Keyshun Teal brought home two medals from the KHSAA Class 2A State Track and Field Championships on Saturday, but the one he really wanted eluded him.
Teal had won seven straight races in the 110-meter hurdles and entered Friday as the number one seed in the event. He was just one hurdle away from claiming the state title, but clipped it, causing him to lose his balance as he completed the leap. While it didn’t take him to the ground, it threw off his balance enough that he finished in third place, two-tenths of a second behind the winner, Jacob Keller of Covington Catholic.
Teal was visibly distraught after the race but rallied to compete in three more events. He finished second in the 300-meter hurdles in 40.67 seconds, a personal best time and the sixth fastest in school history.
Kayden Humphrey also competed in both hurdle events, placing 11th in the 110 hurdles in 16.48 and 17th in the 300 hurdles in 44.76.
James Bradley Jr. finished 19th in the 100-meter dash in 11.88 seconds, while Willie Ennels was 22nd in both the 100-meter dash at 12.11 and the 200-meter dash at 24.54.
Jayon Bass placed 21st in the 400-meter dash with a time of 53.54.
Tyson Cavinder placed 17th in the boys’ 3200-meter run in 10:37.85.
In the relays, the 3200-meter relay team of Tyson Cavinder, Carlo Jones, Savior Davis, and LaMareon Jeffers came in 10th place in 8:48.54.
The 800-meter team of Teal, Bradley, Ennels, and Jaylen Ray came in 11th place in 1:35.59.
The 400-meter team of Teal, Bradley, Kayden Humphrey, and Mekhi Manning Lewis finished in 21st place in 47.39 seconds.
The 1600-meter relay team of Jones, Jeffers, Davis, and Jayon Bass will go down as the final athletes to compete in a Hopkinsville High athletic event, finishing in 17th place in 3:43.11.
Mychael Pulley earned a seventh-place finish in the boys’ high jump after clearing 5 feet, 10 inches. Pulley also placed 12th in the triple jump with a mark of 40 feet, three-quarters of an inch.
Jaylen Ray added an eighth-place finish in the boys’ long jump with a leap of 20 feet, 5-and-a-half inches.
As a team, Hopkinsville scored 17 points to finish in 14th place.
