2007 WA Random Track Articles

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Pasco Invite: On the clock

This story was published Saturday, April 14th, 2007

By Rene Ferran, Herald staff writer

Ki-Be sophomore Whitney Leavitt is just one of several favorites to take home the clock plaque awarded to the Invite's Most Outstanding Athletes.

-- Girls

Ashley Hutchinson, Mead: She comes in with the top qualifying mark in the shot put and No. 2 in the discus.

Chanel James, Wilson: The state leader in the 100 and No. 2 in the long jump.




Angela Jensen, Fife: The defending 3A state champion in the 100 and 300 hurdles and runner-up in the 100s; she'll compete in all three today.

Courtney Kirkwood, Othello: The state leader in the javelin, she also will contend in the long jump and 100 hurdles.

Kayla McKeirnan, Richland: Last year's honoree and defending 4A state 400 champion is starting to round into form.

-- Boys

Nectaly Barbosa, Prosser: He's No. 2 in the nation in the 800 and will double in the 1,600.

Isak Bergman, Ellensburg: Barbosa's good friend and rival will skip the 800 to run the 400 and 1,600.

Matt Gill, West Valley (Yakima): The state leader in the discus will also contend in the shot.

Ryan Hamilton, Evergreen (Vancouver): The defending Invite champion in the 100 and 200 is back from a hamstring injury that kept him out of state.

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Prosser builds program into Invite champion

This story was published Sunday, April 15th, 2007

REN FERRN HERALD STAFF WRITER

Yes, Nectaly Barbosa was his usual superlative self at Saturday's Pasco Invite, capturing Outstanding Male Athlete honors.

But Prosser doesn't become the smallest school in the meet's 46-year history to win the boys team title without some help from his teammates -- specifically junior Cade Wandling.

Wandling, who missed the Invite a year ago because of illness, came up big Saturday with a third-place finish in the 100 meters in 11.16 seconds, a second in the 200 (23.00) and anchoring the second-place 4x100 (43.49).

"Last year I should have been running here, so I wanted to come back this year and show them what they missed," Wandling said. "There's a lot of good competition here, and I did well for myself."




Junior Aaron Galvan added a seventh in the long jump (20 feet, 71/4 inches), and the Mustangs earned the necessary points to edge Evergreen (Vancouver) 47-46 with a fourth-place finish in the 4x400 (3:26.64).

"This whole program has grown a lot," Barbosa said. "Every year, we've had more athletes come out. They've seen the success we've had and how much fun it was."

Barbosa and the Mustangs were the only area winners Saturday, but two others posted runner-up finishes.

Hanford senior Keefe Brockman finished second in both the high and triple jumps. He cleared 6-6 in the high jump and went a personal-best 44-1 in the triple, getting edged out by Everett's Rendel Jones by 31/4 inches on Jones' second attempt in the finals.

"When he did that, I thought I had something left," Brockman said. "But I'm on track to where I want to be. I'm very happy with my day."

DeSales senior Nick Lyons also briefly held the lead in the javelin, going 189-7 on his third attempt in the preliminary round. On the very next throw, Renton senior Jason Harris went 190-1 to take the lead, and neither improved in the finals.

"This is a good experience because it's one of the biggest meets in the country," Lyons said. "You'd like to win it, but you can't ask for much more."

Richland senior Isaac Butts just missed his season-best in finishing third in the 110 hurdles in 15.18. "I ran a little slow today," said Butts, who's been fighting injuries to his left hamstring and right shoulder. "I need to get to where I was at the end of last year. But I'll get there."

The Bombers also got points from high jumpers Cody McCargar (tie for fifth) and Dorion Smith (eighth), triple jumper Jonathon Miller (sixth), and their 4x400 (eighth) and distance medley (fifth) relays.

