Peninsula Daily News
STANWOOD — The Crescent boys dominated the nine-team 1B Bi-District track and field meet at Stanwood High School with 132.5 points.
The North Olympic League had a one-two showing as Clallam Bay finished in second place with 67 points.
On the girls side, Crescent posted a second-place showing while Neah Bay was fourth with 39 and Clallam Bay took sixth with 33 points.
As has been the case most of the year, the Crescent boys team’s win came mainly on the strength of its throwers and jumpers, although this time around the sprinters also shined.
Donvovan Christie (a new addition to the relay team), Eric Larson, Beau Bamer and Derrick Findley flew to 46.95 time (third-best in the 1B state classification so far this season) in the 4×100-meter relay to finish only four-tenths of a second behind the meet’s winner, Mount Vernon Christian.
“Nice to see our boys short relay put it into the 46s, and back to the top three in the state,” Crescent coach Darrell Yount said.
“On paper, I knew that inserting Donovan Christie into the lineup would be a difference maker.
“He ran a great opening leg to really get us flying. And with a great hook with our fastest guy, Larson, we were kind of off to the races.”
That effort set the tone for the throwers to take over and produce an outpouring of points, including the always tough Crescent javelin crew going 1-2-3 yet again (Quenton Wolfer, Findley and Travis Walker).
Clallam Bay’s Evan Messinger finished fourth to give the North Olympic Peninsula a javelin sweep of the four spots moving on to next week’s Quad-District meet at Port Angeles High School.
The Loggers also qualified two in the shot put, Josh Sowders was second and Gene Peppard took third, and in the discus with Sowders and Wolfer placing second and fourth, respectively.
The long jump also resulted in a Peninsula sweep, with Findley winning the event for the Loggers, Clallam Bay’s Casey Randall taking second, Christie placing third and Neah Bay’s Elijah Winck grabbing the fourth Quad-District spot.
Winck won the triple jump, with Findley finishing third.
Findley had a winning mark of 42 feet, but officials incorrectly measured from the wrong board. He was eventually awarded a replacement jump, but he was unable to match his previous jump.
More points piled up for Crescent when Donovan Christie won the high jump, despite battling a slick, worn-out runway. Wolfer took third place.
“The field event venues were such that they didn’t yield the big marks we had hoped for; perhaps we weren’t as sharp as we needed to be,” Yount said.
“And yet, we advanced exactly who we needed to to keep this run [of success] alive.”
Other Quad-District qualifiers for the Loggers were Martin Waldrip in the 3,200-meter run and Quinn’Tin March in the 300-meter hurdles.
Clallam Bay super sprinter Justin Welever won the 100 and the 200. His 100 time of 11.65 seconds is the sixth best in the state this year and moved him to second place on the Peninsula.
Jesse Wonderly won the 400 for the Bruins.
Welever and Wonderly also qualified in the 4×400 relay, along with Sam Signor and Philip Tejano.
Winck is the only qualifier for the Neah Bay boys. He placed third in the 110 hurdles, to go along with his qualifying marks in the triple and long jumps.
For the girls, Crescent got off to a solid start and kept the pedal to the floor to earn second place to the always powerful Mount Vernon Christian.
First, the Loggers’ 4×200 relay team (Jandi Frantz, Nycole McNaughton, Ryan Lester and Kellie Belford) qualified easily, and then the 4×100 team (Frantz, Belford, Lester, Devanie Christie) got its time into the 54s yet again and barely was nipped for the title by Mount Vernon.
Neah Bay’s 4×200 relay team of Faye Chartraw, Summer Hamman, Desarae Perry and Cassie Dias also qualified for the Quad-District meet.
Devanie Christie and Lester had another great battle in the 100 hurdles, with Christie winning this time around with a mark of 17.35 seconds, just off her own school record — which she shares with Lester — from two weeks ago of 17.24, which broke a decades old mark.
“Devanie Christie and Ryan Lester did it again in the hurdles,” Yount said.
“Just very talented and ultra-competitive kids. They both hate to lose, so when they hook up head to head, big things tend to happen.”
In the 300 hurdles, Belford ripped off a time in the 52-second range to take third and move forward in her specialty. Clallam Bay eighth grader Molly McCoy also qualified by finishing fourth.
Belford added a fourth-place showing in the 200-meter dash to add to her qualify list.
“Belford was great again all day long,” Yount said.
“She leads our team from every perspective: Captains our team, captains the relays, takes care of her individual stuff, and really just rallies all her teammates to succeed.
“What an athlete.”
