Saluda's JaMarcus Mobley wins pair of gold medals in AA track state meet
Senior wins triple jump, long jump after finishing second a year ago
Saluda – Jamarcus Mobley came close to winning both the long jump and the triple jump in the South Carolina High School League AA track and field state meet in 2022. On this go-around, Saluda High School’s Mobley came home with a pair of gold medals.
` After finishing second in the triple jump and third in the long jump, Mobley got to stand atop the podium after winning both events on Friday, May 19, at Spring Valley High School’s Harry Parone Stadium.
Mobley’s victories accounted for 20 of the Tigers’ 44 points that were good for a fifth-place tie with Strom Thurmond in the team standings
Mobley won the long jump with a distance of 22 feet, 4 inches. The man right behind him in second place was teammate and fellow senior Amareyin Mathis. He had a jump of 21-07.
This is the second year in a row a Saluda athlete has won the event. William Cleveland claimed the long jump gold last year with a jump of 22-9.50. Mobley added one foot to his third-place jump from last season.
In winning the triple jump, Mobley actually came up an inch shorter than his second-place jump of a year. He won with a jump of 44-09.
The Saluda boys team had claimed 17 positions in the state meet. Counting the finishes of Mobley and Mathis, the Tigers scored points out of nine of those slots.
Mathis finished fifth in the triple jump with a jump of 42-10. Jeremiah Burton finished fifth in the shot put with a put of 44-10.50. The senior was seventh in the discus with a throw of 135-03.50.
Sophomore Trequan Barnes also scored in the triple jump, finishing sixth at 42-02. Sophomore Kyree Etheredge was seventh in the shot with a throw of 44-00.50, and Mathis placed in the high jump as well, finishing eighth in the high jump at 6-0.
Barnes and Mobley also competed in the high jump, while sophomore Tymar Cannon was in the 400-meter hurdles, sophomore Jahlyir Foulks was in the long jump, freshman Antonious Wharton was in the triple jump, freshman Sammuel Castro was in the pole vault, and junior Jaylen Adams was in the shot put. The 4x400-meter relay team also reached the state meet.
The Saluda girls team scored one point, that coming from eighth-grader Jabria Brunson. She finished eighth in the 100 hurdles in a time of 17.66. Brunson was one of two Saluda girls to qualify but fail to place in the 400 hurdles. The other one was sophomore Karlie Kelly.
Other Saluda girls who competed were sophomore Oz’lyn Springs in the 400 dash, sophomore Erin Black in the pole vault and freshman Taisha Gray in the shot put. The 4x400 and 4x8700 relay teams also qualified for state.
SOFTBALL FINISHES SECOND IN DISTRICT TOURNAMENT
The Saluda softball team may have finished fourth in Region 2 during the regular season, but it finished second in the District 1 tournament of the state playoffs.
As the lowest seed in the district tournament, the Tigers were the road warriors, having to play all four of their tournament games on the road. They opened with Region 1 No. 1 Chesnee and lost 10-0. They bounced back with an 18-0 shellacking of Region 4 No. 3 Columbia in an elimination game.
Saluda then traveled to North Augusta to take on Region 3 No. 2 Fox Creek and came back home with an 8-1 triumph. Their season came to an end with a 7-0 loss to Chesnee in the championship round.
The Tigers finished with an 8-17 overall record under first-year head coach Hannah Towery.
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