State title No. 2.
Eva-Lou Edwards shaved 13 seconds off her personal record and blew away the rest of the 3,200-meter field Thursday in Lakewood to win her second state championship this school year.
After winning the state cross country meet in the fall, the Bayfield High School junior ran the CHSAA Class 3A Track and Field State Championships’ eight-lap race in 11 minutes, 3.43 seconds, beating the next closest competitor by nearly 35 full seconds.
After playing two years of tennis for Durango High School, where she was a two-time state qualifier, this is Edwards first year running track.
She’ll run for another state medal Saturday in the 1,600.
John Arnold just missed one. He cleared 13 feet, 3 inches to lead the BHS boys pole vault squad and took fourth overall in 3A.
Truitt Parrish of Sterling set a meet record, clearing 15-1.
Arnold’s teammate Michael Voss was right behind him in fifth, jumping 12-3, and Tyler Meyers and Geoff Pope both cleared 10-3 to tie for 13th.
Aubry Brown finished sixth in the discus. He threw 139-11, a personal record.
Jessie Roukema also scored points for the Wolverines, taking seventh in the girls high jump with a 4-foot, 10-inch clear.
The BHS girls’ 800 sprint medley relay and the boys 4x200 relay both missed the finals.
Keith Wickman bucked that trend in the 200-meter dash, taking seventh in preliminaries and finishing in 22.56 seconds.
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