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Saturday, June 6
Rams Finish Ninth in State Track
Published by the Katy Sun
In a matchup of future teammates, Mayde Creek’s Emerson Sanders came up just a little short at the Class 5A state track meet Saturday.
Sanders triple jumped 48-11 to finish second to Marquise Goodwin of Garland Rowlett, who jumped 50-5.
The two are both going to the University of Texas to jump next year.
Goodwin also beat Sanders in the long jump, recording a 26-4 to win it while Sanders jumped 23-9 ¼ to finish fourth.
Mayde Creek’s Devante Babin finished fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 46-4.
The jumps were enough to give the Rams 17 points as a team. They finished ninth in the team race.
Ciinco finished 25th with eight points. The Cougars got scoring from Josh Brudnick, who was fourth in the 300 hurdles at 37.85, and the1,600 relay team of Andrew Hutchins, Cory Kocurek, David Cook and Brudnick, which finished fifth in 3:17.73.
C.J. Jessett of Seven Lakes took sixth in the 800 at 1:57.75. He was also seventh in the 1,600 (4:24.94) and fellow Spartan Jimmy Welin was eighth in the 3,200 (9:30).
Saturday, June 6
Mayde Creek's Sanders Wins Silver
Ram triple jumper lone Katy ISD state track medalist
Published: Katy Times
Saturday, June 6, 2009 10:42 PM CDT
Mayde Creek senior Emerson Sanders completed his stellar career by finishing second in the triple jump and fourth in the long jump Saturday at the Class 5A state track and field meet in Austin.
Sanders went 48-11 3/4 to earn the silver in the triple, while a personal best 23-9 1/4 in the long jump placed him fourth.
Teammate Devante Babin was fourth in the triple with a leap of 46-4. Rams' pole vaulter Joseph Brillon was sixth with a clearance of 15-0.
Cinco Ranch's Josh Brudnick ran a personal best 37.85 in placing fourth in the 300 hurdles, while the Cougars' 1,600 relay team of Andrew Hutchins, Cory Kocurek, David Cook and Brudnick finished fifth in 3:17.73.
Seven Lakes' C.J. Jessett was sixth in the 800 (1:57.75) and seventh in the 1,600 (4:24.94), while teammate Jimmy Welin was eighth in the 3,200 (9:30).
Friday, June 5
Rams Butt Heads at State
Teammates Sanders, Babin go for jumping golds
By Scott Kaiser
Katy Times Sports Writer
Published:
Friday, June 5, 2009 9:24 AM CDT
Of all the competitions Saturday at the state track and field meet in Austin, none may have more drama than the boys' long jump and triple jump.
Not only will Mayde Creek teammates Emerson Sanders and Devante Babin square off again in the triple, but Sanders' future teammate and roommate at the University of Texas, Rowlett's Marquise Goodwin, will be gunning to knock off both in the triple and Sanders in the long jump.
'It's a showdown between teammates and future teammates,' Sanders said. 'Devante has pushed me all year and Marquise will push both of us on Saturday.'
Sanders (50-8), Goodwin (50-3) and Babin (48-11) rank 1-2-3 entering state, and both Ram competitors are coming off a regional meet where they shattered personal bests by at least two feet.
'Those numbers don't matter now,' Sanders said. 'You have to perform when it counts and I just want to do my best. Once you get into a zone, it's just competition.'
Sanders has been a bit of surprise in the triple, having done it only at district and regionals. Babin, on the other hand, was one of the state's best all season and was disappointed to finish second to Sanders at regionals.
'All that's in my head is that I lost once and I don't want to lose again,' Babin said. 'I'm using it as motivation because when he does well, I feed off that.'
Babin is completing his first year at Mayde Creek after moving to Katy from Lafayette, La.
'My mom told me we were moving and I said, 'Uh, uh. You might be moving, but I'm not going,' Babin said. 'She then brought me here last summer on the premise that I could take some extra-credit classes, but then I woke up one morning and she was gone.
'All I had was my birth certificate and a transcript so I could register for school, but it ended up being a positive thing.'
Since reunited with his mother, Babin has found Mayde Creek to be the perfect fit.
'Last year I didn't focus on my books because I didn't have any goals,' Babin said. 'Here I found more people who cared. They didn't just teach a class and let you go. They helped you and asked, 'What can you do tomorrow?'
Improved work in the classroom, on the football field and the track led Babin to receive a football questionnaire from Rice University.
'That has really motivated me,' Babin said. 'In Louisiana you rarely see somebody walking the halls with a (college) letter.'
Nor do you see them jumping 47 feet in the triple jump.
'There's better talent here, so I've adapted to that and gotten better,' Babin said. 'I didn't need to jump 47 because I was winning with 45s.'
Now Babin needs to improve on that if he wants to overtake Sanders and Goodwin.
'I've used these three weeks (between regionals and state) as a positive,' Babin said. 'I needed the time more than I thought I would because it helped me find myself.
'I've moved my mark back and gotten more speed, and I've been working on my explosion and arm rotation. In the past I've jumped 43-44 feet in practice with no competition and just recently I've been going 47-48, so I'm excited about this weekend.'
In the long jump, Goodwin has gone 25-6 ¼, nearly two feet farther than Sanders (23-8), but Sanders believes a jump of 25-5 this weekend is a reasonable goal.
'I established what I was doing wrong (by looking down at the board), so I feel like I'll make some good jumps,' Sanders said.
Mayde Creek will also be represented by pole vaulter Joe Brillon. The Rams' senior won regionals with a vault of 15-0 and cleared 15-8 at district.
'I'm actually improving a little bit,' Brillon said. 'I'm worn out because it's been a long season, so the key has been maintaining sharpness.'
Brillon hopes to be Katy ISD's second straight pole-vault champion as Taylor's David McKenzie won the title last spring. Like McKenzie, Brillon will face a tough field that features a pair of 16-6 vaulters in Dallas Jesuit's Casey Walker and Arlington's Boston Spiva.
'Unless you do it at state, those marks don't matter,' Brillon said. 'This event is definitely unpredictable because any one can pop one. You just have to focus on yourself and not the other vaulters.'
In the running events on Saturday night, Cinco Ranch's 1,600 relay team and 300 hurdler Josh Brudnick will be joined by Seven Lakes' distance stars C.J. Jessett and Jimmy Welin.
Jessett faces the tough 800-1,600 double against The Woodlands duo of Drew Butler and Reed Connor.
'I expect it to be fast from the gun,' Jessett said. 'I'll give it everything I have in the 800 and see what I have left in the mile.'
In the 800, Jessett has shown an impressive kick in winning district and regional titles.
'Ideally I'd like it to be a tight pack through 600 and go from there,' Jessett said. 'In the mile, I expect a lot of people to take it out after two laps, especially the guys who ran the 2-mile.'
Welin will be one of those who runs the eight-lap specialty early on Saturday morning. That field is led by Connor, who ran 8:54 at the Region II meet.
'Lots of guys have really good PRs, but at the Texas Relays I beat (Strake Jesuit's) James (Webb) and others who have run faster times,' Welin said. 'Everybody agrees it's been a long year (dating back to the cross country season), so you don't know how everyone will be mentally or physically.
'With eight laps, you just have to be flexible with whatever people throw at you. That's why we do so many different speed workouts, so we can cope with different paces.
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