The Chamblee Bulldogs won their first DCSD Middle School Track and Field Championship in completing a Chamblee sweep of the titles on Monday. (Photo by Mark Brock)
A first county championship is special and a sweep of the boys’ and girls’ titles at the DeKalb County Middle Track and Field Championships was an exciting moment for the Chamblee Bulldogs on Monday at Godfrey Stadium.
Chamblee pulled away from a three-point advantage to a dominating 107-47 win over Bethune followed by Renfroe (45), Cedar Grove (44) and Tucker (41) in a tight battle for second.
The Bulldogs used 14 points in the first ever 4×800-meter relay run led by Team A’s gold medal and standard setting time of 9:31.33 for a 41 second margin over second place Henderson. Chamblee’s Team B added its fifth-place finish.
Bethune kept things close on the first day with wins in the long jump (Matthew Hass, 18-01.00) and shot put (Javonta Callaway, 41-11-00) and a second-place finish in the newly added triple jump (Chaz Watson, 37-05.25) behind gold medal winner Davion Terry (37-11.00) of Cedar Grove who won the inaugural event.
Chamblee’s Owen Pearson was named the MVP of the Boys’ Championship after anchoring wins in the 4×100 and 4×200 relays and fifth place finish in the 400-meter dash.
A win in the 4×100 relay (47.29) to open the track finals on Monday and Carson Rea (5:05.82) in second and Declan Chen (5:24.53 in sixth behind Tucker’s Ayano Kenore (5:05.24) in the 1600-meter run helped the Bulldogs open a 20-point advantage over Bethune (55-35).
Chamblee picked up its third gold in relay competition as MVP Owen Pearson anchored the 4×200 Team A (1:38.05) in its victory over Miller Grove (1:38.36). Pearson had also anchored the Bulldogs’ 4×100 relay as his bursts on the last leg of each event propelled the Bulldogs to the gold in both events. The time of 1:38.05 is the record going forward in the newly instituted 4×200 relay.
Ryan McCord’s win in the 800-meter run (2:13.56) coupled with Carson Rea’s (2:21.84) eighth place finish had the Bulldogs with an insurmountable lead of 84-45 over Bethune heading into the final two events.
Tucker’s Asante Gordon (front) swept the 100 and 200-meter dashes. He is pulling away from Cedar Grove’s Jaylen Langston in the 200. (Photo by Mark Brock)
Chamblee closed out the meet with its two 4×400 relay teams finishing second (3:54.15) and third (3:56.72) behind Champions gold medal team (3:47.18).
Tucker picked up its second and third gold medals of the meet as Asante Gordon swept the 100 and 200-meter dashes. Gordon won the 100 with a time of 11.54 and the 200 with a time of 23.53.
Champion’s Ashton Taylor (55.86) edged our Sequoyah’s Gustavo Martinez (55.98) at the wire to win the 400-meter dash gold medal.
Chamblee’s 55-point margin of victory was the largest of the event dating back to 2009. Chamblee had finished second in 2013 to Cedar Grove as its best finish until this year’s victory.
The sweep of the event was just the second time dating back to 2009 with Tucker accomplishing the feat in 2015.
Chamblee’s track coach Terrance Jett was named the Boys’ and Girls’ Track Coach of the Year for his teams’ performances.
Chamblee Track Coach Terrance Jett was named coach of the year for both girls’ and boys’ middle school track for 2022.
See links below for the DCSD MS Track and Field Championships results and current records: