NACOGDOCHES —
Elkhart senior Amanda Ham finished her career on a high note Friday, finishing second in the Class 2A girls’ 800 meters at the state track meet.
With this year’s state medal, Ham has collected 4 total track and cross country medals in her four-year high school career.
“She looked great,” EHS coach Kodi Huff said. “She took off and stayed on the front. She got in third place (on the last lap) and then she told me she was thinking, ‘I can get second, I’m going to get second.’ It was pretty awesome.”
Ham finished the race in two minutes, 16 seconds, less than a second behind Brock’s Kamy Cole, who won the event.
Ham was only one of two area entries at the state meet that left Austin with a medal.
The Grapeland 400-meter relay team, which won silver at last year’s state meet, finished third this year.
The team of Jayde Westbrook, Kala Smith, Terrika Campbell and Paige Scott ran a 49.84, finishing behind Dallas Gateway and Snook in the Class 1A girls’ 400-meter relay race.
Campbell also finished seventh in the Class 1A girls’ 200 meters.
Neches’ Roddricka Patton just missed her second-ever medal at the state meet, finishing fourth in the Class 1A girls’ 100 meters with a time of 12.53 seconds.
That was one one-hundreth of a second behind Timpson’s Jakelia Caraway, who finished third, and eight one-hundreths behind Shiner’s Laneshia Hunt, who finished second.
The Tigers’ Brandon Barrett comes back to Anderson County with two fifth-place finishes under his belt in the Class 1A boys’ 200 meters and long jump.
Grapeland’s Cymone Davis was sixth in the Class 1A girls’ shot put, while Palestine’s Miguel Varnado finished eighth in the Class 3A boys’ 800 meters.
Varnado finished ninth in the Class 3A boys 1,600, while Jayde Westbrook (1A girls 100 hurdles), Paige Fillmore (2A girls 100 hurdles) and Anna Clark (2A girls 3,200) all finished ninth as well.
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2012 State Track Meet: Elkhart's Amanda Ham takes 2nd in 800
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