AUSTIN – For the second consecutive year, the Class 5A girls team championship came down to the 4 x 400 relay between Skyline and DeSoto. Both teams entered the final event Saturday at Mike A. Myers Stadium tied at 30 points.

It was a fact not lost on Skyline coach Jimmy Sanders nor on his athletes.

"They knew it," Sanders said. "They watch that, now."

Unlike in 2007, Skyline outlasted DeSoto with a time of 3:42.25, and the title was theirs.

The third leg, Sydney Davis, was the difference.

"I needed her to give us a lead, but she put us out there, way out and gave us a big lead," Sanders said.

DeSoto junior Skylar White and Southlake Carroll senior Colby Lowe faced similar situations from a year ago.

The pair repeated as 5A state champions in two events. White won the girls shot put (46-5¼ ) and discus (154-6). Lowe won the 1,600 (4:06.87) and made it three in a row in the 3,200 (8:53.32).

White was going for the state record in the discus, but windy conditions early put a crimp in those plans. Nonetheless, she won and took home another gold in the shot put at night.

"I just was thinking to myself to go out there and have fun," White said. "I'm doing this because I want to, and I'm not doing this for anybody else."

Lowe, meanwhile, handily won the 3,200 in the morning. The 1,600, though, was more dramatic.

Lowe was challenged from the start by Magnolia's Michael Cook, and with 200 meters to go, Cook passed Lowe, who temporarily lost his stride.

But Lowe only needed 10 meters to regain the lead, and he finished off the race strong before falling flat on his face just past the finish line.

After getting his medal, Lowe was cool about he called his closest Texas race since his sophomore year.

"The last 200 there, I felt Mike on my shoulder, and you find that last couple of gears to finish it up," said Lowe, an Oklahoma State signee. "I knew he was going to pull something at the last lap there, but that's what you come out here for is a hard race and have a little fun while you're at it.

"It was the last race of my senior year. I'd come this far, and I was not going to give up now."

A thunderstorm halted action for nearly two hours. The meet resumed at 9 p.m.

Much of the attention was centered on Rowlett junior Marquise Goodwin and his five medals, including three gold.

Yet two Lewisville seniors, Brandon Tucker and Markus Henderson had plenty of bling around their necks as well.

Tucker won the 110 hurdles in 13.44, one-tenth of a second shy of the state record, the 300 hurdles in a personal-best 36.38 and ran the second leg on Lewisville's second-place 4 x 100 relay team (40.48).

Henderson, a Texas Tech signee, won the 200 (20.80) was part of the winning 4 x 200 relay (1:25.23) and was also on the 4 x 100.