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Friddle advances to regionals in two-mile
At the April 20 Class 1A District 3 track and field meet in Port St. Joe, Franklin County had a host of runners take part.
In the 3200-meters, roughly equivalent to two miles, eighth grader Josiah Friddle ran third, with a time of 12:00.45, which as the 19th best time in the region, qualified him to advance.
At regionals his time improved to a 11:46.37, and he finished 11th.
In the 1600-meter finals, roughly equivalent to a mile, Friddle ran seventh, with a time of 5:29.10.
In the 300-meter hurdles, sophomore Calea Dively finished sixth, with a 59.16 time.
In the 100-meter dash, junior Mya Brown ran 11th, with a time of 16.43, just ahead of sophomore Autumn Loesch, who ran a 16.69.
In the 200-meters, junior Hunter Duval ran sixth, with a 24.43 time. In the 100-meter dash, Duval ran 11th, with a 12.25 time.
In the long jump, Duval finished ninth, as he leaped 5.5 meters, the equivalent to 18 feet 3 inches.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.