McKenzie Sports Report – April 10

McKenzie Varsity Sports Schedule This Week

The McKenzie Varsity Track and Field Teams travel to Thurston High School on Saturday, April 12, to participate in the Smalls Schools Invitational. The first field events start at 11:00 am and the track events will begin at 12:00 pm.

Eagles Compete In Buckaroo Round Up

McKenzie Sr. Aytan Brown Takes First In 100 Meters

The McKenzie Track and Field teams traveled to St. Paul on Wednesday, April 2, to compete in the Buckaroo Round-Up track meet. Fourteen teams comprised the field of competitors at St. Paul High School. Vernonia won the Boys track meet with a runaway score of 152.5 points and Southwest Christian followed in second with 84 points. McKenzie placed eighth overall with 40 points earned.

In the girls competition, Southwest Christian took home first place team honors with 155.5 points earned and host St. Paul finished second with 103.5 points.

The McKenzie Eagle girls finished seventh with 45 points. Eagle senior Aytan Brown ran a personal record winning time in the 100 meters, finishing the sprint in 11.85 seconds, nudging out Dufur’s Nolan Cates, who finished second in 11.86 seconds. McKenzie junior Hayden Harbick added a thirteenth place mark with a time of 13.08 seconds.

In the 200 meters, freshman Liam Acevedo was the highest Eagle finisher, running the distance in 26.00 seconds, good for a fifth place time. Sophomore teammate William Valtinson added a thirteenth place finish with a time of 27.45 sec. Wyatt Miller of Vernonia won the 200 m. in 24.09 seconds.

The 400-meter race top honors went to Cannon McLeod of Vernonia with a finish time of 53.12 seconds. McKenzie senior Noah Prado established his new personal record time of 1:03.64 minutes, which was a thirteenth place finish.

Faith Bible Christian sophomore Ezra Niese won the 800 meters in a time of 2:08.62 minutes. McKenzie junior Will Meister ran a sixth place time of 4:59.42 minutes in the 1500 meters and followed with a new personal record 3,000 meter time of 10:48.69 minutes, which earned him second place. Zeb Stelzer of Dufur won the 3,000 m., posting a time of 10:41.54 minutes and Faith Bible Christian’s Niese earned his second win of the day in the 1500 m. with a PR time of 4:31.80 min.

Siletz Valley’s Kyler Adams took home first place in the 300m Hurdles with a season record time of 43.69 seconds and McKenzie junior Elijah Walline finished seventh at 52.13 seconds (a new PR) and Prado took tenth with a PR time of 59.48 seconds.

The Eagle quartet of Allen Acevedo, Liam Acevedo, Walline and Brown ran a 47.32 second, third place time in the 4×100 Relay. St. Paul finished first at 45.84 seconds.

In the 4×400 Relay, the Eagle team of Liam Acevedo, Walline, Meister, and Allen Acevedo finished the race in fifth place with a time of 3:59.97 minutes. Vernonia won the 4×400 Relay in a time of 3:41.98 minutes.

The field events found Siletz Valley’s Tyson Paul winning the shot put with a personal record throw of 36 ft. 6 inch. Eagle junior Jacob Peek finished ninth with a 29 ft. 1 in throw, Borden took fourteenth at 27 ft. 1 in. and sophomore Hayden Kumle wrapped up twenty-third with a toss of 23 ft. 7 in. Peek’s throw of 89 ft. 4 in., a new Personal Record, earned him seventh in the discus event. Borden also threw a PR mark of 75 ft. 2 in. and that finished him in twelfth place. Zachary Franco of Vernonia easily won the discus with a throw of 118 ft. 10 in. Mapleton senior Alex Burnett established a Personal Record in the javelin event edging out Vernonia’s Blake Pultz. Burnett’s throw was measured at 131 ft. 9 in and Pultz’s mark was 130 ft. 10 in. Eagle freshman Owen Young took thirteenth with a PR throw of 89 ft. 9 in. and Kumle followed in fourteenth with a mark of 83 ft. 4 in.

