Patrick Taylor girls prevail at inaugural Tiger Relays

The Patrick Taylor Lady Tigers track and field squad ran, jumped and threw themselves to victory over a quality field by over 40 points while missing several runners who were attending the Mu Alpha Theta conference in Baton Rouge.

East Iberville placed second and Country Day was third.

The Lady Tigers scored a meet-high 194 points, and eighth grader Gabby Alphonse earned meet MVP honors by totaling 28.5 points from winning the triple jump, 100 meter hurdles and the 4×100 meter relay (running the lead leg for the winning Taylor team).

Sophomore Erin Wallace won the Javelin and placed second in the shot put. Senior Aaliyah Edinburgh captured the 400 meters and seventh Grader Amairi Ashford won the 200 meters; both ran on both sprint relays.

“The girls are really working hard and challenging each other at practices and meets. The coaches have a lot of respect for our track athletes because we have to travel to either West Jeff or Johnny Jacobs to practice every day. These ladies are committed to themselves, the school, and the team. We could not be happier or have more respect for their effort,” stated Taylor coach James Potter.

The Lady Tigers will see action again this Wednesday at the Fisher Invitational.

Field Events
Erin Wallace, 1st in Javelin and 2nd in Shot
Janee Kovacs, 2nd in Discuss
Aaliyah Edinburgh, 3rd in Long Jump – 1st time competing in a meet too!
Gabby Alphonse, 1st in Triple Jump
Jasmine McGowan, 1st in High Jump 3rd in Triple Jump
Ryunn Naquin, 1st in Pole Vault

Relays
4×200, 1st — Chancie Wright, Aaliyah Edinburgh, Amairi Ashford & Davion Lemon
4×100, 2nd — Wright, Alphonse, Ashford & Lemon

Running
1600 M, 4th — Victoria Wilches
100 Hurdles, 1st — Gabby & Veronica 5th
400 M, 1st — Aaliyah
300 Hurdles, 2nd — Veronica Suazo & 3rd Alphonse
200 M, 1st — Ashford & 4th Lemon

Taylor’s boys finished second at the Tiger Relays with impressive efforts from Caleb Randall, Madison Grey and Ryan Boudreaux.

Randall won the 200 meters, Grey won the shot put and Boudreaux was a triple winner in the 3200, 1600 and 800 meters. The Mile Relay team won with Tigers runners Logan Balfantz, Stefrien Walker, Colton Schoebel and Andre Drummond. Alex Walker also won the Pole Vault.

The Tigers will compete Wednesday at the Fisher Invitational.