Photo by Jon Fleming
The Lord Botetourt and James River indoor track teams will be in Salem Saturday for the East Coast Elite Meet. The event will be at Cregger Indoor Fieldhouse on the campus of Roanoke College.
Both county teams ran in the Bulldog Invitational at Liberty University in Lynchburg last Saturday and had some outstanding results. For River, Gavin Binns finished sixth in the 55 dash with a personal record time of 6.64, state qualifying in the process. He’s ranked second in the state in the event in Class 2.
Naveah VanBuren of River finished third in the triple jump and is now state qualified in the triple, long jump and high jump. Jaden Alston state qualified in the shot put.
For Botetourt, Eric Duncan was runner-up in the 3200, breaking the LB school record with a time of 9:21.94. Caleb Miller also broke a school record when he ran a time of 7.82 in the 55 hurdles to take sixth place.
“There were a lot of personal bests at Bulldog,” said LB coach Tra Wilson.
