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Liberty boys lead the way at Poinciana Invitational track

Sports

Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:23

By Rick Pedone
Sports Editor
Many of Central Florida’s top track performers competed at the Poinciana Invitational on Saturday, where Liberty’s boys won (159) against a 12-team field with an impressive display of depth.
Celebration (57) was fourth, Gateway (33) was ninth and Poinciana (26) was 10th.
Lakeland George Jenkins (159) won the girls 10-team meet. Liberty (72), fifth, was the highest-scoring Osceola County girls team. Gateway (47) was sixth, Celebration (33) finished eighth and Poinciana (15) was ninth.
Robbie Johnroe swept the 1,600 (4:51) and 3,200 (10:04) titles for the Chargers. Jean Leon (39.80) won the 300 hurdles and placed second (15:31) to Celebration’s Marcus George (15:18) in the 110 hurdles.
Decarlo Bailey (2:06.54) won the 800 meters for the Chargers.
Liberty (3:31.20) won the 4 x 400 relay and finished second (8:47) in the 4 x 800.
The Chargers got 14 points in the high jump, where Hudson Cadet (6-2) was second and Thomas Biejansky (6-0) was third.
Liberty was second and third in the triple jump with Raheem Burnside (43-3) and Biejansky (43-1), respectively.
“We ran well across the board. We have some work to do, but all our top athletes picked up right where we left off from states last year. Jean Leon and Robbie ran well,” Chargers Coach Robert Pauley said.
Gateway Coach Scott Sisson said Liberty’s winning performance Saturday may be duplicated at the Orange Belt Conference meet March 31.
“That should be your conference champion,” Sisson said. “They are loaded.”
Celebration picked up a pair of first-place performances from hurdler George in the hurdles and Tyler Osorio (49.71) in the 400 meters.
The Storm also got a third-place effort from John Raemisch (42.96) in the 300 hurdles.
Poinciana sprinter Ronald Decomo (11.04) was second in the 100 meters and the 200 meters (22.16). His 200 meters time was a school record.
Gateway’s Carlos Espinol (4:58.74) was third at 1,600 meters. The Panthers 4 x 400 relay (3:39.47) finished third.
Lake Wales High sprinter Octavious Freeman dominated the girls meet, wining the 100 meters (11.59), the 200 meters (24.23) and the long jump (16-10). She anchored the Highlanders’ second-place 4 x 100 relay team.
Poinciana high jumper Kadijah Brown (5-4) set a school record and won the event, the only Osceola County female to take first place at the meet.
Liberty’s Kyanna Armstrong (1:05.02) took second at 400 meters. Louissa Nevy (17:44) was second in the 100 hurdles and third (54.07) in the 300 hurdles. Alisa Mitchell (30-6.75) was runner-up in the shot put, and Kelila Naules was third (14-10.5) in the long jump. Lisa Frimpong (86-0) was third in the discus, and the Lady Chargers 4 x 800 (11:45) team was third.
Gateway’s Audreen Robinson (2:40.89) was third in the 800 meters and teammate Shannon Wilson (13:07) was third at 3,200 meters.
The Lady Panthers 4 x 400 relay (4:29.69) was third.
Celebration’s Samira Gomez (4-10) placed third in the high jump.
Osceola will host the 20-team Kowboy Invitational Saturday at 9 a.m. St. Cloud and Harmony will compete. A highlight will be a showdown in the girls sprints between Lake Wales’ Freeman and Osceola High state champion Tynia Gaither.