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The 5A South Track & Field Championships will be held Tuesday at Hot Springs Lakeside. El Dorado is the reigning champion in both boys and girls.

Senior Davin James cleared 5-6 in her first meet as a junior and never accomplished the feat again … until Tuesday in Nashville. James chased that height for a year before uncorking a 5-6 high jump at the Coca-Cola Relays.

Rain last week poured water on the area sports calendar, leaving teams to shake up their schedules. In softball, El Dorado has a make-up game against Sheridan Monday at the El Dorado/Union County Recreation Complex, beginning at 5 p.m. The Lady Wildcats will play a doubleheader at Benton on Thursday.

With two meets left before the 5A South Track & Field Championships, El Dorado girls’ coach John Koonce can be found doing his mad scientist routine. Or, perhaps he’s imitating one of those math nerds … uh, I mean geniuses. With pencil and paper in hand, Koonce is currently adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing to see how many points it will take for the Lady Wildcats to repeat as state champions.

HOT SPRINGS - El Dorado’s DeAndra Burns Jr., won a pair of events and led the Wildcats to the championship Thursday in the Joe Reese Memorial Track & Field Championships.