1B STATE TRACK: Winck wins Neah Bay’s first state championship in 31 years, then wins another with relay team

Published 12:01 am Sunday, May 31, 2015

CHENEY — Elisha Winck became Neah Bay’s first track and field state champion in 31 years by winning the triple jump at the Class 1B state meet at Eastern Washington University.

Winck jumped 43 feet, 8 inches in Friday’s finals to beat second-place finisher Sam Schafer (41-05.75) by more than 2 feet.

Neah Bay’s last state champion was Rob Moss, who won the javelin in 1984.

Winck helped the Red Devils to another state championship Saturday afternoon.

Neah Bay’s 4×100-meter relay became the first team to break the 45-second mark in the history of the 1B state meet.

Cole Svec, Chris Martinez, Winck and Buzzell ran the event in 44.87 seconds to break Wellpinit’s 2013 record of 45.10 seconds.

Saturday’s second-place finisher, Mount Rainier Lutheran, also surpassed Wellpinit’s former record with a time of 45.05 seconds.

“I told Cameron before the meet, ‘We’re going to break that record,’” Martinez said.

“It feels great to be able to wok hard all season and have it actually pay off.

“The four of us, we’re really close. It’s a really good feeling to be able to trust people to work hard in practice.”

Martinez said the relay team arrived at the stadium early Saturday to work on handoffs.

“They weren’t the best yesterday, so we worked on them this morning, and they were right on the money,” Martinez said.

Buzzell finished 10th in the 100- and 200-meter dash preliminaries Friday.

Faye Chartraw earned a pair of medals for the Neah Bay girls, placing third in the shot put and sixth in the discus.

It was her second consecutive third-place state showing in the shot put.

Clallam Bay’s Sami Metcalf also medaled in the shot put with a seventh-place finish. Crescent’s Shannon Williams took 11th.

Williams earned a seventh-place medal in the discus. Crescent’s Ashara Dodson out-threw Williams and Chartraw and placed fourth.

Neah Bay’s girls 4×100 and 4×200 relays were stopped in the preliminaries, finishing ninth and 11th respectively.

The Clallam Bay girls made the finals in all three relays. They ended up placing fifth in the 4×100 and sixth in the 4×200.

Atokena Abe and Kaylin Signor also earned medals for the Bruins. Abe took sixth in the long jump and Signor finished sixth in the 3,200. Signor also took 12th in the 1,600 and 14th in the 800.

Inga Erickson (12th in 400), Marissa May (13th in 100) and Kendra Anderson (14th in 200) were knocked out in the preliminaries.

Jennica Maines took 12th in the high jump, one spot behind teammate Molly McCoy.

McCoy and Crescent’s Ryan Lester fell short of the finals in the 300 hurdles. Lester went on to place fourth in the 100 hurdles, improving on her seventh-place finish last year.

Clallam Bay eighth-grader Clayton Willis earned a medal in his first trip to state, tying for sixth in the high jump. Neah Bay’s Svec placed 14th.

Clallam Bay’s Justin Messinger had three straight fouls in the boys discus and failed to place.

Crescent’s Neil Peppard claimed seventh in the discus and seventh in the shot put, while teammate Wyatt McNeese finished 11th in the shot put and 13th in the discus.

Freshman Paul Frantz earned two medals for the Loggers in his first state appearance, placing third in the 1,600 and fourth in the 800.

Martin Waldrip finished 10th in the 1,600 and 16th in the triple jump for Crescent.

Waldrip, Frantz, Jordan Scott, Zach Fletcher and Jacob Baillargeon took ninth and fell one spot short of reaching the finals in the 4×400 relay.

Scott also finished 10th in the 110 hurdles.

Crescent’s girls 4×100 relay of Lester, Hannah Lee, Kristin Frantz and Kayla Olsen took 10th in the preliminaries.

Olsen also placed 15th in the 800.

Along with her medal in the discus, Dodson finished 14th in the high jump.