A total of 17 schools competed at Saturday's Battlefield Relays with the host school Battlefield having some of the top performances in the meet at their own facility.
The Battlefield girls ran the second fastest time in the state in the 4x800 meter relay with a 9:36.85 performance on their home track. Battlefield also claimed first place finishes in both sprint medley races at 1600 meters (4:14.88) and 800 meters (1:51.48). The current 4x800 state leaders Osbourn Park finished second to Battefield in the SMR but loaded up their 4x1600 to win by a decisive margin of 45 seconds in 22:00.84.
Fluvanna County girls excelled in the field events with a 10 foot clearance from Hannah Meador in the pole vault and winnin leap of 17'2" by Greer Brown in the long jump.
Stonewall Jackson boys showed themselves to have superior speed to the competition at the Battlefield Relays posting swift times of 43.57 in the 4x100 and 1:30.78 in the 4x200, which nearly matches a time from early in the indoor season at a polar bear meet.
After jumping 23 feet earlier in the indoor season, Battlefield senior Byron Sintim (pictured right by Andrew Kicinski) had yet to come close to the mark until this past weekend when he eclipsed his previous PR mark with a state leading jump of 23'3.50". Durr also won the triple jump with a mark of 44'4".
Similar to the Battlefield girls, the Osbourn Park boys swept the two sprint medley relays with times of 1:39 and 3:43 respectively in the 800 and 1600 SMR's.
After being dormant during the winter without an official indoor season, the Potomac Falls boys returned to action with one of the expected Group AA state contenders in the 4x800 with a solid opening time of 8:08.31. Potomac Falls also took first in the DMR as the only squad breaking 11 minutes at 10:56.
Single A school Manassas Park had two event winners in a meet including many larger Group AAA and AA squads with both coming from the field events. Wileta Tibbs was the only thrower over 100 feet in the girls' discus, while Tyree Durr's early season clearance of 6'3" in the high jump projects him as a challenger for a state title in the event.
