After finishing fourth overall in the Eastern Region Championships and fifth in the 10-school Southeastern District, Lakeland’s boys track team took home second in the state in the VHSL (Virginia High School League) Group AAA State Indoor Track and Field Championships Saturday at the Boo Williams Sportsplex in Hampton.

The Cavaliers had competitors in only six events but had top-five finishes in five of the six events.

Junior Anaquan Peterson was the individual standout for the Cavaliers, earning half of the team’s 36 points through his state championship in the long jump and second-place finish in the triple jump. Peterson then was the anchor leg of the Cavalier 4×200-meter relay team that finished runner-up to Indian River for the third straight meet.

Lakeland was the top Eastern Region team in the final standings and Grassfield in ninth was the next Southeastern school.

In the 2010 season, the Cavaliers finished 16th as a team in the indoor state meet and sixth in the outdoor state meet.

2011 Virginia Group AAA State Indoor Track and Field Championships

Boo Williams Sportsplex, Hampton

RESULTS

Boys team scores (61 teams)

1. Atlee                                 57

2. Lakeland                       36

3. First Colonial               31

4. Douglas Freeman        27

5. Chantilly                        26

29. Nansemond River      6

Boys triple jump (24 competitors)

1. Allen Bordley First Colonial     49-5.5

2. Anaquan Peterson Lakeland    48-7-5

3. Ricky Blake Nan. River              71-1.25

Boys long jump (27)

1. Anaquan Peterson Lakeland    23-6

2. Sean Price South Lakes             22-4.5

19. JaQuan Demiel Lakeland        20-9

Boys 55 hurdles (32)

1. Daniel McFadden Heritage      7.21

3. JaQuan Demiel Lakeland         7.37

Boys 55 (29)

1. Majique Key Woodside              6.30

5. Quentin Gilchrist Lakeland      6.54

Boys 4×200 relay (24)

1. Indian River      1:30.67  (Darius Vaughan, Kirk Spellman, Aquante Thornton, Nate Anderson)

2. Lakeland            1:31.25 (JaQuan Demiel, Quentin Gilchrist, Rausheeim Thompson, Anaquan

Peterson)

Boys 4×400 relay (17)

1. Atlee                  3:24.51

-. King’s Fork       DQ

-. Lakeland            DQ

Girls team scores (55 teams)

1. Western Branch       92

2. Cosby                         37

3. South County           28

4. Grassfield                  27

5. Thomas Dale            25.5

50. King’s Fork             1

Girls pole vault (27)

1. Cameron Overstreet Atlee                13-1.5

18. Gabrielle Wash Lakeland               8-6

Girls 500 (26)

1. Cassandra Jones Granby                    1:14.53

8. Qualitra Brown King’s Fork              1:17.23

Girls 1,000 (23)

1. Kimberley Ficenec Mountain View   2:54.47

21. Melinda HIckman King’s Fork        3:11.21

Girls 300 (24)

1. Tanisha Greene Landstown      39.83

18. Qualitra Brown King’s Fork    41.76