Tomas Duncan, seen here at the state cross country meet, set a new meet record in the 1600-meter run Saturday at the West Region High School Invitational.
Tomas Duncan set a new meet record in winning the 1600-meter run at the West Region High School Invitational Saturday at the CFSB Center in Murray. Duncan’s time of 4:50.17 was a smidge better than the previous best of 4:50.26 set by Marshall County’s James Bowens in 2006.
Duncan also finished second in the 3,000-meters (9:42).
Other results for the Blazers were:
Jacori Summers fifth in the 400-meters (58.84)
Michael Hodges 10th in the shot put (32-feet, 7-inches)
Luke Shouse 21st in the 800 meters (2:44); 28th in the 1600-meters (6:09)
Chase Hendricks 26th in the 800-meters (2:46); 27th in the 1600-meters (6:08)
Sam Cotthoff 27th in the shot put (25-feet, 10-inches)
For the ladies, Alli Cundiff took first place in the 55-meters (7.70) and broke the meet record time in the 55-meter hurdles (9.25) but finished in third place.
Other results were:
Evelyn Morales second in the high jump (4-feet, 8-inches)
Sheldon Covington third in the shot put (28-feet, 7-inches)
Piper Hancock fourth in the 1600-meters (6:25); 13th in the 800-meters (2:49)
Muki Kunnmann sixth in the 3000-meters (12:19)
Jaila Batey sixth in the shot put (26-feet, 1-inch)
Kate Cansler ninth in the 400-meters (1:07)
Molly Bennett 11th in the 1600-meters (7:00)
Maddy Bennett 20th in the 400-meters (1:18)
Zipporah Brechwald 13th in the 800-meters (2:49)
Sabrina Hall 30th in the shot put (18-feet, 1.5 inches)
800-meter relay team 12th (2:29)
1600-meter relay team third (4:41)
