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Graham track wins Area meet

Tue, 04/23/2019 - 2:48 pm
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    Carson Trice hands the baton to Trey Overcash in the boys 4x200 relay Wednesday at Newton Field. Both of Graham’s track and field teams won first place at the District 5 and 6-4A Area meet. A total of 22 Graham athletes qualified for the regional meet next week. Leader photo by Travis Martinez
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Graham had multiple regional qualifiers in Wednesday’s Area District 5-4A and 6-4A track and field meet held at Newton Field. The Lady Blues and Steers finished in first place overall out of the 10 competing teams.

The varsity boys rallied from down late to claim first over Snyder by a mere six points. The 4x400 relay team of Will Busey, Greg Simental, Marc Tate and Daniel Gilbertson put the Steers in front for good on the final event of the evening. The four put together an impressive time of 3:27.97 in the race, which was two seconds better than Midland Greenwood’s relay team.

An hour long lighting/ rain delay, which halted the meet in the middle ...

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