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Oakesdale girls finish fifth in state 1B competition
CHENEY - The Oakesdale girls track and field team paced Whitman County at the state 1B/2B/1A meet at Eastern Washington University from May 26-28.
In 1B competition, the Nighthawks girls finished fifth with 49 team points. Pope John Paul II won the girls division with 73 points.
Meanwhile, Garfield-Palouse girls were 10th with 31 points and St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse tied for 12th with 21 points.
In boys 1B, St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse and Garfield-Palouse tied for seventh with 33 team points.Oakesdale tied for 14th with 16 points and Tekoa-Rosalia was 23rd with 6.
In girls, Nighthawk junior Jessie Reed brought the only gold medal home to Oakesdale.
She finished first in long jump with a leap of 16-05.25.
Other Oakesdale medalists include Reed, 6th, 100-meter; Marilla Hockett, 7th, 200-meter, 27.60 seconds; Hockett, 2nd, 400-meter, 1:01.61; Olivia Booth, 2nd, 100-meter hurdles, 17.88 seconds; 4X100 relay team of Booth, Hockett, Reed and Jenna Rawls, 2nd, 53.59 seconds; 4X200 relay team of Booth, Hockett, Rawls and Reed, 2nd, 4X200 relay, 1:51.50; and Bradyn Henley, 7th, triple jump, 31-05.00.
For the Oakesdale boys, the 4X100 relay team of Alex McHargue, Jackson Perry, Garrett Dingman and Ryan Balijo was 5th in 46.81seconds.
The 4X400 relay team was 5th in 3:45.74. The team included Austin Goyke, Balijo, Dingman and Perry.
Perry was the highest finisher for the Nighthawks boys, taking 2nd in high jump, clearing 6-03.00.
The St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse boys also grabbed a few individual medals.
Logan Marconi was 5th in the 800-meter in 2:07.49.
In the 110-meter high hurdles, Ryan Anderson was 4th in 17.20 and Rory Maloney 7th in 17.76.
The duo also finished 5th and 6th, respectively with Anderson finishing the 300-meter low hurdles in 44.58 and Maloney in 44.85..
The Eagles boys struck gold in the 4X400 relay, with Matthew Logen, Marconi, Maloney and Anderson winning in a time of 3:39.86.
Anderson was also 4th in pole vault, clearing 12-00.00.
The Eagles girls also faired well in field events.
Ashlynn Archer was 4th in discus with a toss of 105-08.00, and 8th in triple jump with a leap of 31.03-00.
St. John-Endicott's Sophie Larsen was 4th in pole vault, clearing 7-09. Teammates Cami Larsen, Archer and Haily Marty were right behind her, all tied for 5th, clearing 7-00.
For Garfield-Palouse, several boys brought home medals.
Brendan Snekvik was 7th in the 800-meter in 2:08.72.
In the 3,200-meter, Kieran Snekvik was 5th in 10:38.08; and Brendan Snekvik was 6th in 10:38.10.
In field events, Jaxson Orr was two golds, taking 1st in shot put with a throw of 47-02.50 and 1st in discus with a toss of 141-07.
He was also 8th in triple jump with a jump of 38-07.50.
For the Vikiing girls, Ava Hemphill brought home bronze in the discus with a throw of 107-09.
The girls 4X400 relay team finished 3rd.
Lola Edwards, Laynie Southern, Jessica Olson and Kennedy Cook finished in a time of 4:35.88.
Edwards also earned an 8th place medal in the 3,200-meter with a run of 13:10.17.
Cook brought home two individual medals for the Vikings - a 2nd in the 200-meter with a time of 27.14 seconds and a 1st in the 400-meter with a time of 59.41 seconds.
Tekoa-Rosalia had two athletes earn medals.
Erik Lazcano was 4th in the 3,200-meter with a time of 10:31.88. Riley Gehring was 8th in the high jump, clearing 5-08.00.
Colfax
The Colfax Bulldogs had several athletes at the same venue competing in the 2B competition.
Emma Bryson led the Bulldog girls, grabbing 5th (tie) in pole vault with 8-06.00.
The girls 4X200 relay team finished 6th.
The team of Jaisha Gibb, Bryson, Paige Claassen and Destiny Nelson finished in 1:55.97.
In the 4X100 relay, Gibb, Claassen, Nelson and Adisyn Ring brought home 8th, finishing in 54:86 seconds.
The only medal for the Colfax boys was a bronze in pole vault.
Freshman Zachary Cooper tied for 3rd after clearing 12-00.
The Bulldog boys finished 31st as a team with 5.5 points, a tie with Asotin.
Rainier won the boys 2B class with 67 points, followed by Davenport with 55.
St. George's won the girls 2B division with 113 team points, followed by Okanogan with 89.
The Colfax girls were 26th overall with 7.5 team points.
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