Other area placers were Walla Walla's Andrew Battenberg (fourth, 200) and Aaron Mettler (fourth, javelin); Kennewick's Al Moreno (fourth, 400); Southridge's Andrew Gonzales (eighth, 3,200); Moses Lake's Aaron Wafer (sixth, long jump), Tad Harman (eighth, shot) and Billy Matthews (eighth, discus); and Connell's Jarin Price (third, high jump).

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Barbosa sets record in 1,600 (w/ videos)

Boys 800 meter final
Interview: Prosser's Barbosa
Interview: Nathan Hale's Hassan
Girls 200 meter final
Interview: Richland's McKeirnan
Girls 300 hurdles
Girls javelin: Othello's Kirkwood
This story was published Sunday, April 15th, 2007

By Rene Ferran, Herald staff writer

Nectaly Barbosa came to Saturday's 46th annual Pasco Invitational with modest goals.

The Prosser senior wanted to post a good time in the 1,600 meters. He came away with the meet record by more than 3 1/2 seconds, his time of 4 minutes, 8.86 seconds a Mid-Columbia record by more than a second and good for 20th on the all-time state list.

He wanted to see just how much stamina he had stored up. He came back to run a 1:52.22 in his specialty, the 800, just getting nipped at the wire by Nathan Hale senior Abdi Hassan, who ran a four-second personal-best to win in 1:51.90.

Barbosa also ran a 49-second anchor leg of Prosser's 4x400, helping the Mustangs to a fourth-place finish.




It came as little surprise then when Barbosa was named the meet's Outstanding Male Athlete. As an added bonus, Prosser won the team title with 47 points, one more than Evergreen (Vancouver).

"Dude, it's a good day," Barbosa said, a huge smile on his face. "For our team, this has never happened before. We're all just ecstatic. It's a great experience for us."

Barbosa was one of three Mid-Columbians to leave Edgar Brown Stadium a champion Saturday. Hanford sophomore Taymussa Miller won the girls high jump, and Othello junior Courtney Kirkwood repeated in the girls javelin.

Evergreen's girls won the team title with 50 points, seven better than Mead and eight ahead of last year's champion, Richland. Fife senior Angela Jensen, who swept the hurdles races and took fifth in the 100, was named Outstanding Female Athlete.

"Coming here the last couple of years has definitely got me comfortable with this place," Jensen said. "I like it here. It gets the adrenaline going."

Barbosa got the fans' adrenaline going early in the meet with his solo effort in the 1,600, an event he initially didn't enter. It wasn't until midweek that he decided to double, in part because his good friend, Isak Bergman of Ellensburg, was in the 1,600 and not the 800.

Barbosa shot to the front with the opening gun and pushed the pace throughout. He finished the first lap in 63 seconds, went through the halfway point at 2:05 and poured it on with a 60-second final lap.

"That's what I set out to do," Barbosa said. "Isak said it was a little risky to do, but I didn't care. Sometimes that's when you run the best, when you have nothing to lose."

But Barbosa did lose just enough off his kick in the 800 and was unable to hold off Hassan down the final straightaway. Hassan, the defending 3A state 1,600 champion, entered the 800 just to get some speed training and wasn't expecting to challenge Barbosa.

"He's the best in the nation, but he had run that 4:08, so I knew he had to be tired," Hassan said. "I knew he wouldn't go all out, and that the winning time wouldn't be 1:48, 1:49. I knew it would be around 1:52, and I was capable of running that."

Barbosa wasn't too upset about the loss.

"I've grown a lot," he said. "Last year, I probably would have been mad at myself. But today was just a training session, both mentally and physically. It was a good race. I'm happy about today. This is just another step for where I want to go."

Bergman, meanwhile, came back from his second-place 4:12.65 in the 1,600 to rout the field in the 400, winning in a personal-best 48.91. He also was not planning to double but told his coach Monday he wanted to try it.

"I surprised myself," Bergman said. "I couldn't believe I went so fast in the 400 today. This is really exciting."

