(photos by Marc Logan)
The Lakewood Stadium track was cold in the morning but warmed up considerably when the sprinters hit the mondo. The loaded Hillcrest SC girls captured the team title scoring 87 points powered by their relay squads that scored 28 points. Monroe Albany emerged as the top GA girls team with 64 points. North Cobb Christian finished 3rd powered by Synclair Savage as she tripled in the 100m, 200m and Long Jump and McEachern took 4th place. The boys team title almost came down to the final heat of the day in the 4x400m relay, but Arabia Mountain had a 10.5 point lead over Tucker who took the win but fell .5 short of a team title and Heritage HS who only trailed Arabia by 6.5 points came up short placing 4th in the 4x400. Jordan Barrow doubled in the 100/200m sprints, anchored the 4x100m squad to Gold and took 3rd in the Long Jump to lead Arabia Mountain to the title. Meet host Grady were 4th in the team standings with 41.33 points.
Girls Running Events Top Athlete of the Atlanta Games: Lauren Lewis of Langston Hughes
Girls Field Events Top Athlete of the Atlanta Games: Kieran Martin of Hillcrest HS (SC)
Boys Running Events Top Athlete of the Atlanta Games: Jordan Barrow of Arabia Mountain
Boys Field Events Top Athlete of the Atlanta Games: Zyler Johnson of Osbourne HS
Synclair Savage (r) wins the 100m at 12.08
Savage dominated the LJ with a 19-3.50 mark
Lauren Lewis (r) sped to 400m Gold at 57.05
Jayla Brown of McEachern bounded to 37-5 in the TJ
Camille Milledge of Monroe took 2nd in the 300h at 44.72
Arabia Mtn. wins the 4x100m at 42.00
Christian Gonzalez raced to a 3200m win at 9:38
Jalen Bristol (r) was solid winning the 800m at 1:57.88
Bradley Favors took 400m Gold going 49.02
Alon Rogow sailed to a bar of 15-1.5 in the PV
Jordan Barrow seen winning the 200m (lane 5) at 21.84
Tommy Wright of SW DeKalb sailed to 22-7.5 in the LJ
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