A trio of Tri-City male sprinters burned up the track in 46th annual B.C. high school track and field championships Friday and Saturday at soggy Swangard Stadium in Burnaby.
And three female javelin throwers from the community left a most impressive one-two-three mark on the infield.
Nathan George of the Centennial Centaurs did a double-win dash, claiming both the boys 200- and 400-metre races in 21.80 and 47.89 seconds respectively.
Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils' James Linde captured the boys 100m final in 11.14 ticks, while Hodson Harding of the Gleneagle Talons was second to George in the 400m in 49.36. George, who won the 200m at provincials also last year, and Harding are teammates on the Coquitlam Cheetahs track and field club team.
Meanwhile, Linde was second to George in the 200m in 22.04, while the British-born Harding was sixth in that event in 23.15.
In the women's javelin final, Teagan Rasche of the Riverside Rapids took top spot with a 39.18m heave, followed by runner-up Tiffani Hernandez of Dr. Charles Best with 37.51 and third-place finisher Britnni Wolczyk of the Archbishop Carney Stars with 37.21.
Like that wasn't enough, Rasche also won the silver medal in the girls 1500-metre race walk in 7:48.52, just behind winner Nina Briggs of Victoria's Oak Bay in 7:45.24.
Wolczyk, meanwhile, placed eighth in girls discus with a toss of 30.67 metres.
Centennial's Miranda Menzies earned bronze in the girls 800 metres in 2:18.14, behind winner Ashley Windsor of Langley's Walnut Grove in 2:15.96 and Semiahmoo's Alison Williams in 2:17.90.
Vancouver's St. George's won the overall team aggregate and also captured the boys crown, while Walnut Grove won the girls team division.
