2017 DCSD Middle School Boys’ Track Champions — Chapel Hill Panthers

The Chapel Hill Panthers overtook the Tucker Tigers in the final race of the day to claim the 2017 DCSD Middle School Boys’ Track Title on Monday at Godfrey Stadium.

Eighth graders Ka’Jaun Williams, AnJuan Ross, Terrence Reid and Mateen Smith did their job in the 4×400 relay to close out the track meet by winning the event with a time of 3:43.18 to clinch the school’s first track title since 2010 and third overall since 2008.

Tucker was leading the championships 84-81 and the Panthers needed to score at least 14 points with two teams in the 4×400 to win the title.

The victory combined with Tucker’s sixth place finish gave Chapel Hill a 93-87 advantage at the end of the meet as their B relay team added two points with its seventh place finish.

A big one-two finish in the long jump played a big part in Chapel Hill’s title victory as Mateen Smith, a member of the gold medal 4×400 relay team, took gold in the event with a leap of 19-06.50 feet with Terrence Reid, also a member of the title sealing relay team, was second with a jump of 19-02.00 feet.

Meet MVP Lorenzo Lee of Chapel Hill added a gold medal with a time of 11.76 to win the 100-meter dash.

Stephenson’s Bradely Favors took gold in the 200 meter dash with a time of 23.57. (Photo by Mark Brock)

Tucker’s second place finish was fueled by double gold medal winner Amanuel Zawudie who won the 800 meter (2:11.80) and 1600 meter (5:5.39) runs.

The Tigers’ 1600 sprint medley team was the only group to break a record in the boys’ meet as the team of Latavius Johnson, Jaylen Outler, Joshua Morgan and Corey Cooper ran a 3:59.45 to break the record of 4:04.37 set in 2016 by Champion.

Stephenson finished third overall in the standings with 51 points led by Bradely Favors’ gold medal in the 200-meter dash (23.57) and in the 4×100 relay with a time of 46.15 by Cordell Andrews, Ahmad Drummer, Ronnie Baker and Favors to grab the gold medal.

Chamblee was fourth in the team standings with 41 points behind a gold medal by Anderson Crawford in the shot put (45-06.00).

Salem’s 800 sprint medley relay team of Jhamar Jakes, Quandarius Patrick, Dvonte Slaton and Mekye Slaton ran a time of 1:43.41 to win the event to pace the team’s fifth place finish with 35 points.

Miller Grove was sixth overall with 28 points keyed by Donsay Brown’s gold medal in the 400-meter dash (53.66).