The only double-winner on the boys' side Saturday was Evergreen (Vancouver) senior Ryan Hamilton, who repeated his Invite double of a year ago in the 100 (a state-leading 10.84) and 200 (22.54). For good measure, he anchored the Plainsmen's winning 4x100 relay.

Still, Hamilton was disappointed with his times, especially in the 200. "That's pretty mediocre for me," he said. "This just shows me what I need to work on from here on out."

Jensen was the only double-winner in the girls meet, winning the 100 hurdles in 14.60 and the 300s in 44.73. After her 100 hurdles win, she had about five minutes rest before returning for the 100 final, in which she finished fifth to Wilson's Chanel James.

"At the smaller meets we do, I'm in a bunch of events like that," Jensen said. "That keeps me in shape so I can have days like this."

Evergreen's Candace Missouri played the biggest role in her team's victory, winning the long jump with a leap of 18 feet, 3 inches, finishing second in the triple jump (36-11), third in the 100 (12.63) and running on the victorious 4x100 (48.93).

"I was trying to stay warm so I didn't hurt anything," said Missouri, who posted a career-best in the long jump just before the 100 final.

James traveled to Pasco by herself while the rest of the Wilson team competed at the Tacoma Invitational.

"There's more competition here," said James, who repeated as Invite champ in the 100 (12.50) and took second in the long jump (17-9). "It prepares you better for state."

Mount Spokane's Jordan Roskelly won the pole vault on fewer misses over Alexa Huestis of W.F. West (Chehalis). Both cleared 12-0 to tie the meet record.

* Rene Ferran: 582-1526; rferran@tricityherald.com. His blog on prep sports can be found at www.sportstricities.com

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happy ending for Richland jumper

This story was published Sunday, April 15th, 2007

REN FERRN HERALD STAFF WRITER

Normally, a fourth-place finish at the Pasco Invitational would be enough to bring a smile to an athlete's face.

But considering the day that Richland junior Lindsay Roberts had, it made everything she endured Saturday feel almost worth it.

Roberts was involved in a one-car accident while driving to Edgar Brown Stadium to prepare for the triple jump competition. While she wasn't injured, her 1995 Jeep Cherokee was totaled after she skidded out of control while accelerating onto Highway 240 eastbound from the Columbia Park Trail interchange.

"I started sliding to the right, then I spun and hit the concrete median head on," said Roberts, who was ticketed for the accident. "I was so shook up. My whole right side was tingling."




She arrived at Edgar Brown an hour later, and her coaches and teammates were telling her she

didn't have to jump. "But I love to compete, and this is a big track meet for me," Roberts said.

She taped up her sore knee, which two days earlier had hurt so bad from tendinitis at a CBL meet in Yakima that she quit after one jump. Then she took her three preliminary jumps and got only one legal mark, a jump of 34 feet, 41/2 inches that barely got her into the finals.

She scratched again on her first attempt in the finals, then as the rain started falling harder and the temperature dipped, she launched her fifth attempt.

"I could just feel it," she said. "On my other jumps, I felt I was looking down. I wasn't tall. That one felt so good, I had a smile on my face as soon as I landed. I was just hoping I didn't scratch."

Nope. She popped a jump of

35-61/2, a personal best that propelled her into third place in the competition behind eventual winner Jessica Yates of Snohomish and runner-up Candace Missouri of Evergreen (Vancouver)

That she was passed by Columbia River's Amanda Alvarez in the final round of jumps didn't matter.

"I was just going out there, figuring to just get it done," Roberts said. "Then I did this well. I guess good things can happen."

Roberts' showing put the icing on Richland's third-place finish in the girls team standings.

Senior Kayla McKeirnan didn't repeat as the meet's Outstanding Female Athlete, but she continued to work her way out of an early-season slump with a solid showing -- a pair of seconds in the 200 (25.85 seconds) and 400 (59.12), a fourth in the long jump (16-93/4) and anchoring the Bombers' third-place 4x100 relay (49.53).

"I took a month off after basketball season, and I came back not in shape at all," McKeirnan said. "It's been tough getting back, but slowly I'm getting there. Today was a good starting point from here on out."

