Just three days removed from competing in the oldest Track & Field event in the United States, Orange’s Jamar Davis began to get healthy.
The back heel that plagued him during the Penn Relays on Saturday began to get better by the time the Big 8 Track and Field Championships started on Tuesday.
And. It showed.
Davis captured the Big 8 Long Jump and Triple Jump Championships for the second consecutive year at Southern Durham High School. Davis won the Long Jump championship with a leap of 22-feet-four inches, two inches longer than runner-up Terry Green of Chapel Hill.
In the triple jump, Davis beat the field by a full six feet with a jump of 49-feet, six inches. Jordan Purvis was the next closet at 43-feet, four inches.
Last season, Davis also won the long jump and triple jump championships, along with being a member of the 4×400 meter relay team that won a conference championship.
Davis advanced to the 3A Mideast Regionals on May 12th at Southern Guilford in Greensboro in three events. Davis finished 2nd in the 300 meter hurdles, just behind Dominick Green of Southern Durham.
Davis was the only conference champion from the Hillsborough schools, but several others qualified for regionals. In the 400 meter dash, Cameron Michalski of Orange finished 3rd with a time of 52.06. Cedar Ridge junior Eli Tilley came in fourth with a time of 52.64.
Cedar Ridge senior Brian Finch qualified for two events. He finished 4th in the 800 meters at 2:04.03. In the 1,600 meters, Finch finished 5th at 4:48.28.
Keyshawn Crisp of Cedar Ridge qualified for the regionals in the 110 meter hurdles with a time of 16.40 seconds.
The Cedar Ridge boys team had three relay teams qualify for regionals. The 4×100 team had a photo finish, finishing 2nd to Hillside by .06 of a second.
Cedar Ridge’s sophomore finished 2nd in the boys pole vault at 12-feet.
Orange freshman Cory McKoy finished 5th in the discus with a distance of 102-feet, 11 inches.
In the 3,200 meters, Orange’s Kyle Van Tubbergh came in fifth with a time of 10:26.81.
In the women’s events, Orange freshman Sasha Godfrey came in 2nd in the 800 meters, running at 2:25.60, coming in just three-tenths-of-a-second behind Chapel Hill senior Anna Stouffer for 1st place. Cedar Ridge sophomore Allison Musty finished sixth.
Godfrey also qualified for regionals in the 1,600 meters by finishing 3rd at 5:25.94.
In the 3,200 meters, Cedar Ridge freshman Anne Morrell crossed the finish line 3rd at 12:10.75 to advance to Greensboro.
In the 300 meter hurdles, Orange’s Kate Burgess came in third at 48.89 seconds.
Orange’s 4×200 meter relay team finished 3rd with a time of 1:49.06.
In the high jump, Orange freshman Erin Mink had a runner-up finish with a leap of 5-feet, actually tying her with Hillside’s Gabrielle Ryan.