Many local and area athletes have excelled in various high school sports, and six have recently shown their versatility and ability in other areas as they placed in the top 15 at the 55th annual high school decathlon Wednesday and Thursday at Cabot High School's Panther Stadium.
Ashdown's Tre Green placed second with 5,872 points for the 1o events, and Adrian Block of Prescott was a close third at 5,864. Green's reported 5954 total in Friday's paper was in error.
Block was the winner of the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.48.
Haze Farmer, Lake Hamilton junior, was the overall winner with a total of 5,970. He was the overall Class 6A pole vault champion with a 17 -0, and his 16-5 1/4 for 913 points Thursday helped propel him to the decathlon title.
It was his pole vault score, and a 4.46 in the 1500-meter run proved to be the difference over Green and Block.
Green and Block only managed to clear 9-2 1/4 in the pole vault.
Finishing sixth out of 69 competitors was Tanner Manasco of De Queen with a total of 5,563, and Remington Bearden was ninth with a 5,345.
Trinity Christian sophomore Rhett Nelson was 11th at 5,311, and Prescott's Kadarius Pearson was 13th with a 5,169 total.
Others that competed were Elijah Thomas, Ashdown, 4480; Marques Ester, De Queen, 4230; and Trevor Rogers, Genoa Central, 2,892.
In addition to the boys decathlon, 81 girls competed in the heptathlon, a seven-day event over the two days.
Victoria Hill of Genoa Central was the top local finisher in 56th place with a total of 2,715 points.
Others that competed were Joise Burke, De Queen, 2,687; Kyle Cross, Ashdown, 2,456; Jade Kendrick, 2,365; and Janie Bentley, 2171.