Taylor helps Sandy Creek win AAA
JEFFERSON, Ga.—Christian Taylor overwhelmed his competition again at the Georgia boys track and field championships.
The Sandy Creek senior won his third individual title of the state meet on Saturday, running the 400-meter dash in 46.60 seconds to break the Class AAA record he set the day before by nearly six-tenths of a second.
Taylor also anchored Sandy Creek's winning relay teams in the 400 and 1,600 meters. The Florida signee, who finished the meet with an individual-maximum 35 points for the second straight year, established all-classification marks in the triple jump and high jump on Thursday.
Not surprisingly, Sandy Creek took its second straight AAA title, beating second-place Flowery Branch by 19 1/2 points.
McEachern, the AAAAA champion in 2007, tied Marietta, which won the state's highest classification the year before, for this year's championship.
Both teams had 46 points. McEachern's William Wynne won all-performance honors in the 110 high hurdles (13.52 seconds) and the 300 intermediate hurdles (36.28). He also anchored the 1,600 relay team that finished second to Douglass by six-thousandths of a second.
D'Angelo Cherry erased worries that a tight hamstring would affect his burst in the 100. Though the Mt. Zion-Jonesboro senior withdrew from the Class AAAA 200 meters, he ran the 100 in 10.33 seconds to break the all-classification career state mark he set on Friday by eight-hundredths of a second.
Chapel Hill edged Tucker by one point to take the AAAA title. Blair O'Bryant's victory in the 800 was the clincher as he won the race in 1 minute, 56.66 seconds, edging McIntosh's Vince Brown by one-hundredth of a second.
In Class AA, Jeff Davis won the championship with 58 points, one better than Swainsboro's total. Deryan Sims raced to a victory in the 400 dash at 49.15 seconds and later helped the 1,600 relay team that held off Swainsboro by 1.45.
Landmark Christian took the Class A trophy with 68 points, nine more than second-place Athens Christian. Walter Lenard and Durrell Smith dominated the hurdles, with Lenard's 15.01 seconds beating Smith by six-hundredths of a second in the 110 and Smith's 39.55 finish nearly three-tenths of second faster than his teammate.
