McKenzie Sports Report – May 14
McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week
The McKenzie Varsity Track and Field teams travel to St. Paul on Tuesday, May 12, to participate in the Austin Smith Thrower’s Invite. The Field events start at 3:00 pm and there will be no running events.
McKenzie will host, in cooperation with the McKenzie Community Track and Field, on Thursday, May 14, the inaugural West Cascade Classic. The event will take place at the Aaron and Marie Jones Community Track. Field events start at 3:00 pm and Track events will begin at 4:00 pm.
McKenzie Boys 8th, Girls 10th
At Junction City Invitational
The McKenzie Boys Track and Field team earned 811 points at the Junction City Invitational meet to place eighth in the team competition. Eighteen teams participated and host Junction City won top team honors with 1731.5 points earned. Siusluw finished second with 1326.5 pts. followed by Churchill in third with 1244.5, Elmira fourth with 1208, and Harrisburg fifth at 1163.
Other boys team finishes were: Creswell sixth 1144, Elkton seventh 931.5, McKenzie eighth 811, Santiam Christian ninth 792.5, Amity tenth 761, Sheridan eleventh 706, Toledo twelfth 703, North Douglas thirteenth 608, Crow fourteenth 555, Lowell fifteenth 548, Eddyville sixteenth 439.5, Alsea seventeenth 279, and Eugene Christian eighteenth 215.
The Eagle Girls Track and Field team brought home a tenth place finish with 531 points scored. As with the Boys team competition, host Junction City won the day with 2180 points. Siuslaw girls also took second with 1476.5 pts. and the Churchill girls, as with their boys team, finished third with 1140 pts. Creswell finished fourth at 1118 and Toledo took fifth at 1068.
Other girls team finishes were: Elmira sixth 975, North Douglas seventh 865, Santiam Christian eighth 659, Amity ninth 648, McKenzie tenth 531, Harrisburg eleventh 435, Crow twelfth 419, Eddyville thirteenth 372, Elkton fourteenth 367 Sheridan fifteenth 353.5, Alsea sixteenth 332, Eugene Christian seventeenth 132, and Lowell eighteenth 77.
Jacob Norlund Second With PB In Javelin
Amir Enfield Second With PB in Triple Jump
A pair of Eagle sophomores led their team at the Junction City Invitational with second place finishes in their premier events. Jacob Norlund continues to inch closer to the McKenzie High School record in the javelin throw (new implement) as he set another Personal Best throw of 148 ft. 1 inch. Austin Wilhite currently owns the Eagle record with a mark of 150 ft. 1 in., set in 2004. Norlund will have three, perhaps four more opportunities to capture the Eagle record this season.
McKenzie travels to St. Paul on May 12, hosts the West Cascade Classic on May 14, and is home at the 1A-SD2 Special District meet on May 22. Should Norlund qualify for State in the District meet, he will perform at Hayward on May 28. Eagle teammate Amir Enfield’s second place jump in the Triple Jump was marked at 37 ft. 7.25 in., better than a foot past his old best, 36 ft. 7 in., set the week prior at the Harrisburg Twilight Meet.
Freshman Fen Willis was the highest Eagle finisher in the 400 meters, seventh with a PB time of 54.03 sec. Teammate Cyrus Bennett finished twenty-fifth at 1:10.02 min. McKenzie senior Elijah Santiago set a PB, tenth place time, 11.82 sec., in the 100 meters and he was followed by Eagle junior William Valtinson, who set his own PB time of 12.18 sec., good for twentieth place. Also in the race, sophomore Owen Young finished forty-third with a PB time of 13.82 sec. Valtinson ran a 24.62 sec. 200 meters race, which placed him tenth.
McKenzie’s Rylee Davis, a freshman athlete, set a PB, fifteenth place time, 2:35.08 min., in the 800 meters. Senior Will Meister had the fastest Eagle time in the 1500 meters, 4:47.26 minutes, which placed him eighteenth. Davis set his second PB of the day with a twenty-ninth place time of 5:25.85 min. Meister’s time of 11:10.56 minutes placed him tenth in the 3000 meters.
In the field events, Eagle junior Noah Borden finished twenty-fifth in the shot put with a throw of 32 ft. 0 in. Freshman teammate Anthony Hunter took thirty-second with a PB throw of 30 ft. 1.25 in. Also in the event, Eagle freshman Silas Jones threw the shot 22 ft. 0.25 in., good for forty-second. Borden was twenty-third place finisher in the discus, throwing the implement 90 ft. 4 in. Norlund followed in thirtieth with a throw of 81 ft. 4 in. Jones followed his teammates in forty-second place with a throw of 54 ft. 3 in. Following Norlund’s second place throw in the javelin, Young threw the spear 107 ft. 7 in., for a twentieth place finish. Jones finished thirty-third at 85 ft. 2 in.