The area did produce a pair of girls champions, including a repeat winner -- Othello junior Courtney Kirkwood in the javelin, who went 144-11 on her final throw after already having the title clinched.

"It's a good feeling to win, but I wanted a better mark," said Kirkwood, who was seven feet off her season best. "I felt confident with how I'd been throwing in practice and in the last couple of meets. I felt I'd be able to pull one off today."

Hanford sophomore Taymussa Miller won the high jump over Melissa Howard of Evergreen on fewer misses after both cleared 5-3 on their second attempt.

Howard was ahead of Miller in the rotation of five jumpers left at that height, so Miller felt no pressure when she saw Howard make 5-3.

"The whole time, I wasn't sure how many girls were left, and 5-3 is a normal jump for me," said Miller, whose career-best is 5-4 earlier this year. "I would have been mad if I didn't make it."

Other area placers were Richland's Galia Deitz (fourth, 100H) and Caroline Hedel (fourth, 300H); Kiona-Benton's Whitney Leavitt (sixth, 100; eighth, 200); Southridge's Christina Lee (sixth, 400) and its 4x400 (seventh); Hanford's Megan Dart (seventh, 800); Walla Walla's Ashlee Wall (fourth, 3,200) and Shanie Bushman (tie fifth, pole vault); Connell's Coriann Wood (fifth, shot; sixth, discus) and Rebecca Lee (fifth, javelin); Othello's Ashley Walker (tie sixth, high jump); and Prosser's Hilary Moore (tie eighth, pole vault).

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Wesco scores pair of top-five finishes at Pasco Invite track meet

Herald staff





PASCO - In one of the top track and field invitational events of the season, the Wesco Conference had two boys teams finish in the top five.

Lake Stevens (31 points) and Everett (28) finished fourth and fifth respectively at the Pasco Invitational at Edgar Brown Stadium Saturday.

David McMurray won the long jump event for Lake Stevens, with a jump of 22 feet-41/4 inches and Joey Bywater finished third in the 1,600-meter race with a time of 4 minutes, 13.43 seconds for the Vikings.

Everett was close behind, thanks to Rendel Jones, who won the triple jump with a score of 44-41/4 and finished third in the long jump event (21-111/4).

Prosser won the boys team title with a score of 47, followed by Evergreen (Vancouver) (46) and Benson Tech (37).

Kamiak (21) finished ninth overall behind Sean Beighton, who won the pole vault event with a score of 14-9.

Dak Riek finished third and fourth in the 3,200- and 1,600- meter races respectively to lead Mariner (16) to a seventeenth place finish.

On the girls side, Vancouver's Evergreen High School took first in the team standings with 50 points, followed by Mead (43) and Richland (42).

Snohomish was the top Wesco finisher, placing ninth with a score of 25. Jessica Yates won the triple jump with a leap of 37-2 and finished fifth in the long jump (16-73/4).

Arlington (14) took 12th place thanks largely to Shayna Prause, who finished third in the javelin event (128-9). Lake Stevens finished in a tie for 25th with eight team points.

At Edgar Brown Stadium

Boys

Team results-1. Prosser 47, 2. Evergreen (Vancouver) 46, 3. Benson Tech 37, 4. Lake Stevens 31, 5. Everett 28, 9. Kamiak 21, 17. Mariner 16, 26. Shorecrest 11, 34. Edmonds-Woodway 7, T-51. Arlington 2, T-55. Snohomish 1.

