1997 LOUISIANA HIGH SCHOOL STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS - GIRLS

Bernie Moore Stadium, LSU, Baton Rouge, May 8-10



HIGHLIGHTS: 5A -- April Sams 14.17.  4A -- Danielle Brown 40-8.5.

3A -- Tosha Pierce 5-10, Michelle Gordon 148-4.  1A -- Southern

Lab impressive again.



(Special thanks to Garey Hayes for historical notes.  Garey has

compiled the most comprehensive statistics I've ever seen in

Louisiana.)



For those unfamiliar: Louisiana has 7 classes of competition.  The

largest schools compete in 5A, and the smallest schools in C.

(Classes B & C are schools that do not have football teams.)



* = meet record for that class.  "Composite records" are meet

records for all classes.

BR = Baton Rouge

LC = Lake Charles

NO = New Orleans

Shr = Shreveport



CLASS 5A (May 10)



Teams - Easton (NO) 69; 2. Mandeville 58; 3. Baker 30; 4. Glen Oaks

(BR) 29; 5. Ruston 27.



100 (0.5) - Krystal Cunningham (Baker) 12.27; 2. Dawna Hamilton

(Glen Oaks, BR) 12.30; 3. Erica Casnave (Fontainbleau, Mandeville)

12.34; 4. Delores Bartie (New Iberia) 12.38.



200 (-0.6) - Casnave 24.98; 2. Hamilton 25.23.



400 - April Sams (Mandeville) 56.48; 2. Nedra Green (LaGrange, LC)

56.54; 3. Cunningham 58.05.



800 - Claudia Anthony (McKinley, BR) 2:20.17.



1600/3200 - Suzanne Dyson (Ruston) 5:09.02 * / 11:19.05 * (3200

also composite meet record).



100H (1.6) - Sams 14.17 * (also composite meet record; 2nd year for

33" hurdles); 2. 15.29.



4 x 100 - Easton (NO) 49.20; 2. New Iberia 49.52.



4 x 200 - Easton (NO) 1:42.19; 2. Baker 1:42.36; 3. Lafayette

1:42.72.



4 x 400 - Easton (NO) 3:56.06; 2. LaGrange (LC) 3:59.20; 3.

Mandeville 4:01.09; 4. Ruston 4:02.26.



HJ - Felicia Gray (Glen Oaks, BR) 5-8 *; 2. Emily Fontenot (Barbe,

LC) 5-8 *.



LJ - Kia Callender (Easton, NO) 17-10.5w (16-10.75); 2. Starr

Williams (Reed, NO) 17-9w (17-4).



TJ - Korin Adkins (St. Joseph's, BR) 36-4.75; 2. Callender 36-3.25.



SP - Angela Jones (McKinley, BR) 39-3.75.



DT - Somiya Thomas (Ponchatoula) 120-7.



JT - Brandy Fisher (Fontainbleau, Mandeville) 144-4 *; 2. Amanda

Mason (St. Amant) 134-0; 3. Dina Stine (Mt. Carmel, NO) 124-10.





CLASS 4A (May 10)



Teams - Carver (NO) 71; 2. McMain (NO) 56; 3. Woodlawn (Shr) 36.



100 (nwi - ok) - Tonette Dyer (Woodlawn, Shr) 12.13; 2. Chanelle

Paten (Carver, NO) 12.20; 3. Crystal Celestine (Abbeville) 12.26;

4. Penny Dyer (Woodlawn, Shr) 12.31; 5. Danielle Brown (McMain,

NO) 12.52.



200 (-0.6) - Paten 24.97; 2. Dyer 25.00.



400 - Tenaj Taylor (Carver, NO) 57.09.



100H (1.4) - Hope Sinclair (Crowley) 15.20 *.



4 x 100 - Carver (NO) 47.91; 2. Carroll (Monroe) 48.58; 3. Woodlawn

(Shr) 48.61; 4. McMain (NO) 48.92.



4 x 200 - Carver (NO) 1:40.25; 2. Woodlawn (Shr) 1:42.34; . . .

McMain (NO) dnf.



4 x 400 - Carver (NO) 3:54.51; 2. McMain (NO) 3:56.13.



HJ - Sinclair 5-6.



LJ - Danielle Brown (McMain, NO) 18-2; 2. Aleshia Perry (Pineville)

18-0.5.



TJ - Brown 40-8.5 * (also composite meet record) (0.3); 2. Perry

36-8.5.  Series: Brown (40-0 [1.7], 39-11.25 [0.7], 40-0.5 [-1.0],

40-0.25 [0.1], foul, 40-8.5 [0.3]).



     [Brown has signed with Cornell.]



JT - Maria Romero (Abbeville) 124-1.





