CAMERON — One final regular-season meet resulted in a first-place finish for the Richmond girls’ indoor track and field team.
Over the weekend, the Lady Raiders competed in a six-team meet at Union Pines High School and collected 187 points.
Richmond earned its most points in jumping events (60 points), followed by distance (39 points), hurdles (29 points), sprints (24 points), relays (20 points) and throwing (15 points).
Cape Fear High School was the next closest team with 47 points, followed by host Hoke County High School (33 points).
The Lady Raiders registered 10 first-place finishes in the 12 different events scored.
In the long jump and the 55-meter hurdles, Richmond took the top four spots in each event to collect 58 combined points.
Ja’Mya Fuller earned first in the 55 hurdles (9.92 seconds), followed by Fallon Little (10.81 seconds), Anayjah Dumas (11.07 seconds) and Makhia Burch (11.60 seconds).
Akeya Harrison, who qualified for the NCHSAA 4A state championship in the long jump and triple jump, won both events. She was also recently named the Sandhills Athletic Conference’s field events MVP for the season.
Harrison jumped 17 feet, 1 inch in the long jump and recorded a distance of 35 feet, 1 inch in the triple jump for 20 combined points.
Helping sweep the board in the long jump in second through fourth place, respectively, were Fuller (15 feet, 5 inches), Ka’Mora Watkins (15 feet, 2 inches) and Dumas (14 feet, 3 inches).
Watkins won the high jump for another 10 points for the team, clearing the bar at 4 feet, 8 inches. Dumas (25 feet, 4 inches) and Tayanna Holloman (24 feet, 7 inches) finished third and fourth in the triple jump to combine for 11 more points.
Both of Richmond’s relay teams, the 4×100 meter and 4×200 meter squads, placed first overall. The 4×200 relay team finished in 1:55.94, nearly 25 seconds faster than second-place Union Pines (2:19.24).
Running uncontested, the 4×400 relay team clocked in at 5:05.69. Also picking up a first-place finish was Mariana Mendez in the 1600-meter run, finishing with a time of 6:07.81, a full 1:21 faster than second-place Emaleigh Appleton of Union Pines.
Mendez also took first in the 1000-meter run (3:38.94), followed by teammate Ella Munn in third place (4:54.96).
The final two first-place finishers for the Lady Raiders were Isis Covington in the 55-meter dash (7.60 seconds) and Honesty Horne in the shot put (30 feet, 1 inch).
Kym Wall (1:34.15) and Amariah Gibson (1:40.35) finished second and fourth in the 500-meter run to add 12 more points. Aniston Griggs’ distance of 25 feet, 0 inches in the shot put was good enough for fourth place.
Taylor Newton, Tenaziah McNeil and Wall crossed the finish line in fifth through seventh place in the 55-meter dash to combine for nine points. In the 300-meter race, Gibson and McNeil placed sixth and seventh for five additional points.
The NCHSAA 4A state championship will be held on Saturday at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem.
