Wayback Wednesday | Rodgers lands two spots in state title races

Lockport sprinter locked down two spots in contention for state track medals in 2015.

Photo: PhotoNews Media/Clark Brooks

CHARLESTON — Lockport's Derrius Rodgers flies alongside Sandburg's Ayo Abiona during their Class 3A 100-meter dash prelim at the IHSA Boys Track and Field State Finals on Friday, May 29, 2015. The Porter sprinter successfully advanced to Saturday's championship race after turning in a time of 10.68 seconds. He also later qualified in the 200-meter dash. Rodgers, a junior, also ran with the Porters' 4x100-meter and 4x200-meter relay squads. Both relay teams did not qualify to advance. Meanwhile, Abiona, a sophomore, also ran in the 200-meter dash. Neither his 10.80 time in the 100 nor his 22.33 in the 200 qualified him for a spot in the final on Saturday.

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Dashing to the finish

St. Joseph-Ogden's Rachael Graham pulls ahead of Monticello's MacKenzie Westwater and East Central's Alison Vogel in the prelims of the 100-meter dash at the 2008 Unity Girls Invitational Track Meet on April 11, 2008, in Tolono. Frigid temperatures along with strong gusts out of the west made for difficult running conditions for track athletes that Friday. The St. Joseph-Ogden girls' track team finished the annual meet in sixth-place. Graham later finished the finals in 8th-place.

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(Photo: PhotoNews Media
Clark Brooks)