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Last Year’s Boys State Meet

Two Individual Champions Help Greyhounds To
Second Track and Field Title

Two individual champions helped
Carmel to its second-ever IHSAA boys
track and field state title and first since
2000 at the Robert C. Haugh Track &
Field Complex in Bloomington.
The Greyhounds accumulated 49
points to outpace runner-up Ben Davis
with 36.75 and third-place Warren
Central with 36.
Coach Ken Browner’s team was
paced by a pair of first place finishes
from sophomore Jalen Walker, who
posted a 37.74 in the 300 hurdles, and
junior Ben Veatch, who ran a blazing
8:53.77 in the 3200. The Greyhounds’
were also the beneficiaries of top five
finishes in three different field events.
2014-15 State Champions
Two seniors, Vince Laconi and
Isaac James, both finished fourth in the Event Champion School Time/Dist./Ht.
shot put and long jump, respectively. Pole Vault Deakin Volz (12) Bloomington South 17-6
Sophomore Ryan Lipe, meanwhile, Long Jump Christian Powell (11) Ben Davis 23-9.5
took home a third place finish in the Discus Cameron Tidd (11) Center Grove 190-4
pole vault with a height of 15-09.
High Jump Francis Ehigbai (12) Hamilton Southeastern 6-11
The pole vault event was undoubt- Shot Put Mitchell Kessler (12) Crown Point 58-11.5
edly one of the more exciting events of 3200 Relay West Lafayette 7:45.07
the evening. After seven competitors (Dylan Williams 11, Jake Cohen 12, Cooper Williams 11, Evan Johnson 11)
cleared 15-00, Bloomington South’s 110 Hurdles Clayton Cook (12) Wawasee 13.99
Deakin Volz took home first prize for
the second consecutive season by 100 Meters John Hankerson (11) South Bend Washington 10.73
smashing his previous state record 1600 Meters Zack Snider (12) Brebuef Jesuit 4:10.26
with an impressive height of 17-06. 400 Relay Ben Davis 41.20
(Chris Evans 11, Derrick Jones 12, Jermaine Hoskins 9, Christian Powell 11)
Stoney Prowell was the night’s 400 Meters Stoney Prowell (12) Indianapolis Marshall 47.09
other repeat champion. The senior 300 Hurdles Jalen Walker (10) Carmel 37.74
from Indianapolis Marshall won the
400 meter dash with a time of 47.09, 800 Meters Hari Sathyamurthy (11) Brownsburg 1:51.50
improving on last year’s time of 48.40. 200 Meters D’Wayne Eskridge (11) Bluffton 21.39
3200 Meters Ben Veatch (11) Carmel 8:53.77
The 200 meter finals ended in a 1600 Relay Lake Central 3:16.49
photo finish, as the top two places (Anthony Pavloski 10, Clayton Goldman 11, Ethan Gomez 12, Charles Sykes 12)
finished within one-tenth of a second of
each other. D’Wayne Eskridge, a junior
from Bluffton, bested Isaiah Thomas, Final Team Standings
the previous year’s state champion, 1. Carmel 49
with a time of 21.39. 2. Ben Davis 36.75
The official attendance for Friday’s 3. Warren Central 36
event at Indiana University’s Robert C. 4. Center Grove 33
Hough Track and Field Complex was T5. Fort Wayne Northrop 27
4,793. T5. Hamilton Southeastern 27
7. Avon 24
T8. Bloomington North 21
T8. Bloomington South 21
T8. Bluffton 21
T8. Lake Central 21

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