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Oakleaf track soars at Toro Showdown

Randy Lefko
Sports Editor
Posted 4/18/24

ST. AUGUSTINE - With a dominant 1-2-3 finish in the long jump and a first-place finish in the triple jump, the Oakleaf High School boys track team put big points on the board before the running …

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Oakleaf track soars at Toro Showdown


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ST. AUGUSTINE - With a dominant 1-2-3 finish in the long jump and a first-place finish in the triple jump, the Oakleaf High School boys track team put big points on the board before the running events even started to take top team honors by 44 points at the Tocoi Creek Toro Showdown on Saturday at Tocoi Creek High School. Oakleaf's boys scored 134 team points with Buchholz second at 90.5 and Flagler Palm Coast third with 85.

For the girls scoring, Oakleaf again proved too strong with a 114-winning team total of 30 points ahead of runner-up Buchholz at 74 and Flagler Palm Coast in third at 73.
For the Knights' boys team, it was Devin Collins, Takoda Brown and Josber Stimphil rocking the long jump with Collins at 22'-4.5" and Brown just five inches away at 21'-11.5" and Stimphil at 21'-0.75" inches as Oakleaf pulled 24 team points from the trio plus a bonus point for an eighth place finish by Amarrion Grant at 19'-11".
Later in the day's action, Brown returned to the sandpit to win the triple jump with a 45'-4" leap to win by more than three feet over Ladarien Baker of Matanzas.
Even later in the day, with track running taking center stage, the Oakleaf trio again went big with a 2-3-4 finish in the 200 behind Mandarin's Jaylin Lewis who won in 21.36. Stimphil and Collins both timed in at 22.00 with Brown fourth at 22.17 to score 19 team points.
Stimphil added another 10 points with a 49.14-second top finish in the 400 for 10 more points for the Knights.
Collins put another eight in the points column with a second place in the 100 in 10.95 behind Lewis again winning in 10.73 seconds.
For the girls' squad, Oakleaf got their on the very fast legs of Kaymin Sales, Rayna Lawson and Keira Smalls with Sales and Lawson staying within an elbow of each other for third and fourth in the 200; Lawson second in the 100; Sales fourth in the 400; Orange Park's Kayleana Henry third with a 59.30 to Sales' 59.65, and hurdler Smalls taking the 100 hurdles just a hair ahead of Orange Park's Aaliyah Abassi 15.06-15.55. Smalls' time was a new course record for the event. Abassi was fourth in the 400-meter hurdles and also the high jump.
In the jumps, multi-talented freshman Brooke Linscomb won the triple jump over Flagler senior Olivia Gaines while finishing third in the long jump. Sister Madison Linscomb, a junior, won the javelin with a 106'11.75" throw 22 feet ahead of second place.
Smalls and Lawson combined with Jazmine Soto and Timia McMillian for a decisive win in the 4 x 100 with a 48.77 split ahead of St. Augustine's 49.52. Oakleaf also finished second in the 4 x 800 for the girls.
For Orange Park, high jumper/pole vaulter Sean Martin took top honors in the high jump at six feet, then third in the pole vault with a very improved 11'-3.75" to finish behind two Flagler Palm Coast teammates both over 12 feet.
Orange Park's boys finished fourth while the girls finished ninth.