SHORELINE — Port Angeles’ Leia Larson won the 3,200-meter run, Teanna Clark the javelin and Brody Pierce the boys’ triple jump at the 34-school Shoreline Invitational at Shoreline High School this weekend.
Larson won the 3,200 in a time of 11 minutes, 43.15 seconds, a personal record, winning the event by a full 11 seconds. Larson also broke her previous best time by 21 seconds. Her time is tops in the West-Central District III.
Clark won the javelin with a throw of 126 feet and 3 inches. It was her second-best throw of the year, eight feet off her best throw of 134 feet, which is best in the state among 2A girls. Her Shoreline throw was still good enough to be the sixth-best 2A javelin throw in the state. Clark won this event by 11 feet with her third-straight first-place finish.
Pierce won the triple jump with his own personal-record distance of 44-6. It was the fourth time he has won this event this year and it put him in the top five in the state among 2A boys.
Other solid finishes at the event included a fifth-place finish by the Port Angeles 4×400 girls relay. The team of Storey Schmidt, Faerin Tait, Brooke Pierce and Larson finished with a time of 4:13.55, which is tops in the West-Central District III.
Brooke Pierce was also eighth in the high jump with a leap of 4-6, while Tait was 10th in the 100 hurdles with a time of 16.57.
“This was a great meet to close out our regular season,” said head coach Casey McDonald. “Our athletes showed grit and poise against top-tier competition, and these performances give us excellent momentum heading into the postseason.”
The Roughriders now turn their focus to the Olympic League Championships on Thursday and Saturday at North Mason High School in Belfair.
Sequim at Shelton Invite
SHELTON — Sequim’s Dawn Hulstedt had four top-10 finishes at the 65th annual Shelton Invitational this weekend, while Clare Turella placed in the high jump.
Hulstedt was sixth in the 1,600-meter run with a personal-best time of 5:19.79 and sixth in the one-mile run with another personal-record time of 5:21.59. She also came in eighth in the 800 with a time of 2:25.88.
Hulstedt was also part of a 4×200 relay team that finished fourth. The quartet of Bridget Pyeatt, Hulstedt, Kylie Peters and Ruby Moxley-Horgan had a time of 1:40.47.
Turella came in third in the high jump with a leap of 5-0.
Neah Bay and Crescent were also at the meet. Neah Bay’s best finishes were eighth in the javelin by Brianna McGimpsey with a personal-record throw of 108-1. Neah Bay’s Alexa Greene was ninth in the 100-meter run (13.9 second) and Crescent Naomii Sprague was 12th in the long jump (14-8½).
EJ, Forks at BCS Invite
BELLEVUE — The East Jefferson girls track team finished ninth at the Bellevue Christian Invitational this weekend thanks to several top-3 finishes.
Meanwhile, Forks’ Bubba Stansbury-Hernandez won the triple jump with a distance of 40-1½.
The East Jefferson girls didn’t win any event, but had a number of solid placements, led by Kaida Rodrigues, who finished second in the triple jump with a distance of 33-4½. Teammate Kaydence Plotner was right behind in fourth with a distance of 31-1¼.
Arden Moore was third in the 300-meter hurdles with a personal-record time of 47.01. Clara Camp was also third in the 200-meter run with her own personal-record time of 27.28.
The East Jefferson 4×400 relay team (Abby O’Keefe, Rodrigues, Plotner and Avery Dean) was third in 4:36.82.
Forks also did well in the throwers’ relay, a special event featuring field athletes running a relay race. Forks’ girls 4×100 throwers team of Natasha Fletcher, LaRayne Blair, Kareena Nandial and Reagan Dunn won with a time of 1:06.71. The Forks boys throwers team of Ayden Johnson, Adon Areliano, Malachi Rowley and Carlos Soto won with a time of 48.58.
Dunn also finished third in the javelin with a throw of 102-6.
For the boys, Forks’ Gage Willenbrink was third in the high jump at 5-6, while East Jefferson’s Joshua Yearian was third in the 1,600-meter run in a time of 4:33.59.
