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Union Academy scored 3.5 points more than Swain County to take the school’s first NCHSAA 1A Men’s Track and Field State Championship on Friday. Carver came in third with 40 points, Mountain Heritage posted 39.5 points to just miss the top three and Pamlico County scored 26 points to round out the top five.
Union Academy sophomore Evan Pardue won both the 200 Meter and the 400 Meter Dashes to lead the Cardinals. He also took third in the 100 Meter. Senior Ezra Martin added a first-place finish in the long jump.
The Maroon Devil team of Abhi Patel, Connor Lambert, Connor Brown and Kane Jones won the 4×800 meter relay with a time of 8:17.69, four seconds better than Christ the King’s relay squad. Swain County also took first place in the Pole Vault as Matthew Gray set a new 1A championship meet record with a height of 16-06. Nse Uffort earned a second-place finish in the Discus with a distance of 162-07, which would have been good enough for a new meet record if not for Mountain Heritage’s Jesse Shelton.
Shelton took the top spot in the discus with a distance of 177-11, crushing the old record of 159-06.
Carver’s third third-place finish came on the strength of two first-place finishes in relays as they topped the podium in the 4×100 and 4×200.
Christ the King’s Blake Nicholson set a new 1A championship meet record in the 3200 Meter Run with a time of 9:27.44
