Prep track: Manatee's Carnes has big day at district meet

photo by Paul Videla

Another day, another big track performance by Brandon Carnes.
Manatee's senior sprinter won two events during Wednesday's Class 4A-District 7 meet at Riverview Spoto, sending him to next week's Region 2 meet at Tampa Leto.
Carnes won the 100-meter (10.8) and 200 (21.77), and ran a leg on the Hurricanes' second-place 400 relay team (42.28).
The top four finishers in each meet advance to the regional meet, scheduled for next Wednesday.
Daren Ardis, Ja Juan Pollock and Dentrell Muller joined Carnes on the relay team.
Derrick Calloway set a meet record with a throw of 57 feet, 7 inches to win the shot put for the Hurricanes, while Ardis took third in the long jump (20 feet, 6 1/2 inches) and triple jump (42 0-4.25).
Kelvin McKnight was fourth in the long jump (20-3), and Darryl Brookins was second in the 110 (15.07) and 300 hurdles (40.91).
Nicholas Peters was fourth in the 300 hurdles (41.41), and the 3,200 relay team of Gregory Moss, Anthony Scott, Louis Rottes and Phil Rottes took fourth (8:24.23).
The Hurricanes took fourth out of six teams with 101 points.
On the girls side, Brittany Hartwig took second in the pole vault (8-06) and Jacque Armer took third in the shot put (31-5). O'Neesha Shaw took second 300 hurdles (49.07) and Jada Guion (50.83) in the 300 hurdles.