2015 DeKalb County JV Track Champions — Stephenson Jaguars

The 2015 DeKalb County Junior Varsity Track and Field Championships renewed for the first time in over 15 years put several underclassmen in the spotlight on Wednesday at Panthersville Stadium as the titles went to the Stephenson Jaguars and Miller Grove Lady Wolverines.

The Jaguars captured seven of the 15 events titles on the way to a 117-108 over the Lakeside Vikings to capture the boys’ championship.

Stephenson got off to a great start by winning three of the five field events led by double gold medal winner Previs Seldon. Seldon captured gold in the shot put (35-06.75) and discus (98-04.50) as one of two Jaguars to double up on gold medals at the meet.

Hassan Littles gave Stephenson a third gold in the field events with a leap of 19-06.00 to win the long jump as the Jaguars piled up 47 points.

Clarkston’s Bereket Tewoldemeheret won a pair of gold medals.

Lakeside picked up 40 points in the field events led by Jonathan Roberts win in the high jump (5-06.00) to stay within striking distance of the Jaguars heading into the track events.

Four more gold medals would come Stephenson’s way in the track events led by two from Terence Moody with victories in the 100 meter dash (11.40) and 200 meter dash (23.08). Justin Birdsong captured the 300 meter hurdles title (43.65) to wrap up the individual gold medals for Stephenson.

Moody played a big role running the anchor in the 4×400 meter relay for the Jaguars as he took the baton in second place and chased down the leader and pulled away in the home stretch to give the Jaguars the relay title with a time of 3:34.64.

Arabia Mountain won the 4×100 meter relay with a time of 44.51 on the way to a third place finish with 69 points.

Clarkston made a strong showing in the middle and long distance races coming away with four gold medals, two by Bereket Tewoldemeheret in the 800 (2:12.87) and 1600 (4:52.40) meter runs. The two other wins came from Savon Beard in the 400 (50.65) and Bineyam Tumbo in the 3200 meter run (10:59.42).

Other gold medalists include Deishawn Worrell of Druid Hills in the 110 meter hurdles (17.46) and Dunwoody’s Bora Kayhan in the pole vault (7-06.00).

Girls

2015 DeKalb County JV Girls Track Champions — Miller Grove Lady Wolverines

A sweep of the top two spots in the 100 meter hurdles pushed the Miller Grove Lady Wolverines to close the gap on the way to an exciting 113.5-102 win over the Stephenson Lady Jaguars in the girls’ JV Championships.

Stephenson used 14 points in the 100 meter dash to pull out to a 13.5 point lead (74-59.5) over Miller Grove behind the second place finish of Shayla Smith (13.13) and third place finish of Jayla Neal (13.50).

The Lady Wolverines answered in the 100 hurdles behind the one-two finish of Alexcia Ayers (17.69) and Jakeeyah Seymour (18.32) to pull Miller Grove within 2.5 points (80-77.5) with four events left.

Miller Grove took the lead for good behind a silver medal finish of Zariah Kitchens in the 800 meter run (2:43.17) to go up 85.5 to 80 as Stephenson did not score in the 800.

Stephenson got another strong finish from Rena Clowers in the 200 meter dash (26.82) to win her second gold after capturing the 400 meter dash (1:03.28) earlier.

Miller Grove’s Jakeeyah Seymour takes a hurdle. Seymour won silver in the event. (Photo by Mark Brock)

The Lady Wolverines were clinging to a 91.5-90 advantage with three events remaining and again it was the hurdles that put distance between the two teams as Miller Grove’s Alyssia Bagot took silver (51.16) and Jakeeyah Seymour was third (51.49) to score 14 to seal the victory with one event to run.

Miller Grove had lead after the field events in a tight score as the team had tallied 37 points to lead Redan (36), Stephenson (35) and Lakeside (31). Bryn Maduro’s win in the high jump (4-04.00) was the big score for Miller Grove which got 15.5 points in the event.

Other field event winners include Jayla Neal of Stephenson in the long jump (15-04.00), Cara McClain of Dunwoody in the pole vault (6-00.00), Majesty Ferguson of Lakeside in the shot put (29-02.00) and Kaalynn Jackson of Redan in the discus (76-06.00).

Arabia Mountain picked up a pair of gold medals in the track events as Makayla Cannon won the 100 (13.01) and Queen Dais won the 300 hurdles (51.10).
Dunwoody also picked up a pair of gold medals with a sweep of the long distance races. Emma Sheehan won the 1600 meter run (5:57.17) and Julie Hensley took the 3200 meter run (13:44.84).

Redan’s India Antoine aided the Lady Raiders’ third place finish with a gold medal performance in the 800 meter run (2:41.56).

Stone Mountain’s only gold medal came in the 4×400 relay as the foursome rallied at the end to get past Stephenson for the gold in a time of 4:26.26.