McKenzie Sports Report – April 23

McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week

The McKenzie Varsity Track and Field teams travel to St. Paul on Thursday, April 23, to participate in the Buckaroo Round-Up track meet. Field events start at 3:00 pm and track events begin at 4:00 pm.

Estacada Boys/Tillamook Girls Dominate

North Marion Invitational

Eagle Girls Sixth/Boys Ninth

The McKenzie Girls Varsity Track and Field team placed sixth at the North Marion Invitational, held at North Marion High School last Saturday, April 18. The Eagles earned 33 points on a day that saw Class 4A Tillamook dominate the meet with 180 points. Taft, a Class 3A team, finished a distant second with 100.5 points, followed by Class 4A Estacada, third with 85 points, Class 3A Dayton, fourth with 76.5 points, and Class 2A Kennedy, fifth with 68 points.

McKenzie had the highest finish for a Class 1A team. Other team scores were Veritas 29 pts., Scio 25 pts., North Marion 10 pts., Perrydale 7 pts., Willamette Valley Christian 7 pts., Siletz Valley 2.5 pts., and Falls City 0.5 pts. The Estacada Boys team easily overcame their opponents, scoring 153 points and Tillamook finished a distant second at 127.5 points.

The McKenzie Boys team earned 28 points for a ninth place finish and as with their Eagle girls teammates, were the highest Class 1A team finish. Scio finished third with 60 pts., followed by Gervais 52.17 pts., Kennedy 49 pts., Dayton 45.5 pts., North Marion 43.33 pts., Taft 39 pts., McKenzie 28 pts., Veritas 26 pts., Siletz Valley 21.5 pts., and Perrydale with 9 pts.

Jacob Norlund Improves PB Javelin Nearly Six Feet

Will Meister Sets New 1500m Pbs

Eagle sophomore Jacob Norlund has tacked on nearly 15 feet to his Personal Best in the javelin this season. Norlund threw a 131′ 0 mark in his opening meet, the Inauguaral Purple Track Icebreaker (Elmira) on March 18. He followed that with a 140′ 8 mark at the Aaron and Marie Jones Invitational on April 11 and then set his latest PB, of 146′ 6 at the North Marion Invitational on Saturday, which earned him a 4th place finish. Vinny Arnold of North Marion won the event with a 180′ 3 stick. Other Eagle javelin finishers were: Owen Young 15th 103′ 1.5‚ Cyrus Bennett 21st 80′ 7‚ Silas Jones 23rd 75′ 2 PB.

McKenzie senior Will Meister brought home a couple of 3rd place finishes, including lowering his time in the 1500m to a Personal Best of 4:40.16 minutes. Davin Olson of Estacada won the 1500m in 4:36.63 min and Eagle Cyrus Sughroue finished 6th in 4:43.04 min., a PB. Meister’s 3rd place time in the 3000m was 10:57.36 min. and that event was won by Tillamook’s Diego Velazquez in 9:05.67 min.

Eagle Elijah Santiago finished 6th in the 200m, posting a 24.75 seconds time and teammate William Valtinson finished 8th in 25.03 sec. Elyjah Graham of Estacada won the event in 23.98 sec. Sughroue finished 12th in the 800m. with a time of 2:26.74 min., a PB time, and teammate Rylee Davis finished 22nd in 2:37.40 min., also a PB.

Ryan Sheets of Tillamook won the 800m in 2:02.50 min. The 100m was won by Thomas Classen of Estacada with a time of 11.44 sec. McKenzie’s Rhys Hamlow was the highest Eagle finisher at 15th in 12.49 sec., followed by Norlund 23rd 12.52 sec. PB, Auden Vailes 24th 12.84 sec. PB, and Owen Young 33rd 14.18 sec. PB.

Tillamook’s Enoch Wilson took 1st place honors in the 400m with a time of 51.38 sec. McKenzie’s Avery Thomas Purcell finished 16th in 1:05.54 min., Rylee Davis 17th in 1:07.10 min PB, and Bennett 18th in 1:07.62 min. PB.

The Eagle 4×100 Relay quartet of Hamlow, Norlund, Santiago, and Andrew Munoz Brown finished 5th with a time of 47.85 seconds.

