Saturday, February 13, 2016

Lady Bulldogs' 4x400 State Indoor Champs

Friday the State Indoor Track and Field Championships were held and the Lady Bulldogs of Nash Central 4x 400 Meter Relay team is a state champion today.  The team of T'Keyah Macklin, Caresha Leonard, Anaiya  Harris and Teona Hill  crossed the finish line ahead of the field.

Miya Spivey finished 8th in the girls high jump putting a point on the scoreboard for the Bulldogs.

The 4x800 relay  team finished 7th For the Bulldogs.  This team had members Carisha Leonard, Anaiya Harris, Cassidy Lyle and Teona Hill.

Anaiya Harris finished 5th in the girls 55 meter hurdles scoring more points for Nash Central. The relay team of Miya  Spivey, T'Keyah, Keiva Ausby and Teona  Hill took 4th in the 4x 200

Teona Hill finished 4th in the 300 Meter Dash scoring more Bulldog points.

The Rocky Mount girls teams had two members scoring points in the 55 meter dash.  Finishing  4th Laneeja Sheppard and Teyanna Dessaure 7th.

The Lady  Gryphons finished 3rd in the relay 4x200.  Nyanna Edwards, Jasmine Davis, Brittany Brickford and Laneeja Sheppard

The Northern  Nash  boys Relay team finished 7th scoring 2 points in the 4x200. The team consist of Tyrek Mils, Donovan Whitehead, Elijah Spencer and Mahleke Mills.

Coleman Cherry for the Knights finished 6th in the 1600 meter run.

Southern Nash's lone points came in the1600 meter run when Nadir Thompson  finished 5th scoring 4 points.

Nash Central girls finished 8th with 27 points.  Rocky Mount scored 20 points pulling down 10th spot.  The boys Southern Nash with 4 points were 38th and Northern Nash 5 points tied for 30th.

Big East Basketball will finish it's regular season today as all three games left will be made up. Hunt will travel to Fike with the girls game starting at 1pm.  Nash Central will drive to Southern Nash with the girls action beginning at 4:30.  The last game of the day will be a trip by Rocky Mount to Northern with a 6pm girls start.

The 3-A Regional wrestling championship was delayed from Friday to start Saturday and it will finish on Sunday.  Special permission had to be obtained by the  NCHSAA Board of Durectors to allow action on Sunday.   Most of the eastern state was about the only schools who were out of school because of the snow threat on Friday and the western regional started on Friday.


Thursday in Raleigh was the State 3-A swimming and diving Championship.  The best indivual effort by any local swimmer was the second place finish by Nash Central's Jennifer Jackson who finished second in the 50 yard free style.  She earned 17 points for her Bulldog team.

Rocky Mount girls team wise had the best day of any local team collecting 56 points which was good enough to finish 12th. Rocky Mount got points in the women's 200 Medley Relay when Kayla Miller,Jillian Lavely, Megan Moss and Aimee Dalsimer finished eighth collecting 22 points

Kayla Miller finished 8th in the Women 50 yard free style collecting 11 points. Teammate Jillian Lavely finished 14 earning 3 points.  The Women's 100 freestyle Kayla Miller was there earning points again with a 7th place adding 12 points to the Gryphon Total.

The Gryphon Relay team finished 13th in the Women's 200 yard free style and either it another 8 points.  The team consisted of Aimee Dalsimer, Megan Moss, Jillian Lavely and Kayla Miller

Nash Central girls are the 16th best swim team in the state having a total of 33 points. helping the 17 earned by Jackson was the Bulldog 200 yard Medley  Relay getting a single  point by finishing 26th with the team of  Mia Gibson, Jennifer Jackson, Kaley Sharpe and  Sarah Hicks

The Bulldog Relay team scored 2 points in the 200 yard free style relay with the team of Sarah Hicks,Kaley Sharpe, Mia Gibson and Jennifer Jackson.

Jennifer Jackson had a responsibility in every point earned by the Bulldogs when she finished 7th in the 100 yard Breast  Stroke giving the Bulldogs another 13 points.

The Big East boys only had  two teams with points Fike 83 good for 11th and Hunt 29 points finishing 24th.

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