As the day went on at the Cy-Fair Invitational Friday, more than 20 boys and girls track teams were in heated competition on a quest to bringing home the hardware.

After nine events, it was the Clear Lake boys and the Alief Taylor girls with marginal leads over the other teams.

Success for the Falcon boys was due to their overwhelming strength in the distance and middle-distant events. In the 3,200-meter, they placed first, second, and fourth with Chad Brown taking the gold in a landslide victory with a time of 9:42.21.

“Throughout the season our distance kids have really run well and progressed,” Clear Lake coach Mark Horton said. “Our success today is built around our distance program. Those kids are kind of the backbone of it all.”

Clear Lake also finished two, three, four in the 800-meters behind one of the state’s top middle-distant runners, Cypress Falls’ Blake Shaw, a USC signee who ran a 1:57.96.

In the 4-by-100-meter relay, the Cypress Ridge team (Russell Shepard, Kevin Johnson, Royce Hill, Hasan Lipscomb) took first running a 42.53.

The field events featured some of the area’s top athletes. One was Jersey Village’s Michael Barbas, who won both the shot put (62-feet-0.25) and discus (166-9).

“It was a pretty good performance and I am progressing as I want to,” said Barbas, a Duke commit. “I think I will be ready when the bigger meets come.”

Other field event action included Tyler Williamson of Cypress Woods winning the long jump (22-7.5) and DeAndre Thompson of Alief Taylor won the triple jump (45-5). Jerry Robinson (6-6) and Chris Larberg (13-6) won the high jump and pole vault respectively.

For the girls, the 4-by-100 relay from Cypress Springs (Kimberly Duncan, Macoya Wiley, Chelsea Sims, Grecia Bolton) won with a time of 47.79. Jasmin Hawkins won the 800 meters (Katy Morton Ranch, 2:18.43) and Kandace Malone won the 100-meter hurdles (Cy-Fair, 15.28). Cy Woods’ Kylie Fitzgerald won the 3200 meters with a time of 11:58.65.

In the girls’ field events, Jersey Village’s Patrice Parker (long jump, 17-6.5), Alief Taylor’s Morgan Pressley (triple jump, 38-0.5), A&M Consolidated’s Hally Thompson (high jump, 5-2), Cy-Fair’s Marie Pregeant (shot put, 41-1.75), and Morton Ranch’s Caroline Kellen (discus, 122-11) all won their events.

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