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  • Keyser High School won the state championship in the boys shuttle hurdle relay for the fourth consecutive year Friday in the Class AA meet in Charleston. Pictured, left to right on the podium after receiving their medals, are Jarell Ross, Kadeem Garland, Wes Washington and Matt Shillingburg, who won with a time of 59.79. Ross was a member of all four state championship teams. The 2009 team won with a state record time of 56.41.

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May 23, 2010

Frankfort’s Welker claims three state titles

Washington leads Keyser in Class AA boys meet

From Staff Reports Cumberland Times-News

— CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Frankfort High’s Bria Welker left one puzzling question seeking an answer after the Class AA state track and field championships Saturday afternoon.

What will she do for an encore?

Welker, just a freshman, won three state titles and nearly picked off a record-setting fourth in leading the Falcons to a second-place finish in the girls meet.

Welker won the 200-meter dash in 25.65, the 400-meter dash in 57.51, and the long jump at 16 feet, 10 1/2 inches, but was edged at the tape by 5/100ths of a second by Candace Brown of Summers County in the 100-meter dash. Brown won with a 12.46 compared to Welker’s 12.51.

Ironically, just a few minutes later St. Marys’ Kyle Davis became a rare four-time champion in the Class A boys meet. He won the 100, 200, 400 and long jump to become the first boy to compile 40 points in the meet’s 96 years.

Oak Hill won the Class AA girls team championship with 62 points, with Frankfort second with 51 and Keyser third with 48 in a 26-team field.

Also on Saturday, Frankfort’s Katie Jan, also a freshman, finished second in the 800 meters in 2:19.24, fourth in the 1,600 meters in 5:25.95, and sixth in the 400 in 1:00.29.

Keyser’s Julia Ludwick finished second, only to Welker, in the long jump, with a mark of 15 feet, 8 1/4 inches. Teammate Darlene Williams placed fourth in the 100-meter hurdles in 16.50.

• In the Class AA boys meet, Ritchie County nosed out defending champion Keyser for the team title, 62-57. Berkeley Springs was third with 48 points.

Wesley Washington led Keyser by winning an individual event and running on two winning relay teams. Taven Rohrbaugh and Peyton Hartman also won individual events.

Washington won the 300-meter hurdles in 39.50, and was third in the 110-meter hurdles in 15.62. He ran the final leg on the winning 1,600-meter relay team, which included Taven Rohrbaugh, Langston Hines and Jarell Ross. The team won with a time of 3:31.27.

Washington’s win came a day after he ran a leg on the Golden Tornado’s shuttle hurdle relay team, which won the event for the fourth straight year. Washington, Ross, Kadeem Garland and Matt Shillingburg won this year’s relay in 59.79.

Rohrbaugh won the 800 meters in 1:58.15, and Hartman was the champion in the high jump with a mark of 6 feet, 4 inches.

• In girls Class A, East Hardy’s Randi Jenkins was runner-up in the 100 in 13.16 and the 200 in 27.15, helping the Cougars to a seventh-place finish.

Union’s Tiffany Jones was sixth in the shot put with a throw of 29 feet, 8 1/2 inches, and teammate Jaime Hanlin was sixth in the long jump at 14 feet, 10 1/2 inches.

Moorefield’s Mae Beth Fisher was sixth in the 3200 in 12:51.31.

• In boys Class A, Union’s Jeff Savage finished sixth in the long jump with a mark of 19 feet, 1 1/2 inches.

 

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