place finish in the long jump (11 feet, 1 inch).
Other team leaders were: Tatman (second in 200 meters, 30.50 seconds), Gracie Tate (third in shot put, 20 feet, 2 inches), Loran Tate (fourth in 100 meters, 14.55 seconds), Wilson (fifth in 400 meters, 1:14.87), Chaylea Fisher (fifth in discus, 42 feet, 3 inches), Fisher (sixth in 800 meters, 3:22.58) and Tatman (sixth in 100 meters, 14.95 seconds).
Heritage did not have any entries in the IESA girls’ seventh-grade sectional meet.
