{"id":255303,"date":"2026-04-18T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:02:09","slug":"midland-legacy-boys-track-claim-area-title-win-7th-meet-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255303\/","title":{"rendered":"Midland Legacy boys track claim area title, win 7th meet of season \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"The Legacy boys track and field team won the Districts 1-6A\/2-6A Area Track and Field Meet, April 17, 2026, in El Paso.\u00a0\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:4 \/ 3\" class=\"x100 y100 opc bgpc ofcv bgscv block bg-gray200 mnh0px fill\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Legacy boys track and field team won the Districts 1-6A\/2-6A Area Track and Field Meet, April 17, 2026, in El Paso.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Haas\/Courtesy of Rebels track<\/p>\n<p>The Legacy boys track team has won seven meets in seven tries this season.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-channels-pixel.ex.co\/events\/0012000001fxZm9AAE?integrationType=DEFAULT&amp;template=design%2Farticle%2Fplatypus_two_column.tpl\" alt=\"\" class=\"x1px y1px vh abs\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Rebels added more hardware to their collection on Friday by claiming the title at the Districts 1-6\/2-6A Area Track and Field Meet at Socorro ISD Student Activities Complex in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>LHS put up a team score of 130 points to beat second-place El Paso Franklin (103) for the area title.<\/p>\n<p>The top four finishers in each event advanced to the Region I-6A meet, May 1-2 in Arlington.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Nic Moore spearheaded the Rebel boys with three golds and a silver.<\/p>\n<p>Moore took first place in the triple jump with an impressive mark of 47 feet, 4 inches, won the 200 meters (21.43 seconds) and placed second in the long jump (23-2).<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>LHS also received individual wins from Masseye Diop in the 110 hurdles (13.96) and Caden Ellis in the 100-meter dash (10.62).<\/p>\n<p>The Rebels 800 relay of Diop, Weldon Cooks, Moore and Ellis\u00a0won with a time of 1:25.08.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the good day, the Rebels had one disappointing development as their highly-touted 400 relay was disqualified and saw its season end.<\/p>\n<p>The Midland High boys were highlighted by Isaac Lujan, who cleared 6-6 to win the high jump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>The Lady Rebels placed second (93) behind El Paso Franklin (131) in the girls team standings.<\/p>\n<p>The LHS girls received wins from North Texas signee Madison Gonzales in the shot put with a great throw of 44-6.50, Iyana Smith in the 100-meter dash (12.11) and their 800 relay of Gabby Gutierrez, Jaelynn Norman, Tarayah Hubert and Smith (1:41.91).<\/p>\n<p>The complete list of Midland ISD regional qualifiers are listed below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Pole vault \u2013 2. Cage Peugh, Midland High, 15 feet, 6 inches; 4. Haylen Day, Midland High, 13-0<\/p>\n<p>Long jump \u2013 2. Nic Moore, Legacy, 23-2<\/p>\n<p>Triple jump \u2013 1. Moore, 47-4<\/p>\n<p>Discus \u2013 2. Braydon Haas, Legacy, 149-11<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Shot put \u2013 2. Dylan Walters, Legacy, 53-1<\/p>\n<p>High jump \u2013 1. Isaac Lujan, Midland High, 6-6; 2. Jay Jay Starling, Legacy, 6-6; 3. Gedriel Luquis, Midland High, 6-4<\/p>\n<p>110 hurdles \u2013 1. Masseye Diop, Legacy, 13.96; 2. Brandon Wise, Legacy, 14.13; 4. Nicholas Gibbons, Legacy, 14.91<\/p>\n<p>100 \u2013 1. Caden Ellis, Legacy, 10.62; 2. Derrion Thomas, Legacy, 10.82<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>800 relay \u2013 1. Legacy (Diop, Weldon Cooks, Moore, Ellis), 1:25.08<\/p>\n<p>300 hurdles \u2013 3. Wise, 38.98; 4. Gibbons, 39.98<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>Shot put \u2013 1. Madison Gonzales, Legacy, 44-6.50; 2. Shannon Anuskewicz, Legacy, 42-0.50; 3. Ibunkun Subair, Legacy, 41-3<\/p>\n<p>Discus \u2013 3. Subair, 118-3; 4. Gonzales, 116-9<\/p>\n<p>400 relay \u2013 4. Midland High (Aliya Alexander, Adedayo Adeyemo, Natalie Tillis, Adeline Hahn), 50.11<\/p>\n<p>100 \u2013 1. Iyana Smith, Legacy, 12.11; 2. Skye Lopez, Legacy, 12.18; 3. Cayzli Wilson, Legacy, 12.26<\/p>\n<p class=\"uiTextSmall f aic jcc\">Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n<p>800 relay \u2013 1. Legacy (Gabby Gutierrez, Jaelynn Norman, Tarayah Hubert, Smith), 1:41.91<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Legacy boys track and field team won the Districts 1-6A\/2-6A Area Track and Field Meet, April 17,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-255303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}