Bad weather pushed several events in the Alabama High School Athletic Association Class 1A, 2A and 3A State Track and Field Championships at Cullman into Saturday as competition was suspended late Friday afternoon after two delays.

Gates open Saturday at noon with competition starting at 1 p.m.

Before the final shutdown, Alabama Christian senior A.C. Walters won the Class 3A boys javelin competition with a winning throw of 174 feet, 4 inches to top Westbrook Christian’s Brodey Wood’s 171-07. Walters qualified in the section with a 162-06 throw while Wood had the best throw in the section at 176-09.5.

The top four runners in the 3A boys 1,600-meter race finished just 3 seconds apart. Holly Pond’s Travis Barnett was the winner at 4:26.39, followed by Providence Christian’s Cole Smith (4:28.10), Westminster-Oak Mountain’s Weaver Caldwell (4:28.84) and Vinemont’s Brady Johnson (4:29.40).

Winterboro High School’s boys and girls took commanding leads in the Class 1A competition. The boys accumulated 72 points to lead Faith Christian (43) and Florala (25). The Winterboro girls earned 49 points on Friday to lead Marion County (28) and Faith Christian (27).

Winterboro’s Carter Castleberry won the 400-meter dash with a 49.06 finish, just missing the state record time of 49.25 set by James Harris in 2003.

In Class 2A, Cold Springs’ girls totaled 41 points to take the first-day lead. Lanett had 27 points and Holy Spirit Catholic had 19. St. Luke’s built an 8-point lead over Abbeville on the boys’ side with 29 points. The Jackets are No. 2 with 21 points and Loachapoka is in third place with 19.

Class 3A power Winfield emerged as the boys’ leader with 36 points. Weaver is in second place with 34 points and Holly Pond is in third place with 19. Whitesburg Christian took a commanding lead in the Class 3A girls’ team competition with 71.33 points. J.B. Pennington ranks second with 27 and Cottage Hill Christian is third with 20.

Championships will resume where the meet was interrupted on Saturday afternoon with a rolling schedule being used the rest of the meet. All field events will be evaluated Saturday morning for student-athlete safety. A status update will be communicated to participating schools Saturday at 10 a.m.

See scores through Friday’s events at this link.

Some other top performances from Friday:

BOYS

CLASS 2A 1,600 METERS: Bayshore Christian’s Caden Phillippi turned in a personal best 4:18.09 to the win the gold – and also had the top boys’ time in the event overall in Cullman.

CLASS 1A 1,600 METERS: Marion County junior Carter Stephens won the race in 4:39.57 for a personal best time. Donoho’s Hunter Hartwell was right behind at 4:41.67.

CLASS 3A 400-METER DASH: Senior Harper Williams of Weaver had the top time (49.96), which was just 5/100ths of a second off the 2A state record (49.46) established in 2016 by Tavias Anderson.

CLASS 2A 400-METER DASH: Mars Hill Bible’s Isaiah Owens clocked 49.79 to finish first, and St. Luke’s Karlos Williams was right behind with a 49.96 finish.

CLASS 3A 110-METER HURDLES: Weaver senior Keshawn Allen had the best time of the day clocking 14.15 seconds in the prelims.

CLASS 2A LONG JUMP: Abbeville’s Alec Spann cleared 21 feet, 5¼ inches to take first place. The junior came into the event with the best section throw. Senior Karlos Williams of St. Luke’s was second at 21-04.

CLASS 3A DISCUS: Winfield senior Sean Wyers had the best section throw in Class 3A at 160 feet, 10 inches. He improved that performance by almost 3 feet to claim the event Friday with a 163-05 throw.

CLASS 3A AMBULATORY DISCUS: Junior Daniel Figueroa of Holly Pond had a best throw of 69 feet. He followed with throw of 88-05 in the ambulatory javelin competition.

CLASS 1A 4×100 RELAY: Georgiana’s Panthers came close to setting a new class record with the top qualifying time of 43.96 in the prelims Friday. The 1A state meet record of 43.10 was set by St. Jude of Montgomery 26 years earlier in 1999.

GIRLS

CLASS 3A SHOT PUT: Freshman Makenzie Sansing of J.B. Pennington won the event with a 40-03.75 toss – which was just an inch short of her 3A state record 40-07-25 throw last year as an eighth grader.

CLASS 1A DISCUS: Junior Meredith Romans of Athens Bible had a personal best throw of 133-04 to win the event. Her qualifying throw last week was 130-07 – which led all qualifiers in Class 1A coming into the state meet.

CLASS 2A 100-METER DASH: Cornerstone Christian teammates Jourdan Price and Mattisyn Mott, both freshmen, recorded the top two prelim times at 12.67 and 12.70, respectively.

DISCUS: Winston County junior Lynleigh Cobb improved her section qualifying throw by four feet with a toss of 114-08 to win the event Friday.

CLASS 1A 100-METER HURDLES: Sophomore Mollie Mullinax of Jacksonville Christian had the best time of the day in all classes with a 15.55 time in the prelims.

CLASS 3A 4×100 RELAY: T.R. Miller turned in the top qualifying time of 50.09, just 57/100ths of a second off the state record of 49.52 established by Sheffield in 2002. Lee-Scott qualified for the finals right behind the Tigers with a 50.73 time – 1.21 seconds behind the record.