The Radford girls team also claimed the 2018 regional championship.
Marty Gordon
NRVsports@ourvalley.org
The Radford Bobcat track teams had high hopes for Saturday’s Class 2 state championship. After winning the 2C regional crown, they stormed into the Harrisonburg competition. Weather delayed the meet for a day, and teased problems again on Saturday.
When the dust settled, the girls team finished ninth as Wilson Memorial rolled through the competition with 92.5 points. Second place Maggie Walker High School finished with 72.5 points.
The Radford boys finished in 20th place with 32 points.
Emma Hastings-Crummey finished sixth in the 3,200-meter run. Tyashia Gellner took fifth in both the 100-meter and 300-meter hurdles.
Radford’s Miranda McGrady finished seventh in the 800-meters, and jumpstarted the 4X800 relay team (Hastings-Crummey along with Abby Barnes and Alice Lin), that took fourth.
The Radford High School boys track team recently brought home the Class 2 Region C championship.
Mary Brown would finish second in the discus with a throw of 128-03 and fourth in the shot put with a heave of 37-0.
Maggie Walker claimed the boys’ title with 90.5 points and Central Woodstock second at 61. Floyd County finished third with 52 points.
Radford’s Ben Ramsey finished the 3,200 in 10th place, while the boys 4X800 relay team of Joshua Downing, J.W. Bethea, Nick Harvey and Nick Cooney, finished fifth. Dillon Whitt was fourth in the shot put and finished ninth in the discus.