KENTUCKY STATE MEET

Louisville Male Adds To Legacy With 33rd State Title; Oldham County Girls Win First State Title

By David Woods for DyeStat

Louisville Male won the closing 4x400 relay to secure a record 33rd Kentucky boys track and field championship on a rainy Saturday at Lexington.

The Class 3A state title was Male’s first since 2017.

Male edged Louisville Trinity 57-51. Cooper was third with 45.

In 3A girls, Oldham County won its first state championship. Oldham County had 59 points to win a four-team duel against Woodford County (55), Assumption (53) and North Oldham (also 53).

Top boys performer was Cooper’s Paul Van Laningham, who took the 1,600 meters in 4:10.56, compared to his own meet record of 4:08.25. The Wisconsin signee ran a 4:05.70 mile at Nike indoor nationals.

Van Laningham ran the 3,200 in 9:09.75 to finish second to Marshall County’s Kobey Yates, whose time was 9:07.25.

Only meet record was 7:46.44 by Trinity in the 4x800 relay.

Male had four champions:

Sophomore Nehemiah Kiser, 1:51.72 in 800; 4x400 relay, 3:20.94; Aaron Ramey, 6-8 in high jump; Sean Anderson, 23-1.25 in long jump.

For girls, there were two double champions:

Woodford County’s Addison Moore, 4:59.76 and 10:46.90 in 1,600 and 3,200, and Male’s Grace Bethel, 11.77 (-1.4) and 24.39 in 100 and 200.

Assumption’s Mabel George took the 800 in 2:09.63, just off her meet record of 2:09.42, and won by eight seconds.

Oldham County’s Clara Warrick took the 400 in 55.11 and anchored the winning 4x200 relay team to a time of 1:40.60.

Assumption won 4x100, 4x400 and 4x800 relays in 48.95, 3:59.84 and 9:25.55.

Class 2A

Covington Catholic won six events and amassed 105.5 points for a third successive Class 2A boys championship Friday.

Lexington Catholic, behind Asher Feddock’s 800/1,600 double, finished second with 51 points. Mercer County was third with 50.

In the girls meet, Calloway County won its first state title by beating runner-up Lexington Catholic 108-81.

Feddock’s times were 1:55.98 and 4:20.85 in the 800 and 1,600.

In the 3,200, Braden Franxman and Joe Mayer were 1-2 for Covington Catholic in 9:17.61 (meet record) and 9:22.92.

Other Covington Catholic winners:

Rhett Blettner, 48.89 in 400; Jacob Keller, 15.29 in 110 hurdles; Paul Klosinski, 14-6 in pole vault, and 4x400 and 4x800 relays in 3:27.91 and 8:01.17.

Other boys double champs were Larue County’s Brock Shelton, 11.00 and 22.12 in 100/200, and Spencer County’s Armen Smalley, 21-11.75 and 45-8.25 in long and triple jumps.

For Calloway County girls, winners were:

Jaidan Koch, 2:16.24 in 800; 4x100 relay, 49.36; Layla Green, 5-2 in high jump; freshman Ann Marie Arnett, 37-2 in triple jump.

In the 100 hurdles, Franklin County’s Mariah Jackson edged Calloway County’s Layla Green by five-thousandths of a second, 15.234 to 15.239.

Three girls won doubles:

McCreary Central’s Jolana Schankel, 12.23 and 25.05 in 100/200; Thomas Nelson’s Baile Hoten, 5:09.14 and 10:41.33 in 1,600/3,200; Lincoln County’s Germani Crosby, 37-10 and 136-0 in shot/discus.

Class 1A

Walden senior Natalie Svidal increased her total of state titles to 17 with three more Thursday in Class 1A.

Svidal, a Bellarmine signee, was first in the 100 hurdles (14.67), long jump (17-9) and triple jump (37-5).

Lexington Christian repeated as girls team champion, outscoring runner-up Beechwood 126-77.

Lexington Christian’s Kennedy Moughamian set a 1A record by clocking 10:50.85 in the 3,200. Her time of 5:04.44 was second in the 1,600 behind Beechwood’s Lily Parke, 5:01.58. Parke repeated in the 800 in 2:18.03.

Lexington Christian had five other champions:

Laynie Hopper, 46.03 in 300 hurdles; Harper Cole, 9-0 in pole vault; 4x100, 4x400 and 4x800 relays in 50.88, 4:14.23, 9:49.40.

Ava Walters of Bishop Brossart won the shot and discus with distances of 38-0 and 133-9.

In boys standings, Beechwood won its second title in three years by scoring 63 points. Bishop Brossart scored 41 for second and Middlesboro 40 for third.

Beechwood winners were Brody Aylor, 22.73 in 200, plus 4x100 (44.05) and 4x800 (8:27.88) relay teams.

Louisville Collegiate senior James Gurley won the 800 in 1:54.79, missing the 45-year-old 1A record by .32.

Team Champions

Class 3A – Male boys 57 points; Oldham County girls 59 points

Class 2A – Covington Catholic boys 105.5 points; Calloway County girls 108 points 

Class 1A – Beechwood boys 63 points; Lexington Christian girls 126 points 

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