EDGARD — Austin Alexander and Kie’Ave Harry don’t have a fancy sports nickname like “Thunder and Lightning” at West St. John High.

It’s not like they don’t deserve one, but a more fitting moniker might be “Flip and Flop.”

Over the course of this track season, the two speedsters have won their share of 100 and 200 meter dash races. It’s just that sometimes Alexander is first and Harry is second; then, sometimes it’s the other way around.

“We just kind of flip flop sometimes,” Alexander said. “Sometimes, he gets me and sometimes I get him.”

Either way, both are district and/or regional champions and both have a strong likelihood of being state champions after this weekend’s state meet at LSU in Baton Rouge.

Harry’s best event is the 100 meters, where he has posted a personal best of 10.99. Alexander’s best time is 11.6.

Alexander tends to win more of the 200 meter races, where his best time is 22.13. Harry’s best time is 22.32.

After flipping and flopping first and second place finishes all season, Harry won the District 12-2A 100 meter dash with a time of 11.11, edging Alexander’s time of 11.12. Harry also won the 200 meters, edging his teammate by .11 of a second.

The following week at the Region III-2A meet in Hammond, Harry won the 100 meters with a time of 10.99, besting Alexander’s 11.08. But in the 200 meters, Alexander won with a time of 22.13 to beat out Harry’s 22.48.

They also run the 4×200 meter relay.

“His specialty is the 200 and mine is the 100,” Harry said. “He prefers to run the 200 and I prefer the 100.”

When Alexander does manage to edge his teammate — and it has happened a couple of times — it doesn’t sit well with Harry.

“Yeah it gets me mad,” he said.

It is all in good, healthy, competitive fun, however.

“I think we compete against ourselves more,” Alexander said. “We try to make ourselves better.”

Said Harry: “We try to beat each other instead of worrying about everybody else.”

All of which suits Rams track coach Ulysses Frontha just fine.

“When I cheer for them, I yell, ‘Get him!’ then I yell ‘Catch him!’ Frontha said. “I push them both. They’re very hard workers. They’re very competitive with each other. They push each other. They do whatever is asked.

“There’s no complaining. I put them through their paces sometimes. I’m sure they know that, I’m sure they get a little mad at me, but they see the results.”