Three Hamilton County teams finished in the top 10 and won two individual events at the IHSAA boys state track and field meet, which took place Saturday at Indiana University.
Hamilton Southeastern finished third with 44 points, behind only Avon’s 66 points and North Central’s 47. Madison Norris led the way for the Royals, winning the state championship in the 110 hurdles in a time of 14.02 seconds.
Norris later joined Jack Boyd, Noah Malone and Chase Maxey to place second in the 4×100 relay. Malone won two more medals by taking fourth in both the 100 and 200 dashes. Gabe Fendel placed fourth in the 1600 run, Nathan Smith was fourth in the 300 hurdles and HSE’s 4×400 relay team of Chaz Birchfield, Nick Bostock, Nick Bowman and Jackson Sweeney took eighth in that event.
Carmel finished in eighth place, scoring 26 points. Spencer Gudgel placed third in the 400 dash, then finished the meet by teaming with Alex Brown-Baez, Eli Konow and Trey Harris for a sixth-place finish in the 4×400.
Ben Miller took third in the 3200 run. The Greyhounds also got a fifth-place result from Harris, Konow, Gudgel and Jimmy Snyder in the 4×800 relay. Isiah Baxter finished seventh in the 200 dash.
Fishers tied for 10th with 16 points, but finished the meet with an event victory. The 4×400 relay team of Nicholas Carrithers, Henry Lewis II, DiSean Graham and Benjamin Norton clocked in at 3:15.80 to place first. Earlier, Lewis, Carrithers and Norton joined Jason Lassic to take fifth in the 4×100 relay. The Tigers’ 4×800 relay team of Dylan Arive, Samuel Kuhn, Ethan Meyer and Drew Smith placed ninth.
Westfield’s Peyton Haack placed eighth in the pole vault.
Team scores (Top 10 and all county): 1. Avon 66, 2. North Central 47, 3. Hamilton Southeastern 44, T4. Fort Wayne Northrop 36; Pike 36, T6. Zionsville 31; Fort Wayne Carroll 31, 8. Carmel 26, 9. Evansville Memorial 18, T10. Fishers 16; Chesterton 16, T61. Westfield 2.
4×800 relay: 1. North Central 7:44.07, 5. Carmel (Trey Harris, Eli Konow, Spencer Gudgel, Jimmy Snyder) 7:49.20, 9. Fishers (Dylan Arive, Samuel Kuhn, Ethan Meyer, Drew Smith) 7:52.40, 10. Westfield (Nicholas Leahy, David Mannella, Jacob Mears, Charlie Miller) 7:52.78, 24. Noblesville (Zachary Freeman, Andrew Anderson, Jack Commeville, Bryce Gatewood) 8:11.10.
110 hurdles: 1. Madison Norris (HSE) 14.02. Preliminaries – 13. Jakob Pearson (Car) 14.78.
100 dash: 1. Isaac Guerendo (A) 10.51, 4. Noah Malone (HSE) 10.70. Preliminaries – 13. Benjamin Norton (F) 11.08, 14. Henry Lewis II (F) 11.10.
1600 run: 1. Matthew Schadler (EM) 4:07.83, 4. Gabe Fendel (HSE) 4:14.07, 16. Meyer (F) 4:21.95.
4×100 relay: 1. Avon 41.28, 2. Southeastern (Jack Boyd, Norris, Malone, Chase Maxey) 41.59, 5. Fishers (Jason Lassic, Lewis, Nicholas Carrithers, Norton) 42.18.
400 dash: 1. Braden Corzan (Ches) 47.41, 3. Gudgel (Car) 48.53.
300 hurdles: 1. Shaton Vaughn (FWN) 37.52, 4. Nathan Smith (HSE) 38.39, 13. Jakob Pearson (Car) 39.31.
800 run: 1. Keith Abramson (A) 1:54.62, 15. Harris (Car) 1:56.93.
200 dash: 1. Justin Becker (FWC) 21.50, 4. Malone (HSE) 21.71, 7. Isiah Baxter (C) 21.99.
3200 run: 1. Skylar Stidam (Christian Academy) 9:13.34, 3. Ben Miller (C) 9:14.90, 10. Keelan Grant (C) 9:19.84.
4×400 relay: 1. Fishers (Carrithers, Lewis, DiSean Graham, Norton) 3:15.80, 6. Carmel (Alex Brown-Baez, Konow, Gudgel, Harris) 3:19.53, 8. Southeastern (Chaz Birchfield, Nick Bostock, Nick Bowman, Jackson Sweeney) 3:20.00.
High jump: 1. Nate Patterson (Plymouth) 7-4, new state record, T14. Andrew Herman (Nob) 6-4.
Pole vault: 1. Colton Crum (Frankfort) 17-6.25, new state record, 8. Peyton Haack (Wf) 14-6.
Long jump: 1. Nick Ryan (Crown Point) 23-5.5.
Shot put: 1. George Karlaftis (West Lafayette) 60-0.5, 13. Vance Roudebush (Car) 53-2.75.
Discus: 1. Tyler Gilbert (Western) 177-3.
Hamilton Southeastern’s Madison Norris had a great day at the IHSAA’s boys state track and field meet Saturday at Indiana University. Norris won the 110 high hurdles state championship and was part of the Royals’ second-place 4×100 relay. (Kent Graham)
Fishers’ Benjamin Norton was part of the Tigers’ state champion 4×400 relay team. (Kent Graham)