Ferriday wins big at relays

By From staff reports | The Natchez Democrat

Published Tuesday, March 31, 2009

MANGHAM, La. — The Ferriday boys and girls track teams placed second and third, respectively, in the Mangham Dragon Relays Monday.

The Trojans finished atop nine teams, taking first place in five individual events as well.

Gary Mays took first in the mile and 3,200-meter runs, Marques Lewis finished first in the 300-meter hurdles and Kendall Boxley placed first in the triple jump.

The team of Alfred Brown, Boxley, ZuRaine Thompson and Lewis won the 4x400-meter relay.

Mays also placed second in the 800-meter dash, and Lewis took third in the 110-meter hurdles.

William Greer, Devante Scott, Julius White and Neico Amado placed second in the 4x200-meter relay, and Boxley placed second in the mile run. Brown placed second in the 300-meter hurdles, and Greer, Amado, White and Scott finished second in the 4x100-meter relay.

Amado finished second in both the triple jump and the long jump, and Scott took second in the 200-meter dash.

The Lady Trojans also competed against nine teams.

The 4x200- and 4x100-meter relay teams — run by T’Keyah Fletcher, Chanta Poole, Deonka Birdon and Robie Parker — placed second, and the 4x400-meter relay team of Keara White, Morgan Stigall, Andrea Johnson and Parker took third.

Fletcher took first in the 800-meter dash, and Stigall finished second. Poole finished second in 300-meter hurdles and third in high jump, and White finished second in both the mile and the 3200-meter run.

Parker took second in the triple jump.