Enfield had the longest long jump for an Eagle at the meet, landing in the sand at 17 ft. 6.5 in. Young landed at 13 ft. 9.5 in., which placed him thirty-first. And following Enfield’s second place triple jump, Eagle sophomore Avery Thoms Purcell finished the triple jump in eleventh place with a mark of 31 ft. 0.75 in., a new PB.
Boys event winners were: 100 meters: Chase Eichler, Sheridan 11.39 sec.; 200 meters: Thomas Morgan, Siuslaw 22.53 sec.; 400 meters: Morgan, Siuslaw 51.01 sec.; 800 meters: Henry Stone, Siuslaw 2:00.38 min.; 1500 meters: Stone, Siuslaw 4:09.80 min.; 3000 meters: Lincoln Criddle, Creswell 9:28.70 min.; 110m Hurdles: Andrew Houx, Elkton 15.90 sec.; 300m Hurdles: Houx, Elkton 43.13 sec.; 4×100 Relay: Elkton (Brennan Buss, Darwin Hudson, Houx, Brayden Schmidt) 45.51 sec.; 4×400 Relay: Junction City (Dacen Thornton, Joseph Miranda, Braeden Thelander, Charly Gambee) 3:38.14 min.; Shot Put: Kaleb Moore, Junction City 61 ft. 9 in. Moore’s shot put mark is the longest throw in the State of Oregon this season for all Classifications; Discus: Moore, Junction City 169 ft. 9 in.; Javelin: Moore, Junction City 150 ft. 4 in.; High Jump: Titus Cain, Harrisburg 5 ft. 8 in.; Pole Vault: Michael Johnson, Churchill 13 ft. 0 in.; Long Jump: Johnson, Churchill, 20 ft. 9.5 in.; Triple Jump: Carson Ewan, Lowell 39 ft. 7.25 in.
Zyla Drake Third/Myra Dion Fifth
In 3000 Meters At Junction City
Eagle sophomore Zyla Drake set a new Personal Best time in the 3000 meters race at the Junction City Invitational last week. Drake’s time of 12:23.42 minutes placed her third in the race. Senior teammate Myra Dion, not to be outdone, also set a PB time of 12:39.18 min., placing her fifth. Drake established a second PB time in the 1500 meters, running the distance in 5:44.41 min., which placed her ninth in that race.
Dion finished tenth in the 800 meters with a time of 2:58.81 min. McKenzie sophomore Claire Weiss ran a ninth place, PB time in the 200 meters. She was clocked at 28.63 seconds and her freshman teammate Nelli Sullivan finished sixteenth with a time of 30.52 sec. Claire Weiss also had a ninth place finish in the 400 meters, setting a season best time of 1:03.64 min. Eagle senior Grace Weiss ran the 100 meters in 14.97 seconds, which placed her twenty-fourth. The Eagle quartet consisting of Sullivan, Liliana Jones, Mira Willis, and Claire Weiss placed third in the 4×100 Relay with the time of 54.02 sec.
Claire Weiss threw the shot put 22 ft. 0 in., an eighteenth place finish. Sister teammate Grace Weiss added a fourteenth place finish in the long jump event, leaping 13 ft. 6.75 in. and she set a new PB mark in the triple jump, 27 ft. 5.25 in., which placed her thirteenth.
Girls events winners were: 100 meters: Valeri Gingerich, Junction City 12.68 sec.; 200 meters: Jordyn Lee, Creswell 26.31 sec.; 400 meters: Lee, Creswell 59.18 sec.; 800 meters: Adelyn Grassman, Harrisburg 2:30.83 min.; 1500 meters: Laynee Adkins-Stewart, Santiam Christian 4:54.00 min.; 3000 meters: Adkins-Stewart 10.49.14 min.; 100m Hurdles: Mila Nguyen, Creswell 16.53 sec.; 300m Hurdles: Kylie Leonard, Creswell 47.70 sec.; 4×100 Relay: Junction City (Paige Brougher, Gingerich, Gretchen Tracer, Scarlett Painter) 50.49 sec.; 4×400 Relay: Junction City (Gingerich, Evalyn Buenau, Tracer, Lola Esplin) 4:01.49 min. This is the fastest Class 4A time this season in the 4×400 Relay event. The Creswell team (Kiannah Bailey, Harper Artz, Kylie Leonard, and Jordyn Lee) that finished second in 4:06.98 min. set the fastest Class 3A time in the State this season; Shot Put: Danin Lacouture, Siuslaw 38 ft. 3.5 in.; Discus: Maely Chiang, Siuslaw 115 ft. 11 in.; Javelin: Marley Piscopo, North Douglas 102 ft. 0 in.; High Jump: Aidell Cadet, Siuslaw 5 ft. 0 in.; Pole Vault: Olivia DeVore, Churchill 11 ft. 6 in.; Long Jump: Adison Kleinke, Churchill 18 ft. 8.75 in.; Triple Jump: Cadet, Siuslaw 38 ft. 2.75 in. Cadet’s mark is the longest Class 3A triple jump this season.