A state record in the 400-meter relay capped Omaha North's first Metro Conference title in girls track and field.

The Vikings' foursome of Bre'unna McCarty, Maia Reynolds, Janesha McGhee and Brianna McGhee, running together for the first time this season, circled the Burke Stadium track in 47.78 seconds Wednesday to better the 47.93 that North ran at the 2009 state meet.

“And we had a bad exchange in the second zone,'' North girls coach Lori Danner said.

“I watched Janesha start running, and she didn't have the baton,'' Brianna McGhee said. “She had to look down to get it.''

Brianna McGhee also won the 200 — North had a 1-2-4 finish — and was second in the 100 high hurdles and the long jump in the two-day conference meet.

“She has the heart of a champion,'' Danner said. “She's a little bit hurt, but she wouldn't let you know that.''

Millard West repeated as boys team champion with the aid of wins in the 3,200 relay to start Wednesday's finals and the 1,600 relay to end the meet.

“Our middle-distance and distance runners were our strong suit,'' Wildcats boys coach Max Kurz said. “And we had our hurdlers come through big time.''

North's LaQue Moen-Davis, as she did last year for Omaha Central, won three golds. She added wins in the high hurdles and the triple jump to Tuesday's all-time best in the long jump. But she half-heartedly ran the 300 hurdles, placing 28th of 31 who finished with a time of 55.35. The high jump had been her fourth event in previous meets.

She received the meet's award as the outstanding girls field-events athlete. Other athletes of the meet were Morgan Woitzel of Millard South in girls track events, Thomas Hodges of North in boys track events and Chris Reed of Central in boys field events.

Woitzel ran anchor on the Patriots' 1,600 relay that broke Central's 29-year-old meet record after winning the 400 and 800 on Tuesday. Hodges swept the 100 and 200. Reed swept the shot put and discus titles.

Deverell Biggs of Central tied a meet record by clearing 6-10 in the boys high jump. He had three good attempts at 7-¼, Central boys coach Elliott Evans said.

Marshall Anderson of Papillion-La Vista pulled away in the 1,600 to complete a sweep of the two longest races. Millard West freshman Sidney Hirsch did likewise in the girls distance events.

Boys

• Team scoring: Millard West 111, Bellevue West 86.25, Om. Central 75, Papillion-LV 65.25, Om. Westside 58, Om. Burke 56, Millard South 50, Om. North 34.25, Om. Northwest 33, Millard North 27, Om. Benson 18.25, Om. South 18, Papillion-LV South 18, Om. Creighton Prep 12, Bellevue East 1, Om. Bryan 0.

• 100 meters: 1, Thomas Hodges, North, 10.89. 2, Ted Lampkin, Central, 10.94. 3, Glenn Lewis, PLV, 11.06. 4, Dominique Hawkins, BW, 11.07. 5, Antaries Daniels, NW, 11.08. 6, Devin Barfield, BW, 11.14.

• 200: 1, Hodges, 22.05. 2, Barfield, 22.56. 3, Lewis, 22.80. 4, Justin Frezell, South, 22.82. 5, Hawkins, 22.96. 6, Chase Rasmussen, PLV, 23.25.

• 1,600: 1, Marshall Anderson, PLV, 4:21.74. 2, David Poots, MW, 4:35.17. 3, Ryan Cox, MN, 4:35.21. 4, Anthony Pittman, MW, 4:35.49. 5, Eric Weers, PS, 4:35.92. 6, Robert Bestenlehner, MS, 4:38.57.

• 110 hurdles: 1, Elijah Mason, NW, 14.70. 2, Daniel Kemp, WS, 15.02. 3, Myles Azevado, MW, 15.06. 4, Kameron Brooks, NW, 15.22. 5, Stephon Washington, Burke, 15.30. 6, Lee Korshoj, MW, 15.51.

• 300 hurdles: 1, Washington, 38.23. 2, Mason, 39.13. 3, Brooks, 39.81. 4, Ethan Kocourek, WS, 40.45. 5, Korshoj, 40.98. 6, Azevado, 41.05.

• 400 relay: 1, Bell. West (Dennis Barfield, Hawkins, JT Travis, Devin Barfield), 42.77. 2, Central, 43.40. 3, Papillion-LV, 43.66. 4, Westside, 44.48. 5, Mill. West, 44.53. 6, Mill. South, 44.86.

• 1,600 relay: 1, Mill. West (Nash Beaudin, Korshoj, Vincenzo Guido, Johnny Hower), 3:26.09. 2, Bell. West, 3:26.18. 3, North, 3:27.63. 4, Westside, 3:29.48. 5, Burke, 3:31.58. 6, Mill. South, 3:32.04.

• 3,200 relay: 1, Mill. West (Kenney, Hower, Matt Morhardt, Beaudin), 8:04.41. 2, Westside, 8:11.37. 3, Mill. South, 8:13.41. 4, Prep, 8:21.75. 5, Burke, 8:21.80. 6, Mill. North, 8:29.00.

• Shot put: 1, Chris Reed, Central, 59-6½. 2, Gary Hiatt, MS, 53-5. 3, Drew Staskiewicz, MN, 53-3½. 4, Dylan Utter, PLV, 51-9. 5, Josh Meeker, MW, 51-3. 6, Ricky Fuller, PLV, 51-0.

• High jump: 1, Deverell Biggs, Central, 6-10 (ties meet record). 2, Xavier Thompson, BW, 6-8. 3, Jer'rell Moore, Benson, 6-7. 4, Marcus Robinson, Burke, 6-3. 5, Jordan Johnson, Benson, 6-2. 6, Mitchell Westberry, Central, 6-1.

