McKenzie Sports Report – April 30

McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week

The McKenzie Varsity Track and Field teams travel to Harrisburg on Friday, May 1, to participate in the Harrisburg Twilight Meet. The meet will be held at Legends Field on the campus of Harrisburg High School. Field events start at 4:30 pm and track events begin at 5:30 pm.

Eagle Tracksters, Boys And Girls

Both Place 4th At Buckaroo Round-Up

The McKenzie Boys and Girls Track and Field teams both roped a fourth place finish at the St. Paul Buckaroo Round-Up track meet last Thursday, April 23. The Gervais Cougars won the boys varsity 10-team competition, earning 169 points, and easily outdistanced second place C.S. Lewis Academy of Newberg, which finished with 125.5 points. Host St. Paul took third with 76 points and McKenzie finished fourth with 69 points.

Other scores in the boy’s team race were: Dufur, fifth 61.5 pts. Veritas, sixth 56 pts., Eddyville, seventh 28 pts., Gaston, eighth 15 pts., Oregon School for the Deaf, ninth 6 pts., and Falls City, tenth 4 pts.

The St. Paul Buckaroos varsity girl’s team kept the first place honors at home with a 134-point day at the track. The Dufur Rangers finished second with 100 points; C.S. Lewis Academy took third with 66 points and the McKenzie Eagle girl’s team finished fourth with 54 points.

The rest of the girl’s teams finished as follows: Veritas, fifth 45 pts. Eddyville, sixth 37 pts., Gervais, seventh 30 pts., Chemawa, eighth 25 pts., Willamette Valley Christian, ninth 16 pts., Falls City, tenth 6 pts., and Oregon School for the Deaf, eleventh 2 pts.

Norlund Wins Javelin At Buckaroo Round Up

Zyla Drake Tags A First In The 3000 Meters

Eagle sophomore Jacob Norlund currently owns the eighth best Class 1A javelin throw this season, a personal best 146 ft. 6 inches, earned on April 18, at the North Marion Invitational. He is within a couple of feet of the sixth best throw of 148 ft. 4 inches by Elijah Humphreys of Southwest Christian.

Norlund is throwing consistently as of late; evidence his 144 ft. 7.5 inches, first place throw, at the St. Paul Buckaroo Round-Up meet last week. He still has his work laid out for him if he desires to improve his PB and move up the State rankings and he has five more meet opportunities to accomplish that prior to the OSAA State Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field on Thursday, May 28.

The top throw in the Class 1A ranks currently is Pacific’s Landon Spalasso, who uncorked a 184 ft. 7 inch stick on April 7 at The Bandon JV Challenge. That’s also the tenth best throw all State Classifications, 1A-6A. William Williams of Cove is right behind Spalasso with a mark of 182 ft. 9 in., followed by three throwers with marks in the mid to lower 160s range.

You will want to keep an eye on Mr. Norlund’s efforts the rest of the season. The Eagle is sitting in second place in the District 2 javelin standings today, and you got it, right behind the State leader, Mr. Spalasso. But the District 2 third through seventh place throwers also own 140 ft. plus throws this season. Since just two athletes from each District qualify for the OSAA State Championship meet, the District meet at McKenzie on May 22 should prove to be an interesting battle of the spears.

McKenzie sophomore Zyla Drake won the 3000 meter race at the Buckaroo Round-Up, her first race victory this season. Drake is also setting her eyes on earning one of the two 3000 meter State qualifying berths and currently sits fourth in the District 2 standings. As with her male teammate, Norlund, she has a bit of work ahead of her to accomplish that goal. Drake’s PB time of 12:38.07 minutes set at the Aaron and Marie Jones Invitational on April 11 follows District 2 third place Carolyne Koehler, who owns a 12:09.87 time. Mapleton’s Natalee Stevens sits in first place with a time of 11:18.64 minutes and Triangle Lake’s Austyn Hartwig is second at 11:42.51 minutes. Drake has her work cut out, but as they say in track, there’s time!

Eagle Girls’ Claire Weiss Takes Second/Fifth/Ninth

Willis And Dion Set New Pbs

McKenzie track athlete Claire Weiss had a busy day at the Buckaroo Round-Up. The Eagle soph finished her 400 meter race with a season best, second place, 1:04.42 minutes (just behind winner Ellie Brock of Dufur, 1:03.29 min.), a fifth place finish in the 200 meters (28.70 sec.), and a ninth place, personal best, finish in the shot put (22 ft. 5.5 inches.

Teammates, senior Myra Dion set her own personal best in the 1500 meters finishing the race in 5:51.83 minutes, a fourth place finish, and right behind teammate Zyla Drake, who took third with a time of 5:50.37 min. Dion added a third place finish in the 800 meters with a time of 3:01.35 min. Finishing third behind Weiss in the 400 meters, Eagle freshman Mira Willis ran a personal best time of 1:10.00 min. McKenzie junior Liliana Jones ran the 100 meters in 14.72 sec, a sixth place finish and her teammates, senior Mady Groggins, finished thirteenth in a personal best time of 15.39 seconds and freshman Ally Peek, fifteenth, in a time of 16.02 sec. Following Weiss in the 200 meters, freshman Nelli Sullivan set her new personal best time, 30.40 sec., placing seventh, and senior Mackenzie Wickizer ran a PB time of 34.65 sec., good for a twelfth place finish.

Eagle senior Grace Weiss brought home a fifth place finish in her signature event, the long jump, posting a 12 ft. 4 inch mark. Sophomore teammate Lillia Meister jumped 9 feet 10 inches for a tenth place finish.

