WOODLAND — Forks’ Cole Baysinger won the discus at the District 4 Track and Field Championships and will be going to the State 1A meet in Cheney on Thursday in two events.
Baysinger won the discus with a throw of 134 feet, 8 3/4 inches. He’ll also be going to state in the shot put after he came in third in that event with a personal best put of 45-4 3/4.
Marissa Bailey of Forks will be going to state in two events. She finished second in the 800-meter run with a personal-best time of 2:27.20 and came in third in the 1,600 meters with a time of 5:35.30.
Track athletes from Neah Bay, Clallam Bay, Crescent, Chimacum and Port Townsend also qualified for state at 1B, 1A and 2A districts this weekend:
Port Angeles, Sequim
2A District
RENTON — Port Angeles’ Gracie Long and Sequim’s Murray Bingham each won their 1,600-meter races at the West Central 2A District meet at Renton Friday.
The meet is continuing Saturday. Complete results will be in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News. Long won her 23rd event this track season in a time of 5:19.11, beating Morgan Bingham of Sequim by three seconds. Both girls will be going to state.
Murray Bingham won the boys’ 1,600 in 4:33.40.
Riley Cowan of Sequim also qualified for state, finishing third in the javelin with a throw of 161-5. Port Angeles’ Devin Edwards also made state, finishing fourth in the girls’ shot put with a put of 32-7 1/2.
The state 2A meet will be held at Mount Tahoma High School beginning May 25.
Port Townsend, Chimacum
1A District
RENTON — Port Townsend’s Seren Dances and Audrey Botkin and Chimacum’s Chris Sevilla all won events at the West Central 1A District meet in Renton Friday.
Dances won the 110-meter hurdles in 15 seconds flat, a personal record and the top 110 hurdles time in the state at the 1A level. Meanwhile, Botkin won the girls’ 100-meter hurdles in 15.09, also a personal record and the second-fastest 100 hurdles time in the state at the 1A level.
Dances also finished second in the triple jump with a distance of 43-10. He competed in the long jump and 300-meter hurdles Saturday, two events he will likely qualify for state in.
Sevilla won the javelin with a personal-record throw of 161-7.
Also qualifying for state so far is the Port Townsend 4×100 relay team of Kyle Blankenship, Gerry Coker, Berkley Hill and Erik Pokorny, which finished second with a time of 44.43. Coker also qualified for state individually in the 400-meter run with a third-place time of 52.31.
Port Townsend’s girls 4×200 team (Botkin, Anika Avelino, Ari Winter and Sira Wines) qualified for state by finishing third with a time of 1:51.22. Wines also made state by finishing third in the high jump with a leap of 4-8, while Chimacum’s Jada Trafton made state by finishing third in the long jump at 15-4 1/4.
Complete results of the West Central District 1A meet will be in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News.
The State 1A meet will be begin May 25 at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.
Neah Bay, Crescent, Clallam Bay
1B District
COUPEVILLE — North Peninsula schools came up with four first-place finishes at the 1B Tri-District Track Meet, leading a big contingent of Neah Bay, Clallam Bay and Crescent athletes moving on to the state 1B track championships at Eastern Washington University on May 25.
The girls from Crescent, Clallam Bay and Neah Bay particularly shined, qualifying for state in 32 individual and relay events. Out of 16 schools at Tri-District, the Clallam Bay girls finished second as a team with 109.5 points, while Crescent came in fourth with 59 points and Neah Bay fifth with 46.
Crescent’s Raine Westfall won the girls’ shot put with a put of 32-6 1/2, while Kayla Winck of Neah Bay won the girls’ discus with a throw of 95-9. Jennica Maines of Clallam Bay won the girls’ high jump with a leap of 5-1, while Clallam Bay’s Atokena Abe won the triple jump with a distance of 33-1 1/2. Maines also finished second in the 100-meter run with a time of 13.75, while Abe finished second in the shot put with a put of 31-6.
The Clallam Bay girls’ relay teams shined, taking second in both the 4×200 and 4×400. The Bruins’ Abe, Hannah Olson, Kendra Anderson and Miriam Wonderly ran the 4×200 in 1:56.36, while Olson, Anderson, Wonderly and Molly McCoy ran the 4×400 in 4:38.81. In fact, Clallam Bay, Crescent and Neah Bay all qualified relay teams in the girls’ 4×200, while Clallam Bay and Neah Bay both qualified for state in the 4×100 and 4×400 relays.