Dayton’s foursome of Zakery Olson, Asher Maxwell, Johnathan Mendez, and Erik Chinchilla ran the fastest 4×100 Relay time of the day, 45.43 seconds.

Hamlow finished tied for 11th in the long jump competition, leaping 17′ 3.75. Kol Tolan of Taft won the event with a 20′ 11 jump. Other Eagle long jump finishers were Vailes 23rd 15’3 and Thomas Purcell 29th 13′ 5.75 PB. The triple jump was also won by Taft’s Tolan, who hop, skipped and jumped 41′ 1.5 for the win. Eagles Young finished 15th at 30′ 1 PB and Thomas Purcell finished 16th at 29′ 4.5 PB.

Samuel Astanin of Estacada won the shot put, throwing the iron ball 52′ 0.5. McKenzie’s Noah Borden took 12th place with a throw of 37′ 8 PB and Jones 22nd 24′ 7. Borden also finished 14th in the discus throw with a mark of 91′ 5. Estacada’s Astanin won the discus with a throw of 148′ 6.

Other boys events winners were: 110m Hurdles Chinchilla, Dayton 15.62 sec., 300m Hurdles Chinchilla, Dayton, 42.03 sec., 4x400m Relay (Andres Morales Garcia, Velazquez, Sheets, Wilson) Tillamook 3:36.87 minutes, High Jump Ron Andres, Gervais 6′ 0, Pole Vault Jack Forson, Scio 13′ 6.

Eagle Soph Zyla Drake Sets 1500 m Personal Best

Earns Third Place Finish At North Marion Invitational

McKenzie sophomore Zyla Drake established a new Personal Best in the 1500 meters last Saturday at the North Marion Invitational meet, running the distance race in a new personal time of 5:46.75 minutes. That time placed her in 3rd place behind winner, Ren Suo of Estacada, who finished in 5:37.02 min. Drake took home another 3rd place finish in the 3000 meters, finishing that race in 12:50.26 min. Drake’s PB 12:38.07 min. in the 3000 meters was established earlier this season at the Aaron and Marie Jones Invitational.

At North Marion, teammate Myra Dion placed 4th with a time of 13:31.34 min. Dion also placed 5th in the 800 meters, setting a new PB of her own, with a finish time of 2:50.03 min.

Eagle Claire Weiss set her new PB in the 200 meters, finishing 4th in a time of 28.65 seconds. Magdelen Gehred of Estacada won the event in 28.01 sec. Adrin Vogel of Tillamook won the 100 meters in 12.78 sec. McKenzie’s Liliana Jones finished in 21st place with a time of 14.85 sec. and teammate Ally Peek finished 25th in 15.63 sec. PB.

The McKenzie 4x100m Relay team comprised of Jones, Mira Willis, Nelli Sullivan, and Claire Weiss, finished in 3rd place with a time of 55.39 sec. Taft’s team of Kasey Lee, Katelyn Holmes, Ava Zalewski, and Laney Lee won the event in 50.18 sec.

In the field events, Grace Weiss led the Eagle efforts with an 8th place mark in the triple jump measured at 26′ 4.5. Nora Shepherd of Dayton won with a jump of 33′ 8. Grace Weiss also finished 15th in the long jump leaping 13′ 05. The long jump was won by Ruthanna Wilson of Tillamook with a good mark of 16′ 4.5. The shot put event was won by Rylee Huerta of Tillamook, who threw the shot 39′ 10.5. Claire Weiss finished the shot put in 13th place with a throw of 22′ 4.5, a PB. Teammate Ally Peek finished 20th at 17′ 0.

Other girls event winners were: 400 meters Magdelen Gehred, Estacada 1:03.89 min., 100m Hurdles Laney Lee, Taft, 15.79 sec., 300m Hurdles Ruthanna Wilson, Tillamook, 48.17 sec., 4x400m Relay (Katelyn Holmes, Aida Lupo, Ava Zalewski, and Laney Lee) Taft, 4:10.86 min., Discus Hadley Hughes, Dayton, 130′ 4, Javelin Hughes, Dayton, 129′ 4, High Jump Nora Shepherd, Dayton, 4′ 10‚Äù, and Pole Vault Austynn Garrison, Kennedy 8′ 0.