BOYS
Team Scores:
1. Greensboro Grimsley 48
2. Jacksonville 36
3. Charlotte Myers Park 30
4. Raleigh Broughton 28
5. Lee Senior 20
6. Wilson Fike 20
7. Pembroke 18
8. Hickory 16
9. (tie) Henderson Vance 14
9. (tie) Roanoke Rapids 14
100 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Lee McRae Pembroke 10.53
(Tied State Meet Record)
2 Lee McNeil StPauls 10.56
3 James Johnson Charlotte Myers Park 10.83
4 Tim Worley Lumberton 10.85
5 Steve Goldsby Goldsboro 10.91
6 Kelvin McRae Thomasville 10.92
200 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Daron Council Lee County 21.15
2 Lee McRae Pembroke 21.17
3 Delton Hall Greensboro Grimsley 21.36
4 Danny Peebles Raleigh Broughton 21.66
5 Tim Worley Lumberton 21.71
6 Joe Barnette Gastonia Huss 22.17
400 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Delton Hall Greensboro Grimsley 46.41
(State Meet Record)
2 Earl Bates Eastern Guilford 47.70
3 Sandy McMillan Greensboro Smith 48.52
4 Mike McLean Raleigh Enloe 48.76
5 Miguel Langford East Forsyth 49.0
6 Keith Chestnut Durham Hillside 49.9
800 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Brian Ponder Enka 1:56.49
2 Tony Parham South Mecklenburg 1:56.72
3 Dean Duncan North Buncombe 1:56.76
4 James Montague Durham Jordan 1:57.23
5 Ben Greenfield Southern Wayne 1:57.49
6 Everette Deans Wilson Hunt 1:58.35
1600 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Jim Farmer Raleigh Broughton 4:11.0
2 Ronnie Tucker Northeast Guilford 4:13.1
3 Allen Ford Greensboro Grimsley 4:15.9
4 Brian Ponder Enka 4:17.2
5 Jay Walker Raleigh Broughton 4:22.1
6 Mykola Jywanyk Jacksonville 4:23.3
3200 Meter
Place Name Team Time
1 Craig Warren South Lenoir 9:14.20
2 Allen Ford Greensboro Grimsley 9:14.34
3 Charles Purser Brevard 9:16.03
4 Reggie Harris T.C.Roberson 9:18.90
5 Jim Farmer Raleigh Broughton 9:24.5
6 Musa Williams Durham Hillside 9:32.60
110m High Hurdles
Place Name Team Time
1 Ellis Dillahunt Jacksonville 14.61
2 Barry Pulliam Davie County 14.63
3 Haywoode Workman Charlotte Myers Park 14.74
4 John Barnes Tarboro 14.76
5 Kenard Bynum Winston-Salem Reynolds 14.79
6 Preston Thorpe Oxford Webb 14.87
300m Hurdles
Place Name Team Time
1 Izel Jenkins Wilson Fike 37.33
2 Wayne Brown High Point Andrews 37.77
3 Melvin Mims Charlotte Garinger 38.40
4 Preston Thorpe Oxford Webb 38.60
5 Bruce Titus Salisbury 38.72
6 Ellis Dillahunt Jacksonville 38.73
4x100m Relay
Place Team Time
1 Lee County 41.62
2 Jacksonville 41.70
3 North Mecklenburg 41.96
4 Greensboro Smith 42.00
5 Greensboro Page 42.13
6 Charlotte Myers Park 42.17
4x200m Relay
Place Team Time
1 Charlotte Myers Park 1:26.74
(Jason Anderson John Johnson Darryl Clark James Johnson)
2 Greenville Rose 1:27.80
3 Greensboro Smith 1:27.49
4 East Forsyth 1:28.05
5 Smithfield-Selma 1:28.30
6 North Mecklenburg 1:28.40
4x400m Relay
Place Team Time
1 Wilson Fike 3:19.03
2 Greensboro Grimsley 3:19.08
3 Jacksonville 3:20.18
4 Charlotte Independence 3:21.06
5 East Mecklenburg 3:23.0
6 Richmond County 3:23.0
Long Jump
Place Name Team Time
1 Maurice Monk Jacksonville 23-10.5
2 Danny Peebles Raleigh Broughton 23-8.75
3 Michael Hanks Henderson Vance 22-7.5
4 Donnell Walton South Mecklenburg 22-4
5 Terry Fortune Greensboro Smith 22-1
6 Anthony Robinson Northeast Guilford 21-11.75
Triple Jump
Place Name Team Time
1 John Tillman Parkwood 50-8
2 Michael Hanks Henderson Vance 49-7.25
3 Michael Patton Mount Airy 46-9
4 Randy Marriott East Wake 46-8
5 Linwood Harris West Craven 46-7
6 Darvez Hall Winston-Salem Reynolds 46-1.25
High Jump
Place Name Team Time
1 James Patterson Fuquay-Varina 6-9
2 Carl Brown Durham Jordan 6-8
2 Darryl Stephens Pinecrest 6-8
4 Cornelius Clark Gastonia Ashbrook 6-6
4 Odie Martin Eden Morehead 6-6
6 Chris Wilson Gastonia Ashbrook 6-6
Pole Vault
Place Name Team Time
1 Donald Long Thomasville 13-6
2 Douglas Fuller Orange County 13-0
3 Marc Cave Charlotte Myers Park 12-6
4 Pete Anderson Tarboro 12-6
5 Paul Winter Raleigh Broughton 12-6
Shot Put
Place Name Team Time
1 Donnie Wallace Roanoke 58-10
