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Beaufort High’s Anaiya Houseal and Eric Smart each claimed individual state titles as part of big days Saturday at the SCHSL Class 3A Track & Field Championships.
Houseal took gold in the high jump and placed fifth in the 100-meter hurdles to lead Beaufort’s girls to a seventh-place finish with 27 points. Yzeult Antia also had a strong day for the Eagles, placing second in the 800 meters and eighth in the 1600, while joining Aleeyah Echols, Jasmine Brown, and Letecia Whittingham on the sixth-place 4×400 relay team and anchoring the eighth-place 4×800 relay along with Aleeyah Echols, Jamie Simmons, and Halle Kruse.
Smart helped the Beaufort boys to a 14th-place finish by winning the 400-meter hurdles and placing fourth in the pole vault, while Amare Patterson was fifth in the 200-meter dash and seventh in the 100.
HS TRACK & FIELD
SCHSL 3A CHAMPIONSHIP
GIRLS
Beaufort (27 pts) finishes 7th
State Champion: Anaiya Houseal, HJ, 5-1
2nd: Yzeult Antia, 800m, 2:24.61
5th: Anaiya Houseal, 100H, 15.81
6th: 4×400 (Aleeyah Echols, Jasmine Brown, Yzeult Antia, Letecia Whittingham)
8th: Yzeult Antia, 1600m, 5:30.58; 4×800 (Aleeyah Echols Jamie Simmons Halle Kruse Yzeult Antia), 10:25.13
BOYS
Beaufort (21 pts) finishes 14th
1st: Eric Smart, 400H, 55.11
4th: Eric Smart, PV, 13-5.5
5th: Amare Patterson, 200m, 22.08
7th: Amare Patterson, 100m, 11.04
