Devon Achane blushed when one reporter asked how it felt when the Fort Bend Marshall Track team appeared on ESPN Sports Center. They were stunned, to say the least.
However, winning the Class 5A state title before 22,000 fans at Mike A. Meyers Stadium on Friday night summed up the expectations of the Fort Bend Marshall Buffalo’s Boys Track and Field team.
In search of a record, Fort Bend Marshall found it in the 4X200 Meter Relay team (1:23.38) of Bryson Stubblefield, Korey King, Dalevon Campbell, and Achane, breaking the old conference 5A record of (1:23.52) set by Port Arthur in 2017.
The record It hoped for never materialized in the 4X100 Meter Relay. But Fort Bend Marshall got off on the right foot by winning the race in a time of (40.24). The clocking stands as its third best of the season behind its (40.08) and (39.99) it posted in district competition and the regional prelims.
The Buffalo’s won a total of five running events and collected one third place finish. Matthias Petterway made a stagger of four spots back to cap the 300 Meter Hurdles (37.35). Stubblefield, one the favorites to win the 100 Meter Dash, finished third. Stubblefield, share the same similarities as teammate Achane, gifted. He stumbled out of the blocks before regaining his balance, making up ground on a talented group of sprinters.
The calm and relaxed but well exhausted Achane had a hand in two relay victories before concluding his day by sprinting to the 200 Meter Dash title (20.67).
The multi-talented junior is considered as one of the top football prospects in the nation by most if not all national publications.
Winning is expected when you talk with the Buffalo’s. With all its experience and hard work, anything less would be a disappointment.
The unusual cool evening may have played a role in its quest to lower its times. But no one complained.
In other 5A Boys action, Ashton O’Connor, a slot receiver on Shadow Creek’s state finalists football team (10.48) and John Tyler’s Caleb McMiller (10.53) took gold and silver in the 100 Meter Dash. Caleb Malbrough of Manvel had a jump of (48-01.05) to collect gold in the Triple Jump. Johnathan Baker of Katy Paetow won the Long Jump (24-10.00). Paetow, the new school in Katy ISD, opened its doors in 2017 to ninth and tenth graders. The school opened to relieve Katy and Morton Ranch.
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