Ensworth, Northeast have pentathlon champions

MURFREESBORO – Northeast's Brittany Kelly repeated as Class AAA pentathlon champion, and Ensworth's Tyra Gittens won the Division II title with the highest point total of the day Monday at Middle Tennessee State.

Gittens had 3,563 points to beat Brentwood Academy's Megan Meadow (3,419).

"She put together a great day," Ensworth coach Jonas Rodriguez said. "She had personal bests in the high jump (5-10) and the shot put (34-6) and did really well in her other three events. We thought she had a great shot at winning after her region performance and what she's done in those events this year. It wasn't a certainty by any stretch of the imagination, though. It was an incredibly competitive field this year. There were a lot of girls with a shot to win."

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Kelly had 3,493 points, beating teammate Sonja White (3,254).

Kelly won three events. She finished first in the 100-meter hurdles in 14.4 seconds and broke the school record in the 800-meter run in 2:26.62. She also took first in the high jump at 5-3¾.

"I approached Monday as if I was trying to reach personal-best times in all the events I competed in," said Kelly, an Ole Miss signee. "And it was kind of also a preview in terms of getting a chance to see some of the competitors I'll face later this week in some of those same events like the hurdles and high jump."

Knoxville Catholic's Camille Baker won the Class A/AA pentathlon with 3,105 points, and M.L. King's Paige Fairrow-Davis finished second at 2,971.

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Collierville's Josh Wheeler led the Class AAA decathlon after the first day with 3,301 points, and McGavock Ben Johnson was second (2,929).

Wheeler won the 100-meter dash (11.23), pole vault (13-5.75) and 400 meters (49.51). Johnson won the discus (143-11) by more than 26 feet.

In Division II, George Patrick of Brentwood Academy (3,370) is in second behind Harrison Williams of MUS (3,706).

Hume-Fogg's Ben Brunson was in first in Class A/AA with 2,865 points, followed by Pearl-Cohn's Cameron Watkins (2,783).

MONDAY'S RESULTS

Division II Decathlon

1. Williams (MUS) 3706; 2. Patrick (Brentwood Acad.) 3370; 3. Davis (MUS) 3110; 4. Foster (Briarcrest) 2712; 5. Settles (Ensworth) 2644; 6. Brooks (MUS) 2565; 7. Wood (MBA) 2500; 8. Eskew (MBA) 2348; 9. Smith (Brentwood Acad.) 2243; 10. Mitchell (FRA) 2180; 11. Bright (Ensworth) 2139.

Event winners: 100-Davis (MUS) 11.09; discus-Patrick (BA) 120-11; triple jump-Davis (MUS) 45-21/4; pole vault-Williams (MUS) 15-53/4; 400-Davis (MUS) 49.72.

Class A/AA Decathlon

1. Brunson (Hume-Fogg) 2865; 2. Watkins (Pearl-Cohn) 2783; 3. Almqvist (Greeneville) 2669; 4. Johnson (Fayette-Ware) 2386; 5. Washington (MAHS) 2379; 6. Lipe (Lipscomb) 2375; 7. Wilson (Greeneville) 2302; 8. Randolph (Fayette-Ware) 2227; 9. Cline (Gatlinburg-Pittman) 2217; 10. Fair (Knox. Catholic) 2202; 11. Carson (West Greene) 2084; 12. Storm (Greeneville) 1989.

Event winners: 100-Watkins (PC) 11.05; discus-Lipe (Lipscomb) 117-0; triple jump-Watkins (PC) 43-31/4; pole vault-Brunson (HF) 14-0.

Class AAA Decathlon

1. Wheeler (Collierville) 3301; 2. Johnson (McGavock) 2929; 3. Sokol (Dobyns-Bennett) 2669; 4. Braswell 9Bartlett) 2650; 5. Smith (Tullahoma) 2630; 6. Cantrell (Oakland) 2568; 7. Costner (Brentwood) 2561; 8. Watson (Station Camp) 2530; 9. Kyle (Morristown East) 2449; 10. Bell (Bartlett) 2442; 11. Potts (Tullahoma) 2255; 12. Onuw (Riverdale) 2190.

Event winners: 100-Wheeler (Coll) 11.23; discus-Johnson (McG) 143-11; triple jump-Smith (T) 44-9; pole vault-Wheeler (Coll) 13-53/4; 400-Wheeler (Coll) 49.51.

Division II Pentathlon

1. Gittens (Ensworth) 3563; 2. Meadow (Brentwood Acad.) 3419; 3. Popp (Baylor) 3366; 4. Jamison (ECS) 3169; 5. Shipp (Ensworth) 2944; 6. Lesh (Harpeth Hall) 2854; 7. Koehn (Brentwood Acad.) 2770; 8. Rader (Harpeth Hall) 2726; 9. Shackleford (ECS) 2710.

Event winners: 100 hurdles-Meadow (BA) 14.73; long jump-Meadow (BA) 17-113/4; shot-Gittens (E) 34-7; high jump-Gittens (E) 5-10; 800-Popp (B) 2:27.06.

Class A/AA Pentathlon

1. Baker (Knox. Catholic) 3105; 2. Fairrow (MLK) 2971; 3. Taylor (Dyersburg) 2616; 4. Upton (West Greene) 2573; 5. Smith (Tyner) 2513; 6. Sanders (Signal Mountain) 2486; 7. Guthrie (Whites Creek) 2480; 8. Balch (Chatt. Chr.) 2457; 9. Brown (Hume-Fogg) 2435; 10. May (Elizabethton) 2413; 11. Swift (Dyersburg) 2396; 12. Nix (Knox. Catholic) 2316.

Event winners: 100 hurdles-Baker (KC) 15.23; long jump-Smith (T) 17-43/4; shot-Taylor (D) 29-2; high jump-Taylor (D) 5-11/4; 800-Baker (KC) 2:27.31.

Class AAA Pentathlon

1. Kelly (Northeast) 3493; 2. White (Northeast) 3254; 3. Watkins (Dobyns-Bennett) 3219; 4. Muhammad (Cleveland) 3216; 5. Gudger (Tennessee) 3064; 6. Lightfoot (Southwind) 3045; 7. Beuerlein (Farragut) 3029; 8. Rhodes (Whitehaven) 3012; 9. Jantzi (Brentwood) 2990; 10. Bayless (Brentwood) 2885; 11. Rich (Rossview (2846); 12. Banks (Coffee Co.) 2610.

Event winners: 100 hurdles-Kelly (N) 14.40; long jump-Lightfoot (S) 18-21/2; shot-Banks (CC) 34-101/2; high jump-Kelly (N) 5-33/4; 800-Kelly (N) 2:26.62.

Contributing: Maurice Patton, George Robinson