Sweet Home’s track and field team is improving by leaps and bounds – literally, but the question now is how the Huskies match up to everybody else.
The Huskies had a banner day, which has become somewhat of the norm this year with a young team that is focused on getting better, at North Marion Wednesday, April 16, with both the boys and girls dominating the results lists.
Although the timing system failed during three events, the Sweet Home girls recorded 37 personal bests, and the boys had 34 PRs, with the vast majority of Husky sprinters, in particular, establishing personal bests on both sides.
“It’s hard to pick out any single individuals because I want to say we had just under 70 lifetime bests,” said Head Coach Nathan Whitfield, who lacked a couple of hand-timed personal bests to add into that total. “There was a bunch all the way across and we had a few that had PR’s in just about everything.”
Among the standouts was freshman Mason Tyler breaking the 19-foot barrier in the long jump with a personal best of 19-3; junior Elisha Scofield, who cleared 5-6 in the high jump for the first time, junior Delainie Pratt, who broke 19 seconds in the 100 hurdles to clock a half-second personal best of 18:57, and sophomore Brooke Elder, who knocked a third of a second off her personal best in the 200 to finish in 28.17, all of them winning those events.
Elder also knocked three seconds off her PR in the 400 (1:06.72), as did sophomore Ryker Burr in the 800, finishing in a hand-timed 2:07.6.
Whitfield attributed the progress to hard work by the Huskies.
“This group has been a really fun group because they just work,” he said. “They’re showing up, trying to outwork every other team and it’s showing. That’s why, on a random Wednesday night, when things aren’t going our way, they can show up and PR in 70 different ways. They’re working and it’s showing and it’s going to pay off.”
Small schools are strong in track this year, with some exceptional athletes expected to show up Saturday, April 26, for the Meet of Champions. Whitfield said the competition is so fierce that he was unsure, going into this week, exactly which of his team would qualify for the meet, which is bringing together top performers from 50 1A through 4A Division schools from Bandon on the South Coast and St. Mary’s in Medford to Tillamook and Newberg-based Veritas.
Sweet Home has sure qualifiers in the boys shot put Dylan Sharp and Gavin Tyler, both of whom have exceeded the auto qualifying mark in that event, and McKenzie Miller, who is well under the auto qualifier in the 3000 at the beginning of the week.
The Huskies also have athletes who are under the “alternate” qualifying marks in about a dozen other events, in some cases very close to the “auto” times, so they should be able to put more green jerseys on the track Saturday.
Also, they were to host Cascade and North Marion in a home meet Tuesday, which gave those who have yet to qualify another chance to get in the door.
Sweet Home, Stayton at North Marion
Boys Results
Team scores not available.
Top Three and Sweet Home Results
* Personal Best Time/Mark
100 – (1) Hunter Mollerstrom (S) 11.95; (2) Landon Murry (SH) 11.96*; (3) Conner Stevens (SH) 12.28; (4) Sam Barringer (SH) 12.29*; (5) Kaeson Walker (SH) 12.33*; (9) Mason Tyler (SH) 12.69*; (13) David Anderson (SH) 12.82*; (14) Logan Estep (SH) 12.87*; (15) Noa Valdez (SH) 13.04; (18) Felix Lopez (SH) 13.61*; (21) Kyle Porter (SH) 13.87*; (23) Bentley Delibertis (SH) 14.52*.
200 – (1) Kolton Wilmarth (SH) 23.58; (2) Kaydin Pennington (S) 25.63; (3) Dillan Davis (SH) 25.75; (5) Conner Stevens (SH) 25.86; (6) Nick Larson (SH) 25.87*; (7) Russell Schroeder (SH) 26.51*; (8) Logan Estep (SH) 26.84*; (13) Felix Lopez (SH) 28.54*; (16) Bentley Delibertis (SH) 29.55*; (18) Eli Adams (SH) 30.53*.
