Hamilton County Reporter

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.