{"id":6350,"date":"2026-04-19T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:58:16","slug":"middletowns-xavier-breaks-own-record-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6350","title":{"rendered":"Middletown&#8217;s Xavier breaks own record again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Senior clocks in with winning time off 22.07 seconds in 200 meters at Twilight Invitational<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SANTA ROSA &gt;&gt; Another day, another meet and another Middletown High School record for senior Hayden Xavier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breaking his own 200 record for the second meet in a row, Xavier beat the absolute best of the best Saturday while competing in the invitational field during the Twilight Invitational at Santa Rosa Junior College. His winning time of 22.07 seconds in the 200 meters broke his old record of 22.15 set on Friday at the NorCal Small Schools Invitational in Chico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe competed in the invitational portion of the meet, so he competed against the top eight entries in the evening under the lights,\u201d Middletown head coach Wyatt Hall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After finishing second in the 100 (10.92 seconds) earlier in the evening, also in the invitational field, Xavier wasn\u2019t lacking for motivation as the 200 start time approached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cXavier ran a good 100 meters, but just barely lost the race,\u201d Hall said. \u201cHe used that loss to fuel his 200 meters. He was in lane six, so he wouldn\u2019t be able to see much of his competition at the start, but he held the lead coming out of the turn and never let them catch up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xavier\u2019s teammate, Luke Mace, set a personal best in the long jump at 19 feet, 10.5 inches, which placed him 11<sup>th<\/sup> out of 40 competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe made some adjustment to his technique and hit his personal best in his first jump,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the varsity girls division, Isa Barnes placed eighth in the triple jump (30-2.75). She also ran in the invitational field of the 100 hurdles, taking seventh (18.0), and in the invitational field of the 300 hurdles, placing eighth (55.78).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBarnes had a solid day, also competing in the invitational portion of the meet in both hurdle events,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown\u2019s entire team returns to action Wednesday during a Coastal Mountain Conference meet in Lower Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior clocks in with winning time off 22.07 seconds in 200 meters at Twilight Invitational Lake County Sports on Facebook SANTA ROSA &gt;&gt; Another day, another meet and another Middletown High School record for senior Hayden Xavier. Breaking his own 200 record for the second meet in a row, Xavier beat the absolute best of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,19,105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350"}],"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=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6352,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}