110 hurdles-4. Grant (M) 15.24; 100-4. Ramos (Sh) 11.22; 5. Mott (LS) 11.37; 1,600-3. Bywater (LS) 4:13.43; 4. Riek (M) 4:17.27; 6. Yilma (E-W) 4:18.96; 400 relay-8. Lake Stevens 44.17; 400-6. Logue (K) 50.95; 300 hurdles-3. Hopkins (E) 39.48; 800-8. Cheslik (LS) 1:59.25; 200-3. Ramos (Sh) 23.13; 8. Logue (K) 23.67; 3,200-3. Riek (M) 9:16.46; 5. Yilma (E-W) 9:20.18; 1,600 relay-2. Lake Stevens 3:25.6; Javelin-3. Stiger (E) 186 feet-6 inches; 7. Bucy (K) 165-03; Triple jump-1. Jones (E) 44-4 1/4; 7. Mack (A) 42-9 3/4; 8. Johnson (Sno) 42-7 3/4; Long jump-1. McMurray (LS) 22-4 1/4; 3. Jones (E) 21-11 1/4; 4. Cho (K) 21-4 1/4; Pole vault-1. Beighton (K) 14-9.

Girls

Team results-1. Evergreen (Vancouver) 50, 2. Mead 43, 3. Richland 42, 4. Shadle Park 34, 5. Mount Spokane 30, 9. Snohomish 25, 12. Arlington 14, T-25. Lake Stevens 8, T-43. Kamiak 5.5, T-53. Shorecrest 1, T-53. Shorewood 1.

100-8. Speidel (Shorecrest) 12.94; 400-8. Clark (Shorewood) 1:01.16; 800-8. Bala (Sno) 2:22.87; Javelin-2. Aanstad (LS) 137 feet-10 inches; 3. Prause (A) 128-9; Discus-5. Cook (Sno) 115-05; 6. Jensen (A) 113-06; Triple jump-1. Yates (Sno) 37-2; Shot put-4. Jensen (A) 38-5 1/2; Long jump-5. Yates (Sno) 16-7 3/4; Pole vault-T-3. Fjeran (K) 11-0.

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Record-setting Kirk leads Bears to title


The Olympian
OREGON CITY, Ore. - Natalie Kirk set a meet record and finished no worse than third in four events Saturday as the Olympia girls track team won the Willamette Falls Invitational.


Kirk, a senior, broke the meet record in the 100 hurdles with a time of 16.21 seconds and won the long jump at 16 feet, 5 inches.

She also was second in the triple jump at 34-5 and third in the 300 hurdles with a time of 49.89.

"She had a good meet today," Olympia coach Cris Violette said. "We had a few girls gone on vacation, but we had a lot of season bests and personal records. I'm really proud of them."

Jill Lahmann won the 200 in 26.54 and was second in the 100, and Jessica Schmitt won the 800 in 2:27.22.

The Bears' 1,600 relay of Addie Provenzano, Brandi Wolff, Natalie Daniels and Schmitt won with a time of 4:14.65.

Olympia won the meet with 149 points, edging Heritage of Vancouver, which scored 142.5. Host Oregon City was third with 97.

Olympia didn't send enough boys to make a dent in the team competition, but Colin O'Leary won the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:10.68, while Daniel Luecke was third at 4:12.65.

Other Olympia girls who finished in the top three were Ciairra Austin (100), Wolff (400, long jump), Daniels (400), Elizabeth Partlow (800), Clare Kane (3,000), Kjersti Gedde (pole vault) and the 400 relay team of Lahmann, Austin, Schicchi and Provenzano.

TAYLOR TAKES POLE VAULT

Ryan Taylor was Black Hills' lone individual champion at the 32-team Tacoma Invite, winning the pole vault at 13 feet, 1 inch in a jump-off after he and other vaulters couldn't clear 13-7.

"Ryan's first-place is impressive," Wolves coach Terry Scott said. "It was windy and cold and that was the first time he's been in a jump-off. It's pretty intense, pretty stressful and he handled it well."

Mike Haupert cleared 6-0 in the high jump to take fourth for Black Hills.

In girls events, Tasha Shipman took second in the 400 in 61.24 seconds and sixth in the 200 at 27.77. Shipman also had a sub-60 second leg in the Wolves' 400-meter relay, according to Scott. Sabrina Hoeks was second in the high jump, clearing 5-2, and sixth in javelin with a throw of 95-5.

