LCHS athletes place in IHSA 2A BOYS Track and Field Championships
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[June 21, 2021]
Six Lincoln athletes
made the trip to take part in the IHSA Class 2A Boys State Track and
Field Championships on Friday. Events were held at Eastern Illinois
University in Charleston for the Illinois High School.
Lincoln was represented in individual track events by Brenden
Heitzig and Garrett
Slack, and in two relay teams made up of Drake Rutledge, Jayson Butler,
Jalen Franz, Aidan Gowin,
Heitzig and Slack.
The day was hot and humid.
Individual
Junior Garrett Slack took 8th place in the
400m dropping his Sectional time of
50.39
to 50.28 seconds
for a new PR, and picked up 2 points for the team.
Sophomore Brenden
Heitzig took 15th
place in the 3200m with a time of 10:42.79.
Relays
Lincoln’s 4X400 Relay team bettered their Sectional time of 3:28.63 by
:00.47 for a 7th place finish at 3:28.16 picking up 3 points.
1) Drake Rutledge
2) Jayson Butler
3) Jalen Franz
4) Garrett Slack
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Lap Split
1 1:47.611 1:47.611
2 50.380 2:37.991
3 50.168 3:28.158
The 4X800 team with a time of
8:17.675
earned 6th place adding 4 points.
1) Drake
Rutledge
2)
Brenden Heitzig
3) Aidan
Gowin
4)
Garrett Slack
# |
Lap |
Split |
1 |
2:04.414 |
2:04.414 |
2 |
2:07.155 |
4:11.569 |
3 |
2:07.632 |
6:19.201 |
4 |
1:58.474 |
8:17.675 |
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Lincoln tied with Salem and
Geneseo
for 32nd with nine posts.
Congratulations
Railers on
your State showing! |
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