• Long jump: 1, Lampkin, 23-10½. 2, Tiras Bolton, WS, 23-2. 3, Brandon White, North, 22-2½. 4, David Brown, South, 22-2. 5, Biggs, 22-1½. 6, Pal Deng, MS, 22-½.

Girls

• Team scoring: Om. North 131.5, Millard West 101.5, Om. Central 66, Millard South 63, Mill. North 52, Om. Burke 50, Om. Westside 45, Papillion-LV South 43, Papillion-LV 40, Bellevue West 30, Bellevue East 14.5, Om. Marian 14, Om. Benson 9, Om. Northwest 5, Om. South 4, Om. Bryan 0.

• 100 meters: 1, Maia Reynolds, North, 12.22. 2, Bre'unna McCarty, North, 12.36. 3, Clara Nichols, MS, 12.39. 4, Chelsea Baker, Central, 12.55. 5, Janesha McGee, North, 12.56. 6, Edna Johnson, WS, 12.66.

• 200: 1, Brianna McGhee, North, 25.16. 2, Nichols, 25.29. 3, Baker, 25.86. 4, McCarty, 26.09. 5, Johnson, 26.24. 6, Neeia Cooperwood, Marian, 26.34.

• 1,600: 1, Sidney Hirsch, MW, 5:23.04. 2, Cassidy Tinsley, Burke, 5:30.60. 3, Jackie Mezick, BE, 5:31.74. 4, Sydney Gress, PS, 5:32.76. 5, Katherine Leibel, WS, 5:33.90. 6, Laura Peterson, MN, 5:35.36.

• 110 hurdles: 1, LaQue Moen-Davis, North, 14.70. 2, B. McGhee, 14.94. 3, Christiana Eltiste, WS, 15.43. 4, Celeste Robinson, Central, 15.61. 5, Lauren Baird, MW, 15.64. 6, Hillary Argyle, MN, 15.86.

• 300 hurdles: 1, Robinson, 46.99. 2, Danielle Jones, North, 47.36. 3, Jordan Hopkins, MW, 47.91. 4, Kaylynn Stubblefield, Benson, 48.36. 5, Mariah Stauffer, MW, 48.39. 6, Maddie Glesinger, PS, 48.79.

• 400 relay: 1, North (McCarty, Reynolds, J. McGhee, B. McGhee), 47.78 (state record). 2, Central, 49.46. 3, Mill. West, 50.63. 4, Westside, 51.43. 5, Benson, 51.73. 6, Mill. North, 52.24.

• 1,600 relay: 1, Mill. South (Leslie Felici, Macy Woitzel, Nichols, Morgan Woitzel), 3:59.12 (meet record). 2, North, 4:05.08. 3, Mill. West, 4:05.53. 4, Central, 4:10.26. 5, Westside, 4:10.52. 6, Burke, 4:12.77.

• 3,200 relay: 1, Burke (Hannah Holst, Kelcea Barnes, Payton Gaines, Angela Berry), 9:55.00. 2, Mill. West, 9:56.38. 3, Mill. North, 10:12.38. 4, Westside, 10:14.12. 5, Marian, 10:16.02. 6, Bell. West, 10:17.41.

• Discus: 1, Michelle Wallerstedt, Burke, 132-4. 2, Maddie Besack, MN, 119-11. 3, Kaiti Williams, PS, 116-7. 4, Amber Lutmer, MW, 115-2. 5, Katie Krajicek, PS, 113-4. 6, Anesa Gilreath, Central, 101-9.

• Triple jump: 1, Moen-Davis, 40-3. 2, Baird, 36-6. 3, Jones, 36-3. 4, Tatijana Davis, Central, 36-0. 5, DaRion Archie, North, 34-10. 6, Tiara Cobb, MS, 34-8.

• Pole vault: 1,Lauren Welch, PLV, 11-0. 2, Katja Martens, BW, 10-6. 3, Lizzy Stanton, PS, 9-6. 4, Kayla McMahon, MN, 9-0. 5, Reilly Jorgensen MN, 8-6. 6, Amanda Cleek, PLV, 8-6.

Coaches honor McKeever, Turman

Rick McKeever of Omaha Westside's boys and Seth Turman of Millard West's girls are the Metro Track Coaches Association coaches of the year. The association's academic All-Metro teams (athletes must have medaled at the 2009 Metro meet):

• Boys: Myles Azevado, Johnny Hower, Lee Korshoj, Josh Meeker, Anthony Pittman, M. West; Robert Frick, Burke; Patricl Grogan, Danny Kemp, James Kerrigan, Ethan Kocourek, Westside; Gary Hiatt, Bronson Marsh, David Prchal, M. South; Radell Nared, O. North; Chase Raamussen, PLV; Phil Scheer, Nick Steinauer, Colin Siert, Cre. Prep.

• Girls: Hillary Argyle, Maddie Mesack, Laura Peterson, M. North; Lauren Baird, Jordan Hopkins, Kylie Kneifl, M. West; Angela Berry, Anne Prauner, Burke; Neeia Cooperwood, Noelle Mapes, Marian; Becca Cover, M. South; Taryn Derickson, B. West; Christiana Eltiste, Emily Klimisch, Katherine Leibel; Lauren Welch, PLV; Kaiti Williams, PLVS.

Contact the writer:

444-1041, stu.pospisil@owh.com

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