Collins Hill wins big in Region 7

The rankings don\'t lie. Collins Hill put on qutie a show at the Region 7 meet on Tuesday as they blew past the competition winning by 111 points over 2nd place Norcross, 174 to 63. Nicole Okolo and Jacke Drouin led the way with stellar perfromances. Okolo advances to state in 4 events as she finished 1st in the 100 hurdles in a time of 14.25. She also won both the long and triple jumps with marks of 18\'3\" and 37\'1\" as well as anchoring Collins Hill\'s 4x100 team to a 2nd place finsih behind Norcross. Jackie Drouin took the top spot in the 1600 and 3200m runs with an impressive double of 4:58.09 and 10:56.75. Her performance in both events was spurred by the outstanding perfromance of Jennifer Barbi who had an impressive 5:03 and 11:06 double of her own to take 2nd in both events.

Rayven Tirado, of Collins Hill, also advances to state with times of 12.39 in the 100 and 25.57 in the 200m, where she finished 2nd in both events. Kendra Davis, of Norcross, took top honors in the 100m with a time of 12.34 and Rhea Taylor, of Peachtree Ridge, took top honros in the 200m with a time of 25.54. Lindsey Luce, of Collins HIll, also advances in two events as she finished runner up to Okolo in the 100m hurdles and followed that up with an impressive run in the 300 hurdles over Bethany Ullrich,of Mill Creek, 45.87 to 46.28. Norcross advances several runners to state as well, as both their 4x100 and 4x400 teams took top honors. Danielle Davenport followed up her outstanding 400m win and anchored the Norcross team to a 3:59 showing to bring home the win for the Blue Devils.