Gentry Wins Regional Championship in 400 Meter Dash

Chad Gentry District Track Meet

Chad Gentry crossed the finish line first in the 400 Meter Dash with a finals time of 48.93 to claim an individual Regional Championship.  Gentry placed Beatty's Sports Baseball Shirt 2012 Spring Sports Logos second in the preliminaries with a time of 49.17, before eclipsing his time by 0.24.  The 0.24 second mark was also his margin of victory over Cleveland Glenville’s Jacquez Riggs who placed second.

Gentry’s victory earned the Louisville Boys Track team 10 or their 12 points on the day.  The 4×800 Meter Relay team of Tony Stevens, Gentry, Garrett Dasco, and Steven Stamp finished in 8th place and Dasco individually also took 8th in the 1600 Meter Run.

For the girls squad, the 4×800 Meter Relay team of Mackenzie Rankin, Haley Davis, Rachel Baughman, and Sarah Davis placed 4th overall with a time of 9:24.55.  Rankin also finished fifth individually in the 300 Meter Hurdles to round off the rest of the Lady Leopards points.

Below are the Leopards results from the Regional Meet at Austintown Fitch:

Boys: 12 (18th out of 49)

4×800 Meter Relay: 8. Louisville (Stevens, Gentry, Dasco, Stamp) 7:57.91 (1)

110 Meter Hurdles: 14. Sayers 15.85

1600 Meter Run: 8. Dasco 4:32.18 (1)

400 Meter Dash: 1. Gentry 48.93 (10)

3200 Meter Run: 16. Koczwara 10:27.84

Girls: 9 (28th out of 39)

4×800 Meter Relay: 4. Louisville (Rankin, H. Davis, Baughman, S. Davis) 9:24.55 (5)

4×100 Meter Relay: 13. Louisville (Guiley, Lemmon, Beaver, Eddins) 50.13

300 Meter Hurdles: 5. Rankin 44.87 (4)

Long Jump: 9. Rankin 16-06.25

 

NEXT UP: Those that qualified for State will compete at Jesse Owens Stadium on the Campus of Ohio State University in Columbus at 4:00 PM on Friday, June 1 and 9:00 AM on Saturday, June 2

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