By JASON KING
Leader sportswriter
Bryant was the host site for the Central Arkansas Junior High Conference track meet on Friday, with all four Cabot teams, including North Junior High boys and girls and South Junior High boys and girls, taking part.
Cabot Junior High South boys had the best finish of all the local teams, finishing third in the event with 88 points while Cabot North finished fifth with 56 points. Lake Hamilton won the meet with 134.5 points to runner up Bryant’s 94 points.
North’s Evan Hooper won the 100-meter dash with a time of 11:59, barely defeating South sprinter Mark Odom, who came a close second just one-one hundredth of a second behind. Hooper was also victorious in the 200-meter dash with a winning time of 23.47, and first in the 400-meter run with a time of 52.18. Odom went on to get a win for South in the 110-meter hurdles with a winning time of 15.69, well in front of South teammate and second-place finisher Ethan Holland, who recorded a 17.86. South’s Braden Jarnigan was sixth with a time of 18.93.
Odom made it a sweep of the hurdles with a victory in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 42.71.
The South relay team of Braden Barnes, Jarrod Barnes, Jarnigan and Odom took third place in the 4X100 event with a time of 47.22. The North team of Rocky Burke, Brock Bottorff, Kolton Eads and Hooper finished second in the 4X400 relay.
In field events, South’s Barnes claimed third in the high jump with a height of 5-4. South teammate Braxton Burton was also third in the pole vault with a height of 10-6. South’s Jess Reed finished sixth in the pole vault with a 9-0 and teammate Dylan Smith was credited for seventh with the same height. Barnes was sixth in the triple jump with a distance of 35-3.
Hooper added a fourth event victory with a 20-3 distance in the long jump, while South’s Brandon Jones finished third in the shot put with a distance of 43-1.5. North’s Brett Locke was seventh in the shot put with a 40-3.25.
On the girls’ side, North was fourth overall with 64 points while South finished sixth with 35.33 points. Lake Hamilton made it a sweep with a score of 196.5 on the girls’ side, while Conway Blue finished second with 157 points and Bryant in third with 73.5 points.
Amalie Gunn of Cabot South finished third in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.62 and was third in the 200-meter event with a 28.34. North’s Miranda Walker finished fifth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.70, and was third in the 200-meter dash with a 28.37. Walker also took fourth place in the long-jump field event with a distance of 14-10, and was second in the triple jump with a distance of 31-4.5. Tristan Edgar won the 800-meter run for North with a winning time of 2:34.77, while South’s Casey Gore was sixth with a time of 2:46.02. South’s Samantha Nickell finished fourth in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 6:10.57 while Ashley Gore finished fifth in the event with a 6:12.70 time, and Casey Gore was eighth with a time of 6:20.46 for South.
The South relay team of Hannah Ringgold, Regan Campbell, Gunn and Joey Long finished fourth in the 4X100-meter relay with a time of 55.21, one place in front of the North team of Walker, Edgar, Sydney Shumate and Jenny Bond, who took fifth with a time of 56.24.
The South team of Long, Gore, Gunn and Ashley Chandler finished fifth in the 4X400 relay with a time of 4:49.71. The South team of Ashley Gore, Casey Gore, Melanie Abbott and Chloe Thompson finished third in the 4X800 relay with an 11:00.51 time.
Odom was sixth in the pole vault with a height of 6-9 for North while Shutmate was eighth with a 6-9 leap. North’s Elaine Helpenstill was seventh in the shot put with a distance of 27-8, and also finished seventh in the discus throw with a toss of 60-9.
