By T. Scott Boatright

 

Apparently, you can’t keep Simsboro from “Taking State.”

Two month after the SHS boys basketball state title, the Tigers’ boys Track and Field Team made it cross-sport back-to-back championships by taking the Class B Louisiana High School Athletic Association championship.

Senior Nick Maryland grabbed three individual state titles — (110m dash, 100m hurdles, and 300m hurdles) while Daniel Martinez aced the boys javelin event with a mark of 44.97m.

Simsboro’s Chilaydrien Newton took first in the triple jump (13.45m) while adding second-place performances in the 200m dash (17.44) and 400m (22.90) dash.

Newton capped off his outstanding day with a first-place showing in the triple jump (13.45m).

The Tigers’ relay teams added first-place performances in the 4x100m and 4×200 relays. Simsboro’s 4x100m team consisted of Savion Dismuke, Jacob Reeves, Jordan Crawford and Newton while competing on the Tigers’ 4x200m squad were Dismuke, Crawford, Michael Pesnell and Maryland.

On the girls’ side, the Lady Tigers finished third overall with Ikeia Brown earning a pair of top 3 finishes for Simsboro while the Lady Tigers also won gold in the 4×100 and 4x200m relays.

Brown finished first in the 300m hurdles with a time of 16.12 while adding a pair of third-places finishes in the 100m dash and the high jump.

The Lady Tigers’ Lauryn Vernon added a second place in the triple jump while Simsboro’s girls added first-place showings in the 4X100m relay (Jada Gilmore, Jakheria Abney, Vernon and Brown) and in the 4x200m reolay (Gilmore, Abney, Vernon and Jacoya Lewis).