Staff photo by Patrick MacCoon / Baylor senior Jay Dill delivers a pitch against McCallie. Dill is signed to play college baseball for Missouri.One day into this year’s Spring Fling and the Chattanooga area already claimed state championships. Expect more today.
Signal Mountain’s girls’ track team won its third state title on Tuesday, led by the example of grit and determination by senior Briley Lowry, who helped the 4×400 and 4×200 relay teams finish second and third respectively and also competed in the 400 meters, was on the track just five months after suffering a torn ACL in the Lady Eagles soccer team’s state championship victory.
It was the second torn ACL of her prep career and she competed while wearing a large brace on her knee.
“I had missed the state soccer tournament my junior year when I tore my other ACL and I was determined to not miss another state championship,” said Lowry, who was the leading goal scorer as the soccer team won its third consecutive state title. “They told me it would be six to eight months before I could run again. I started competing four months after my surgery. I had to be back for this.”
Junior Kara Wilson medaled in five state championship events for Signal Mountain. After finishing second in her first state pentathlon last week, Wilson finished second in the triple jump, third in the 200-meters, third in the 4×200 and seventh in the long jump. Senior Gracen Glover also won the 3200-meter run, while Brainerd’s Montez Deloney, who earlier won the decathlon state title, set a personal-best in claimining first in the 300-meter hurdles.