McKenzie Sports Report – May 21

McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week

The McKenzie Varsity Track and Field teams participate in the 1A‚ SD2 Special District 2 Championships to be held at the Aaron and Marie Jones Community Track on Friday, May 22. Field events will start at 10:00 am and track events will begin at 11:00 am.

Eagle Throwers Participate In Austin Smith Throwers Invite

Jacob Norlund Wins Javelin Competition

Six Eagle throwers traveled to St. Paul on Tuesday, May 12, for the opportunity to compete with counterparts from nine other teams, mostly located in the northwest quarter of the State. Teams hailing from host St. Paul, Clatskanie, Crosshill Christian, Falls City, Oregon School for the Deaf, Gervais, Jewell, Knappa, and Willamina joined the McKenzie team for a meet featuring the Shot Put, Discus, and Javelin throwing events.

Knappa won the Boys team competition with a score of 43 points, followed by Willamina with 20, St. Paul with 19, Gervais 15, McKenzie 14, Crosshill Christian 4 and Falls City with 2 points.

Crosshill Christian won the Girls team competition, narrowly defeating Knappa, 37 points to 35 points. Clatskanie finished third with 23 points, followed by St. Paul with 18 and Willamina 4 points.

McKenzie’s Claire Weiss was the lone Eagle girl athlete in the competition and thus did not figure in the team scores. Weiss finished 11th in the Javelin event with a throw of 18.80 meters (61 ft. 8 in.), 15th in the Discus with a toss of 16.24m (53 ft. 3.25 in.), and she finished 18th in the Shot Put with a throw of 7.04m (23 ft. 1 in.).

The Girls Javelin was won by Crosshill Christian’s Kasey Zuidema with a throw of 40.86m (134 ft. 0.5 in.) a Personal Best mark and the State’s best Class 2A mark this season. Zuidema also won the Shot Put, throwing another Personal Best mark of 11.91m (39 ft. 0.75 in.), which is also the Class 2A State best, throw this season.

Lucy Oien of Knappa won the Girls Discus with a throw of 36.68m (120 ft. 4 in.), narrowly defeating Zuidema who finished with a throw of 34.85m (114 ft. 4 in.).

McKenzie’s Jacob Norlund won his signature event, the Javelin, sticking the 800 g. implement at 44.48 meters (145 ft. 11.25 in.). Teammates Owen Young finished 12th with a throw of 30.01m (98 ft. 5.5 in.) and Silas Jones finished 21st with his throw marked at 23.41m (76 ft. 9.5 in.).

In the Boys Shot Put, Eagle Noah Borden placed 5th with his throw of 11.38m (37 ft. 4 in.). Teammate Anthony Hunter took home a 15th place finish at 9.19m (30 ft. 1.75 in.) and Jones finished 25th, 7.89m (25 ft. 10.5 in.). Tanner Cagwin, a senior athlete out of Knappa, set a Personal Best winning mark, in the Shot Put, measured at 13.21m (43 ft. 4 in.). Cagwin also won the Discus event with a throw of 38.74m (127 ft. 1.25 in.). Borden was the Eagle’s highest finisher, 11th, with his throw of 28.08m (92 ft. 1.5 in.). Eagle freshman Jones set a Personal Best mark of 18.00m (59 ft. 0.5 in.) good for a 25th place finish and sophomore Owen Young set his new PB mark of 13.97m (45 ft. 10 in.), finishing him 31st.

McKenzie Boys and Girls Host And Win

Inaugural West Cascade Classic

McKenzie Community Track and Field and McKenzie High School hosted the first West Cascade Classic held at Aaron and Marie Jones last Thursday, May 14, and the home teams took home top honors. Eleven teams competed in the event.

The McKenzie Boys won the day with 105 points earned, easily outdistancing the second place team, Crow, which finished with 81.5 points. Triangle Lake finished third with 77 points, followed by Yoncalla with 67, Monroe 63, Mohawk 59.5, Mapleton 52, Oakridge 30, Siletz Valley 9, Eugene Christian 9, and Alsea 4 points.

The McKenzie Girls competition was a bit closer as the Eagles finished with 90 points chased by Crow in second with 83 points. Mohawk finished third at 72 points followed by Mapleton with 58, Triangle Lake 56, Monroe 48, Yoncalla 27, Oakridge 20, Alsea 17, Siletz Valley 12 and Eugene Christian with 6 points.

