Persistence pays off: Senior assures final state berth

Published by admin on Mon, 09/16/2019 - 10:06am

By:

Kristi Nixon

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OSAGE – Nothing was certain going into her last race at the state-qualifying meet on Thursday, May 15, so Hampton-Dumont’s Paige Wragge made sure she was heading to the state meet by anchoring the 4x100-meter relay to a second-place finish.

The sprinter finished third in the 100 and anchored the 4x200 to fourth – and only the top two spots were automatic qualifiers.

Not knowing for sure whether she was making the trip to Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Wragge held off a hard-charging Garner-Hayfield/Ventura anchor to earn the runner-up finish in 52.70 seconds.

“It feels amazing,” Wragge said after clinching the berth....

For more on this story, see the May 21 print edition of the Hampton Chronicle.