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RUSSELLVILLE - El Dorado won the girls’ 4x100 relay Wednesday at the 5A State Track & Field Championships. The Lady Wildcats finished fourth in the team standings with 48 points behind Lake Hamilton (86), Russellville (79) and Vilonia (61).
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.
After seeing the first two track meets of the season washed out, El Dorado was so determined to have the Oil Belt Relays this week, it moved it up a day from Thursday to Wednesday. That proved to be a good move for the Lady Wildcats, who opened the season with the Oil Belt championship.