Pirates junior varsity track team wins home meet

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By Jeremy Weber
 
The Lady Pirates varsity and Pirates junior varsity teams earned another top finish last week as both teams were in action at home for the Pittsburg Relays.
The Lady Pirates won first place in five events on their way to winning the meet as the team finished with 145 points to beat out Mount Vernon (92), Winnsboro (86), Hughes Springs (81), Harmony (56) and Avinger (18).
Denasia Watson picked up a top finish for the Lady Pirates in the shot put for the second straight meet as she won the event with a toss of 36 feet, 5 inches. Taylor Leonard also placed in the event for the Lady Pirates, coming in sixth with a toss of 29 feet, 1 inch.
Ayanna Palmer had the only other individual first-place finish for the Lady Pirates as she won the long jump competition with a leap of 15 feet, 6 and a half inches.
The Lady Pirate 400-meter relay team of D’Maya Hashaway, Palmer, Maxie Ivory and Justonni Farmer came in first with a time of 51.21 seconds while the 800-meter relay team of Palmer, Ivory, Famer and Nakaya Brown was also first with a time of 1:51.30. Pittsburg’s 1,600-meter relay team of Ivory, Brown, Palmer and Raven Garrison also won first place as the squad finished with a time of 4:29.00.
 
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