Central's Brooks-Davis takes first place in Jungle Pentathlon

Cape Central's Jamauri Brooks-Davis and Lindbergh's Kylee Scott took first place in the second annual Jungle Pentathlon on Thursday at Cape Central High School.

First place overall for the boys and girls side of the event was known as the "King/Queen of the Jungle" while second place was known as the "Prince/Princess of the Jungle," which went to Cape Central's Elliot Allen and Saxony Lutheran's Abigail Haley.

"I think the event ran much smoother," Cape Central track & field coach Collin Sheridan said. "Not quite as many participants but still very awesome competition. We still hope to have it again in the future and would like to expand on it."

Cape Central and Jackson split the events among the boys while on the girls' side, Gracie Metzger won the shot put and 800-meter race while Lindberg took the rest of the events.

Allen won the 110-meter hurdles, while Brooks-Davis won the long jump and high jump. Jackson's Andrew Boyd took the 800-meter and Kyle Craigmiles won the shot put.

"Elliot, first of all, had a fantastic race, neck-and-neck in the hurdles," Sheridan said. "Usually Jamari comes on a win and Elliot just snuck right by him by literally .1 of a second. The difference maker happened in the long jumps. Jamari had a huge long jump today. I have to look deep into it, but it's up near the top of the state marks for sure. The way that competition works is it's based off of the world standard and the amount of points that they get increases the higher up they go, so he boosted the score up significantly there. And then he also came back to win the high jump too, so that kind of separated them out."

Sheridan also mentioned that this was the first meet Allen competed in the high and long jump.

"He just kind of worked some basic marks and stuff with them," Sheridan said. "So he's obviously a good athlete, came out performed very well and we got him up at the top of those points. So great to have two kids on top of it."

Sheridan said he hopes the event grows in Year 3 but would like to cap the number of entries at 16.

"16 is ideal," Sheridan said. "You kind of get two heats of everything, can't do much more than that. If I can really make it all work well, it'd be great to have freshman-sophomore and junior-senior events so that the young kids can come out and compete against each other and older kids compete against each other. It'd be fantastic."