McKenzie Sports Report – April 9
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week
The McKenzie Varsity Track and Field teams participate in the AMJ Invitational Track Meet this Saturday, April 11. The annual event will be held at the Aaron and Marie Jones Community Track. Field events start at 10 am and track events will begin at 11.
AMJ Invitational Track Meet Returns
This Saturday, April 11
The AMJ Invitational Track Meet returns to the Aaron and Marie Jones Community Track this Saturday, April 11. McKenzie Community Track and Field, once again, is hosting the annual high school track meet and this year 22 teams are scheduled to participate. Participating teams include Class 4A Cottage Grove and Philomath, Class 3A Elmira, Creswell, Sisters, Pleasant Hill, Jefferson, and La Pine, Class 2A Oakridge and Lowell and Class 1A Crow, Alsea, Cascades Academy of Central Oregon, Eddyville, Mohawk, North Lake, Paisley, Glendale, Mapleton, Riddle, Triangle Lake and McKenzie. Should all the athletes listed on the above team’s rosters participate, roughly 700 athletes will run, jump and throw their best this day.
The MCTF is inviting all persons, young and old, to come join them for a spectacular high school track event. Professional timing, provided by Athletic Timing, will monitor the running events. As always, volunteers timing, measuring, retrieving implements and recording all the races and field event competitions help make this meet possible.
If you would care to volunteer working with a group of remarkable high school athletes, the MCTF welcomes you with open arms, a yellow volunteer vest, a clipboard or tape and whole lot thank you very much. Call Cliff Richardson at 541-972-0763 or Laurel Meister at 541-505-2636 and we will welcome you aboard for an incredible day at the Track!!!
Eagle Girls Take First Place
At McKenzie River Relays
Boys Finish Second
The McKenzie Varsity Girls Track team defeated the field at the inaugural McKenzie River Relays, held last Thursday, April 2, at the Aaron and Marie Jones Community Track. McKenzie earned 32 points to outpoint Toledo, 22 points, Glendale, 20 points, Mohawk, 14 pts., and Crow, 12 pts.
The Eagle Varsity Boys team finished with 40 points, placing second in the team scores behind first place Glendale, which finished with 48 points. Crow took third with 24 points, followed by Mohawk, 22 pts., and Toledo, 10 pts.
McKenzie Girls won the MMR 2600m event in a time of 10:19.25 minutes. This medley relay event features four different distances combined and the Eagles competing were Myra Dion, 1200 meters, Zyla Drake, 800 meters, Grace Weiss, 200 m., and Elle Epping, 400 meters. Mohawk finished second in 10:47.51 min.
The Eagle girls also won the DMR 4000m (distance medley) in a time of 16:31.30 minutes. That race featured Drake running the 1200m, Miral Willis the 400m, Epping the 800m, and Dion the anchor leg 1600m. Toledo finished second in 17:28.85 min.
The McKenzie foursome of Ally Peek, Willis, Nelli Sullivan, and Claire Weiss finished first in the 4×200 Relay, posting a time of 2:08.09 min. Crow was second in 2:19.70 min. The SMR 800m (sprint relay of 100 “100- 200” 400m) race was won by the foursome of Jaiden Binford, Hannah Baker, Kassandra Turner, and Mia Dalton in a time of 2:19.66 min. McKenzie’s B team of Sullivan, Mackenzie Wickizer, Peek and Dion finished second in 2:22.57 min. The Eagle A team followed in fourth place with a time of 2:30.39 min. That foursome was Grace Weiss, Lillia Meister, Mady Groggins and Drake.k
Mindy Blomstrom of Toledo won the 100m Hurdles with a time of 20.05 seconds. The Toledo team of Blomstrom, Zoey Welch, Ellie Fragoso, and Tenaya Cordova won the 4×400 Relay in 5:26.55 min.
Chloe Barba of Glendale who runs the event in 10:26.09 minutes, a Personal Best time, won a 2000m Steeplechase.
Over on the Boys side of the meet, the Eagle A team of Rhys Hamlow, Fen Willis, Elijah Santiago, and Andrew Munoz Brown won the 4×100 Relay, posting a time of 47.1 seconds. Crow’s team took second in 49.1 sec. The McKenzie C team finished the event in fifth place, timed in 51.2 seconds. That foursome was Amir Enfield, Noah O’Daol, Cyrus Bennett, and Auden Vailes. The Eagle B team comprised of Jacob Norlund, Anthony Hunter, Jacob Peek, and Silas Jones finished in 52.2 seconds, a sixth place finish.
Cylas Sughroue ran a second place finish in the 2000m Steeplechase, timed at 7:51.72 minutes. Simon Hruby, running unattached, won the event in 7:43.19 min. Eagle Will Meister finished third at 8:13.41 min.
McKenzie won the 4×200 Relay in 1:40.27 minutes with the Eagle A team of William Valtinson, Willis, Brown, and Santiago. The Eagle’s B team of Vailes, Enfield, Owen Young, and Norlund took home a fourth place finish with the time of 1:51.07 min. The 4×400 Relay was won by Glendale’s team in 4:07.46 min. McKenzie’s B team of Rylee Davis, Bennett, Young, and O’Daol finished third in 4:34.73 min. Mohawk’s SMR 800m team of Titus Fields, Edward Yi, Aaron Wallace, and Corbin Dalton won in 1:53.67 min. The Eagle A team finished third in 2:01.88 min and that team was comprised of Valtinson, Davis, Norlund, and Jones.
The DMR 4000m event was won by Glendale’s team of Xander Freeman, Jezrahiah Cullett, Elijah Galinski, and Ethan Cullett, who posted a time of 12:59.12 min. McKenzie’s Sughroue, Davis, Bennett, and Meister collaborated to finish in 13:17.98 minutes, a third place finish. Glendale won the MMR 2600m in 8:06.76 minutes. That foursome was E. Cullett, Aydin Leckie, J. Cullett, and Charles Bellando. Crow’s Julien Mull won the 110m Hurdles in 18.26 seconds.