Sweet Home traveled to Junction City to take part in a seven team unique scoring invitational on Saturday. Also present was Newport, Sisters, Stayton, Toldeo, and Elmira.
The meets features a unique scoring format where each team is allowed three persons per event with all entrants scoring. First place was 21 points, second 20 right on down to 21st place worth one point.
“It really stresses team depth and spreading your kids around to maximize points,” explained Coach Billy Snow. ” It also allows all kids to be a part of the team score, not just a select few at the top. Despite a continual strong wind, rain most of the day and cool temperatures, we had a great meet as a team. We had a number of kids trying things for the first time, just to fill slots and get kids involved.”
Boys Results
Our boys were just awesome today, winning the meet by 8.5 points over the host Tigers. The huskies had 650 points with JC at 641.5, Elmira 547.5, Sisters 442, Stayton at 441, Newport at 361.5 and Toledo at 239.
“Our guys won with some good performance at the top but really with great team depth,” Coach Snow said. ” Take away any one guy and the results as a team would have been different.”
On the day, the Husky boys won four events on the track. The short relay team of Mike Severns, Casey Baarson, Randy Nicholson, and Paris Ramsey won in a slow 46.7. Ramsey opened a lot of eyes with two convincing wins, running 11.3 into the wind to win the 100m. Later in the day, he blew away the field to win the 200M in 22.7. His time puts him No. 3 in school history.
The other Husky win came from Casey Baarson who “ran an awesome race in the 300M hurdles,” according to Coach Snow. “Casey had a great corner coming into the stretch to take the lead and then despite two bad hurdles at the end hung on for the win in a PR time.”
John Lovik had a couple of impressive races, going a PR 4.28.5 in the 1500M for fourth. He doubled back in the 3000M to go third in a PR 9.49.6. In the 1500M, Chris Burford’s PR 4.38.6 put him ninth and Sam Bishop ran a PR 5.15.9 for 16th.
In the 3000M, Aaron Lovik PRed at 11.19.7 for 10th with Anthony Ertsgaard 12th in a PR 11.40.0
Elsewhere in the sprints, joining Ramsey in the 100M were Randy Nicholson, second at 11.9 and Mike Severns fifth at 12.0 Ryan Garrett ran a season PR 56.8 in the 400M to take third with Ian Lynn (58.8) at 10th and Ryan Sipe 15th in 61.6 Kellen Petersen (25.3) and Wayne Martinez (25.8) both added key points in the 200M.
Helping Baarson out in the low hurdles was Jeremy Fisher fifth in a PR 46.7 and Skyler Brown 11th in 49.5. In the high hurdles, Fisher led the way going a PR 18.3 for fourth with Baarson eighth in a PR 19.1. Brown was right with them but was caught by another competitor’s hurdle and knocked out of the race.
In the 800M, Mike Lummus third at 2.10.2 led the way. Chris Burford had a tough double and came back to take fourth in a season PR 2.11.5. Ben Schmidt added some big points with his PR of 2.23.8.
Lastly, the 1600M relay team of Lummus, Garrett, Lynn, and Burford had a season PR of 3.52.6 to go third overall. Lynn and Burford both had season PR splits.
In the field, the Huskies had two more wins. Robert McGarry defended his title that he won last year despite the bad conditions, going 12-06 to win the pole vault.
Mike Severns bested a good field in the javelin to win at a near PR of 155-09. Randy Nicholson had a near win in the triple jump, finally settling for second at 40-00. Joining Nicholson in the triple were Kellen Petersen with a PR of 37-00 for seventh and first timer Mike Lummus seventh at 35-08. Ole Bond helped out with a 11th place tie in the pole vault at 8-00.
Elsewhere in the jumps, Randy Nicholson led a 4-6-8 finish for the Huskies. He went 18-11 a PR, with Severns at 18-04.5 and Seth Graves at 17-11. In the high jump, Mike Lummus 5-06, Robert McGarry 5-06 and Seth Graves 5-04 all placed and earned points.
Joining Severns in the javelin was Brett Badgett who finished sixth at 123-08 and Malcolm Brown chipped in with a ninth place finish at 117-01.
In the shot and discus, Seth Graves added some big points with a sixth place finish in the discus at 109-01 and 16th in the shot at 32-01. Robert McGarry 33-06 and Robert Rice (32-04) were just ahead of Graves in the shot. David Tackett, in his second meet, went 93-00 in the discus for ninth.
“Our guys really showed today that they can be a good team. They cannot depend on any one individual to carry them but rather everyone has to do his part for the whole to be put in to position for some success,” Coach Snow said.
Girls Results
The Husky girls faired well despite depleted ranks.
“We were missing 4 or 5 people and then another three came up hurt or sick during the meet. Despite that, our girls were leading midway through the meet,” Coach Snow said. ” We just ran out of numbers and couldn’t do anything about it. However, the girls really competed well and came away not only with some good time and mark, but also a message that they can be a good team if everyone contributes.”
Overall team scores were Sisters, 566; Stayton, 531; JC, 526; Sweet Home, 419; Elmira, 399.5; Newport, 349.5; Toledo, 170.
The girls won three medals in the field. Rachel Gaskey came away the discus champion winning the event at 103-06. Krtystle Streight was third in the discus at 88-02 with Shaina Burnett fifth in a PR 86-05.
In the shot put, Streight was second in a PR 34-09. Gaskey had a PR of 33-00 for sixth and Meaghan Schaefer had a season PR of 28-10 for seventh overall. In the high jump, Ashley Smith had a lifetime best of 4-10 to take second overall with Kari McGuyre third at 4-06.
In the javelin, Kim Lovik had a PR to place 6th at 85-11. Lisa Brocard was eighth at 75-10 and Meaghan Schaefer was 10th at 72-04.
Brocard came back to have a great day in the horizontal jumps, placing fifth in the long jump in a PR 15-02.75 and fourth in the triple jump at 32-04 another PR.
Not to be outdone, Ashley Smith had PRs in both events also, going 15-02 in the long jump for sixth and 30-07 in the triple jump for fifth. Alisha Basham tried the long jump for the first time and leapt 13-03.75 for 13th overall.
On the track, Anne Helfrich and Megan Snow had a pair of PRs in the 1500M and 3000M races. Helfrich was fifth in the 1500M at 5.42.3 with Megan 6th at 5.47.5. In the 3000M, Helfrich’s 12.41.1 put her fourth with Snow fifth at 13.09.5.
Hannah Swanson went 14.2 in the 100M for sixth place. In the 100M high hurdles, Swanson went a close second at 18.2 but unfortunately hurt her foot and was out for the day.
“Lisa Brocard ran a great middle part of the race and was a close third at 18.2 also,” Coach Snow said.
Kari McGuyre ran a season PR in the 400M to take eighth in 68.5. The other lone track competitor was Alisha Basham who ran 3:02,0 for eighth in the 800M.