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SPORTS
Burcham breezes to win in Ohio race
HUNTINGTON -- Barboursville Middle School distance runner Jacob Burcham competed unattached and won the 1,600-meter run Sunday at the Ohio Middle School Track and Field Championships at Pickerington North High School.
Burcham, a freshman next school year at Cabell Midland, breezed to victory in the Division I race by nearly 16 seconds with a time of 4:36.46.
He set the top time in the nation for middle school runners of 4:33.22 on April 29 in the Hurricane Invitational.
The Chesapeake Middle School Striders also were represented at the meet and brought home some medals.
Chesapeake sixth-grader Jake Wireman was a double winner in the pole vault and 110 hurdles. He placed second in the 200 hurdles.
Seventh-grader Chad Meadows was second in the 200 hurdles.
Chesapeake seventh- and eighth-graders Brandon Clagg, Meadows, T.J. McCoy and Nick Lucas ran fifth in the 4x100 relay. The 4x200 team of Clagg, Josh Browning, Meadows and Lucas placed fourth.
Boys 1,600
1. Jacob Burcham, Barboursville, 4:36.46
2. Louis Guardiola, Fremont City, 4:52.12
3. Matt Waayland, Sgt. Kokes Team, 4:56.30
4. Paul Salach, Cincinnati, 4:58.93
5. Wiley Geer, Sylvania, 5:01.45
