By Van Wade

The Orange Leader

LUMBERTON — What a dominating day it was for the Bridge City Lady Cardinal track team on the first day of the District 22-4A Track & Field Championships at Lumberton High School Tuesday.

The Lady Cardinals captured six first-place finishes out of seven events during the field events and 3,200 meters portion of the meet.

The running finals will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Lumberton High School. They were originally scheduled for 6 p.m. but the 22-4A coaches agreed to start early in case of possible bad weather later Thursday evening.

The Lady Cardinals snagged six golds, three silvers and four bronze medals on Tuesday.

The Lady Cardinals earned first-place finishes from Caryss Carpenter in the high jump (5-4), Macie Murty in the discus (108-9), Madyson Melton in the shot put (32-5 ¼), Peyton Trapp in the long jump (16-10), Marilyn Clark in the pole vault (7-6) and Erika Needham in the 3,200 meters (13:13.53).

On the boys’ side, LC-M’s Kollyn Brown won both the discus (131-4) and the shot put (43-11 ¼).

The Bears’ Eli Peveto cruised to win the 3,200 meters (10:22.22) and West Orange-Stark’s Artavious Samuel took the long jump with a leap of 20-4.

The top four finishers in each event advance to the Area Meet, which will be held in a couple weeks.