The Abington Heights Unified track and field team concluded its season by competing in a pair of championship events.
Abington Heights placed third out of six teams in the season-ending Lackawanna Section Championship May 14 at Wallenpaupack.
The Comets were fifth out of seven May 5 in the Northeast Region Championship at Dunmore, where the top two teams earned the right to compete at the state championships in Shippensburg.
Valley View won both events.
Abington Heights was the only team to win two relay divisions during the Lackawanna Section Championship, where it scored 138 points. Valley View beat out Wallenpaupack 171.12-169.38 for the title.
Unified track and field teams are made up of a proportional number of students with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities who practice and compete together as equal peers. Athletes are grouped by ability into divisions in their track and field events and relays.
