HIGHLAND -- The Hermleigh thinclads will be represented in five events when the area meet commences at Highland Thursday.
Brittany Kelley will participate in all three of the girls qualifying events. She placed third in the 400m run with a 67.52, and was fourth in the triple jump.
Kelley also will join partners Georgeanne Smith, Brittney Jones and Alicia Culp on the fourth-place 4x400 relay team at the area meet.
Joakim Ludvick took third in the 400 run with a 55.23 to move on to area, and helped the boys 4x400 relay team of Edward Arellano, Keenon Garcia and Robbie Anderson place fourth and earn an area berth.
Garcia was beaten by a nose in a photo finish in the 400 to take fifth with a 57.09.
Both the boys and girls 400 relay team finished fifth, while Anderson was fifth in the 100 dash (12.05) and sixth in the 200.
Alana Culp was sixth in the mile and eighth in the 800, while Smith placed ninth in the girls 800.
Jonathan McClure took eighth in the boys 800 and Arellano was ninth.
The area meet is slated for Thursday at Highland.