SPORTS: Sequim’s McMullin picks up top honors; two Port Angeles double winners at league track championships

POULSBO — Sequim senior Jasmine McMullin received female field event athlete of the meet honors at the Olympic League track and field championships.

McMullin had the top performance from the North Olympic Peninsula at North Kitsap High School on Saturday.

McMullin exploded to a meet record distance of 36 feet, 4.5 inches while winning the triple jump event.

She also was runner-up in long jump with a leap of 16-04.75, and was a member of Sequim’s fifth-place 4×400 and seventh-place 4×100 relay teams.

The Peninsula also featured two double winners from Port Angeles, four single league victors and a winning boys relay team from Sequim.

Double winners were Kyle Tupper in boys distance running events and Jolene Millsap in girls sprints.

Tupper captured the 1,600-meter run by almost 5.5 seconds in a time of 4:31.62 and he claimed the individual title in the 3,200 by more than 7 seconds in 10:19.02.

He had a personal best in the 1,600 by nearly 6 seconds.

Millsap, meanwhile, continued her standout season by shattering career-best times in the 100 in a speedy 12.53 seconds and in the 200 in 25.99.

Her best times coming into the meet were 12.68 in the 100 and 26.35 in the 200.

Port Townsend’s Jewel Johnson was second to Millsap in the 200 in 26.45 and she captured third in the 100 in 12.89, just getting clipped by North Kitsap’s Kamina Fleming, who was second in 12.88.

Both times also were personal bests for Johnson.

Sequim athletes picked up three other individual championships as Jayson Brocklesby was first in the 400, Lopaka Yasumura was first in the shot put and Sarah Hutchison took top honors in pole vault.

Brocklesby won the 400 by more than a second in a personal best 50.72, and he also claimed third in the 200 in 23.17.

The senior all-around athlete also was runner-up in the high jump event with a career-best height of 6-04.

Yasumura, meanwhile, had a heave of 48-07.5 to win shot, and he also took fourth in the 100 (11.56) and seventh in the 200.

Hutchison took first in pole vault with a height of 9 feet even while teammate Emily VanDyken was third with 8-06, which ties her personal best.

Hutchison also took third in the 100 hurdles in 17.27 and fourth in the 300 hurdles (50.82).

In addition, the Sequim boys 4×100 relay team won in 44.64 seconds with Judah Breitbach, Brocklesby, Christian Miles and Dylan Chatters.

The 4×400 relay team was fourth in 3:45.15 with Alex Barry, Brocklesby, Breitbach and Yasumura.

Defending 2A state champion North Kitsap overwhelmed the competition on the girls side with 202 points while Kingston was second with 113.3.

The Roughriders had the best Peninsula team performance by taking fourth place with 93.3 while Sequim was fifth with 81 and 1A Port Townsend took sixth with 49.3, beating bigger schools Olympic, Bremerton and Klahowya.

Host North Kitsap also won the boys competition with 151 points while Olympic took second with 126.

Sequim took top honors on the Peninsula with fifth place and 93 points, followed by Port Angeles in seventh with 41 and Port Townsend in ninth with eight.

Other area athletes earning runner-up honors were Port Townsend’s Rebecca Stewart in the 300 hurdles (48.86), Port Angeles’ Brittany Norberg in javelin (100-10) and teammate Elizabeth Stevenson in the 3,200 (12:33.25).

Stevenson also was fourth in the 1,600 (5:37.86).

Third-place finishes for the girls went to Port Angeles’ Willow Suess in the 800 (2:27.8), teammate Annika Pederson in the 3,200 (13:03.5) and teammate Elyse Lovgren in the triple jump (33-04.75), and Port Townsend’s Brittany Grant in the 1,600 (5:34.17).

Grant also took fifth in the 800 while Lovgren took sixth in long jump.

Other fourth-place finishes for the girls went to Port Angeles’ Zoe Owens in triple jump (33-03.75), Sequim’s Andria Bower in shot put (31-11.5) and teammate Sarah Henry in discus (82-03).

In addition for the girls, the Port Angeles 4×400 realy team took third in 4:25.02 with Cassidy Hodgin, Gretchen Sotebeer, Seuess and Lily Morlan, and the Roughrider 4×100 relay team was fifth.

The Port Townsend 4×200 relay team was fourth in 1:53.93 with Johnson, Stewart, Renada Walcome and Patricia Reeves, and the 4×400 relay team also took fourth in a time of 4:27.19 with Johnson, Grant, Hanna Trailer and Stewart.

Sequim was fifth in the 4×400.

Taking third place on the boys side was Sequim’s Mikey Cobb in the 1,600 (4:37.01).

Boys fourth-place finishes went to Sequim’s Peter Ohnstad in the 3,200 (10:46.85), teammate Oscar Herrera in the 300 hurdles (42.72), teammate Barry in javelin (147-04), Port Angeles’ Tyler Rixon in shot put (42-08.5) and Port Townsend’s Skyler Coppenrath in triple jump (40-10.5).

Herrera also was fifth in the 110 hurdles.

In other top honors in the meet, North Kitsap senior Regan Coyler was named female girls runner of meet with two meet records in the 400 and 100 hurdles; North Mason senior Craig Allen took male runner of the meet with three meet records in the 110 hurdles, 300 hurdles and 200; and North Kitsap sophomore Zachary Whittaker was picked as male field event athlete of the meet by winning the long jump and triple jump events.

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