{"id":3444,"date":"2025-05-25T18:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T18:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2025-05-25T18:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T18:47:29","slug":"billig-mace-place-at-meet-of-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3444","title":{"rendered":"Billig, Mace place at Meet of Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Middletown senior breaks school record in 100 hurdles in final high school appearance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DUBLIN &gt;&gt; The high school track and field season for a handful of Lake County athletes drew to a close Saturday as the North Coast Section Meet of Champions wrapped up a two-day run at Dublin High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake High School\u2019s Kaylah Billig posted the top finish, taking 11<sup>th<\/sup> in the shotput with a throw of 33 feet, 7 \u00bd, in a field of 24 throwers. Middletown\u2019s Makayla Mace came in 12<sup>th<\/sup> out of 24 competitors in the 100-meter hurdles, breaking her own school record with a time of 16.19 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe has been amazing all year,\u201d Middletown head coach Wyatt Hall said. \u201cIt is always great as a track coach to see one of your athletes perform their best at championship meets and Makayla certainly did so, setting PRs in back-to-back weeks to finish out her high school track career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Billig was the only county athlete to qualify for the MOC in two events as she also placed 17<sup>th<\/sup> out of 24 competitors in the discus with a toss of 100-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake\u2019s Saphira Hughes was 20<sup>th<\/sup> in the long jump at 14-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown\u2019s Dylan Caviness took part in the pole vault but did not clear the opening height of 10-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis pole vault PR is 9-6, which he vaulted last week at NCS (Class A Championships),\u201d Hall said. \u201cWe knew it would be tough to try to complete a 12-inch PR without any jumps at lower heights, but Dylan tried his best and nearly got it. He\u2019ll have to wait until next year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Hall, \u201cJust participating at MOC is a good experience and he has two more years to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middletown senior breaks school record in 100 hurdles in final high school appearance Lake County Sports on Facebook DUBLIN &gt;&gt; The high school track and field season for a handful of Lake County athletes drew to a close Saturday as the North Coast Section Meet of Champions wrapped up a two-day run at Dublin High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,87,19,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}