Cavs jump to state No. 2
Published 10:19 pm Monday, February 28, 2011
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Lakeland junior Rausheeim Thompson runs his leg of the 4x200-meter relay for the Cavaliers. The Cavs finished second in the relay and second overall as a team at the VHSL Group AAA State Indoor Track and Field Championships Friday and Saturday in Hampton.
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