Among the boys, Ryan McCoy of Clallam Bay and Wyatt McNeese both had second-place finishes. McCoy had a high jump of 5-8, good for second, while McNeese had a shot put of 41-9 1/2, also good for second.
The top five in each event move on to state. Complete results are below.
1B Tri-District Meet
Coupeville
Neah Bay, Crescent, Clallam Bay
Thursday’s Results
Top 5 to State
Boys Results
100 Meters —Cameron Buzzell, NB, sixth, 11.78; Jakob Baillargeon, Crescent, eighth, 11.97; Chris Tageant, NB, 13th, 12.25; Ryan Strid, CB, 16th, 12.51.
200 Meters —Buzzell, NB, seventh, 24.09; Logan Halttunen, NB, 13th, 25.70; Eric Emery, Crescent, 15th, 26.35.
400 Meters — Buzzell, NB, third, 53.55; Tageant, NB, seventh, 55.79; Emery, Crescent, 13th, 58.06.
800 Meters — Robert Richardson, NB, ninth, 2:23.71; Josey Tyree, NB, 10th, 2:26.36; Fidel Ramos, NB, 12th, 2:46.35; Austin Iverson, NB, 13th, 2:49.43; Caiton Smith, CB, 14th, 3:07.68.
1,600 Meters — Kyle Buchannan, Crescent, ninth, 5:24.94; Isaac Jay Brunk, NB, 11th, 5:28.70; Sean Bitegeko, NB, 12th, 5:33.63.
3,200 Meters — Brunk, NB, seventh, 11:28.69; Tyree, NB, eighth, 12:25.35; Ramos, NB, 13th, 14:16.43; Smith, CB, 14th, 15:39.86.
110-Meter Hurdles — Signor, CB, 8th, 18.46.
300-Meter Hurdles — Signor, CB, seventh, 46.15; Ryan McCoy, CB, ninth, 46.94; Mateo Garcia, NB, 10th, 47.86.
4×100 Relay — Neah Bay (Anthony Bitegeko, Halttunen, Tageant, Buzzell), fifth, 46.88.
4×400 Relay — Neah Bay (Tageant, Halttunen, Anthony Bitegeko, Garcia), sixth, 3:54.55.
Shot Put — Wyatt McNeese, Crescent, fifth, 41-9 1/2; Neil Peppard, Crescent, 11th, 35-1; McCoy, CB, 12th, 34-4 1/2.
Discus — McNeese, Crescent, second, 121-4; Peppard, Crescent, third, 112-10 1/2.
Javelin — Peppard, Crescent, third, 130-5; McCoy, CB, fourth, 127-4; Leroy Greene, NB, sixth, 122-9; Tommy Tyler, NB, eighth, 116-6.
High Jump — McCoy, CB, second, 5-8; Anthony Bitegeko, NB, fifth, 5-6; Sean Bitegeko, NB, seventh, 5-2.
Long Jump — Baillargeon, Crescent, eighth, 18-5; Sean Bitegeko, NB, 11th, 17-8; Garcia, NB, 14th, 15-10 1/2.
Triple Jump — Anthony Bitegeko, NB, eighth, 39-0 1/2; Sean Bitegeko, NB, 11th, 37-3 3/4; Garcia, NB, 15th, 33-0.
Girls Results
100 Meters — Jennica Maines, CB, second, 13.75; Mariah LaChester, CB, 14th, 15.02; Grace Buzzell, NB, 15th, 15.22.
200 Meters — Miriam Wonderly, CB, third, 27.60; Grace Baillargeon, Crescent, fifth, 28.29; Grace Buzzell, NB, 12th, 31.71; Kaitlynn Tyree, CB, 13th, 33.73.
400 Meters — Baillargeon, Crescent, fourth, 1:04.92; Tena Ward, Crescent, ninth, 1:13.00; Chelsey Ritter, CB, 10th, 1:14.76; Angelina Woods, NB, 11th, 1:21.19.
800 Meters — Kaylin Signor, CB, sixth, 2:52.84; Kendra Anderson, CB, ninth, 2:57.72; Sidney Smith, CB, 10th, 3:01.88; Ward, Crescent, 11th, 3:09.52.
