Jonathon Harris left Orrick High School as a state champion. Harris, who graduated May 12, won the boys 110-meter high hurdles at the Class 1 state track and field meet, held May 1718 at Jefferson City High School. He’s the first state champion Kirk Thacker has produced as a varsity head coach. “I raised a state champion, but I had never coached one,” Thacker said Monday in the Orrick schoolhouse. Thacker’s daughter Carly was a 2019 state champion hurdler at Hardin-Central, where he was a teacher and coach for much of his career. And at Hardin-Central, he was an assistant varsity track coach to Dean Hays and Jerad Luke when they directed athletes to state titles, he recalled. “I finally got my own,” Thacker said. Because Harris is Thacker’s first state champion as a head coach, “he’ll be special,” Thacker said. Harris also placed sixth in the 300 intermediate hurdles. By placing among the top eight in his two events, he received a medal. Harris was one of two Orrick boys to…