By JG/T-C staff
sports@jg-tc.com
CHARLESTON – Eighty-two teams are scheduled to compete in Saturday’s Charleston Girls’ Indoor Track Invitational at Eastern Illinois’ Lantz Fieldhouse.
Class A competition in the two-division meet is to begin at 8:30 a.m. with last year’s IHSA Class 1A outdoor champion Bloomington Central Catholic among the entries.
JG/T-C area teams in the Class A meet include Arcola, Casey-Westfield, Neoga and Shelbyville.
Charleston and Mattoon are in the Class AA field with its field events to at 1:45 p.m. and the meet-ending 4×400-meter relay set for 5:10.
Mattoon is in today’s 4:30 p.m. Big 12 Conference indoor meet at Danville before going to the Charleston Invitational on Saturday.
“I’m really excited,” Mattoon coach Troy Haacke said. “I felt after the first meet we were quite a ways from Danville and Springfield Southeast. The girls have worked extremely hard and we’ve had some good weather.
Saturday is the season opener for Charleston.
“We’ve got a small team and just want each person to do her best,” Lady Trojans coach Chad Miller said. “I think we’re in pretty good shape.”
Springfield Southeast and Cahokia, which placed second and third respectively in 2A last year when the IHSA state meet went to three classes, are among the Class AA teams in the Charleston Invitational.
Class A
Altamont, Arcola, Argenta-Orena, Athens, Beecher, Benton, Bismarck-Henning, Bloomington Central Catholic, Carlinville, Casey-Westfield, Central A&M, Clinton, Cowden-Herrick, Olney, Effingham St. AnthonyEureka, Frankfort, Freeburg, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley, Gilespie, Greenville, Herrin, Herscher, Kankakee Bishop McNamara, Lawrenceville, Litchfield, Marshall, Metro East Lutheran, Neoga, Newton, Oakwood, Oblong, Stanford Olympia, Paris, Paxton-Buckley-Loda, Petersburg Porta, Prairie Central, Red Hill, Robinson, Shelbyville, Springfield Lutheran, St. Joseph Ogden, St. Thomas More, Staunton, Teutopolis, Tremont, Tri-Point, Tolono Unity, Urbana university, Vandalia, Warrensburg-Latham
Class AA
Alton, Belleville East, Chicago Heights Bloom, Cahokia, Carbondale, Champaign Centennial, Champaign Central, Centralia, Charleston, Chicago Morgan Park, Danville, East St. Louis, Edwardsville, Effingham, Highland, Homewood Flossmoor, Lincoln-Way Central, Lincoln-Way East, Lincoln-Way West, Mahomet-Seymour, Peoria Manual, Marian Catholic, Marion, Chicago Marist, Mattoon, Morton, Mount Vernon, Mount Zion, O’Fallon, Springfield Southeast, Troy Triad
Charleston entries
55: Miranda Hankins
200: Hankins
400: Ashley Snoddy
1,600: Melissa Borah
55 hurdles: Kaytlin French
4×400 relay: Coartney Gossett, Lacee Beabout, French, Miranda Randall
4×800 relay: Gossett, Randall, Missa Borah, Kern
High jump: Snoddy
Pole vault: Kelsia Abolt
Long jump: Hankins
Shot put: Kyndall Ridgeway
Mattoon entries
55: Devan Spear
200: Kayla Harris
400: Kaylee Homman
800: Salina Johnson, Corrine Mausehund
1,600: Cassie Shaffer, Courtney Considine
55 hurdles: Kayla Phillips
4×200: Spear, Hannah Carter, Krissie Aubin, Phillips
4×400: Phillips, Aubin, Carter, Spear
4×800: Shaffer, Considine, Mausehund, Salina Johnson
High jump: Phillips
Shot put: Holly Shriver
Long jump: Carter
Triple jump: Aubin
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