Other girls event winners were: 100 meters: Emily Sturdevant, C.S. Lewis Academy 13.54 sec.; 200 meters: E. Sturdevant, C.S. Lewis Academy 27.55 sec.; 400 meters: Ellie Brock, Dufur 1:03.29 min.; 800 meters: E. Brock, Dufur 2:39.21 min.; 1500 meters: Esme Clair, Veritas 5:33.06 min.; 3000 meters: Zyla Drake, McKenzie 12:44.76 min.; 100m Hurdles: Hannah Johnson, C.S Lewis Academy 19.34 sec.; 300m Hurdles: H. Johnson. C.S. Lewis Academy 55.50 sec.; 4×100 Relay: St. Paul, (Madison Schindler, Vanessa Mora-Romero, Lola Hiller, Sienna Meza) 56.50 sec.; 4×400 Relay, St. Paul (M. Schindler, V. Mora-Romero, L. Hiller, S. Meza) 4:30.07 min.; Shot Put: Hailee Pechanec, Dufur 29 ft. 3.5 in.; Discus: H. Pechanec, Dufur 91 ft. 5.5 in.; Javelin: H. Johnson, C.S. Lewis Academy 94 ft. 2 in.; High Jump: H. Johnson, C.S. Lewis Academy 4 ft. 6 in.; Pole Vault: Emery Williams, St. Paul 6 ft. 6 in.; Long Jump: M. Schindler, St. Paul 13 ft. 2.5 in.

Rhys Hamlow Vaults/Elijah Santiago Sprints To Second Place,

William Valtinson, Will Meister, Noah Borden

Claim Third Place Finishes

McKenzie junior Rhys Hamlow pole vaulted 9 feet 6 inches to finish in second place at the Buckaroo Round-Up track meet. Hamlow finished behind winner Alex Lezama of Gervais, who cleared the bar with a PB 10 ft. 3 in. Eagle senior teammate Elijah Santiago sprinted to a second place finish in the 200 meters, timed at 24.83 seconds, and junior William Valtinson, finished literally, right on Santiago’s tail feathers, in third place, with a personal best time of 24.84 seconds. Junior Auden Vailes set a PB in the event with a tenth place time of 27.10 sec.

Valtinson also finished eighth in the 100 meters, establishing another PB time of 12.60 sec. McKenzie soph Amir Enfield ran the 100 m. in 13.07 sec., an eleventh place finish. Eagle freshman Cyrus Bennett finished the 400 meters in twelfth place with a time of 1:10.41 min. Senior Will Meister garnered a new PB in the 800 meters, 2:12.48 minutes, a fifth place finish and the Eagle distance runner finished the 1500 meters in a third place time of 4:41.44 min. Freshman Cyrus Sughroue liked the feel of a PB, so he set one in the 800 meters, finishing that race in 2:19.92 min., an eleventh place finish. Fellow freshman Rylee Davis took home a sixteenth place finish in the event at 2:38.99 min. Davis also ran a tenth place time, 5:39.87 min., in the 1500 m.

The Eagle 4×400 Relay quartet consisting of Sughroue, Valtinson, Santiago, and freshman Fen Willis, finished that race in fourth place, posting a time of 4:01.88 min.

In the field events, Eagle junior Noah Borden set his new PB in the Discus, throwing the plate 97 ft. 3.5 in. Freshman Silas Jones followed in eighteenth place at 48 ft. 1 in. Borden also claimed a fifth place finish in the Shot Put event with a toss of 35 ft. 4 in. Eagle freshman Anthony Hunter threw an eleventh place PB mark of 28 ft. 7 inches and Jones a PB thirteenth place mark of 26 ft. 3.5 in.

In the Javelin event, sophomore Owen Young finished behind McKenzie winner Jacob Norlund (144 ft. 7.5 in.) with a sixth place mark of 104 ft. 9 inches and Bennett finished fifteenth at 81 ft. 6 in. Hamlow earned a fifth place finish in the Long Jump, leaping 17 ft. 4 inches and he was followed by teammates Vailes in eleventh place, 15 ft. 7 inches and sophomore Avery Thoms Purcell, who finished with a PB, fifteenth place mark of 13 ft. 9 in. McKenzie’s Enfield took home a fifth place triple jump mark of 34 ft. 11 inches, a new PB for the Eagle sophomore, and Young followed in ninth place with a jump of 28 ft. 4 in.

Other boys events winners were: 100 m: Addison Long, C.S. Lewis Academy 11.83 sec.; 200 m: A. Long, C.S. Lewis Academy 24.04 sec.; 400 m: Elias Keyser, C.S. Lewis Academy 58.36 sec.; 800 m: Chase Ramirez, St. Paul 2:08.75 min.; 1500 m: Isaac Owen, C.S. Lewis Academy 4:30.95 min.; 3000 m: Malachi Keyser, C.S. Lewis Academy 10:44.59 min.; 110m Hurdles: Noah del Rio, Veritas 17.59 sec.; 300m Hurdles: N. del Rio, 43.38 sec.; 4×100 Relay: Gervais (Alex Lezama, Eduardo Veytia, Lincoln Jones, Ben Cam) 46.43 sec.; 4×400 Relay: Dufur (Zeb Stelzer, Noah Coleman, Chase Richards, Ian Pechanec) 3:45.79 min.; Shot Put: Mitchell Boyd, Gervais 42 ft. 5 in.; Discus: Mitchell Boyd, Gervais 115 ft. 2 in.; Javelin: J. Norlund, McKenzie 144 ft. 7.5 in.; High Jump: Branson Cook, St. Paul 5 ft. 10 in.; Pole Vault: Alex Lezama, Gervais, 10 ft. 3 in.; Long Jump: Ben Cam, Gervais 19 ft. 6 in.; Triple Jump: B. Cook, St. Paul 39 ft. 2 in.