POULSBO — Sequim’s Mirek Skov and East Jefferson’s Reid Martin and Ellise Gardner were winners at the Li’l Norway Invitational track and field meet held in Poulsbo this weekend.
The event drew competitors from 19 1A, 2A and 3A schools from around Western Washington.
Martin won the javelin with a throw of 149 feet, 8 inches, while Gardner won the girls javelin throw with a personal-record distance of 103-9.
Skov won the pole vault with a height of 13-6, a half-foot off his personal best, but still the second-best pole vault statewide among 2A athletes.
The East Jefferson 4,000-meter DMR team of Fiona Fraser, Hilina Taylor-Lenz, Camryn Hines and Aliyah Yearian won with a time of 12 minutes, 57.26 seconds. The DMR is a nonstandard distance event in which team members run individual legs of 1,200, 400, 800 and finally 1,600 meters.
In team points, the East Jefferson girls did best among local schools, coming in eighth with 42 points. Anacortes won the girls meet with 130 points. Sequim was 13th with 29 points and Port Angeles 14th with 28.
For the boys, Port Angeles finished ninth with 39 points. Sequim was 11th with 30 points and East Jefferson 13th with 17 points. North Kitsap won the boys meet with 94.5 points.
Several other local athletes placed in their events.
Andrew Brown of Sequim finished second in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.49 seconds, while Yearian was second in the 800 meters with a time of 2 minutes, 21.24 seconds, a personal record. That’s the third-fastest 1A time in the state.
Port Angeles’ Parker Nickerson came in second in the long jump with a personal-record distance of 20-5 and third in the triple jump with a persona-record distance of 39-3. Port Angeles’ Violet Mills was second in the girls javelin with a personal-record throw of 94-8.
East Jefferson’s Soare Johnston finished third in the 3,200 in a season-record time of 10:10.93 and Port Angeles’ Trevor Martin was third in the hammer with a distance of 96-7½.
Roughrider Clarissa Sprague was third in the girls hammer with a distance of 71-0.
Other top five finishes include:
Boys
300-meter hurdles — Tanner McLean, Port Angeles, fourth, 44.98.
Pole vault — Ari Skov, Sequim, fifth, 11-6.
Hammer — Cooper Berry, PA, fifth, 89-10.
Girls
4×200 relay — Sequim (Bloomenrader, Ivy Barrett, Jolene Vaara, Katie Morris), fourth, 1:52.76.
Shot put — Addy Asbell, East Jefferson, fourth, 32-2.
Pole vault — Ahrya Klinger, Sequim, fourth, 7-6.
400 meters — Samara Holshouser, PA, fifth, 1:06.57.
800 meters — Kaitlyn Bloomenrader, Sequim fifth, 2:30.97.
110-meter hurdles — Stephanie Sanchez, EJ, fifth, 17.73.
Forks at BCS Invite
SAMMAMISH — The Forks track and field team was strong in the field events and relays at the 13th annual BCS Invitational.
Both the Spartans boys and girls teams finished sixth. There were 13 schools at the meet and Forks was the only 2B school competing. All the other schools were 1A and 2A. Lynden Christian won the girls meet and Bellevue Christian won the boys meet.
The Spartans got a first-place finish in the javelin as Walker Rondeau’s distance of 133 feet, 3 inches was tops. Coming in second was teammate Nate Dahlgren, who had a personal-record throw of 123-7. Sebastian Qunnekle was sixth in this event at 111-10.
Forks’ Keana Rowley also won the girls javelin with a personal-record throw of 96-1. Her teammate Peyton Johnson came in second at 93-4 and Forks’ Reagan Dunn was fourth at 83-7. Dunn also finished third in the shot put with a personal-record distance of 28-7½ and fifth in the discus with a throw of 76-6.
Dahlgren was also third in the discus with a distance of 128-9. Teammate Sloan Tumaua was fourth at 126-0. Dahlgren also came in fourth in the shot put with a personal-record distance of 43-5¾.
The Forks throwers also competed in a “thrower’s relay,” a foot race for field event athletes. The Spartans team of Casimir Pullen, Qunnuke, Tumaua and Evan Jacobson came in third with a time of 52.70.
Forks girls placed in three different relay races.
The Spartans (Miley Blanton, Erika Williams, Emery Damron, Leslie Hernandez-Beltran) were third in the 4×200 with a time of 1:57.71, fourth in the 4×400 relay (Moli Luong, Julia Raupp, Damron, Hernandez-Beltran, 4:47.98) and fourth in the 4×100 throwers relay (Hailey Garcia-Moog, Dunn, Katelynn Wallerstedt and Gabrielle Fuhs, 1:02.52).
In other preps from Saturday, Bellevue Christian beat East Jefferson 2-0 in boys soccer.
