Saturday State Track (Video Recap)

The state track and field championship meet at Vestal High School concluded Saturday and Norwood-Norfolk's Jon Eng had the top finish of the weekend by an area athlete, taking second place in the Division II 3,000-meter steeplechase and fininshing in eighth place in the Federation.

Eng was in the first of three heats, usually for the slowest athletes in the field, but he dominated his race setting a Section 10 record with a time of of 9 minutes, 44.29 seconds.

Eng talked about his race, and his weekend, as he finished with a total of three medals:

Another top performer this weekend was Indian River senior Andre Green, who finished third in the Division I long jump on Friday and finished fifth in the Federation final Saturday, jumping 21-feet, 6-inches. Here is that jump, which came on his first of three attempts:

After the event Green discussed his weekend:

Another prominent local athlete, Canton's Matt Pierce, ended his career Saturday with a seventh-place finish in the Division II 1,600-meter run. Pierce will attend NCAA Division I Dartmouth College next season.

Today's final video is a glimpse of one of the popular attractions with spectators at the state meets, the water pit for the steeplechase race. Here one of the girls heats goes through the jump during the second lap of their race.