1,600 Meters — Smith, CB, fifth, 6:24.61; Shilaily Woodruff, NB, eighth, 7:28.95; Katie Strean, Crescent, ninth, 7:29.81; Miranda Tyree, CB, 10th, 7:30.74.
3,200 Meters — Iesha Johnson, NB, fourth, 14:12.39; Tyree, CB, fifth, 14:32.75; Signor, CB, seventh, 15:24.57.
100-Meter Hurdles — Molly McCoy, CB, fourth, 19.27; Acacia Bergstrom, Crescent, eighth, 21.62.
300-Meter Hurdles —Hannah Olson, CB, fifth, 55.42.
4×100 Relay — Clallam Bay (Atokena Abe, McCoy, Wonderly, Maines), third, 54.67; Neah Bay (Buzzell, Amanda Gagnon, Arianna Corpuz, Cheyanna Svec), fourth, 55.35.
4×200 Relay — Clallam Bay (Abe, Hannah Olson, Kendra Anderson, Wonderly), second, 1:56.36; Crescent (Ward, Alyssa Hutto, Ashara Dodson, Baillargeon), third, 2:02.46; Neah Bay (Gagnon, Buzzell, Svec, Kayla Winck), fifth, 2:05.24.
4×400 Relay — Clallam Bay (Olson, McCoy, Anderson, Wonderly), second, 4:38.81; Neah Bay (Johnson, Woods, Woodruff, Jaclyn Parker), fourth, 5:18.72.
Shot Put — Raine Westfall, Crescent, first, 32-6 1/2; Abe, CB, second, 31-6; Tierra Hess, CB, fourth, 29-6; Alicia Loomis, NB, seventh, 28-0; Anderson, CB, ninth, 27-10.
Discus — Kayla Winck, NB, first, 95-9; Dodson, Crescent, second, 90-8; McKenzie Brannan, Crescent, fourth, 84-5; Westfall, Crescent, ninth, 73-8; Hess, CB, 10th, 69-11.
Javelin — Brannan, Crescent, second, 103-3; Dodson, Crescent, third, 81-5; Tyree, CB, fifth, 76-0; Loomis, NB, ninth, 67-3; LaChester, 10th, 63-8; Baillargeon, Crescent, 12th, 61-8.
High Jump — Maines, CB, first, 5-1; McCoy, CB, second, 4-10; Signor, CB, sixth, 4-4.
Long Jump — Svec, NB, fourth, 14-4; Olson, CB, fifth, 14-1; Gagnon, NB, seventh, 13-5; Bergstrom, Crescent, 16th, 12-1 1/2.
Triple Jump — Abe, CB, first, 33-1 1/2; Dodson, Crescent, third, 30-3; Gagnon, NB, fourth, 29-10; Winck, NB, seventh, 28-11.
Forks at 1A District 4 Championships
Woodland High School
Thursday’s Results
Top 3 to State
Boys Results
1,600 Meters — Matthew Larson, 10th, 5:08.52.
3,200 Meters — Larson, 10th, 11:32.97.
Shot Put — Cole Baysinger, third, 45-4 3/4.
Discus — Baysinger, first, 134-8 3/4; Luke Dahlgren, fourth, 125-10 1/2; Peyton Rondeau, fifth, 124-6 1/2.
Javelin — Caleb Peters, eighth, 121-1.
High Jump — Baysinger, fourth, 5-10.
Triple Jump — Baysinger, sixth, 38-7 3/4.
Girls
400 Meters — Madison Carlson, fifth, 64.67a.
800 Meters — Marissa Bailey, second, 2:27.20.
1,600 Meters — Marissa Bailey, third, 5:35.30; Melisa Galindo, 11th, 6:43.19; Kayleen Bailey, 12th, 6:50.0.
3,200 Meters — Enid Ensastegui, fourth, 12:26.66; Galindo, ninth, 14:31.02.
300-Meter Hurdles — Ella Damron, eighth, 57.75.
4×400 Relay — Forks (Annhelica Wells, Sylvia Torres, Carlson, Marissa Bailey), seventh, 4:40.19a Forks
Shot Put — Azalea Ramos, eighth, 27-9 1/4.
Javelin — Ramos, 10th, 86-1 1/2.
Triple Jump — Chelsea Biciunas, 10th, 28-6 1/2.
Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News Forks’ Marissa Bailey, in rear, finished second in the 800 meters and third in the 1,600 meters to qualify for the state 1A track meet in Cheney in both events.
