Mansfield Senior High School’s Jornell Manns was one of the standouts Saturday during the 85th Mansfield Mehock Relays.
Richland Source Dot Com reports the Mansfield Senior junior, who verbally committed to play football at the University of Minnesota last week, struck Mehock gold in the long jump with a personal-record leap of 22 feet, 5 inches — a half inch further than runner-up Andre Welch of East Kentwood.
Manns helped the Tygers to a sixth-place finish in the 31-team boys field. Gahanna Lincoln won the team trophy. East Kentwood, Cleveland Heights, Ashland and Watkins Memorial rounded out the top five.
Mansfield Senior’s Joe Ellis defended his Mehock title in the high jump. The senior passed until the bar was at 6-2 and won with a leap of 6-4.
Other winners included Galion’s Colin McCullough who won the 300 meter hurdles with a winning time of 39.53 seconds. The senior used a strong finishing kick to pass runner-up Gerald Brewer of Watkins Memorial
Ashland’s senior David Amstutz didn’t defend his title in the discus, but won the shot put competition with a heave of 59 feet and was even more thrilled with his runner-up finish in the discus, where he turned in a personal record throw of 180-4 on his final attempt — seven feet further than his previous best.
Also, Shelby’s 4x800 relay team of Danny Friebel, Tyler Green, Alexander Moore and Samuel Logan won in 8:07.36.