2 Tommy Eckard Hickory 57-6
3 Reggie Watson East Wake 57-3.5
4 Darryle Grier West Mecklenburg 55-7.5
5 William Waugh Greenville Rose 54-11
6 Rodney Davis Charlotte Myers Park 54-10
Discus
Place Name Team Time
1 Reuben Davis Greensboro Grimsley 165-1
2 Tommy Eckard Hickory 157-1
3 Ricky Shaw Fayetteville Byrd 156-10
4 Donnie Wallace Roanoke 156-4
5 Bob Kertland East Gaston 155-1
6 Chris Borden Durham Hillside 150-0
Delton Hall (Greensboro Grimsley) destroyed the 400 meter record with a 46.41 clocking. The old record was 47.30 set the previous year by Raleigh Broughton's Chris Brooks. His 46.41 was still the state meet record 30 years later (as of 2013). Hall was also second in the 200 and ran a leg on Grimsley's second-place 4x400. Hall's efforts, along with Reuben Davis' winning discus throw and Allen Ford's second (3200) and third (1600) led Grimsley to the team title, 12 points ahead of runner-up Jacksonville.
Hall went on Clemson where he was first team All-ACC in football and later played five years in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
This was the second year that the 300m hurdles were run. Fike's Izel Jenkins bettered the previous state meet record with a 37.33.
Lee McRae sped to a 10.53 100 meters, tying the state record set in 1980 by Northern Durham's Alston Glenn.
John Tillman leaped 50-8 in the triple jump, the second best ever behind Greg Artis' 51-5.5 in 1977. Tillman later became a standout at the University of Tennessee and competed in the triple jump at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
Jim Farmer (Raleigh Broughton) won the 1600m in 4:11.0 and was 5th in the 3200m (9:24.5). He ran at UNC-Chapel Hill and was 19th in the 1986 NCAA Cross Country Championships, and 2nd in the 1987 US Cross Country Championships. Farmer later went on to be ranked 9th in the US for the 5000 in 1989 and 1991, 7th in 1992, and 10th in 1993. [source]
Besides Delton Hall, others participating in this meet who went on to later success as professional athletes included: Myers Park's Haywoode Workman (3rd in the 110 hurdles) who played several years in the NBA, primarily with the Indiana Pacers; Grimsley's Reuben Davis (1st, Discus) who played football at UNC and later for 11 seasons in the NFL as a defensive tackle with the Buccaneers, Cardinals, and Chargers; Broughton High's Danny Peebles, 2nd in the LJ (23-8 3/4) and 4th in the 200 (21.66) played with the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Cleveland Browns; Wilson Fike's Izel Jenkins (1st 300H 37.33) played for the Eagles, Vikings and Giants; and Lumberton's Tim Worley (4th 100, 5th 200) who played for the Steelers.
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This was the last year that the girls state meet was hand timed. Three state meet records were broken, and one tied.
Carla McLaughlin (Northern Durham) ran 11.7 to break the 100 record of 11.8 set in 1981 by Northern Durham's Mamie Wilson. McLaughlin came back to tie the 200 record (24.3) set in 1980 by Gwen Ray (Smithfield-Selma).
Watauga's April Cook cleared 5-8.25 to better the meet record of 5-8 set by Chris Arends (Durham Jordan) in 1979. Cook won the 400 in 55.6 - a performance bettered previously in state meet history only by Lisa Sherrill (Durham Jordan) who ran 54.8 (440y) in 1978.
Wanda Haythe (Oxford Webb) broke the meet record in the discus with a throw of 133-5. Five inches behind, also bettering the record was Myers Park's Katrina Swanson. The old record (132-8) was set in 1978 by Myers Park's Becky Brown.
Kathy Ormsby (Richmond County) won a notable 800-1600-3200 triple (2:18.1, 4:56.8, 11:08.4). Her 4:56 and 11:08.4 had been bettered only by the Shea sisters in the mid 70s (4:43.1/4:46.0 miles, and 10:03.5/10:25.1 2-miles).
Garinger's Teresa Allen won the long jump with an excellent leap of 19-6.75, after jumping 20-2.75 the previous week at the regional. Allen became the best jumper in state history after the legendary Kathy McMillan, who soared 22-3 seven years earlier.
