Gold medal, 5 silver won by area athletes in state meet

Sixteen area athletes completed their track and field seasons at the state meet Friday and Saturday at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin.

Six Luling athletes and 10 Shiner athletes participated in the final Texas high school track and field meet of the season. Luling participated in Friday’s Class 2A event, while Shiner was involved in the Class A meet Saturday.

Shiner

All three Shiner boys relay teams – 400, 800 and 1,600-meter – finished in the top five in their respective races to give the Comanches a third-place finish with 36 points in the team standings. Munday ran away with the team title as it scored 94 points, while Stamford edged Shiner for second with 37.

The Comanches finished second in the 800 and 1,600 relay races. Marcus Coleman, Trevion Flowers, Evel Jones and Zach Lawrence gave the 800 relay a finishing time of 1:28.88 – just .09 seconds behind race winner Stamford (1:28.79) – and the team of Jones, Lawrence, Lucian Blaschke and Marlon Wallace took second in the 1,600 relay (3:23.47).

The 400 relay team of Coleman, Flowers, Jones and Lawrence took fifth in the 400 relay with a time of 43.51 seconds. With their second-place finishes, the 800 and 1,600 relay teams scored 16 points each, while the 400 relay team earned four.

For the Shiner girls, LaNeshia Hunt finished second in the 100 run (12.45) and Stacey Perez took fourth in the 100 hurdles (15.41) to give the Lady Comanches their only points in the team standings (12). Shiner finished in a 15th-place tie with Gruver in the team standings.

Meloni Berger took seventh in the 300 hurdles with a time of 46.82. Berger, Hunt and Perez teamed up with Cassie Stafford in the 400 relay as the quartet finished eighth (50.85).

Luling

Ty Anderson of Luling recorded a personal-best 6 feet, 9 inches and claimed the gold medal in the 2A boys high jump Friday. He shared the lead with Bradley Adkins of Idalou, but Adkins had three misses to Anderson’s two as Anderson claimed the gold medal on fewer misses.

Anderson wasn’t the only Luling athlete to win a medal. Carley Glass (2nd, girls 3,200 run, 11:19.37) and Michael Barnett (2nd, boys 3,200 run, 9:28.87) won silver medals as well for the Eagles.

Glass also competed in the girls 1,600 run where she finished seventh (5:20.88). Jose Campos (boys 1,600 run, 3,200 run) and Maira Salinas (girls 1,600 run, 3,200 run) also competed in two events.

Campos finished fifth in the 1,600 (4:31.61) and seventh in the 3,200 (9:47.97), while Salinas took fourth in the 3,200 (11:33.72) and sixth in the 1,600 (5:17.30). Kristaly Munoz also finished sixth in the girls 3,200 (11:36.30).