"I was real pleased with Tasha's effort and her time," Scott said. "She went better than 60 seconds in her four-by-four leg after a pretty long day - I thought it was a top-shelf effort."

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Yelm boys 2nd at Invitational

Gail Wood
The Olympian
YELM - Jesse Elvrom obviously likes his new pair of cleats.


Throwing the javelin in a brand new pair of spikes, the Yelm sophomore broke personal bests three consecutive times Friday, winning with a throw of 185 feet, 3 inches at the Mountain Invitational.

"I just got new shoes today," said Elvrom, a sophomore who had been wearing football shoes. "They work pretty good."

Elvrom was one of four Yelm athletes to finish first, helping the Tornados take second place at the 12-team meet. Kelso won with 143 points, Yelm had 90, and Shelton was third with 76.

Anthony Stadeker, Antoine Sims and Justin George all placed first in events for Yelm.

Stadeker felt a soreness in his quadriceps coming out of the blocks in the 110-meter hurdles. Despite easing up, he still won with a time of 15.39 seconds, a tenth of a second ahead of runner-up Daniel Bigjoe of North Thurston.

Stadeker scratched from the 300 hurdles.

"I felt a sharp pain," said Stadeker, whose personal best in the 110s is 14.9. "I'm just going to rest it and ice it. I'm not going to let it hold me back."

"He couldn't go hard," Yelm coach Mike Strong said. "It wasn't worth the risk."

Sims went 20-10 in the long jump, and George cleared 13-9 in the pole vault.

George made his opening height of 13 feet on his second attempt, then cleared 13-6 on this third try. He then raised the bar to 14-6 and missed on three attempts.

"I felt my coordination was there, but I just wasn't getting the bend in the pole," George said. "It was cold and rainy."

In the girls meet, Sumner, led by the hard-running Katrina Drennen, won the team title with 132.5 points, and Kelso was second with 103.5.

A year ago, a frustrated Samantha Dominiak nearly quit triple jumping during her freshman year of track at Timberline.

But a heart-to-heart with her dad changed her mind.

"He inspired me," the Timberline sophomore said.

On Friday afternoon, a determined Dominiak cleared 30 feet on all six of her jumps, winning with a leap of 33-7 1/2 . Dominiak never triple jumped longer than 28 feet last year.

"I've practiced hard," Dominiak said. "I didn't think I'd ever get it last year."

Competing on a chilly, wet afternoon, Timberline's Bobby Barnes got the start he wanted in the 100 but not the finish.

Barnes, a senior who'll play football at Portland State in the fall, held off a late challenge, winning by a lean with a time of 11.29. Peninsula's Jack Holley was second in 11.40.

"That was my best start all year," Barnes said. "Towards the end of the race, I need to push harder. I can't let up."

Shelton's throwing duo of Jacob Hanes and Gabe Shoemaker finished second and third, respectively, in the shot put. They're among the state's best 3A shot put throwers.

But Hanes wasn't satisfied with his showing Friday. Scratching on four of his first five throws, Hanes' only mark was a 50-9 - nearly 3 feet shorter than his season best.

"This is my worst day ever," said Hanes, who finished behind Kelso's Cody Clark (51-6 1/4 ).

Shoemaker, in his first year of high school track, finished third with a 50-1, topping 50 feet on five of his six throws.

"At least I was consistent," he said. "But I think I can go farther."

Hanes struggled in the discus yet still won with a throw of 145-1.

Drennen, the state's top runner in both the 3,200 and 1,600, won the 800 Friday in 2:14, 13 seconds ahead of the next runner.

North Thurston's Rachel Kirkwood had a pair of seconds, finishing as runner-up in the 100 and 200.

"I saw that I was behind, and I pushed hard," Kirkwood said about her 100. "I was trying to stay ahead of Timberline."

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Big weekend for track continues today

Gail Wood
The Olympian
On your marks, get set …


That'll be a popular refrain today as South Sound track sters compete across the state.

