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Emily Clay Sets All-Time Girls Pole Vault Record

EAST PEORIA - Emily Clay of Bloomington Cornerstone Academy set the IESA girls pole vault all-time record clearing 10-3 to win the eighth grade girls event before a crowd of nearly 5,000 at the 2007 Class A State Final Track and Field Saturday at the EastSide Centre.

Clay put on a show that brought the crowd to its feet as she cleared 10-3 to surpass the previous all-time mark of 10-0 set by Megan Murphy of Casey-Westfield in 2004. The pole vault win was Clay's third. She won the seventh grade girls at 7-11 as a sixth grader, then took the seventh grade win at 9-4 last year.

Lexington won its second straight seventh grade girls team title with 38 points. The seventh grade boys crown was shared by Carthage and Wood River Lewis & Clark, each scoring 36 points. The eighth grade girls title went to Kewanee Wethersfield with 50 points. The eight grade boys champion was Carthage with 48 points.

Isaac Morckel of Wood River Lewis & Clark was a double winner in the seventh grade boys meet. He won the 100-meter dash in :12.24 and took the 200-meter dash in :24.94.

In the eighth grade boys meet, Carthage got event wins from Cody Carson in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:07.54, from Ser Whitaker in the 110-meter high hurdles in :15.91, and the 4 x 400-meter relay in 3:49.36.

In seventh grade girls, Johanna Haywood of Altamont set the 7A record in the 200-meter dash in :26.85.

In eighth grade girls, Kewanee Wethersfield set the 8A mark of 4:22.19 in the 4 x 400-meter relay in the last heat of the day, bettering the record of 4:22.36 set by Tremont in the previous heat.