Toviave, Baer, and Mitchell lead local top performances at GHSA State Track & Field finals
More than 20 local track and field athletes competed this past weekend at the Georgia High School Association Championships in both Columbus and Carrollton with a trio of those competitors placing fourth in their respective events and classifications.
Cartersville, Woodland, and Cass had athletes at Kinnett Stadium in Columbus for the Class 5A Championships. Adairsville had three athletes at Grisham Stadium in Carrollton for the Class 3A Championships.
Cartersville’s Eric Toviave placed fourth in the 300M hurdles (38.47) and took home a fifth place finish in the 110M hurdles (14.52).
Noah Baer of Woodland placed fourth in the Class 5A boys pole vault by clearing the 13-00 mark.
In Carrollton, Adairsville’s Tre Mitchell placed fourth in Class 3A in the 400M dash (50.52).
Others earning state championship points were Cartersville’s Anna Grace Boone. She cleared 5-00 in the high jump for a seventh place finish and the Woodland boys 4x800M relay team placed eighth in 8:20.18. That Wildcats’ team was comprised of McKinley Chappell, Tyler Jones, Drew Thayer, and JT Forsyth.
Other local finalists:
9th - Tyler Jones - Woodland - 5A Boys 3200M Run - 9:57.98
9th - Rylee Evans - Woodland - 5A Girls 3200M Run - 11:48.45
9th - Cartersville Girls 4x800M Relay - 10:11.92
(Mason Cline, Trinity Atkins, Anna Grace Boone, Elizabeth Nelson)
15th - Raziyah Ware - Cass - 5A Girls Shot Put - 33-05.50
16th - Tre Winters - Adairsville - 3A Boys High Jump - 5-08
From preliminaries, did not make finals:
9th - Tre Mitchell - Adairsville - 3A Boys 100M Dash - 11.13
9th - Kaitlyn Godwin - Cass - 5A Girls 100M Dash - 12.58
10th - Kaitlyn Godwin - Cass - 5A Girls 200M Dash - 25.28
10th - Tre Mitchell - Adairsville - 3A Boys 200M Dash - 22.84
15th - Cartersville boys 4x100M Relay - 43.21
(Eric Toviave, Stephen Rowser, Khristian Lando, Kendrick Price)
16th - Aliya McBride - Adairsville - 3A Girls 100M Hurdles - 18.09
16th - Cartersville boys 4x400M Relay - 3:33.97
(Kemari Mitchell, Will Feuerbach, Kendrick Price, Eric Toviave)
Maynard Jackson won the girls Class 5A championship followed by Woodward Academy and Blessed Trinity. The Cartersville girls placed 36th with Woodland and Cass not scoring.
Southwest DeKalb won the boys Class 5A title followed by Blessed Trinity and Calhoun. The Cartersville boys were 20th with Woodland placing 25th.
The Adairsville boys placed 30th in Class 3A which was won by Westminster. Hart County was 3A runner-up followed by Southeast Bulloch.
Westminster also won the Class 3A girls championship followed by Sandy Creek and Greater Atlanta Christian.
