Senior Jordan Hall

Two state titles helped the Grant Union boys track and field team to second place Saturday at the 2A State Track Championships in Union.

Senior Jordan Hall placed first in the 110 hurdles, while Justin Hodge, Quaid Brandon, CJ Glimpse, and Luke Jackson took the top spot in the 4×100 relay.

Hall, named athlete of the meet, also took third in the triple jump, fourth in the long jump and fifth in the javelin.

Hall told the Eagle in a Monday interview that hurdles are his favorite competition.

“I definitely didn’t expect just to go and win it,” he said. “But (winning the race) was big. I was almost in tears.”

He said he was beyond nervous ahead of the race.

“I wanted to throw up the entire time I was so nervous,” he said. “There were kids next to me who were talking about how they were faster than their times were showing.”

Hall said he took the advice of his coaches and pretended that the runner next to him was three seconds ahead of him. The advice paid off.

He said he ran about 30 meters past the finish line.

“Finally, I turned around and looked at everybody, and I was shocked,” Hall said. “It was emotional for sure.”

The members of the 4×100 relay team said the experience of winning the state championship was a “great feeling.”

Jackson, a junior, said he was nervous for the first half-hour of the tournament.

But, he said, the team practiced and had the competition down.

Hodge said the experience of winning at state was “cool” and “amazing.” Hodge said it was his job to “run straight, run fast, and to get there.”

Jackson, who moved to Grant County from Boston last year, said he loved running with the relay team.

“Track’s a team sport,” he said. “But this is like a real team.”

On the girls side, senior Abby Lusco took fifth in the discus competition. Lusco told the Eagle that she threw better at the district competition. She said the weather was “atrocious.”

She said she placed higher than she was seated, and she was happy with that.

Lusco said an injury, coupled with the COVID-19 lockdowns, interrupted her senior year.

“We had several meets canceled over the entire season, which really didn’t give us many chances to perform,” she said. “But I’m grateful that we had one (season) at all.”

Girls

100 meters

11th place: Carson Weaver, 13.95a

300-meter hurdles

15th place: Katelyn Hughes

4×100 relay

10th place: Sydney Brandon, Lauryn Pettyjohn, Carson Weaver and Katelyn Hughes

High jump

Eighth place: Carson Weaver

Triple jump

12th place: Katie Rigby

Boys

100 meters

Seventh place: Justin Hodge

Ninth place: Quaid Brandon

200 meters

Seventh place: Justin Hodge

10th place: Quaid Brandon

400 meters

10th place: Luke Jackson

800 meters

12th place: Brady Dole

3,000 meters

Ninth place: Brady Dole

110-meter hurdles

First place: Jordan Hall

13th place: Quinn Larson

300-meter hurdles

Seventh place: Eli Wright

Shotput

Third place: Justin Hodge

Javelin

Third place: Eli Wright

Fifth place: Jordan Hall

High jump

10th place (tie): Drake Euting and Eli Wright

Long jump

Fourth place: Jordan Hall

Triple jump

Third place: Jordan Hall

11th place: CJ Glimpse

14th place: Tucker Wright

4×100 relay

First place: Quaid Brandon, Justin Hodge, CJ Glimpse and Luke Jackson