in meets by coach mike on 17 May 2008
Mini state meet-the Cahokia and East St. Louis Flyer’s show. Speed, speed, and then more speed! Run 21.4 in the 200 and get beat by 3 feet! Run the 300M hurdles in 36 or 37-crazy stuff. The Wildcats stepped up-Kevin Sager cleared the state mark of 6′4 in the high jump to advance to the state meet-3rd attempt at the mark and he cleared. Great feeling for that young man. Next up was the 4×800 relay, we knew we were in for a race and needed to run faster than we had all year. First leg handed off was in 3rd or 4th place-Wilkins took an early lead by going out at 55 seconds and then came back with a 67-Kubicki kept us close and then Goff got us even closer-then Big Dog Pruden stepped up and battled with the Belleville West # 4 runner, with the both of them closing on the O’Fallon #4, you could see it unfolding on the track- around the last curve Salem and BW and BW and Salem-both gaining on O’Fallon-right to the finish with BW and Salem passing O’Fallon at the finish line. What a race, what a finish! Pruden kicked out a 1.55 split! Some other young men competed well, Follet in the pole vault and Jordan also. Brummel ran his best 400 of the year and the 4×400 ran their best time of the year. Thats all we can ask at a meet with that just your best effort. Thanks.