Staff Reports
Bartholomew Brown Jennings won 21 medals in track and field and 28 medals in horseshoes at the Special Olympics Indiana State Summer Games earlier this month in Terre Haute.
BBJ captured 11 gold, four silver and six bronze track and field medals. Winning gold were Josh Holley (800 meters); Chaz Rothrock and Ashley Hopkins (100); Jacob Taylor (standing long jump); Logan Eppard, Joe Cox and Taylor (50); Eppard (softball throw), Pam Foley and Lexie Gotoh (400 walk) and Malachi Cole (shot put).
Cole (100), Holley (1,500), Gotoh (softball throw) and Chaz Rothrock (shot put) won silver medals. Taking bronze were Amanda Hamm and Becca Hunnicutt (standing long jump); Hunnicutt (50 and softball throw), Ashley Hopkins (shot put) and Rothrock, Cole, Jason Sprague and Holley (4×100 relay).
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Finishing fourth were Hopkins (running long jump); Gotoh (standing long jump); Hamm (50); and Joe Cox, Sprague and Taylor (shot put). Eppard and Cox (standing long jump) and Hamm and Pam Foley (softball throw) placed fifth, and Sprague (running long jump) was sixth.
Holley finished second overall across all divisions in the 1,500 and third overall across all divisions in the 800.
Meanwhile, BBJ claimed 14 gold, nine silver and five bronze medals in horseshoes.
Jamie Huntsman and Joe Day, Jeff Burton and Mark Rice and Brad Parks and Renee Parks won gold medals in doubles, while Ellen Norfrey and Krystil Norfrey won gold in Unified doubles. Singles winners were Brenda Alsop, Allan Major, Isaac Spear, Burton, Bonnie Grigsby, Huntsman, Ray, Rice, David Featherston and Brad Parks.
Alsop and Miranda Bowling won silver in doubles; while Janet Bowling and Danie’l Mize and Emma Callahan and Featherston took silver in Unified doubles. Singles silver medalists were Miranda Bowling, Christopher Rohrig, Amanda Moore, Krystil Norfrey, Renee Parks and Rickie Petro.
Aaron Rice and Rohrig, Major and Spear and Grigsby and Moore won bronze in doubles. Petro and Marla Smith took bronze in Unified doubles, and Rice claimed bronze in singles.
