Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Kingwood track has impressive showing at Rice Invitational



With the District 19-5A title meet fast approaching, Kingwood’s girls track and field team showed it is in top form last weekend, winning the Rice Invitational on the campus of Rice University.

The Lady Mustangs were led by Sophie Blake and Kathryn Lupton. Lupton won the 100-meter hurdles by running the event in 14.68 seconds and took second in the 300 hurdles with a time of 44.59 seconds. She’d previously set a personal record in the preliminary round. Blake, on the other hand, dominated in the middle-distance events. She won the 1,500 in 4 minutes, 52.75 seconds while taking fourth in the 800.

Not to be outdone in the track events, though, were Erin Lee and Laura Craig. Lee beat out Lupton to win the 300 hurdles in 44.51 seconds. She also took fitfh in the 100 hurdles and, to top things off, finished third in the pole vault. Craig was third in the 1,500.

Also for Kingwood, Catie Daigre won the 3,000 with a time of 10:23.02. The 4x800 relay team of Craig, Shelby Nicholls, Cydney Thrower and Sarah Fischbuch placed second with a time of 9:42.94.


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