MURFREESBORO -- The final Spring Fling is off to a roaring start for CSAS senior Lennex Walker.
The most decorated track and field athlete ever for the Lady Patriots, Walker got the ball rolling with a victory in the Class A-AA Pentahlon at the Dean Hayes Track and Soccer Stadium Monday afternoon by winning three of the five events and finishing first with 3,306 points.
Unicoi County's Stephanie Wisse was a distant second with 2,816 points.
Walker posted a time of 14.23 seconds in winning the 100 high hurdles before winning the shot put with a best distance of 31 feet, six and a half inches. She then won the long jump with a best effort of 18 feet, 7.25 inches.
She later cleared 4-9.75 to take second in the high jump before getting sixth in the 800 run with a time of 2:44.86.
Walker has high hopes of winning four more events when the girls meet is held on Thursday. She's got the best qualifying performance for the long jump and triple jump while also entering with the best times in both hurdle events.
The Lady Patriots are currently in first place among the A-AA teams with 10 points after Walker's win on Monday.
McCallie's Hakim McMorris won four of the five events in the D-II Decathlon on Monday and has a 110-point lead over Briarcrest's Daniel Tell.
McMorris won the 100 dash (11.11 seconds), triple jump (44 feet, 9.5 inches), discus (110 feet, two inches) and the 400 dash (50.34 seconds) while claiming fifth in the pole vault at 10-11.75.
McMorris has 3,275 points while Tell is second with 3,165.
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