WINSTON-SALEM — The Richmond Senior High School boys’ indoor track and field team claimed fourth place at the Sandhills Athletic Conference championship.
Competing at the JDL Fast Track, the Raiders secured 41 points.
Winning the SAC championship was Union Pines High School (185.5 points). Also ahead of Richmond were Pinecrest (173.5) and Hoke County (140 points) high schools.
Other teams competing were Lee County (8 points) and Southern Lee (4 points) high schools.
Although the Raiders didn’t have any individual or relay conference championships, they did have six top-five finishes.
Junior Travion Smith and sophomore Keonta Pegues had the team’s best finish in their respective events. Both took third overall.
Smith, competing in the shot put, earned six points with a throw of 34 feet, 5.5 inches. Running in the 55-meter dash, Pegues also added six points with a time of 6.70 seconds.
All three of Richmond’s relay teams — the 4×200, 4×400 and 4×800-meter teams — took fourth place and combined for 15 points.
Smith, Demetrius Everette, Deshaun Ingram and Pegues ran the 4×200 in 1:43.46. Nyjier Allen, Chamaure Shaw, Ahjujuan Ewing and Kaleb Hunt completed the 4×400 with a time of 4:10.35.
The final relay team of Jeffery McAuley, ZaiAier Chambers, Alijah Flowers and Joshua Yarbrough ran the 4×800 in 10:59.13.
Shaw was the only other top-five finisher. He was fifth overall in the high jump, setting a new personal record of 5 feet, 6 inches for four points.
Richmond picked up its final 10 points from Shaw (six points), Pegues (two points) and Ingram and Smith (one point each).
Shaw earned three points in two different events — the long jump and triple jump. He set a PR in the triple jump (37 feet, 8 inches) and landed at 19 feet, 3.25 inches for seventh in the long jump.
Pegues’ two points were a result of a seventh-place finish in the 300-meter dash (39.36 seconds) and Smith had a final point with an eighth-place run in the 500-meter race (1:15.68).
One more point came courtesy of Ingram in the 55-meter dash. He set a PR of 6.89 seconds.
Richmond and head coach John Rich will return to action Saturday, Jan. 25, at 9 a.m..
