Photo by Ryan Kelly
Western Branch in past years has not always shown their full hand of cards at the regional championships and instead held out many of their key athletes or not tried to enter them in multiple events in preparation for the state meet. Possibly the snow storms and small number of major meets in the last half of the season has changed the usual routine for Coach Claude Toukene's squad as the Bruins came to compete at the Eastern Region Championships this weekend at full force and the result was demoralizing for the rest of the region's top teams. Western Branch swept both team titles and by a wide margin with a dominant and balanced team performance.
A total of six state leading times were produced at Virginia's most talented and competitive regional championship meet:
Boys 55 - Darreh Wesh (Landstown) US #1 6.35
Girls Triple Jump - Desmonae Gray (Western Branch) US #1 40'10"
Boys Triple Jump - Kendrick Smith (Western Branch) US #2 49'5"
Boys 4x200 - Woodside 1:31.60
Boys 4x800 - Western Branch 7:58.02
Girls Shot Put - Sydni Cobb (Western Branch) 40'4.50"
Photo by Ryan Kelly
More to come from the Eastern Region Indoor T&F Championships including full meet summary and photo gallery.
Photo Gallery by Ryan Kelly - Photos to be added Sunday & Monday.
Meet Videos by Andy Paisley - 2o total added.
Below are the performances entered for the meet that met the national silver standard.
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