St. Paul’s Branson Cook, who cleared the bar at 5 ft. 8 in, won the high jump. McKenzie sophomore Rhys Hamlow cleared at 4 ft. 8 in., a twelfth place finishes. Senior Gaston pole-vaulter Tyler Harlow easily out jumped the competition winning the event with a cleared height of 12 ft. 6 in. That was 3 ft. over second place Noah Bateman of Vernonia at 9 ft. 6 in.

Hamlow finished ninth in the long jump for McKenzie, leaping 15 ft. 9.5 in. Vernonia’s Elam Cieloha won the long jump at 18 ft. 11 in. Branson Cook of St. Paul won the triple jump event with a mark measured at 41 ft. 4 in. Young of McKenzie finished in thirteenth with a jump of 26 ft. 3 in.

In the Girls competition, sophomore Liliana Jones was the top Eagle finisher in the 100 meters. Jones finished in 15.35 seconds and Cali Struk of Southwest Christian won that event in 13.93 seconds. Jones also finished eighth in the 200 meters, posting a time of 32.48 seconds, good for a personal record. Nevaeh Sewell of Southwest Christian won the 200 meters in a time of 28.78 seconds. Eagle freshman Claire Weiss ran a fifth place time of 1:12.30 minutes in the 400 meters and Ellie Brock of Dufur took home a first place finish in a PR time of 1:05.67 min.

June Aylward of Southwest Christian won the 800 meters in 2:45.63 min. Eagle junior Myra Dion followed in third place with her time of 3:13.71 min. and freshman teammate Zyla Drake followed with a seventh place time of 3:27.46 min. Weiss ran a Personal Record time in the 1500 meters, 6:33.95 min., which earned her a fifth place finish. Drake followed right behind with a sixth place time of 6:55.50 min.

Mapleton’s Lucie Burruss won the 3000 m. race in 13:02.67 min. and Dion took her second third place finish with a time of 14:01.05 min.

The girls Southwest Christian’s Sewell with a time of 17.71 sec won 100m Hurdles. Vernonia senior Momi Leininger, who crossed the finish line at 52.28 seconds, won the 300m Hurdles. Eagle Weiss crossed in 59.09 seconds, a fifth place finish.

The McKenzie team of sophomore Imani Hagins, Jones, senior Beckah Short, and Weiss placed third in the 4×100 Relay with a time of 1:02.80 min. and that event was won by Southwest Christian in 54.52 seconds. Southwest Christian also won the 300m Hurdles in a time of 4:42.79 min.

St. Paul’s Audra Rose won the shot put event with a toss of 30 ft. 4 in. The Eagle’s Short threw the implement 20 ft. 0 in, which placed her thirteenth. Rose of St. Paul doubled with a win in the discus, easily outdistancing the competition with her toss of 90 ft.1 in. Kaitlin Bunch of Southwest Christian finished second at 78 ft. 0 in. and Eagle teammates Short took twenty-second at 49 ft. 1 in. and freshman Courtney Garrelts was twenty-sixth at 25 ft. 6 in.

Vernonia senior Leininger, who threw the spear and stuck it at 96 ft. 10 in, won the javelin. McKenzie’s Dion finished with a tenth place stick at 64 ft. 2 in. and her junior teammate Linn Goette finished in twelfth place with a personal record 62 ft. 8 in. throw.

Addilyn Draeger of Vernonia won the high jump at 4 ft. 2 in. and Kathryn McCracken of Southwest Christian who cleared her bar at 6 ft.0 in won the pole vault. Ella Schram of Vernonia also cleared 6 ft. 0 in. but finished second on more attempts.

Sienna Meza of St. Paul, the freshman athlete jumping a personal record 13 ft. 8 in, won the long jump top honors. Jones of McKenzie finished eighth with a leap of 11 ft. 5 in. And Veritas sophomore Teagan McAndrews who jumped 25 ft. 10.5 in won the triple jump. McKenzie was represented by Weiss, who launched a personal record fifth place jump of 24 ft. 11 in. and Short, who jumped 21 ft. 9 in., which earned her a seventh place finish.

McKenzie Boys and Girls Track Teams

Both Eleventh At Petersen Memorial

McKenzie Boys and Girls track teams each finished their day at the office at the Petersen Memorial track meet with eleventh place finishes. Seventeen boys and girls teams competed in the meet held at Douglas High School last Saturday, April 5.

