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...All eyes were on Hammond's Beau Domingue in the boys pole vault during the 2022 season. The LSU signee was in a class by himself with a best vault of 16-6 at the Region 2-5A Meet. His mark was over a foot better than the next best vaulter, St. Louis' Mason Abshire (15-3), who is only a junior and will return next year to be the king of vault in Louisiana high school pole vaulting.
Other vaulters who will give chase to Abshire next include, Denham Springs Justin Perault (14-4), St. Thomas More's sophomore Jonathan Woods (14-0), and West Ouachita's Oliver McCurdy (14-0), Fountainebleau's LA Seth Martinez.
Who was the best Freshman in 2022? You have to go all the way down to No. 59 and there you will find four (Ascension Episcopal's Beau Domengeaux, Castor's Seth Pickett, Benton's Miller Malley, Woodlawn's David Ferguson) who had a best of 11-0 in 2022, but we have an eighth grader to watch at No. 41. Menard's Matthew Hicks vaulted 11-6 at the LHSAA Cl...