Yamari Snow completes a second place run in the 3,200 Wednesday. Snow also was second in the 1,600 at the quad meet.

TIFTON — Tift County hosted a quad meet Wednesday, with four other schools traveling for some mid-week competition.

The early season has been a successful one for the Blue Devils and Lady Devils, with numerous top five finishes at meets.

Head coach Gregg Segraves credits this to “better kids, who have bought into what we’re doing.”

“No doubt,” said Segraves that youth has been a major part of this success. Many of the successful athletes at these events have been underclassmen. Eighth Street’s girls program has not just been a mainstay, but a force of nature. Recently, they captured their 16th region championship in 17 years.

“It’s all come together,” said Segraves, who also had plenty of compliments for his assistants. He said he had excellent coaches for every event.

Against Thomasville, Cook, Worth County and Lanier County Wednesday, Tift County rolled again.

Keishonna Branner won the 800 meters, finishing in 2:50. Karoline Ponder was on her heels at 2:54, giving Tift a 1-2 finish. Emily Golden won the 1,600 and 3,200, taking the former in 5:39 and the latter in 12:15. Kiera Green also won two individual events, taking first in the shot put (35’07”) and discus (94’1”).

Tift had more 1-2 finishes.

In the 100 hurdles, Rylee Watson in first place at 17:30 seconds and Cali Conner second at 17.87. In the 300 hurdles, Ali Stone won in 49.05 seconds and Watson was second in 50.18. Stone and Conner tied for first in high jump, each clearing 5’.

The Blue Devils saw Chad Williams at 47’6” and Antonio Howard at 44’8” take the top two places in shot put.

Shavonna Morris, Dasia Flanders, Watson and Conner combined to win the 4×100. In the 4×400, the winning combination was Divinity Mitchell, Shadiamond McIntyre, Nicky Jones and Keishonna Branner.

Conner won pole vault, making it over the bar at 6’. Tift’s boys made it a clean sweep, Jacob Redd winning at 10’, with Braye Pellegrino at 9’.

For the Blue Devils, Shamel Johnson won the 400 meters in 49.91 seconds. Mike Jones took the 110 hurdles in 14.89 seconds. Otis Jackson was the top triple jumper at 44’2” and William Goodwin won discus at 113’8.”

Yamari Snow was runner-up in two distance runs, the 1,600 and 3,200. Snow ran the 1,600 in 5:24 and the 3,200 in 11:56. Danny Hill was second in the 300 hurdles.

Tift’s 4×400 boys team was second in their race.

Tift has another quad meet at home scheduled for April 11. The regular season is rapidly approaching the end as the Region 1-AAAAAAA meet will be April 18.