Eagle Staff Report

A&M Consolidated's girls and Klein Oak's boys will return to defend their team championships as Consol hosts the Tiger Relays on Thursday.

The track and field meet will be held at Tigerland Stadium. Running preliminaries will begin at noon with field events starting at 2:30 p.m. The finals in the running events are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.

There will be nine girls teams in the meet. Consol's girls claimed the championship last spring, finishing with 202 points while Klein took second at 177.

Klein also returns this year, joined in the field by Cedar Park, Clear Brook, Katy, Kingwood, Klein Oak, Lufkin and Houston Stratford.

The boys will have eight teams, with Consol and Klein Oak competing against Cedar Park, Katy, Kingwood, Klein, Stratford and The Woodlands.

Two weeks ago, Consol's girls finished second behind College Park at the Kingwood Park Relays, scoring two points more than Kingwood. Ashley Adeyemi captured two gold medals, winning the 100-meter hurdles in 15.4 seconds and taking the triple jump with a distance of 35 feet, 4 inches. Consol also got first-place finishes from Unique King in the 100 and Karla Gilbert in the shot put.

Consol's boys finished fifth last week at the Klein Relays, where Klein Oak edged The Woodlands to take the team title. Sophomore Kareem Ishaq cleared 6-4 to take first place in the high jump, while junior Chris Nutall won the long jump with a mark of 22-3 1/4.

---

Notice about comments:
Theeagle.com is pleased to offer readers the ability to comment on stories. We expect our readers to engage in lively, yet civil discourse. theeagle.com cannot promise that readers will not occasionally find offensive or inaccurate comments posted in the comments area. Responsibility for the statements posted lies with the person submitting the comment, not theeagle.com. If you find a comment that is objectionable, please click "report abuse" and we will review it for possible removal. Please be reminded, however, that in accordance with our Terms of Use and federal law, we are under no obligation to remove any third party comments posted on our website. Full terms and conditions can be read here.

Brazossports.com is proud to offer our users enhanced commenting features. You can now build user-to-user connections, follow friends’ recent posts, add an avatar that fits your personality and more. If you have posted here before you’ll need to sign up again, and if you’ve never posted start now by signing up! If you've already registered for the new comments on www.theeagle.com then just use your Eagle username to log in and start commenting.