Track & Field: Wood girls win Strasburg meet

STRASBURG — The James Wood girls scored 152 points to win the Ram Country Track & Field Invitational by 62 points on Saturday at Strasburg High School.

Strasburg was second out of 12 scoring teams with 90 points. Sherando was fourth with 65 and Clarke County was seventh with 44.

Sherando senior Ella Carlson (discus, 131 feet, 10 inches, and shot put, 33-0) and Clarke County sophomore Bailey Beard (100 meters, 13.52 seconds, 200, 27.33) were the only two local athletes to win two individual events.

Loudoun County won the boys' meet with 165 points, 86 more than runner-up James Wood (79). Sherando was third with 72 and Clarke County was sixth with 40 out of 13 scoring teams.

James Wood girls' leaders: Lillian Lovelace, 1st, 100 hurdles, 19.00, 300 hurdles, 2nd, 51.43; Quetzali Angel-Perez, 1st, 800, 2:35.07; 4x100 (Jocelyn Hempel, Olivia Boyce, Macey Payne, Alana Bradford), 1st, 53.58; 4x400 (Ella Kiesewalter, Ruby Ostrander, Angel-Perez, Kameron Strosnider), 1st, 4:25.40; Hempel, 2nd, triple jump, 32-5; Aubrey Grove, 2nd, discus, 118-3 (state qualifier); Ostrander, 800, 2nd, 2:36.85; Lauren Beatty, 2nd, 3,200, 11:59.82; Abigail Hendershot, 3rd, shot put, 28-7.5; Rebecca Logan, 3rd, 100 hurdles, 21.88; Kiesewalter, 3rd, 400, 1:05.88; Bradford, 3rd, 200, 28.93; Izzy Newman, 3rd, 3,200, 12:29.06. 

Other Sherando girls' leaders: Victoria Corbit, 1st, long jump, 16-10, 3rd triple jump, 32-5; Crittenden, 3rd, 1,600, 5:52.52; 4x800 (Julianna Duke, Addy Wallin, Ryleigh Combs, Crittenden), 3rd, 11:31.74.  

Other Clarke County girls' leaders: 4x100 (Bailey Beard, Ellie Brumback, Selene Good, Reagan Myer), 2nd, 54.35; Beard, 3rd, long jump 16-6. 

James Wood boys' leaders: Brendan Cassidy, 300 hurdles, 1st, 41.76; Nathaniel Woshner, 1st, 3,200, 9:42.53 (state qualifier); 4x400 (Cassidy, Logan McKay, Nolan Cornwell, Andrew Link), 1st, 3:41.54; Ethan Pratt-Perez, 2nd, 3,200, 9:47.47 (state qualifier); 4x100 (Elijah Richards, Karim Cisse, William Andrews, Zachary Smith), 3rd, 48.10.   

Sherando boys' leaders: Avery Dodson, 1st, discus, 137-6; Anthony Binibini, 2nd, triple jump, 38-6; 4x800 (Camden Palmer, Julean Mendez, Jed Bell, Dylan McGraw), 2nd, 8:57.81; Jayden Patten, 3rd, 110 hurdles, 12.22.   

Clarke County boys' leaders: Will Booker, 2nd, high jump, 5-10; 4x100 (Spencer Blick, Dain Booker, Will Booker, Wyatt Palmer), 2nd, 47.92; Dain Booker, 3rd, 200, 24.80.