Jazmyn Taylor outclassed the fields in both the 100 meter sprint and the long jump at the state meet over the weekend. David Pennock

CHARLESTON — Winning an almost unheard of eight events, Jefferson High School’s girls track and field team held off Morgantown High School and Huntington High School to stand atop the Class AAA field and grab a second consecutive state championship at Charleston’s Laidley Field.

Eighty of its team-high 87 points came from winning eight of the two-day meet’s events. Morgantown was a wide whisker behind with 77 points and Huntington placed third with 71 points.

The Cougars had tied Morgantown for the state championship in an almost unseen finish in 2023.

Both Jazmyn Taylor and Hannah Phillips recorded a much-needed pair of wins. Taylor outclassed the fields in both the 100 meter sprint and the long jump, where she leaped 18-feet-3/4 inch in her longest jump of the 2024 season. She also hurried to a winning 12.44 clocking in the 100 meters. The last two events Taylor competed in saw her run a leg on the winning 4×100 relay as well the prevailing 4×200 relay unit. The 4×200 relay (comprised of Arayia Maiben, Jayla Kidrick, Imani Wood and Taylor) set a new state meet record with their time of 1:43.11.

Her all-meet efforts had Taylor scoring 25 points, the most of any individual in the entire meet.

Phillips nearly matched Taylor in individual points, with her total of 23.75.

In her allowed four events, Phillips placed first in two distance races — the 800 and the 1,600 — ran a leg on the winning 4×400 relay and another leg on the 4×800 relay unit, which finished in fourth place.

In another field event, Jefferson’s Samantha Ogden soared to a season-best 10 feet in the pole vault, giving the Cougars another first place and a valuable 10 team points.

Other than the fourth place in the 4×800 relay (Emily Cisar, Kameryn Sampson, Faith Fogelsong and Phillips), Jefferson’s other two points came on a seventh-place finish in the shot put by Peyton Thacker.

Every running event and every field event awarded team points from first place through eighth place.

Saturday’s second day of the state meet turned out to be a weather-perfect closure to the always-busy event and a perfect late-afternoon for Jefferson’s state championship celebration. It boasted of nothing but cloudless blue skies and team wins in no less than eight events.