Two Shelby County schools will be part of the 8-team field on hand Friday afternoon as Center High School hosts the annual Roughrider Relays.

The field events will get underway at 3:30 p.m. at Roughrider Stadium, with the 3200-meter race starting approximately 15 minutes after that, according to Center head track coach Matt Gregory. The running events will begin immediately following the completion of the field events.

Ten area athletes will be in Austin this weekend to represent four schools at the University Interscholastic League (UIL) State Track & Field Championships, which will be run at Mike A. Myers Stadium, located on the University of Texas campus.

The competition will take place on Friday and Saturday. Four of the athletes will represent Garrison High School, while four are from Timpson and one each from Tenaha and Shelbyville. All will compete in the Class 1A level of competition.

Led by four first-place finishes and a pair of seconds by its two relay teams, the Timpson Bears claimed second place last week at the Class 1A Region III District 19-20 Area Track & Field Meet held in Hawkins.

Timpson will advance to the Class 1A Region III Track & Field Meet in Palestine on May 2-3 in five individual events, with a pair of relays also participating. Garrison posted two second-place finishes, a third and a fourth at the Area meet and will be moving on as well.

CUSHING -- The Timpson Bears captured all three relays and claimed top honors in four other events last Thursday to win the team championship at the Cushing Bearkat Relays by 22 points over Central Heights.

The Bears scored 167 points, with the Blue Devils coming in second with 145 and Cushing placed a distant third with only 65 points. Other team finishers included: Beckville, 4th, 57; Tenaha, 5th, 53; Douglass, 6th, 32; Joaquin, 7th, 29; Martinsville, 8th, 12; and Mt. Enterprise, 9th, 2.