Eagle Relays Lead Boys To Victory

Norlund Captures Another First Javelin

Hamlow Wins The Pole Vault

The McKenzie Boys Relay teams each won the day, Eagle sophomore Jacob Norlund took first place in the Javelin, and junior Rhys Hamlow cleared the tallest Pole Vault bar, to lead their team to victory in the inaugural West Cascade Classic. The McKenzie 4×100 Relay team of Hamlow, William Valtinson, Elijah Santiago, and Andrew Munoz Brown won the event with a time of 46.55 seconds. Mohawk finished 2nd in 47.75 seconds. The Eagle 4×400 Relay’s winning time was 3:54.10 minutes and that quartet was Fen Willis, Hamlow, Santiago, and Valtinson. Norlund, who continued his consistency in the Javelin, earned a first place mark this outing with a winning throw of 43.75m (143 ft. 6.5 in.). Gabrial Rosen of Yoncalla finished 2nd with a PB throw of 42.52m (139 ft. 6 in.). McKenzie’s Owen Young took a 10th place finish home, 32.26m (105 ft. 10 in.) and Eagle teammate, freshman Cyrus Bennett threw a PB mark of 30.03m (98 ft. 6.25 in.), good for a 13th place finish.

Hamlow’s winning Pole Vault height was 2.74m (8 ft. 11.75 in.) and Loki Allen, a freshman out of Mapleton finished 2nd with a PB height of 2.44m (8 ft. 0 in.). Noah Borden finished 6th in the Shot Put with a throw of 11.14m (36 ft. 6.5 in.). Anthony Hunter established a PB mark of 9.62m (31 ft. 6.75 in.), which placed him 12th. Yoncalla’s Corbin Russell won the Shot Put with a toss of 14.92m (48 ft. 11.25 in.). Crow’s Cayden Hernandez won the Discus with a throw of 43.75m (143 ft. 6.5 in.) and Borden finished 10th at 28.03m (91 ft. 11.5 in.).

In the Long Jump, Crow freshman Aiden De Leon, took top honors with a PB jump of 5.59m (18 ft. 4 in.), just beating Ian Holmes of Yoncalla, who had jumped his PB of 5.53m (18 ft. 1.75 in.). McKenzie’s Amir Enfield took 7th at 5.00m (16 ft. 4.75 in.), Auden Vailes finished 10th at 4.79m (15 ft. 85 in.) and Owen Young set a PB 12th place mark of 4.59m (15 ft. 0.75 in.). Enfield placed 4th in the Triple Jump, 10.34m (33 ft. 11 in.) and that event was won by Crow’s Luke Storie with a PB jump of 11.09m (36 ft. 4.5 in.). The High Jump was won by Hunter Thelander of Triangle Lake who cleared the bar at 1.65m (5 ft. 5 in.), a Personal Best.

In the West Cascade Classic Boys running events, Mohawk’s Corbin Dalton finished 1st in the 100 meters sprint, setting a PB time of 11.96 seconds. McKenzie’s Andrew Munoz Brown and Auden Vailes both set new PB times while finishing 3rd (12.38 sec.) and 4th (12.57 sec.) respectively. Teammates Avery Thoms Purcell and Owen Young followed suit with PB times, Purcell at 13.50 sec. (11th place) and Young at 13.57 sec. (13th). Oakridge senior Lee Brainard, who set a PB time of 23.66 sec, won the 200 meters. That just did beat Eagle William Valtinson in 2nd at 23.96 seconds and Elijah Santiago in 3rd at 24.12 seconds. Both Valtinson and Santiago times were Personal Bests.

Freshman Rylee Davis had the highest Eagle finish in the 400 meters, 8th, with a time of 1:06.93 minutes. Mohawk’s Dalton won that event in 56.90 sec. Monroe freshman Dayton Lager won the 1500 meters in a time of 5:07.92 min. Eagle senior Will Meister finished 2nd in 5:16.80 min. and Davis took 3rd in 5:39.09 min. Meister’s time in the 3000 meters was a new Personal Best, 10:24.80 min, 3rd place time and Eagle freshman Cyrus Sughroue finished right behind in 4th with a PB time of 10:24.88 min. Ezra Pennel of Triangle Lake continued his District 2 dominance of the 3000 meters, taking the win this day with a season best time of 9:43.69 min. This is the Special District’s second best time this season only bested by the fastest time set by Mark Madsen of Crosspoint Christian, 9:15.03 minutes, set on April 17 in the 6th Annual Phillips-Klimek Distance Twilight.

