Bridgeport's Carter Zuliani capped his unforgettable senior season with another state championship.
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Zuliani captured the Class AAA state title in the discus on Day 2 of the state track and field meet at Laidley Field in Charleston, finishing with a winning throw of 164-09.
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Zuliani was a first-team all-stater in football and helped the Indians win the state title. He was a second-team all-stater and helped the boys basketball team win the state title. He was also part of the state champion boys swim team where he was also part of the first-place and record-setting 200 free relay team.
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Zuliani's win in the discus Saturday marked the second field event state champion for the BHS boys as
Noah Kintz won the pole vault on Friday.
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Also on Saturday,
Wes Brown Jr. finished ninth in the discus with a throw of 140-03.
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The boys 4x100 team of Timmy Jeffress, Will George,
Donte Pierre and
Alex Moses placed fifth with a time of 43.67.
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Jeffress finished sixth in the long jump at 19-10.75.
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Closing out the day was an eighth-place finish for the BHS 4x400 team of Jeffress, Moses,
Quentin Collier and Kieran Moore. They finished with a time of 3:30.73.
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For the BHS girls, Gianna Cox placed in all three of her events. The standout sprinter finished third in the 400 with a time of 58.40, fifth in the 100 at 12.48 and fourth in the 200 at 25.37.
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Cox was also part of the fourth-place 4x400 team as she was joined by Emma Kniceley-See, Haydn Henderson and LeeAnn Gaskins in running a 4:05.60.
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Myleigh Smell ran a sixth-place time of 16.06 in the 100 hurdles and finished 13th in the 300 hurdles at 49.11.
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Lyza Halterman came in third in girls shot put with a throw of 36-04.25. Becky Pepper-Jackson was eighth in the shot put at 34-02.25 and third in the discus at 121-11.
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The girls 4x200 team of
Eliza Perine, Henderson, Kniceley-See and Gaskins was seventh with a time of 1:47.78 and the 4x100 team of Gaskins, Kniceley-See, Henderson and Violet Vash was seventh with a time of 51.33.
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