Lebanon’s boys and girls both scored team wins over McKay and Woodburn Wednesday, April 29, in the Warriors’ last home meet of the season.
The boys finished with 111.5 points, outscoring Woodburn (51.5) and McKay (26), while the girls, led by three first-place finishes by Addy Pickles, finished with 108 points, over Mckay (54) and Woodburn (23).
“I like where we’re at,” said Coach Troy Walker. “The kids are rounding into form.”
On the boys side, winners for the Warriors on the track were Bodhi Brown in the 100 (11.50), Cade Weber in the 200 (22.76), freshman Xavier Macedo in the 3000 (10:02.52), Tyler Deckert in the 300 hurdles (44.37) and the relay teams of Eadon Marshall, Logan Large, Weber and Brown in the 4×100 (43.94) and Large, Rowan Jones, Brown and Weber in the 4×400 (3:34.20).
In the field, Dylan Juntunen had a big day, winning won the shot with a personal best of 42-0¼, and the discus with another PR of 126-11½; David Brandt won the javelin (137-2), Michael Klutz the pole vault (10-0) and Large in the long jump (21-10½, a PR) and the triple jump (41-0½). Brown, jumping in the junior varsity long jump, won that with a personal best of 21-8½, nearly 2 feet over his previous best, in his first outing in that event this year.
Walker said Brown, a senior, hadn’t jumped since last year.
“He was a jumper for me early on, then he started focusing more on sprints,” Walker said, noting that Brown was injured while jumping a season ago. He’d recently expressed interest in trying it again, the coach said.
That jump put Brown No. 4 in the state 5A rankings, immediately behind Large.
“Logan Large is jumping out of his mind right now,” Walker said, noting that Large scratched “by an inch” on a massive leap of “22-6, 22-7” during last week’s meet.
On the track for the girls, Pickles won the 100 in 13.06 and the 200 in 26.86, both season’s bests, and Jocilynn Durgeloh topped the field in the 1500 in 5:29.60.
Winners in the field for the girls were Evangeline Graves in the discus with a personal best of 85-1½, Heather Savedra in the javelin (110-11), Molly Basting in the high jump (4-4), and Pickles in the long jump (16-4) and triple jump (34-10).
Behind Brown and Weber, who was also second in the 100 (11.66), the boys got some big scores out of the short sprints.
In the 100, Jack Whitacre was third in 11.89 and Zachary Dickerson fourth (12.02), both personal bests; with Marshall fifth (12.05) and Cody Cruz eighth (12.41) to round out Lebanon’s scorers.
In the 200, Whitacre was second (23.86), Marshall third (24.23) and Jones fourth (24.24), all PRs.
Logan Taylor was second in the 400 (53.31), followed by Tyson Trask (58.56) in sixth and Jordan Tharp seventh (59.11), all PRs. Jackson Simmons was fourth in the 1500 (4:47.58).
Lebanon’s “B” 4×100 team of Axel Bradbury, Aaron Bradbury, Michael Foubert and Giovanni Hodson finished sixth in 4:44.28.
In the shot, Grady Cox was third (37-4½) and Jaxon Christopherson was fourth (37-4), a personal best. John Roktka was third in the discus (102-4½) and Gunner Barnes was fifth (96-7), both personal bests. Jaxon Christopherson was third in the javelin (120-10), ahead of Gabriel Manner in fourth (120-7), both PRs.
Cruz finished second in the high jump (5-2) and Marshall was second in the long jump (19-9½), with Dickerson fourth with an 18-1 in the varsity competition. In the JV long jump, the Warriors swept the top seven spots: Deckert second with 18-8½ (a PR), Whitacre third (18-7½, a PR), and Logan Taylor fourth in 18-4½, Steven Searles fifth (17-3, a PR), Cody Cruz sixth (17-1, a PR), and Brody Hensley seventh (16-10), all which would have placed in the varsity competition.
In the triple, Deckert was second (39-2, a PR) and Dickerson third (37-5).
Scorers for the girls on the track included 100 finishers Jane Brandt third in 13.51, Harper Pepperling fourth in 13.67, Ruby Vandenbos, fifth in 13.89, and Alyssa Shiltsov, sixth in a PR of 13.92.
Pepperling was second in the 200 (27.63, a PR), Brandt third in 28.01, a PR, and Zhiltsov fourth in 28.97, a PR.
Freshman Danica Teague was third in the 400 (1:14.33) and Grace Murray, also a freshman, was fifth (1:16.19, a PR).
In the 800, Vorderstrasse was second in 2:47.12, with freshman Hannah Pool third in 3:05.17.
Freshmen Daphne Graves (6:46.30) and Ava Mills (6:58.33, a PR) were third and fourth in the 1500 and Mills was sixth in the 3000 (15:01.08), also a PR.
Freshman Libby Pointer was second in the 100 hurdles (19:15) and the 300 hurdles (54.14), both personal bests. Savedra was third in the 100 hurdles (19:34) and Ariahnna Durgeloh was fifth (21:20. Basting was fourth in the 300 Hurdles in 54.58 and Durgeloh seventh in 1:01.28, both PR’s.
The 4×400 relay team of Vorderstrasse, Pool, Thayer and Mrray were third in 4:59.50.
Maliha Mowdy was fourth in the varsity shot with a throw of 26-4½, literally a quarter-inch ahead of Leslie Thayer in fifth (25-4½) and Raquel Biggs, sixth in 25-1½.
In the junior varsity shot, Graves finished first with a personal best of 27-8½ and Teryn Gandy was second with 26-0¾, also a PR.
Gandy was third in the varsity discus with a PR of 76-1, and Zoey Beskow was fourth (74-5½).
Mowdy finished second in the javelin behind Savedra (86-0, a PR) and Harmony Villfana-Garcia was third (84-7).
Pointer was second in the high jump (4-2), and Basting was second (8-0) and Thayer was third (8-0, a PR) in the pole vault.
In the long jump and triple, Vendenbos was second behind Pickles in 16-3 and 34-5½ respectively. Brandt was third in the long jump in 16-1. Estes was third in the triple jump (29-9), while Brandt jumped 30-2 to win the junior varsity triple.
“That’s a battle between Jane and Harper in the long jump,” Walker said.
Pickles brings state experience and Savedra is ranked fifth in the javelin this week, but the girls aren’t loaded in terms of potential for state thus far, and that has been exacerbated by an injury to sophomore Brooklyn Hensley, who was a likely scorer in the 100 hurdles and a big contributor in the short relay, Walker said.
“We have such high-level kids that are there – Vandenbos, Addy. The key kids are peaking at the right time, but we just don’t have a lot of kids moving into that area right now. The younger kids are still learning.”
The boys are showing potential for state qualifiers, with Brown, Large, Weber, Jones and younger athletes, such as Johnson, Walker said.
Nonetheless, he said, “We have such a great group of kids. They’re going to compete for some podium spots at state.”
Lebanon travels to Central Tuesday, May 5, to face the hosts and Dallas, then will compete Friday, May 8 at the Garden City Invitational on the Silverton Middle School campus.