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Lady Dogs strong at Kowboy Invite

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Friday, 18 March 2011 11:38

By Rick Pedone
Sports Editor
The St. Cloud Lady Bulldogs track team proved that it’s a serious contender for the Orange Belt Conference championship after winning the Kowboy Invitational last week against a 14-team field in a meet that featured 33 elite-level performances. St. Cloud (105) beat Lake Mary (90) and Osceola (82) and had four individual and relay champions. Harmony (6) was 14th.
Lakeland Kathleen (122) beat St. Cloud (75) and Osceola (63.5) in the 13-team boys meet. Harmony (13) was 13th with a partial team.
St. Cloud’s Kirsten Chambers (5-2) won the high jump championship, and Anaya Reid (2:27.29) won at 800 meters.
Reid joined Ashlyn Stadtlander, Katelyn Stadtlander and Berenise Vega (10:20.99) to win the 4 x 800.
St. Cloud won the 4 x 400 relay with Reid, Chambers, Diana Gatlin and Jacquita Manning.
Ashlyn Stadtlander was runner-up at 1,600 (5:38) and 3,200 (12:17.33) meters.
Cierra Adams (34-8.5) was second in the shot put.
“The girls did a great job. The distance group got the job done, while the sprinters and field (athletes) really stepped up to show their strengths for every point,” St. Cloud Coach Ettie Singleton said. “I am super proud of every member of the team.”
In the showdown of the nation’s top high school sprinters, Lake Wales Octavious Freeman (11.42) lowered her best time of the season at 100 meters in beating Osceola state champion Tynia Gaither (11.62) for the second time in two weeks.
Freeman (23.47) also won the 200 over Gaither’s time of 23.70.
Freeman and Gaither have recorded the lowest sprint times nationally this month.
Osceola’s Atarah Clark was third in both events at 12.17 for the 100 and 25.28 in the 200.
Freeman, Gaither and Clark all recorded elite-level times in the sprints.
Freeman also won the long jump at 17-9.5 in another elite-level performance.
Lake Wales (46.49) won the girls 4 x 100. Osceola (47.47) was second with Gaither, Jodiann Crooks, Jameshia Gant and Vallerie Norgaisse.
Gant ran an elite-level time, 14.81, and placed third in the 100 hurdles.
“That’s what happens when you run against the best,” OHS Coach Eric Pinellas said.
Osceola competes at the Steinbrenner Invitational at USF today.
“There aren’t any beasts there, as far as I know,” Pinellas said.
At the boys meet, Osceola sprinter Defario Phillips ran an elite-level 10.69 in the 100 meters, finishing second to Lakeland’s Perman Wilson (10.62).
Osceola’s Marquis Hegwood (41.86) won the 300 hurdles, and St. Cloud’s Calixto Bravo (51.70) won at 400 meters. Harmony’s Carson Sherrod (49-9) was the shot put champion.