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Members of the South Middle School boys and girls track and field teams competed in the Section 3A championship meet Friday at Riverdale High School.

The top four finishers in each event received berths to the Class A state championship meet with South’s Briley Taylor and Joey Mensinga both reaching that qualifying mark in the high jump.

Taylor earned her third trip to the state meet in as many years as she finished second in the girls high jump with a top height of 4 feet, 10 inches.

Taylor and Legacy’s Emma Rees recorded the same top height, but Taylor finished behind Rees in the final rankings due to accumulating more faults during the event.

Mensinga also had a second-place finish in the boys edition of the high jump as his top height of 5 feet, 2 inches put him just behind Legacy’s Matthew Horner’s jump of 5 feet, 4 inches for the top spot.

Mensinga will be making his third appearance in the state meet in his third different event after qualifying in the 110-meter hurdles in 2021 and the 200-meter dash in 2022.

Other performances and placements for South athletes at the sectional meet included:

— Nick Vega, boys long jump, 17 feet, 3 inches, fifth

— Jena Hand, girls 100-meter hurdles, 20.28 seconds, sixth

— Briley Taylor, girls 200-meter dash, 29.01 seconds, sixth

— Jena Hand, girls long jump, 13 feet, 4 inches, seventh

— Aydan Hodosi, boys high jump, 4 feet, 4 inches, seventh

— Payton Dearing, girls 100-meter hurdles, 20.41 seconds, seventh (tie)

— Nick Vega, boys 400-meter dash, 1:01.73, seventh

— Avari Rice, girls discus throw, 68 feet, 2 inches, eighth

— Joey Mensinga, boys discus throw, 99 feet, 6 inches, eighth

— Jacoba Fells, boys 110-meter hurdles, 20.46 seconds, eighth

— Briley Taylor, Ella Steele, Clara Guess and Madyson Dutz, girls 4×200-meter relay, 2:01.17, eighth

— Paisley Millraney, Ella Steele, Jena Hand and Madyson Dutz, girls 4×100-meter relay, 57.24 seconds, eighth

— Clara Guess, girls 400-meter dash, 1:08.74, eighth

— Jasper Henley, boys 110-meter hurdles, 21.01 seconds, ninth

— Joey Mensinga, boys 200-meter dash, 26.73 seconds, ninth

— Payton Dearing, Paisley Millraney, Clara Guess and Jada Hand, girls 4×400-meter relay, 4:53.47, ninth

— Carson Moore, boys shot put, 27 feet, 9.5 inches, 10^th

— Mason Eberhart, Jasper Henley, Aydan Hodosi and Jamari Horton, boys 4×200-meter relay, 1:54.18, 10^th

— Spencer Garner, Kaveon Sutton, Nick Vega and Eli Kelleher, boys 4×400-meter relay, 4:37.23, 10^th

— Avari Rice, girls shot put, 27 feet, 10 inches, 11^th

— Olivia Stuller, girls discus throw, 60 feet, 4 inches, 11^th

— Kaveon Sutton, Jamari Horton, Mason Eberhart and Eli Kelleher, boys 4×100-meter relay, 53.19 seconds, 12^th

Taylor and Mensinga will compete in the Class A state championship meet on May 20 at Austin Peay State University. The meet is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.