Both the boys and girls 4 x 800 meter relay teams competed at the State Track Championship held at Laidley Field in Charleston, West Virginia today and both teams finished near the middle of the packs.
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| Laidley Field in Charleston on May 20, 2016. |
The girls ran first and finished 8th out of 16 teams. Courtney Treadway, Courtney King, Sierra King, and Carson Short finished with a time of 10:32.92, well behind the winning time for the team from Bridgeport of 10:04.97. The girls' time of 10:32.92 was an improvement over their qualifying time of 10:36.39.
Less than 45 minutes later, the boys' team ran and finished 6th out of 16 teams. Korbin White ran the first leg, followed by Austin Hayes, Ben Cochran, and anchor leg runner Mathias Palmer. They finished with a time of 8:34.08, a big improvement over their qualifying time of 8:45.91. First place Bridgeport had a winning time of 8:11.94.
On Saturday, Ben Cochran will compete at 11:00 a.m. in the High Jump, followed by Austin Hayes running in the 1600 meter race at 11:10 a.m. After a break, Courtney Treadway will run in the 800 meter race at 3:30 p.m. followed by Austin Hayes competing in the 800 meter run at 3:45 p.m. While the weather Friday for day one of the meet was warm and dry, the forecast for Saturday during the times the Webster athletes will compete calls for a 20 to 50 percent chance of thunderstorms.
The video below shows the boys' team warming up and then running in the meet.
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