Aiming high
Published 12:02 am Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Escambia Academy’s junior varsity boys track and field team is back on top.
The Cougars compiled 237 points to win the AISA Class 1A-2A state championship on Monday in Canoe.
The girls finished in fourth place with 75 points.
Full results from the day’s meet can be found at http://al.milesplit.com/results.
Cougars to compete in state track, field meet
Escambia Academy’s boys will be vying for its fourth straight AISA track and field title tomorrow and Friday in Gulf Shores at Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium.
The Cougars will embark on the end of a season where the worst they finished in a meet was in second place in Mississippi.
“It’s going to be tighter than last year,” EA coach Hugh Fountain said. “We’re going for the overall state championship.”
Fountain said Chase Bell and Fred Flavors are strong in the hurdling event, along with Jace Daniels on the long runs.
He said the team has done well this season on the jumping and sprinting events.
“We definitely want to win,” he said. “We’ll be OK, and ready to compete.”
The schedule for the state track and field meet is the following:
Thursday
Field Events begin at 11 a.m.
Long Jump – boys
Triple Jump – girls
Discus – boys
Shot Put – girls
High Jump – girls
All field events take eight the finals and score six, and all attempts will count. There will be three attempts in the preliminaries and three in the finals.
Running Events begin at 12:30 p.m.
4×200 meter relay – Finals
4×800 meter relay – Finals
4×100 meter relay – Semifinals
3200 meter run – girls – Finals
100-meter dash – Semifinals
100 -meter hurdles – Semifinals
110-meter hurdles – Semifinals
1600 meter run – boys – Finals
800 meter run – girls – Finals
200-meter dash – Semifinals
400-meter dash – Semifinals
Friday
Field events begin at 11:30 a.m.
Long Jump – girls
Triple Jump – boys
Discus – girls
Shot Put – boys
High Jump – boys
Running events begin at 1 p.m.
800-meter run – boys
4×100-meter relay – Finals
1600 meter run – girls – Finals
100-meter hurdles – Finals
110-meter hurdles – Finals
100-meter dash – Finals
3200 meter run – boys – Finals
400-meter dash – Finals
300-meter low hurdles – Finals
300-meter intermediate hurdles – Finals
200-meter dash – Finals
4×400 meter relay – Finals