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Southern Track Classic report
By Daniel Maher | Correspondent

Last Friday, the Southern Track Classic in Richmond provided the venue for 14 state-best performances of the outdoor season.

While Denbigh's victorious boys 1,600-meter sprint-medley unit generated the only state-best time (3:33.86) by Peninsula District or Bay Rivers athletes, several other local performances were also noteworthy.

Denbigh's girls 1,600 sprint-medley unit finished third, but remarkably, their time of 4:26.40 knocked almost 24 seconds off their seed time.

Bethel's 1,600 relay squad benefited from a hotly contested pace, and was one of four teams to post a rare clocking under 3:20, dropping their time to 3:16.64, while finishing second behind Western Branch's state-best 3:15.86. Jamestown's Andrew Mearns finished third in a tight 1,600 race. His time of 4:16.50 left him a mere 26 hundredths of a second behind winner Ermin Mujezinovic of Herndon, and let Mearns claim one of the top 1,600 times in Peninsula prep history.

Bethel's Shakia Forbes fell one-half inch short of her season and state-wide best performance with a winning long jump of 19 feet, 71/2 inches, but that shattered the meet record.

RahSheeta Hundley of West Point ran well against big-time competition, recordin a second-place finish (12.01 seconds) in the 100 meters and a third in the 200 (25.37 seconds).