Breaking AISA records

Published 12:00 am Sunday, May 2, 2004

It was a record-breaking weekend for the AISA as Morgan Academy hosted the state track meet Thursday and Friday at Selma’s Memorial Stadium.

With overcast skies threatening rain at any moment, officials breezed through Friday’s finals at record-setting clip.

But that wasn’t all. Six AISA state records were broken or set, mostly by Faith Academy runners.

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However, Meadowview’s Haley McIntyre set the state record in the 300m intermediate hurdles.

Faith won the team competition in both boys and girls action as well.

Morgan’s girls team took second overall.

Individually, several area athletes stood out.

For Morgan’s boys, the team of

Josh McAteer, Blanton Callen, Bob Armstrong and Travis Lyon took the 4 X 100m relay title.

Armstrong, Reid Buster, Jeremy Smith and Lyon took second in the 4 X 800m relay.

The 4 X 400m team of Alston Allsbrook, Robert Collins, McAteer and Lyon placed second as well.

McAteer took third in long jump and shot put as well as the 100m dash.

Collins was third in 300m intermediate hurdles.

Ben Callaway was fourth in hurdles and Reid Tolar was fourth in the 100m high hurdles.

For the ladies, the 1600m relay team of Ali Pilcher, Allyson Peak, Whitney Casey and Candice Ward took second.

Elizabeth Watters took fourth in the 200m dash.

as did Virginia Anderson in the 800m run.

In the 300m intermediate hurdles, Haley McIntyre took first in record time.

Ginger Gaines of Morgan was second and Aly Bradford took third.

Pilcher took fourth in the 400m dash.

Gaines took first in the 100m low hurdles with Bradford in second.

McIntyre took fourth in the event.

In the 400m relay, the team of Emily Rhyne, Pilcher, Casey and Watters took third.

In the 3200m relay, the team including Claire Wilkinson, Anderson and Laura Cameron Mott took third.

In the 800m relay, the team of Pilcher, Peak, Watters and Casey was second.

For Meadowview, McIntyre also took second in the long jump.

In the shot, Morgan’s Taylor was first while Elizabeth Elliott was second.

Peak finished third in the triple jump while Elliott was third in the discus.

Taylor was fourth in the discus.

For Meadowview, the relay team of John Byrd, Noah Reid, Pete Mock-Jordan and Ryan Blackmon competed on Thursday.

The school’s 400m relay team qualified for Friday’s state finale.

Eighth-grader Abbi House ran her best mile and two-mile time.

Micah Lolley finished seventh in the shot.

The girls 800m relay team was disqualified on Thursday.

However, the team of Haley DeRamus, Megan Bush, Bailey Smith and Carol Ann McIntyre ran their personal best time.