Sweet Home’s track and field athletes battled the elements – rain mainly, at the Junction City Invitational Saturday, but came away with some big performances.
Senior Noah Dinsfriend won both hurdles races and sophomore Tristan Calkins won the long jump with a leap of 21-4, a 10-inch PR and tops in the state 4A Division standings for a few hours, until senior Garrett Phelps leaped 21-9½ in a different meet later in the day.
“It’s going really good,” Coach Dakotah Keys said. “Everybody’s still kind of sore and tired because we are still training so hard. But we’re seeing good results and a lot of the kids are doing well.
“Noah had some good races. He stayed tough.”
Sweet Home didn’t enter every event and limited entries to an athlete or two in many, while others of the 18 teams at the meet loaded up with three kids in each event.
The Huskies placed sixth on the boys side and 10th on the girls.
Dinsfriend’s win in the 300 hurdles gave him the fastest time thus far in the season in the 4A Division – 42.44, just ahead of Kai Daniels of Newport (42.82), who was second at Junction City. Dinsfriend is also No. 1 in the 110 hurdles after running 16.29 at the Summit decathlon.
In the distances, both junior Tristan Saultz and freshman Eddy Martinez-Maya posted PR’s in the 1500, Saultz placing third in 4:33.20 and Martinez-Maya running seventh – winning a different heat – in 4:40.89.
“Tristan Saultz did really good in the 1500,” Keys said. “He’s one of those guys who is really sore and tired, I have him working so hard.”
The best finish of the day for the girls was junior Megan Hager’s second place in the discus, in a season’s best 105-5.
The hard workouts are partly due to the shortened season – a week on both ends because of the early state meet and the snow that hindered workouts during the first week, Keys said.
“We’re getting into that part of the season now when everybody is doing technique work,” he said. “The distance kids are doing high-intensity intervals and stuff. It’s fun to see the results.”
The Huskies will compete Wednesday with Cascade at Sisters, then will travel to the 33-team Prefontaine Rotary Invitational at Marshfield Saturday, April 13. Many of the participants will be southern Oregon and coastal schools that Sweet Home doesn’t see often, including Del Norte and Eureka from northern California.
Junction City Invitational
Boys Results
Team Scores – (1) Newport 1621.5; (2) Philomath 1359.5; (3) Junction City 1219.5; (4) Estacada 1107; (5) Elmira 982 (6) Sweet Home 849; (7) Central Linn 761.5 (8) Crow 714 (9) Pleasant Hill 606.5 (10)Harrisburg 577; (11) Waldport 569; (12) Oak Hill 533; (13) Monroe 493.5; (14) Toledo 422; (15) Crosshill Christian 330; (16) Willamina 302; (17) Oakridge 145; (18) Alsea 109.
Top Three and Sweet Home Results
100 – (1) Tanner Stottlemyre (Newport) 11.71; (2) Dylan Lynn (Monroe) 11.72; (3) Dustin Baze (Central Linn) 11.86; (30) Jonoah Williams (SH) 13.80; (31) Charles Crawford (SH) 13.81.
200 – (1) Tanner Stottlemyre (Newport) 23.80; (2) Dustin Baze (Central Linn) 23.96; (3) Dylan Lynn (Monroe) 24.27; (4) Tristan Calkins (SH) 24.98; (26) Jonoah Williams (SH) 24.48.
400 – (1) Dustin Baze (Central Linn) 53.51; (2) Ben Wiese (Newport) 54.12; (3) Tristan Calkins (SH) 54.18.
800 – (1) Conner McAdams (Junction City) 2:05.33; (2) Will Kunde (Newport) 2:08.16; (3) Diven Naidu (Oak Hill) 2:08.99; (13) Austin Sills (SH) 2:18.78.
1500 – (1) Leo Johns (Newport) 4:12.33; (2) Isaac Whitney (Oakridge) 4:27.52; (3) Tristan Saultz (SH) 4:33.20; (7) Eddy Martinez-Maya (SH) 4:40.89.
3000 – No Sweet Home entrants.
110 Hurdles – (1) Noah Dinsfriend (SH) 16.37; (2) Conner Dauteuil (Oak Hill) 16.53; (3) Tanner Barth (Junction City) 16.57.
300 Hurdles – (1) Noah Dinsfriend (SH) 42.44; (2) Kai Daniels (Newport) 42.82; (3) Dakota Glover (Estacada) 43.91.
4×100 Relay – (1) Central Linn 46.32; (2) Estacada 46.61; (3) Philomath 47.14; (4) Crow 47.64; (5) Elmira 48.00; (6) Sweet Home (Tristan Calkins, Aiden Shamek, Lance Hanson, Noah Dinsfriend) 48.18; (7) Harrisburg 48.75; (8) Waldport 49.03; (9) Toledo 49.75; (10) Crosshill Christian 50.79; (11) Oak Hill 54.60.
4×400 Relay – (1) Newport 3:40.90; (2) Estacada 3:45.90; (3) Crow 3:46.00; (4) Philomath 3:56.30; (5) Harrisburg 3:57.80; (6) Sweet Home (Tristan Saultz, Aiden Shamek, Austin Sills, Gavin Walberg) 3:59.90; (7) Central Linn 4:01.20; (8) Oak Hill 4:15.30; (9) Toledo 5:06.20.
Shot Put – (1) Cristian Garcia (Monroe) 48-3½; (2) Kane Rust (Philomath) 42-7; (3) Junction City 42-9; (6) Noah Moore (SH) 37-9; (13) Sevin Carson (SH) 35-0; (19) Keegan Fox (SH) 32-11.
