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Nevada State Meet 2014 Recap - DyeStat

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DyeStat.com   May 28th 2014, 8:02am
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Bonds, Badger unbeatable duo for Centennial

 

State Meet Highlights

 
The Nevada championships are split among four divisions and held all together at Carson City. The state was home to a handful of nationally significant athletes, including Randall Jr. and Vashti Cunningham, throwers Ashlie Blake and Reno Tuufuli, and the duo from Centennial, Sydney Badger and Tiana Bonds. With a fourth consecutive team championship, Badger and Bonds go into Nevada history as probably the most talented pair of athletes on a girls track team.


Top Performances:

 
- Vashti Cunningham, the sophomore from Bishop Gorman, a week following her national class record in the high jump (6-3), took attempts at that height again but didn't get over. Still, she won the state title at 6-1 and also got the long jump with a PR 18-10.25.

 
- Randall Cunningham Jr, a senior, won the high jump at 6-11 and placed second in the long jump with 22-8.25.

 
- Reno Tuufuli, a senior from threw US#9 63-6.75 (see below) in the shot put, which was a meet. He also won the discus with 179-4.

 
- Tiana Bonds, senior from Centennial, broke her own state record in the 100 hurdles with US#3 13.50 and also won the 300 hurdles with 41.47. (She is US#4 in that event, having run 41.29 this season).

 
- Sydney Badger, senior from Centennial, ran US#29 2:10.28 to win the 800, ran 4:55.99 to win the 1600 and 11:13.41 to win the 3200. And she had enough left over to run a leg on the 4x400 as well. Four wins.


- Mark Rubalcaba of Faith Lutheran, a junior, put together a great series of jumps in Div 1A, scoring a 24-0.75w victory in the long jump (best legal jump 23-5.75) and also a huge PR to win the triple jump with US#8 49-4.75.


- Ashlie Blake of Liberty won the shot-disc double for the third straight year. Her best marks were 50-1.25 in the shot and 158-5 in the discus.


- Dominic Smallwood of Silverado won the D1 long jump with 24-1.25w (best legal jump 23-8) and the triple jump with 48-1.50. He owns the US#5 TJ at 50-1.


Top Teams:


The Centennial girls became the first team to win the large-school team title four years in a row. Badger is off to Michigan, Bonds to Arizona. Bonds is the state's all-time premier hurdler and swept the two events as a junior and senior (and was runner-up in both as a sophomore). Badger completed a 800-1600-3200 sweep for the second year in a row and won seven individual titles overall in her career. She's the most decorated distance runner in the state since Mel Lawrence. They also ran on two consecutive 4x400 relay championship teams together. The Bulldogs got additional contributions across the board and finished with 110 points. McQueen edged Centennial 85-76 to take the boys championship. The Faith Lutheran girls and Dayton boys were the 1A winners, while White Pine (girls) and Yerlington boys) won in Div III and Sierra Lutheran swept Div IV.


Top Competition: The quality of the boys 100 produced a much-anticipated showdown between three-time defending champion Jayveon Taylor of Bonanza and challenger Ivy Dobson of Arbor View. Straight out of a Las Vegas-style boxing promotion playbook, Dobson declared his intention to beat Taylor this season and the final produced some drama. Two runners were DQ'd for false starts. Dobson gained on Taylor after 50 meters but couldn't knock off the champ. Taylor told the Las Vegas Review-Journal: "Once I got to this point, three years and then lose to somebody I've beaten? That would be kind of silly. I had to train hard and do what I've been doing to prepare for my race."


An even better race came in the 400 meters final, where Corey Reid of Carson edged Sebastian Feyersinger 47.15 to 47.17 as both of them broke the state meet record.


Record-breaker: Reno Tuufuli took down one of the oldest records on the Nevada books when he won the shot put with 63-6.75 – three-quarters of an inch farther than Kamy Keshimiri did it in 1987. (The all-time state best is 66-7.75 by Zach Lloyd in 2003). Keshimiri was once the high school record holder in the discus.


Results: http://parser.dyestat.com/meets.jsp?state=NV

Also check out: http://www.runnerspace.com/NV



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