400 – (1) Kolton Wilmarth (SH) 53.48; (2) Kasey Kast (SH) 54.06; (3) Cayden Dean (S) 57.35; (5) Logan Anderson (SH) 1:02.13*.
800 – No Times Recorded. Hand times for Sweet Home: Ryker Burr 2:07.6*; Kasey Kast 2:14.9; Acen Webber 2:23.8*; Kace Stevens 2:26.9; Evan Knight 2:29.6 .
1500 – No Times Recorded. Hand times for Sweet Home: Conner Spencer 5:11.4*; Eli Adams 6:04.
3000 – (1) Louis Kistner (SH) 11:13.17.
110 Hurdles – (1) Nick Larson (SH) 17.63; (2) London Swank (NM) 17.64.
300 Hurdles – (1) Cannon Klumph (SH) 50.54; (2) Hunter Mollerstrom (S) 53.27; (3) Logan Anderson (SH) 55.61.
4×100 Relay – (1) North Marion 49.85; (2) Sweet Home DQ.
4×400 Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Kace Stevens, Evan Knight, Nick Larson, Russell Schroeder) 3:57.77; (2) North Marion (SH) 4:11.46.
Shot Put – (1) Dylan Sharp (SH) 48-4; (2) Gavin Tyler (SH) 46-00; (3) Jayden Mancilla (SH) 34-7*; (4) Jackson Barringer (SH) 34-5; (6) Caden Foleyu (SH) 30-10; (10) Rafe Hayes (SH) 25-00*; (11) Ean Tackett (SH) 25-8; (12) Isaiah Scofield (SH) 24-9*; (14) Henry Jones (SH) 21-7.
Discus – (1) Conner Pace (SJH) 117-2; (2) Gavin Tyler (SH) 105-4; (3) Cannon Klumph (SH) 103-5; (4) Jon Hart (SH) 94-6; (5) Jackson Barringer (SH) 88-10; (5) Kace Stevens (SH) 72-1; (7) Henry Jones (SH) 70-1*; (10) Caden Foley (SH) 65-8; (11) Gunnar Summers (SH) 63-5; (12) Rafe Hayes (SH) 52-4*.
Javelin – (1) Jack Simmons (SH) 138-11; (2) Ean Tackett (SH) 120-2; (3) Gunnar Summers (SH) 107-5*; (6) Boden Sayer (SH) 90-3; (7) Isaiah Scofield (SH) 82-8*; (8) Malakai Walls (SH) 77-2; (9) Logan Anderson (SH) 75-6*.
High Jump – (1) Elisha Scofield (SH) 5-6*; (2) Sam Barringer (SH) 5-5; (3) Mason Tyler (SH) 5-2; (4) David Anderson (SH) 5-0; (6) Felix Lopez (SH) 4-8.
Pole Vault – (1-tie) Nick Larson (SH), Elisha Scofield (SH), 9-6; Four NM vaulters no-heighted.
Long Jump – (1) Mason Tyler (SH) 19-3*; (2) Landon Murry (SH) 18-4; (3) Noah Valdez (SH) 17-7; (9) Russell Schroeder (SH) 14-8; (11) Felix Lopez (SH) 13-7½*; (12) Evan Knight (SH) 13-7; (13) Kyle Porter (SH) 13-0; (14) Chance Corey (SH) 11-1.
Triple Jump – (1) Sam Barringer (SH) 39-0; (2) Kaeson Walker (SH) 36-2½; (3) David Anderson (SH) 34-8*.
Girls Results
Team scores not available.
100 – (1) Doris Rios (NM) 13.35; (2) Jayla Moore (SH) 14.04*; (3) Delainie Pratt (SH) 14.40*; (4) Amara Gonzalez (SH) 1457; (6) Khloe Wood (SH) 14.80*; (7) Yadira Martinez (SH) 14.88*; (9) Ella Forum (SH) 15.38; (12) Emma Hand (SH) 15.86*; (13) Emma Lehr (SH) 16.06*; (15) Amelia Berg (SH) 16.28; (17) Madison Olheiser (SH) 17.19*.
