The Starr's

Mill Lady Panthers and the Sandy Creek Lady Patriots

track and field teams met in the Region 4-AAA Girls Track

and Field Championship earlier this week.

Starr's

Mill won the meet with 34 overall points, while Morrow

High School took second place with 28 points and

Riverdale finished third with 27 points. Sandy Creek

placed sixth with 18 points.

Starr's

Mill scored points in a number of events. The team's

4x400-meter relay team placed fourth overall with a time

of 4:13.38, while the 4x100-meter relay team placed

sixth. In the women's 200-meter dash, C.C. Shipmon and

Iceland Williams finished sixth and seventh respectively

with times of 28.00 and 28.07. In the 800-meter run,

Katie Hughes and Cassie Shular finished third and fourth

respectively with times of 2:33.59 and 2:33.82.

The Lady

Panthers also got a first and second place finish in the

1,600-meter run from Eva Massmann and Ashley Meredith,

who finished in times of 5:31.36 and 5:34.10

respectively. Erika Junasz took second in the shot put

with a distance of 30'04.50, and Carmen Williams took

second in the discus with a distance of 94'07.00.

Sandy Creek

had a first place finisher in Alexis McCoy, who won the

400-meter dash with a time of 1:00.66. Millicent Thomas

came in fifth in the event with a time of 1:03.94. Mandi

Harrington took sixth in the 800-meter run with a time of

2:42.66, while Rae Lynch placed fourth in the 1,600-meter

run with 5:41.74. Jessica White placed second in the

100-meter intermediate hurdles with a time of 16.16. She

also placed second in the 300-meter low hurdles with

47.64.

Jennifer

Worsham placed fith in the long jump with a jump of

16'03.75. Ashley Lott placed third in the shot put with a

throw of 30'02.50, while Jessica DeMooney placed seventh

with a throw of 29'04.00. DeMooney also placed third in

the discus throw with a toss of 92'06.50.

Both teams

will have entrants in the AAA state meet.

In other

track news, the McIntosh girls track team won the Girls

4-AAAA Meet last week. Dana Van Winkle won the 1600 meter

run and 3200 meter run and Keri Pendergrass finished 2nd

in the 800 meter run to qualify for the Girls State AAAA

Track Meet which will be held next week in Albany,

Georgia.

Britte

Hardy won the 200 meter and 400meter dash with Evita

Smith finishing 2nd in the 100 meter dash to qualify

individually for the state meet.

Additionally,

the Girls 4 X 100M relay team qualified by finishing 2nd.

That relay team consisted of Tabitha Lowey, Ansley

Franke, Evita Smith, and Britt Hardy.

The boys

team finished the region today and only had one member

qualify for the Boys State AAAA Meet, Sean Heaton in the

pole vault. Heaton finished first by vaulting 11 feet.