FEDERAL WAY — Fresh off her record-setting performance at a home meet last week, Port Angeles’ Teanna Clark hardly missed a beat Saturday, winning the javelin event at the Bill Harris Invitational.
Clark was the only Port Angeles athlete to win an event competing against athletes from 32 other schools, including some 3A and 4A schools. She took first with a throw of 122 feet, 1 inch, her second-best of the season, beating out 43 other competitors. Her top throw of the year, done at home Thursday at 134-2, broke a school record and is tops in the state among 2A athletes.
There were several other good performances by Port Angeles athletes. Easton Dempsey took third in the 800-meter run with a personal-best time of 1 minutes, 59.47 seconds, while Brody Pierce was fifth in the triple jump with a distance of 43-5½.
Liam Wilson was sixth in the freshman/sophomore 100-meter run in a time of 11.7 and Keatyn Hoch was ninth in the high jump with a leap of 5-6.
The Port Angeles girls’ 4×400 team of Storey Schmidt, Brooke Pierce, Zoe Ernst and Leia Larson took sixth in a time of 4:23.51, while Larson was 10th in the 3,200-meter run in 12:04.99.
Both the Port Angeles boys and girls finished 21st as a team. Federal Way was the top boys team and Central Kitsap was first among the girls.
Coupeville Invitational
COUPEVILLE — The Neah Bay girls track team was great in the sprints, while the East Jefferson girls dominated the distance, hurdles and relays at the Coupeville Invitational on Saturday.
Neah Bay’s Alexa Green won the 100-meter run in 13.2 seconds, with Angel Halttunen second at 13.4 and Brianna McGimspey third at 13.42.
Halttunen turned around and won the 200-meter dash in a personal-record time of 27.04, just nipping East Jefferson’s Arden Moore at 27.28.
The Rivals girls simply dominated the hurdles and relays. First, Leah Ferland of East Jefferson won the 3,200 meters in a time of 13:12.12. Kaydence Plotner won the 100 hurdles (17.22), while Moore won the 300 hurdles (49.07).
The East Jefferson 4×200 relay team (Sierra Emerson, Moore, Carina Shiflett and Clara Camp) took first in 1:50.97 and the Rivals’ 4×400 team (Abby O’Keefe, Camp, Emerson and Moore) won with a time of 4:28.94. Moore earned a total of three first-place finishes.
Neah Bay’s McGimpsey won the javelin with a personal-record throw of 104-9, while East Jefferson’s Kaida Rodrigues won the triple jump with a distance of 33-4½.
For the boys, there were winners from East Jefferson and Clallam Bay.
East Jefferson’s Noah Isenberg took first in the 3,200 in a time of 10:17.13. Cyrus Politte of Clallam Bay won the 110 hurdles (18.08), while William Hull won the 300 hurdles with a personal-record time of 43.14.
Daniel Cumming of Neah Bay won the shot put with a distance of 42-6, a personal record.
The East Jefferson boys and girls both finished third as a team. Coupeville took first for the boys and Mount Vernon Christian was first for the girls.