Sughroue ran the fastest McKenzie time in the 2000m Steeplechase. His 5th place time was posted at 8:27.92 minutes. Meister followed with an 11th place finish time of 9:20.30 min. Monroe’s Aiden Koroush won the Steeplechase with a PB time of 6:55.20 min.

Other Boys event winners were 800 meters: Levi Betts, Crow 2:37.30 min.; 110m Hurdles: Tristen Adams, Triangle Lake 15.79 sec.; 300m Hurdles: Adams, Triangle Lake 39.53 sec.

Claire Weiss Wins 200 Meters

Eagle 4×400 Relay Team Takes A First

McKenzie sophomore Claire Weiss set a Personal Best in the West Cascade Classic 200 meters race and in the process found herself a 1st place finish. Weiss new PB time is 28:01 seconds, which just did beat out Monroe’s Miley Richardson, who finished 2nd in 28:03 sec. Richardson turned the tables in the 400 meters, winning that event in her own PB time of 1:02.60 min. Natalie Stevens of Mapleton finished in a close second with her PB time 1:02.80 min. and Claire Weiss was 3rd at 1:03.67 min. Richardson set a PB time in the 100 meters, winning with a time of 13.18 sec., which just beat out a charging Eagle freshman, Nelli Sullivan, who set her PB time of 13.97 seconds to claim 2nd place. Teammate Liliana Jones finished 4th at 14.30 seconds and Grace Weiss was 8th at 14.98 sec.

Mapleton’s Stevens won the 800 meters in a time of 2:39.90 min and she was followed by a couple of Eagles, Myra Dion in 2nd place at 2:50.44 minutes and Zyla Drake in 3rd place who set a PB time of 2:51.35 min. Stevens doubled up with a win in the 3000 meters, finishing the distance race in 11:22.54 min. Drake took 3rd in 12:30.65 minutes and Dion finished 4th in 13:18.18 min. Dion also took a 2nd place finish in the 2000m Steeplechase event, setting a PB time of 11:00.44 min. Mohawk’s Juliet Devenport easily won the Steeplechase with her PB time of 9:42.83 min.

McKenzie’s 4×400 Relay team had the fastest time of the day to claim 1st place and that was 4:58.06 min. The Eagle 4×400 Relay foursome was Grace Weiss, Mira Willis, Sullivan, and Drake.

Other Girls running events winners were: 1500 meters: Paisley Jacobsen, Alsea 6:13.35 min.; 110m Hurdles: Samara Baker, Triangle Lake 16.12 sec.; 300m Hurdles: Baker, Triangle Lake 49.55 sec. 4X100 Relay: Mohawk (Hannah Baker, Kassandra Turner, Mia Dalton, Juliet Davenport) 56.29 min. McKenzie’s Grace Weiss finished 2nd in the Triple Jump with a PB leap of 8.85m (29 ft. 0.5 in.). Crow’s Emma Green won the event at 9.68m (31 ft. 9 in.). Grace Weiss also placed 4th in the Long Jump event with a distance of 4.28m (14 ft. 0.5 in.). Teammate Lillia Meister finished 9th with a mark of 3.38m (11 ft. 1 in.), a new PB. The Long Jump was won by Yoncalla’s Kaydence Garrison, who set her PB mark of 4.90m (16 ft. 0.75 in.). The highest finish in the Discus was a PB mark set by Claire Weiss, whose throw of 18.09m (59 ft. 4.25 in.) placed her 5th. The Discus was won by Audrey Young out of Monroe, whose winning toss was 26.45m (86 ft. 9.25 in.). Other Girls field events winners were: Shot Put: Young, Monroe 10.41m (34 ft. 1.75 in.); Javelin: Emma Schafer, Crow 30.76m (100 ft. 11 in.); High Jump: Kaydence Garrison, Yoncalla 1.41m (4 ft. 7.5 in.); Pole Vault: Natalie Stevens, Mapleton 2.29m (7 ft. 6 in.).