Devanie Christie also won another javelin title with a nice 108-feet, 2-inch throw, and notched a third-place finish in the triple jump.
Teammate Meghan Shamp took fourth in the javelin to advance to next week’s Quad-Districts.
Shamp also qualified in the discus with a second-place showing, as did fellow Logger Shannon Williams and Neah Bay’s Selena Akin.
Williams won the shot put with a heave of 31-10, while Chartraw was second with a 30-01.25.
Frantz had a good day in the high jump and the long jump, taking second in both.
Williams will join her at the Quad meet by taking fourth, as will Clallam Bay’s McCoy.
Inanna McCarty was a triple qualifier for Neah Bay, finishing second in the 3,200 and third in both the 800 and 1,600.
Clallam Bay’s Inga Erickson placed third in the 400 to move on.
Thursday’s Quad-District meet will be highlighted by a battle between Crescent and fellow 1B state power Wishkah Valley, who for the first time ever will have to go through each other to get to state.
Forks pair wins
at Evergreen meet
ELMA — Shane WhiteEagle and Sydney Christensen both won titles for the Spartans at the SWL-Evergreen Division meet.
WhiteEagle won the boys shot put with a heave of 45 feet 11.5 inches, the second-best mark on the North Olympic Peninsula this year.
Christensen dominated the discus with a hurl of 107-11, almost 8 feet longer than her nearest competitor, DeShae Nedro of Rainier.
Forks had a nice showing overall in the throwing events.
Leo Gonzales placed third in the boys discus with a 125-11 mark, and Mercedes Flores finished third in the girls shot put.
Tristina Smith took third place in the javelin and Flores finished in fourth.
Hugo Lucas took second place for the Spartans in the boys 3,200-meter run.
In the girls 800, Kari Larson finished second with a time of 2:28.28.
Andrew Armas placed third in the boys long jump and fifth in the triple jump.
Forks will next compete at the 1A Southwest District championships at Rainier High School on Friday.
Chimacum wins two Nisqually titles
EATONVILLE — Daryl Settlemire and Bailey Castillo both won Nisqually League titles for Chimacum, Settlemire in the discus and Castillo in the javelin.
Both athletes will compete at the 1A Tri-District meet at King’s High School in Seattle on Thursday at Saturday.
Other Cowboys who advanced are Rafael Pagasian in the triple jump and long jump, Mel Thornton in the 300-meter hurdles and long jump, and the 4×100-meter relay team of Eoin Hartnett, Trevon Noel, Pagasian and Thornton.
Softball
Cedar Park Christian 6,
Chimacum 1
TACOMA — The Eagles claimed third place in the Nisqually League by handling the Cowboys in a tiebreaker game at Heidelberg Sports Complex.
As the league’s fourth-place team, Chimacum (8-8) opens the 1A Tri-District tournament with a loser-out home game Thursday against the Northwest District’s No. 4 team.
Cedar Park Christian put up two runs in the first inning and four in the third, and then held on as Chimacum struggled to generate much offense.
The Cowboys were held to three hits — Mallori Cossell had two, including a double, and Krista Hathaway had the other and drove in Chimacum’s only run.
Cossell also had a strong defensive showing from the catcher position, as did Kiersten Snyder in right field and at shortstop, and Megan Dukek at third place.
Cedar Park Christian 6, Chimacum 1
Chimacum 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 — 1 3
Cedar Park 2 0 4 0 0 0 x — 6 6
WP- Girgus; LP- Eldridge
Pitching Statistics
Chimacum: Eldridge 2 1/2IP, 2K, 3BB, 4H; Nelson 3 1/2IP, 3K, 2H.
Cedar Park Christian: Girgus 7IP, 5K, 4BB, 3H.
Hitting Statistics
Chimacum: Cossell 2-4, 2B; Hathaway 1-2, RBI.
Cedar Park Christian: Fazio 2-3, RBI; Britton 1-3, RBI.
Sequim, PA
in title tilt
BREMERTON — Sequim and Port Angeles both won their opening games at the Olympic League tournament Saturday afternoon at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds to set up a battle between the two in the tournament final later in the day.
The winner will earn the league’s top spot in the this weekend’s West Central District tournament.
Both teams won rather handily as expected considering neither team lost a game to the league’s other seven teams this season (the Wolves rolled through the league undefeated and dealt the Roughriders’ their only losses).
Sequim (18-0) beat Olympic 13-0 in five innings. It was the Wolves’ third win over the Trojans in 15 days, and Sequim has won by a combined score of 58-3.
