The 1A and 2A classifications of the Maryland State Indoor Championships were held on Monday with the largest classifications to come on Tuesday at the Prince George County's Sports & Learning Center in Landover.
North Point boys and Middletown girls won the 2A team titles, while Western STES boys and Williamsport girls claimed the 1A state indoor titles.
Top performances in 2A:
Walkersville senior Jon Hill continues to soar high as one of the country's top high jumpers this indoor season and will move ahead to championship season with a Maryland state title and new 2A state meet record with his 6'10.50" clearance.
Craig Morgan of River Hill dominated the boys 1600 field with a 2A meet record time of 4:21.96 and later came back to win his second title in the 3200 in 9:44.05.
Two relay meet records went down as the North Point boys built momentum to their state team championship off their 1:31.81 clocking in the 4x200, while Winters Mill took down a three year old record in the 4x800 by knocking 16 seconds off their seed time in a 8:13.55 win.
A thriller in the girls' 800 with two athletes dipping under the old state meet record with Middletown senior Brittney Caudle taking first in 2:16.85, while Queen Anne's sophomore Charlotte Staver not far behind as runner-up at 2:17.03. Caudle was doubling back from another tight race in the 1600 meter run against Century sophomore Mara Linde (2nd, 5:11.05), but Caudle came out ontop in the end in a meet record performance of 5:10.19.
A deep girls' high jump competition with three juniors rounding out the top 3 and all over 5'4". Paxtutent junior Amina Smith became only the 8th girl in the country to clear 5'8" in the high jump this year as the height gave her the state title and meet record over North Point's Shavon Briscoe (2nd, 5'6".
Top performances in 1A:
Clear Spring junior Paige Shirk came in with a season best mark of just over 38 feet, but walked out as a state champion with a big personal best mark of 41'4.50" to shatter a 25 year old 1A meet record held by a former thrower from Clear Spring High.
Sasha Smallwood of Pikesville set a new meet record in the pole vault as the sophomore cleared 11'1".
Williamsport's Michael Lilley just missed the 1A state meet record in the 3200 by 3 tenths of a second with his 9:49.81 victory. Teammate Naseem Haje was runner-up to Lilly as both ran on the victorious 4x800 meter relay earlier in the day.
Maryland State Indoor Championships Results: 2A Results - 1A Results
Maryland State Indoor Championships
February 16, 2009 - February 17, 2009 @ Prince George's Sports & Learning Center in Landover, MD
Below are the performances entered for the meet that met the national silver standard.
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