200 –(1) Brooke Elder (SH) 28.17*; (2) Doris Rios (NM) 28.37; (3) Jayla Moore (SH) 29.58*; (4) Noelle Helfrich (SH) 30.14*; (5) McKenzie Miller (SH) 30.64*; (7) Yadira Martinez (SH) 31.36*; (8) Ella Forum (SH) 31.85; (9) Keira Reese (SH) 32.20*; (11) Emma Lehr (SH) 34.37*; (13) Amelia Berg (SH) 35.08; (14) Madison Olheiser (SH) 36.36.
400 – (1) Kennedy Holm (S) 1:06.22; (2) Brooke Elder (SH) 1:06.72*; (3) Noelle Helfrich (SH) 1:06.81*.
800 – (1) Emma Whitton (SH) 2:40.15*; (2) Miu Simmons (SH) 2:48.85*,
1500 – No Times Recorded. Hand times for Sweet Home: McKenzie Miller 5:14.5; Madison Ciullo 6:59.3.
3000 – (1) Miu Simmons (SH) 13.27.66*; (2) Yileena Shaw (S) 13.39.98.
100 Hurdles – (1) Delainie Pratt (SH) 18.57*; (2) Ariana Medina (NM) 19.25; (3) Grace Gardner (SH) 20.15.
300 Hurdles – (1) Amara Gaonzalez (SH) 57.42; (2) Grace Gardner (SH) 58.70; (3) Ariana Median (NM) 1:01.02; (5) Emma Hand (SH) 1:03.70*.
4×100 Relay – (1) North Marion 56.28; (2) Sweet Home (Brooke Elder, Delainie Pratt, Jayla Moore, Amara Gonzales) 57.79.
4×400 Relay – (1) Sweet Home (Sophia Stock, Emma Whitton, Noelle Helfrich, McKenzie Miller) 4:40.86.
Shot Put – (1) Selah Wright (SH) 30-2; (2) Sydney Dominy (SH) 26-7*; (3) Bailey Newens (SH) 24-3*; (4) Mailey Brewer (SH) 24–1; (5) Ellie Dominy (SH) 22-5; (7) Adriana Morse (SH) 19-11; (8) Dinah Watkins (SH) 19-8.
Discus – (1) Selah Wright (SH) 88-5; (2) Bailey Newens (SH) 69-00; (3) Mailey Brewer (SH) 68-1; (4) Gracie Vaughan (SH) 51-5; (5) Sydney Dominy (SH) 60-3; (6) Ellie Dominy (SH) 52-10; (10) Adriana Morse (SH) 45-3*; (11) Dinah Watkins (SH) 35-3.
Javelin – (1) Peyton Markell (SH) 94-11; (2) Selah Wright (SH) 90-4; (3) Abygail Foss (SH) 79-0; (4) Bailey Newens (SH) 73-10*; (5) Mailey Brewer (SH) 65-2*; (10) McKenzie Olheiser (SH) 40-3.
High Jump – (1) Emma Whitton (SH) 4-6*; (2-tie) Sophia Stock (SH), Abygail Foss (SH) 4-2*.
Pole Vault – (1) Delainie Pratt (SH) 6-6.
Long Jump – (1) Kaiden Russell (NM) 12-11½; (2) Yadira Martinez (SH) 12-8*; (3) Khloe Wood (SH) 12-7; (5) Beatrice Reeve (SH) 11-7; (6) Emma Lehr (SH) 11-5*.
Triple Jump – (1) Miu Simmons (SH) 29-4*; (2) Kaiden Russell (NM) 29-2½; (3) Amara Gonzales (SH) 27-4; (4) Beatrice Reeve (SH) 27-2½; (5) Grace Gardner (SH) 25-6¼*.