CLASS 3A (May 10)



Teams - Bishop Sullivan (BR) 66; 2. Lake Charles-Boston (LC) 61; 3.

Port Allen 52; 4. Brusly 49.



100 (0.4) - Christy Morgan (Port Allen) 12.21; . . . Marla Ross

(Belle Chasse) fs.



200 (-0.7) - Ross 25.11; 2. Morgan 25.52.



800/1600/3200 - Laurel Huber (Bishop Sullivan, BR)

2:23.04 / 5:15.48 / 11:50.81.



100H (1.0) - Charlene Murphy (Port Allen) 15.12 *; . . . 4. Tosha

Pierce (Brusly) 16.12.



Relays - Lake Charles-Boston (LC) 50.04, Karr (NO) 1:44.54, Karr

4:08.18.



HJ - Tosha Pierce (Brusly) 5-10 *.



LJ - Pierce 17-6.75; 2. Alisa Matthews (Jennings) 17-5.5w

(16-5.75); 3. Ross 17-5.25w (16-1.5).



TJ - Matthews 37-5; 2. Pierce 35-7.25.



JT - Michelle Gordon (Jennings) 148-4 *.





CLASS 2A (May 9)



Teams - (tie) Northeast (Zachary) & Notre Dame (Crowley) 38;

3. Delhi 37; 4. University Lab (BR) 36; 5. Homer 34.



100 (2.6) - Adrianne Kelly (Northeast, Zachary) 12.33w (5th title

in 100 - one of 3 girls to do so, any event, any class); 2. Brenda

Turner (Homer) 12.33w.



200 (3.9) - Kelly 25.38w; 2. Turner 25.71w.



800/1600/3200 - Lauren Byrd (University Lab, BR)

2:22.88 / 5:23.37 / 12:06.99 (duplicates triple done in '93 as 8th-

grader).



100H (1.7) - JaJuan Gair (St. Martin's Episcopal, Metairie) 14.98 *.



Relays - Northeast (Zachary) 49.24, Homer 1:43.66, Delhi 4:04.31.



LJ/TJ - Clarissa Johnson (Notre Dame, Crowley) 17-7 / 36-6w

(36-2.25).



JT - Catherine Betz (St. Martin's Episcopal, Metairie) 128-7; 2.

Heather Bertrand (Port Barre) 126-0.





CLASS 1A (May 9)



Teams - Southern Lab (BR) 142 (most points ever scored in La. state

meet, boys or girls, any class) (5th straight title, tieing West

Feliciana [St. Francisville, 2A 1987-91] for longest girls' winning

streak, any class) (9th title since 1985);  2. Delcambre 54.5.



(87.5-point victory margin largest ever, boys or girls, any class)



100 (1.8) - Dwan Johnson (Southern Lab, BR) 12.22; 2. Tia Lee

(Southern Lab, BR) 12.35.



200 (3.0) - Johnson 25.17w; 2. Myra Combs (Southern Lab, BR)

25.51w.



400 - Combs 55.73 *; 2. Lee 59.19.



3200 - Darcel Delcambre (Delcambre) 12:29.35 (4th win - soph).



4x100/4x200/4x400 - Southern Lab (BR) 49.19 / 1:41.90 / 4:07.43

(all w/o Combs, recovering from hamstring strain month ago).



     [Southern Lab's Tia Lee on 4x2 & 4x4, thus running her total

     career state titles to 16, most ever boy or girl (old best of

     15 by Niema Malone of Saline, 1989-93).  Lee had won the 400

     from 1993-96, but teammate Combs ran class record this year to

     stop streak.]



     [Teammate Dwan Johnson, 100/200 winner, also on 4x1 & 4x2 to

     run her career total to 15.  She's a junior.]



LJ - Combs 18-7.25 (3rd title - all for different schools; LaGrange

of Lake Charles [5A] last year, Barbe of Lake Charles [5A] in '95).



JT - Neely Falgout (Delcambre) 127-3.





CLASS B (May 8)



Teams - Chatham 72 (7th win in 9 years); 2. Grand Lake 43.



LJ/TJ - Crystal Jackson (Chatham) 16-0.75w / 34-4.5

(also part of 52.91/1:48.65 winning relay teams).



JT - Bridget Monceaux (Midland) 123-11 *.





CLASS C GIRLS (May 8)



Teams - (tie) Bethany Christian (Baker) & Bienville 76.



400/800/1600 - Lindsey Daigle (Bethany Christian, Baker)

64.58 / 2:28.34 / 5:38.87.



3200 - Shelly Swink (Bethany Christian, Baker) 13:04.49

(11-year-old 5th-grader).



 -- Howard Willman