Giana Gayles anchors the 4×100 relay for Holy Trinity during the Astronaut Invitational Track and Field meet in Titusville.
Noah Mumme put the Satellite boys track and field team in first place in Class 2A with a state championship pole vault of 14 feet, 6 inches, but when Jeremy Lawson won the triple jump, it was Cocoa that pushed in front and finished second as a team in the end.
The Tigers were one of three Brevard County groups standing on the FHSAA finals podium in Bradenton on Saturday. The Holy Trinity and Rockledge girls placed second in 1A and 2A, respectively.
Giana Gayles won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.84 seconds and anchored the winning 4×100 relay squad for Holy Trinity (48.54).
During the day, Satellite’s boys along with the Rockledge and Holy Trinity girls each led a class race for a time. Merritt Island’s boys team was never at the top but did tie for fifth, largely on the strength of a second Steven Cross state championship of the weekend. To the 3,200 he won Friday, he added the 1,600 on Saturday, with a time of 4:22.33.
Lawson, who already had a long jump medal from his first day of competition, triple jumped 46 feet, 9 3/4 inches, one-quarter inch shy of his season best. Then Jaariq Charles ran a 22.15 in the 200 meters, finishing second.
That boosted Cocoa’s boys to 42 points among 2A teams, behind only Plantation American Heritage’s 63, while Satellite placed fourth at 29.
Kaira Simmons, the long jump winner on Friday, added silver in the 200 (24.28 seconds), ran a leg on the school’s state runner-up 4×100 relay and placed fourth in the triple jump (36 feet, 4 1/4 inches). Her Rockledge team scored 52 to Bolles’ 65.
Holy Trinity’s girls led most of Saturday until an Oak Hall push outscored the Tigers, 93-82. Right behind Gayles in the hurdles were runner-up Taya Britten (16.02 seconds) and Elizabeth Bacon at 16.06.
Both Holy Trinity’s girls and Satellite’s boys finished second in 4×800 relays.
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4 Brevard athletes won state track & field titles Friday
State track and field
Bradenton
Class 4A
Girls
Event placers: 1,600 – 7. Natalie Bress (M) 5:18.74.
Class 3A
Boys
Team results: 1. Chiles 43; 2. Barron Collier, 36; 3. Creekside 28; 4. Blanche Ely 26; T5. Merritt Island 23; 18. Viera 16.5; T49 Heritage 2; T56. West Shore 1.
Event placers: TJ – 8. Christian Walker (WS) 44-6; Shot – 3. J.P. Caglione (V) 53-10; 300 hurdles – 6. Jimmy Batch (MI) 39.32; 1,600 – 1. Steven Cross (MI) 4:22.33.
Girls
Event placers: 5. Kaitlyn Jensen (V) 121-3; 6. Jensen (V) 39-2.
Class 2A
Boys
Team scores: 1. Plantation American Heritage 63; 2. Cocoa 42; 3. Palatka 38; 4. Satellite 29; 19. Astronaut 14; 30. MCC 6; T36. Titusville, Space Coast 4; T46. Rockledge 2.
Event placers: PV – 1. Noah Mumme (S) 14-6; 4×800 – 2. Satellite (John Cacciatore, ) 8:07.99; John Padilla, Trevor Kattenberg, Egan Kattenberg); 100 – 3. Lavonte Valentine (MCC) 11:05; 5. Jaariq Charles (C) 11:27; 400 – 5. Jordan Taylor (A) 49.95; 4×100 – 3. Cocoa (Chris Washington, Juwan Armstrong, Jeremy Lawsons, Charles) 42.00; TJ – 1. Lawson (C) 46-9 3/4; 1,600 – 7. E. Kattenberg (S) 4:30.13; 200 – 2. J. Charles (C) 22.15; 8. Antoine Green (R) 22.678;
Girls
Team scores: 1. Bolles 65; 2. Rockledge 52; 16. Cocoa 12; T21. Space Coast 8; T23. Melbourne Central Catholic 6; 27. Titusville 5.
Event placers: PV – 4. Alyssa Carrillo (T) 10-6; TJ – 4. Kaira Simmons (R) 36-4 1/4; 8. Sterling Jenkins (R) 35-0; 100 – 2. Keosha Sanders (R) 12.06; 3. Kylee Cobbs-Marcus (R) 12.07; 6. Destiny Charles (C) 12.35; 4×100 – 2. Rockledge (Olivia Simmons, Sanders, K. Simmons, Terriana Smith) 47.18; 6. Cocoa (Shania Harris, D. Charles, Ahmariah Edgecombe, Courtney Sweat) 49.20; 200 – 2. K. Simmons (R) 24.28; 3. D. Charles (C) 24.59; 4×400 – 3. Rockledge (O. Simmons, Perrisha Robinson, Jenkins, Sanders) 4:00.74.
Class 1A
Boys
Event placers: 100 – 5. Jashaun Corbin (HT) 11.51.
Girls
Team scores: 1. Oak Hall 93; 2. Holy Trinity 82.
Event placers: TJ – 4. Taya Britten (HT) 35-3 1/4; Disc – 8. Paris Vergara (HT) 106-1; 4×800 – 2. Holy Trinity (Sydney Smith, Mackenzie Wills, Samantha Folio, Shelby Smith) 9:49.73; 100 hurdles: 1. Giana Gayles (HT) 14.84; 2. Britten (HT) 16.02; 3. Elizabeth Bacon (HT) 16.06; 100 – 7. A. Pound (HT) 13.19; 400 – 8. Jaeda Stewart (HT) 1:02.22; 4×100 – 1. Holy Trinity (Pound, Britten, Bacon, G. Gayles) 48.54; 300 hurdles – 5. Bacon (HT) 47.14; 200 – 3. G. Gayles (HT) 25.78; 1,600 – 5. Folio (HT) 5:24.58; 4×400 – 6. Holy Trinity (Sy. Smith, Stewart, Sh. Smith, Bacon) 4:13.71.