Capital takes a handful of runners and throwers across the mountains to the Pasco Invitational, a meet that began in 1962 and will have 82 teams competing.

Black Hills, Tumwater and Centralia will be among 32 teams competing at the Tacoma Invitational. The 26-year-old meet will be held at Mount Tahoma and hosted by Lincoln High School.

Tenino will host a nine-team meet beginning at 11 a.m. with throwing events.

Capital took three boys and nine girls to the Pasco Invite. Ben Black will compete in the discus and shot put. Graydon Manning, who will run in the 3,200, has a season-best time of 9:26. Ryan Saunders will run the 1,600.

Amanda Wright and Bailey Campbell lead a talented crop of distance runners.

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Published on Sunday, April 15, 2007

Prosser boys make their point
By SCOTT SPRUILL
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
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All-County track takes over Sea Breeze on Saturday
By Ray Ryan - Daily World correspondent
Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:49 AM PDT

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The All-County track meet will return to Hoquiam’s Sea Breeze Oval Saturday after an absence of several years.

The spikefest that had its renewal several years ago at Hoquiam has in recent years taken place at Montesano, then North Beach, while the HHS facility awaited much-needed refurbishing.

This has finally transpired, and the county’s tracksters will assemble for field events to begin at 11 a.m. with the first running event billed for 12:30.

As usual, co-sponsorship by Anchor Bank and The Daily World will foot the bill for handsome medals to the top three places in each event plus ribbons for the next three.

While the county’s bigger schools â€â€

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Tahoma wins battle of the girls track unbeatens over TJ



Apr 11 2007

By CASEY OLSON

The Mirror


The depth of the Tahoma Bears girls track and field team was just too much for the Thomas Jefferson Raiders on Thursday. The Bears took control of the South Puget Sound League North Division with a 73-68 win over the Raiders.

Tahoma and Jefferson are the two defending champions from a season ago. Tahoma won the SPSL North title with a perfect 6-0 record, and TJ won the South Division at 6-0. The Raiders moved into the North Division during the fall.

Thursday’s dual meet loss was the first for Jefferson in 16 meets after finishing unbeaten in 2005 and 2006.

Both Tahoma and the Raiders entered the meet as the lone remaining unbeaten teams in the SPSL North.

Jefferson actually won more individual events on Thursday, but the Bears garnered more second- and third-place finishes to win the team battle. The Raiders won 11 of the 18 total events during the dual meet, including a pair of wins from Sofia Malamura in the shot put (37 feet, 9 inches) and discus (109-4) and Jen Wamsley in the high jump (5-5) and triple jump (35-9). State champion cross country runner Kenna Patrick walked away with three wins for the Raiders in the 800 (2:23.9), 1,600 (5:19.9) and 3,200 (11:36.5).

Jefferson’s other wins came from Kelsey Racicot in the javelin (101-8), Molly Gebhardt in the pole vault (8-0), Stephanie Cox in the 300 hurdles (48.6) and the 1,600 relay (4:14.3).

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Fleet-footed Jensen sets sights on state triple for Fife Trojans

ERIC D. WILLIAMS; The News Tribune
Published: April 19th, 2007 01:00 AM




Fife track athlete Angela Jensen has two characteristics that make her hard to beat.
Boundless talent and a work ethic to match.

Both were on display during her outstanding effort at the prestigious Pasco Invitational over the weekend.

The senior won both the 100 hurdles (14.6) and the 300 hurdles (44.73) under less-than-ideal conditions on a rainy Saturday in eastern Washington.

Jensen’s time in the 300 is the fastest in the state this year.

At the midpoint of the track season Jensen seems on track to at least match her performance at the Class 3A state meet last season.

Jensen won the 100 meters and the 300 hurdles, and finished second in the 100 hurdles last year.

She would like to win all three this season at the Class 2A state meet at Mount Tahoma Stadium.

“She trains like a monster,â€Â