By Brian Argabright
The 830 Times
A dominant performance brought the District 30-6A Boys Track and Field championship back to Del Rio.
Del Rio’s male athletes earned points in all but three events to outdistance Laredo Alexander to earn the team championship at this weekend’s district track and field meet held in Laredo.
Helping pave the way was Del Rio High’s record-breaking 4 x 200 meter relay team. The team of Jovahn West, Zane Hughes, Juan Peralta and Zack Taylor ran away with the district championship in the event in a time of 1:29.718. The team broke the Del Rio High record in the event at the San Angelo Relays in March when they ran a 1:27.93, eclipsing the mark of 1:30.08 set in 2007. And while they didn’t best their record-breaking time at district, they still won the district title by nearly two seconds over Laredo Nixon (1:31.304).
In all Del Rio’s athletes brought back six district championships in the 15 track and field events.
Taylor added to his district championship haul by winning the 200 meters in 22.603. He was also a part of the district champion 4 x 400 relay team along with Jairo Venegas, Luis Galaviz and Nathan Reyes. They took first in a time of 3:28.441.
Reyes and Venegas were dual district champions as well. Reyes won the 400 meters in 50.384 seconds, and Venegas claimed the high jump title by clearing 6 feet, 2 inches.
Devin Barrera also won a district championship, claiming the pole vault title after clearing the bar at 13 feet, 6 inches.
The top four finishers in each event now advance to the Area meet that will be held Wednesday, April 20, at Heroes Stadium in San Antonio.
There will be several Rams athletes joining the district champions at the Area meet.
Hughes was second in the 100 meters in 11.387 seconds, and West was fourth in 11.586 seconds.
Nathan Adame was third in the 400 meters in 53.713 seconds.
Galaviz took fourth in the 300-meter hurdles in 41.624 seconds.
Adame, Peralta, Hughes and West were second in the 4 x 100 relay in 43.768 seconds.
West was also fourth in the long jump with a leap of 20 feet, 10 ½ inches.
Diego Piña was second in the discus with a throw of 153 feet, 11 inches. Teammate Noe Rodriguez was third at 146 feet, 5 inches.
Alan Dobbins was third in the triple jump after hitting 40 feet, 6 ½ inches.
Perry Mcintire was fourth in the pole vault after clearing 12 feet.
Earning points for Del Rio were Peralta, who was sixth in the 200 meters in 23.618 seconds; Mikael Perez, who was fifth in the 1,600 meters in 4:41.27; and Piña, who was fifth in the shot put with a toss of 47 feet.
QUEENS TRACK AND FIELD
Del Rio’s girls finished fourth as a team at the district meet with 77.333 points.
Laredo Alexander won the team championship with 203 points followed by Laredo United (116.333) and Laredo Nixon (108).
The Queens’ Ariana Erickson and Kimberly Gloria finished the district meet as dual district champions.
Erickson won the 100 meters in 13 seconds. She then pulled the double, winning the 200 meters in 26.099. She also helped the Queens’ point total by teaming with Luz Guerra, Emily Torres and Lillian De La O to finish fifth in the 4 x 400 relay in 4:16.649.
Gloria, the district champion in cross-country in the fall, added to her title haul as she won the 1,600 meters in 5:44.644 and the 3,200 meters in 12:00.732. She was also fourth in the 800 meters in 2:29.981.
Queens who qualified for the Area meet included Tabora, who was fourth in the 100 meters in 13.339 seconds; Torres, who was third in the 300-meter hurdles in 48.331; and the 4 x 100 relay team of Tabora, Sydney Ballard, Briana Sanchez and Marina Jimenez that was third in 51.750 seconds.
Earning points for the Queens was the 4 x 200 relay team of Tabora, Ballard, Sanchez and Guerra that was fifth in 1:50.730; Amaris Leon, who was fifth in the pole vault at 7 feet, 6 inches; Ballard, who was tied for sixth in the high jump after clearing 4 feet, 8 inches; and Syann Casillas, who was sixth in the pole vault at 7 feet, 6 inches.
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