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r Quincy Collings did not repeat as Division 3 state champion in the high jump Saturday at Comstock Park High School.
Collings, who leaped 6-9 to win it all a year ago, only managed to clear 6-3 and tie for third place in the state meet. Nate McKeown of Hesperia went 6-7 to claim the title.
Collings also failed to make the top eight in the long jump, an event in which he was regarded as one of the favorites. He finished 14th at 19-3.25. However, he did hook up with Anthony Steffens, Wyatt Stegeman and Spencer Timm to finish seventh in the 800-meter relay at 1:32.29, just three-hundreths of a second slower than sixth-place Charlevoix.
Timm also placed fifth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.39 seconds. He ran a leg of the eighth-place 400-meter relay team with Nik Schoonveld, Steffens and Stegeman, which was clocked in 45.08 seconds.
Hopkins scored 12 team points in the meet. Jackson Lumen Christi won the team tally with 44 points.
The Vikings boys the week before had finished 13th in the state team competition at Shepherd.
For the Viking girls, the 800-meter relay team of Josie Freybler, Nicole Pavlak, Julia Forbes and Kennedy Miedema took eighth place with a time of 1:49.19. They finished 15th in the 1600 relay.
Miedema was seventh in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 48.74 seconds.
The 3200-meter relay team of Miedema, Megan Heft, Freybler and Rachael Weber just missed scoring a point, finishing ninth in 9:59.92. Forbes also was just one place out of the money, taking ninth in the long jump at 15-8.5.
Forbes was 16th in the 200 meters and Weber 12th in the 1600.
In the Division 2 meet at Zeeland, Wayland’s Carson Nieuwenhuis finished 14th in the open 400-meter run with a time of 51.75 seconds and McCarty Carpenter was 21st in the shot put at 43-10.25.
