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First Fight’s Morgan Miller won her fourth individual state championship and three other area athletes set personal best marks at the 3A NCHSAA Indoor Track and Field State Championship this past weekend.

Running at the JDL Fast Track in Winston Salem, Miller and Olivia Ferraro (North Lincoln) pulled away from the rest of the field and traded the lead for the first couple of laps. Then, around the 500 meter mark, Miller took the lead and kept it. Pulling away from the rest of the field around every turn, the junior speedster from First Flight left no doubt as to the 3200 meter outcome and posted a winning time of 10:49.37. More than 14 seconds back was June Leis from AC Reynolds placed second at 11:03.96 and Ferraro finished in third place with a 11:08.49.

This was Miller’s second 3200 state indoor title and he is a two time state cross country champion.

Earlier in the day, Miller finished fourth in the state in the 1600 with a time of 5:12.30 behind Ferraro’s winning time of 5:07.95.

Nighthawks sophomore Kayla Folkes finished her 1000 meter race in fifth with a time of 3:07.23, just two-hundredths of a second behind Emma Sanders from Swansboro who passed her at the finish line and Currituck County’s Kylee Dinterman was 13th place with a time of 3:22.44.

Dinterman, along with Riley Prewitt, Gabrielle Rock and Caitlyn Curra, were the only local relay team at the meet. Running the 4×800 meter relay in 10:45.45, the Currituck girls finished 11th.

Others in competition at the 3A meet included First Flight’s Catalina Lokie, who finished 10th in the shot with a toss of 31-10.75, and Avery Thiessen, who placed 18th in the 5 meter dash prelims with :07.69. Currituck’s Logan White covered 32 feet 11 inches in the triple jump for 14th place.

Clocking a new personal best in the 55 meter hurdle finals, Currituck’s Demarcus Henderson placed 6th with a :07.69 and finished the season ranked 18th among North Carolina high school boys.

The First Flight Nighthawks girls finished the day with 19 team points and tied with Hillsborough Orange for eighth. Currituck boys had 3 points and tied with West Charlotte and West Iredell for 41st place. Greensboro Dudley won the girls title with 90 points and the boys with 81.

Competition in the 2A meet on Friday saw Manteo’s Annie Maner establish a new indoor school record in the triple jump with her 34’1” leap that put her 5th overall.

Matching her indoor school record in the pole vault, Caroline Gay cleared 9-00 to place 4th while teammate Paige Reibel went over the bar at 7-00 and placed 12th.

Manteo finished the day with 8 team points and tied for 19th with Hendersonville and Southeast Alamance.

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