Lakeview’s Moody breaks another record

Vindicator staff report

ANDOVER — Senior Ben Moody broke the 110-meter hurdle record — again — and helped Lakeview win the 4x100 relay as the Bulldogs showed off their depth on both sides en route to winning boys and girls district titles at Saturday’s Division II meet at Pymatuning Valley High School.

After setting a new record in the hurdles in Thursday’s preliminaries (14.10), Moody lowered it again in the finals with a time of 14.01 — a time that would have won last year’s state title by more than a half-second.

His season-best time of 13.97 came at the county meet and was the fastest time in the state in any division so far this spring.

Moody, a Cornell football recruit who finished third in the state at last year’s state meet, also finished third in the 100. Lakeview’s two distance standouts, Heath Harris (1600) and Tyler Ames (3200), won events as the Bulldogs pulled away from Ashtabula Edgewood 129-92.50.

Liberty senior Fitzgerald Toussaint, a University of Michigan football recruit, won the 100, finished second in the 200 and helped the Leopards place third in the 4x100. Toussaint was an indoor state champion in the 60.

LaBrae’s Evan Hill (400) and Anthony Walker (300 hurdles) and Champion’s Andrew Austin (high jump) were also area individual winners.

On the girls side, LaBrae’s Allorian Horne raced into history in the 200 with a meet-record time of 24.86, erasing Girard’s Cachet Murray (25.10 in 2005) from the record books.

Horne also won the 100 with a time of 12.34, flirting with Murray’s 12.0 mark. Murray was a 10-time individual state champion.

Lakeview’s Kiley Mathews won the 400 and was a member of the winning 4x200 and 4x400 relays Saturday to help the Bulldogs beat Edgewood 113-91. Abby Dunn (pole vault) also won an event for Lakeview.

Liberty’s 4x100 relay was the only other area champion.

The top four in each event advanced to next Thursday’s regional meet at Ravenna Stadium.