LCHS Senior Bailey Leininger Headed to State in Track and Field

Lynchburg-Clay senior Bailey Leininger is going to the Division III State OHSAA Track and Field Championships next weekend, stamping her ticket to the event by winning a regional championship on Friday at the regionals held at Fairfield-Union High School.

Leininger threw a personal best to win the championship and place first in the discus throw with a distance of 127-06, beating the second-place throw of 126-11.

The throw by Leininger was also a new school record.

For all of the runners and field athletes on Friday from Highland County, Leininger was the lone participant to qualify for state, as participants have to place in the Top 4 to take part at state next week.

Others who also competed in the regional event were Whiteoak junior Derrick Ison, who was fifth place in the 400m dash with a finals time of 51.59.

In the 1600m run, Fairfield sophomore Noah Richmond was ninth at 4:37.49.

The 800m run had three racers from Highland County with Fairfield freshman Brandtson Duffie placing seventh at 2:03.98, followed by Lynchburg-Clay junior Bobby Merry in ninth (2:06.77) and Fairfield junior Nick Swisher in 11 (2:08.01).

FHS sophomore Matthew Mangus was sixth place in the 3200m run with a time of 10:09.45.

For complete results, click here.

To read about Day One of the Division III Regional at Fairfield-Union, click here.

The 2016 OHSAA State Track and Field Championships will take place on June 3 and 4 at The Ohio State University’s Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.