TRACK AND FIELD: Clallam Bay’s Willis and Maines shine, but Neah Bay boys and Crescent girls teams win league meet

Molly McCoy of Clallam Bay placed first in the girls 100-meter hurdles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

Molly McCoy of Clallam Bay placed first in the girls 100-meter hurdles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

PORT ANGELES — Clallam Bay’s Clayton Willis and Jennica Maines both won every event they entered, but Neah Bay and Crescent earned the team victories at the first North Olympic League meet of the season at Port Angeles High School.

Willis placed first in the boys 100-meter dash (11.82 seconds), 400-meter run (54.61 seconds), high jump (5 feet, 6 inches) and long jump (19-11).

Maines won the girls 100 (14.19 seconds) and high jump (4-06) and ran legs for the Bruins’ first-place 4×100 and 4×200 relays.

Maines, Atokena Abe, Molly McCoy and Kendra Anderson finished the 4×100 in 56.39 seconds. Those same four recorded a time of 2:00.37 in the 4×400.

Individually, McCoy won the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 18.53 seconds.

The Crescent girls had six first-place showings to tally 66 points and emerge victorious from a fairly tight girls team battle at Wednesday’s meet.

Clallam Bay was second with 55 points, and Neah Bay and Port Angeles JV each had 52 points.

Six different Loggers won individual events.

Grace Baillargeon took first in the 400 with a time of 1:07.63, and Leonie Hofmann won the 1,600 with a 7:04.08.

Crescent swept the girls throwing events: Raine Westfall won the shot put (28-01.75), Cecily Clark the discus (74-11) and McKenzie Brannan the javelin (78-03).

Kristen Frantz was the Loggers’ other winner, taking the triple jump with a distance of 26-03.

Charlotte Shaw led the Neah Bay girls by winning the 800 (3:17.77) and 3,200 (16:32.42).

Red Devils freshman Hannah Olson’s long jump of 13-02.75 was the longest of the meet.

Gretchen Sotebeer won the 200, finishing in 31.32 seconds, for the Port Angeles JV girls.

The Neah Bay boys team followed the pace of its runners to rack up a meet-high 65.5 points Wednesday.

Clallam Bay finished with 52 points, Crescent had 49 and Port Angeles JV had 31.5.

Cameron Buzzell won the 200 with a time of 24.72 seconds and helped the Red Devils win the 4×100 and 4×400 relays.

Buzzell, Nathanel Gamez-LaChester, Chris Tageant and Joseph Yallup ran the 4×100 in 49.80 seconds.

Buzzell, Gamez-LaChester, Auston Jimmicum and Tageant finished the 4×400 relay in 4:23.42 as the only team competing in the event.

Neah Bay also swept the distance runs: Josey Tyree won the 800 (2:45.04) and 3,200 (13:13.54), and Isaac Jay Brunk took first in the 1,600 (5:55.77).

Along with Willis’ wins for Clallam Bay, Alan Greene placed first in the javelin with a throw of 128 feet, out-throwing Crescent’s Neil Peppard by nearly 5 feet.

Jordan Scott and Wyatt McNeece won a combined four events for the Crescent boys.

Scott placed first in both hurdles, running the 110 in 18 seconds and the 300 in 47.71 seconds.

McNeece won two of the throwing events, the shot put (41-03) and the discus (110-06).

Adam Kennedy was the lone boys winner for Port Angeles JV, taking the triple jump with a mark of 31-09.

State rankings

Willis, a freshman, currently holds the top boys long jump in Class 1B so far this season, a distance of 20-03.

Crescent’s Jacob Baillargeon ranks second at 20-01.5.

Willis also is fifth in the high jump, sixth in the 400 and eighth in the 100.

McNeece is second in 1B in the shot put (41-03). He also is ninth in the discus.

Port Townsend’s Seren Dances leads Class 1A in the boys long jump (21-03) and triple jump (43-04).

Redhawks freshman Eileen Leoso’s mark of 35-0.25 ranks third in 1A in the girls triple jump

Port Angeles’ Gracie Long is second in Class 2A in the girls 3,200 with a time of 11:48.82. Long also is sixth in the high jump and seventh in the 1,600.

In the 1B girls rankings, McCoy and Maines are tied for third in the high jump (4-10).

Maines also is fourth in the triple jump, while McCoy is eighth in the 100 hurdles and 10th in the 400.

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Compiled using team reports.

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