Oak Glen’s Murray gets two seconds at state
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Oak Glen senior Logan Murray led the way for the Golden Bears on Saturday on the second day of the West Virginia state track and field meet at Laidley Field.
Murray took second in the Class AA long jump with a best leap of 21 feet, 3 inches on his fifth attempt. He fouled on his first and third attempts while also recording jumps of 20-8 1/2, 19-7 3/4 and 21-2 3/4.
Doddridge County’s Tommy Walters-Hickman won with a best leap of 21-10 1/2. Hickman went 21-6 3/4 on his first jump and hit his winning distance on his last jump.
In the 110-meter hurdles, Murray was once again second in 15.58 seconds. Independence’s Christian Linksweiler won in 15.21. Murray’s time in the final was almost identical to his prelim time of 15.53. Linksweiler’s personal best came in the prelim (15.04).
Murray also ran in the 400 relay with Mason Kell, Chance Ripley and Charles Oliver. Tthe Golden Bears were seventh in 44.97. Independence won in 43.10, a season’s best for that team.
In the 1600 relay, Kell, Gavin Geisse, Oliver and Xaiver Sell were 12th in 3:47.82.
The sophomore Oliver also ran a personal best 22.59 in the 200 dash to finish seventh.
Oak Glen’s boys finished seventh as a team in Class AA with 30 points. Doddridge won the team championship by a wide margin with 142 points.
In girls action, junior Lacey Cameron took fourth in the 1600 run (5:29.13). She came in with the eighth best time at regionals. Frankfort’s Bailey Ferguson won in 5:11.21.
In relay events, the Golden Bears’ 1600 team of Emma Everett, Amelia Kampmeyer, Addyson Wells and and Cameron was sixth in 4:27.58. Weir High won the event in 4:16.32.
In the 400 relay, Kalli Ates, Sophia Mascio, Wells and Everett took 14th in 55.05. In the 800 relay, the same team was also 14th in 1:59.01.
Oak Glen’s girls finished 15th in Class AA as a team with 16 points. Williamstown was the runaway winner with 115 points.
