The Husky track and field squads continued their tune-up for the league season last week with a non-scoring meet at Pleasant Hill on March 31, and at the Junction City Invitational April 2.
Coach Billy Snow’s boys placed fourth out of eight teams at Junction City. The girls placed fifth in the eight-team field.
Newport won the boys event with 672 points, followed by Junction City (669), Sisters (608), Sweet Home (578), Central (526), Stayton (524), Elmira (461) and Toledo (365).
Each team was allowed three entries per event.
The top mark of the day for the Huskies was junior Alex Brown’s 156-08 heave in the javelin for second place overall.
“Alex is throwing well and sits number three in school history now with the new javelin,” Snow said.
Senior Jeremy Fisher was fifth in the 110 high hurdles in 18.4 and eighth in the 300 intermediate hurdles in 48.0. Senior Josh Coward placed sixth in the high hurdles in 19.4 and eighth in the triple jump (37-07) in his first try at both events.
Senior Ravi Patel was sixth in the long jump with a leap of 18-10 and fifth in the triple jump (38-03.25).
Sophomore Peter Vanderlip placed sixth in the 1500 meters and eighth in the 3000. Vanderlip and fellow 1,500 runners Jess Keys and Nic Wirth all posted season personal bests.
Sophomore KC Hanscam jumped 9-00 for eighth in the pole vault. Junior Tim Faulconer took sixth in the 400 meters in 56.00. Jeff Stratman nailed a PR to place eighth in the javelin. Both relay teams finished seventh.
Sisters dominated the the girls competition, scoring 771 points. Newport was second with 674, followed by Junction City (637), Stayton (590), Sweet Home (585), Central (380), Elmira (354) and Toledo (238).
Senior Krystle Streight was the top performer for the Huskies, winning both the shot put (37-04) and the discus (111-03), both in season’s bests, in her first outing after injuring an ankle.
Senior Devynn Schumacher took second in the 1500 (5:30.3) and the 3000 (12:10.4).
Junior Hannah Swanson posted two second-place finishes in the hurdles, going 17.00 in the 100 high hurdles and 50.8 in the 300 lows.
Senior Kari McGuyre was fifth in the high jump in 4-08. Senior Alisha Basham placed in both her events ? seventh in the pole vault (6-06) and eighth in the long jump.
Junior Kambria Schumacher was fifth in the 800 (2:46.9), with sophomore Tabby Trahan eighth in 2:48.8).
The 4×100 relay team of McGuyre, Nicki Emmert, Kierya Shreves and Swanson finished fifth. The 4×400 relay team of Ashley Danielson, Trahan, McGuyre and Kambria Schumacher took seventh in a season-best 4:39.1.
Sophomore Hannah McClaskey placed sixth in the shot (31-00.25) and eighth in the javelin in 80-03.
Emmert was sixth in the triple jump in 30-02.75.
Pleasant Hill Invitational
On a sunny and mild Thursday afternoon in Pleasant Hill, the Huskies got a workout in which a lot of athletes got a chance to try new events or combinations of events, Snow said.
“We worked through this meet knowing we had a big meet Saturday,” he said.
Teams from Pleasant Hill, Sweet Home, Sutherlin, La Pine, Creswell, Elmira and Douglas competed in the non-scoring meet.
Both boys relay teams ran well, setting season PR’s. The 4×100 team of Ravi Patel, Tim Faulconer, Ryan Sipe and Kellen Petersen finishing third in a season PR of 47.14. In the last race of the day, the foursome of Sipe, Faulconer, Ramiro Santana and Alex Ritzman ran 3:50.03 to finish a close second.
Anthony Ertsgaard and Peter Vanderlip continued to pace the distance crew. Ertsgaard, a junior, was fourth in the 800 in a personal-record 2:21.78 and finished third in the 3000 (11:16.18) in his first try at that distance. Vanderlip took fourth in the 1500.
Jeremy Fisher posted PR’s in both his events ? an 18.17 in the high hurdles for second and in the javelin.
Nathan Whitfield and Phil DeLong continue to pace the weights crew. DeLong was fourth in the shot, followed by Whitfield’s season-best 37-09.5. Junior Alex Brown continued to be a force in the javelin, going 142-04 to take second in a huge field.
Patel tied his season best of 5-04 in the high jump and went 39-06 in the triple jump to place second in that event.
For the girls, Devynn Schumacher continued to shine in the distance events, finishing second in the 1500 to last year’s state 3000-meter champion. She then came back to place eighth in the 800. Sophomore Jessica Trautwein and junior Heidi Wilson both posted season’s best times to go 3-4 in the 3000.
The 4×100 team of Kari McGuyre, Nicki Emmert, Kierya Shreves and Hannah Swanson ran 54.6 for a big PR and third place. The 4×400 team of Kambria Schumacher, Erika Snow, Ashley Danielson and Kelsey Agee ran a solid race to place second.
Hannah Swanson ran a season’s best 17.44 in the high hurdles to win that race.
With Krystle Streight nursing a sore ankle, Hannah McClaskey, Ashlee Flangan, Korina Thompson and Megan Hershberger picked up the slack, establishing Sweet Home as one of the better throwing teams in the meet. All three girls had PR’s in at least one event, with Hannah leading the way with season’s bests in all three events.
Alisha Basham posted PR’s in the long jump and pole vault. Emmert (triple jump) and Ashley Bertucci (long jump, triple jump) both posted season’s bests in those events.
McGuyre continued to jump well in the high jump, winning the event in 4-10.