Discus – (1) Finn Mitchell (Junction City) 140-9; (2) Reece Hardy (Pleasant Hill) 139-1; (3) Cobyn Herbert (Elmira) 123-6; (20) Jake Swanson (SH) 89-8; (26) Tanner Waldrop (SH) 82-3; (29) Charles Crawford (SH) 74-8.
Javelin – (1) Zach Young (Monroe) 160-10; (2) David Stamm (Estacada) 158-7; (3) Tanner Stottemyre (Newport) 154-5; (4) Jake Swanson (SH) 150-1; (5) Noah Moore (SH) 143-11; (26) Parker Lemmer (SH) 92-6.
High Jump – No Sweet Home enterants.
Pole Vault – (1) Connor Kutzler (Philomath) 12-6; (2) Luke Bennett (Crosshill Christian) 12-0; (3-tie) Jensen Mast (Philomath), Colton Ledgury (Newport) 11-0; (9) Brad Wolthuis (SH) 8-0; (12) Noah Moore (SH) 7-0.
Long Jump – (1) Tristan Calkins (SH) 21-4; (2) Zach Young (Monroe) 20-1; (3) Dylan Hamond (Pleasant Hill) 19-4; (12) Austsin Sills (SH) 17-11; (23) Aiden Shamek (SH) 16-4.
Triple Jump – (1) Jayon Smith (Newport) 39-8; (2) David Hensley (Willamina) 39-4; (3) Dylan Hammond (Pleasant Hill) 38-7; (6) Lance Hanson (SH) 38-1; (13) Aiden Shamek (SH) 33-7.
Girls Results
Team Scores – (1) Newport 1549; (2) Philomath 1485; (5) Estacada 1041; (4) Central Linn 977.5; (5) Junction City 662; (6) Waldport 622; (7) Monroe 574.5; (8) Crow 476; (9) Elmira 431.5; (10) Sweet Home 423; (11) Oakridge 416; (12) Pleasant Hill 395; (13)Toledo 390.5; (14) Oak Hill 364; (15) Harrisburg 271; (16) Willamina 258; (17) Alsea 196; (18).Crosshill Christian 86.
Top Three and Sweet Home Results
100 – No Sweet HomeFinishers listed.
200 – (1) Maggie Ross (Philomath) 26.51; (2) Kate Hawken (SH) 27.84; (3) Nakiya Mayhugh (Junction City) 27.87; (17) Zoe James (SH) 30.48.
400 – No Sweet Home Entrants.
800 – No Sweet Home Entrants.
1500 – (1) Hannah Hernandez (Philomath) 4:52.02; (2) Anika Thompson (Junction City) 5L00.19l (3) Maddy Woodward (Pleasant Hill) 5:08.89; (14) Madelyn Neuschwander (SH) 5:53.31.
3000 – No Sweet Home Entrants.
100 Hurdles – No Sweet Home Entrants.
300 Hurdles – No Sweet Home Entrants.
4×100 Relay – (1) Philomath 51.16; (2) Estacada 53.62; (3) Newport 53.82; (4) Junction City 54.20; (5) Central Linn 54.40; (6) Pleasant Hill 54.50; (7) Sweet Home (Hannah Powell, Kate Hawken, Zoe James, Torree Hawken) 55.42; (8) Elmira 56.48; (9) Crosshill Christian 57.79; (10) Willamina 58.51; (11) Waldport 59.16; (12) Toledo 59.36; (13) Oak Hill 1:01.63; (14) Crow 1:02.28.
4×400 Relay – (1) Philomath 4:19.10; (2) Newport 4:27.50; (3) Central Linn 4:36.40; (4) Oak Hill 4:45.70; (5) Estacada 5:3.90; (6) Junction City 5:10.10; Sweet Home ???? NT (Hailey Green, Torree Hawken, Zoe James, Kate Hawken) NT.
Shot Put – (1) Lauren Young (Monroe) 36-1½; (2) Sadiemay Gullberg (Philomath) 35-3; (3) Halle Hargett (Newport) 34-2; (5) Megan Hager (SH) 32-10½; (13) Kirsten Watkins (SH) 27-10; (15) Shelbey Nichol (SH) 26-7.
Discus – (1) Halle Hargett (Newport) 112-2½; (2) Megan Hager (SH) 105-5; (3) Hannah Hughes (Willamina) 101-8; (12) Kennedi Waldrop (SH) 77-7*.
Javelin – (1) Halle Hargett (Newport) 124-1; (2) Madison Hargett (Newport) 105-10; (3) Natalie Rodgers (SH) 99-5; (4) Katen Edwards (SH) 94-3; (11) Jillian Lynn (SH) 80-0.
High Jump – No Sweet Home Entrants.
Pole Vault – No Sweet Home Clearances.
Long Jump – (1) Amber Liber (Estacada) 14-10; (2) Zode Wenham (Elmira) 14-9; (3) Makenna Chapman (Central Linn) 14-5; (17) Shelbey Nichol (SH) 12-7; (19) Hannah Powell (SH) 12-6; (22) Aiyana Alford-Grimes (SH) 11-11.
Triple Jump – (1) Kennady Laing (Elmira) 32-8; (2) Ari Gomez (Newport) 32-1½; (3) Alivia Pittman (Philomath) 31-7; (6) Shelbey Nichol (SH) 30-3; (22) Hannah Powell (SH) 25-0½.