Phoenix won the Boys team race with 131.5 points and Illinois Valley took home second place with a 118 point score. McKenzie earned 16 points. Bandon ran away with the girl’s team race, out pointing second place Phoenix, 156 points to 97 points. McKenzie girls earned 21 points.

In the Boys competition, Thomas Ferren of Myrtle Point won the 100 meters race in 11.20 seconds. McKenzie’s Aytan Brown finished with an eighth place time of 11.92 seconds. Teammate Liam Acevedo finished in eighteenth with a time of 12.57 seconds, a personal record. Hayden Harbick also ran a PR time, taking thirtieth in a time of 12.97 seconds and teammate Rhys Hamlow finished in fortieth at 13.21 seconds.

The Eagle’s Owen Young also ran in the 100 meters and finished fifty-third with a time of 14.94 seconds, another PR time. In the 200 meters race, Brown brought home twelfth at 25.22 seconds, a new PR time for the Eagle senior. Liam Acevedo earned his own PR time of 25.50 seconds, good for seventeenth place and Eagle sophomore William Valtinson finished in twenty-third, with a PR time of 26.36 seconds. Hayden Harbick finished in thirty-first, with a PR time of 26.82 seconds.

Shya Teixeira of Illinois Valley in won the 200 meters; you guessed it, a PR time of 23.92 sec. Over in the 400 meters, Creswell’s Maosn Schartz finished the race in first place with a time of 53.43 seconds. Eagle Valtinson finished the race in twenty-first at a1:00.03 minutes, which was a PR for him.

William Pyeatt of Phoenix ran home a first place finish in the 800 meters, posting a 2:08.38 min. time. Will Meister of McKenzie took thirteenth with a time of 2:28.38 min. And Meister finished ninth in the 1500 meters with a time of 4:53.93 min.

Bandon’s Beckett Pahls ran a PR time of 4:40.08 min. to win the 1500 meters. And the Bandon freshman impressed his competition by doubling with a win in the 3000 meters, another PR time of 10:20.13 min.

Eagle Hamlow finished his 110m Hurdles race in fourth place, posting a time of 19.77 seconds; a PR. Shilo Farnsworth of Illinois won the event in 16.95 seconds, also a PR time. Farnsworth also won a double win, this one in the 300m Hurdles and his PR time in that event was 42.47 seconds.

Phoenix won the 4×100 Relay in 45.25 seconds and the McKenzie team of Allen Acevedo, Liam Acevedo, Elijah Walline, and Aytan Brown came in at fifth with a time of 46.80 seconds.

The 4×100 Throwers Relay was won by South Umpqua in a time of 50.96 seconds. McKenzie placed third in the 4×400 Relay, running the race in a time of 3:50.75 min. The Eagle team was comprised of Walline, Liam Acevedo, Meister, and Valtinson. Winning the 4×400 Relay was the team from Douglas, who posted a time of 3:46.74 minutes.

Sutherlin’s Rylan Bryant won the shot put with a PR throw of 52 ft. 7.5 in. Eagle Noah Borden finished in thirty-first place with a throw of 28 ft. 8.25 in. Teammate Hayden Kumle PR with a throw of 24 ft. 3.25 in and that qualified him for fifty-first place. Ryan Bryant of Sutherlin easily won the discus with a PR mark of 157 ft. 5 in. Second place went to Phoenix’s Elias Islas who also PR’d at 132 ft. 11 in. Borden took home thirty-seventh place at 68 ft. 5 in.

Illinois Valley’s Tanner Brazil took first in the javelin with a throw of 145 ft. 0 in. McKenzie freshman Jacob Norlund, fresh off a knee surgery, threw a PR mark of 112 ft. 0 in which earned him thirteenth. Kumle threw a PR mark of 96 ft. 6 in. for twenty-eighth and Owen Young finished thirty-sixth with a throw of 88 ft. 10 in. Eagle Allen Acevedo added another McKenzie PR mark, with a throw of 83 ft. 4 in.

Yoncalla’s Jayden Churchwell won the high jump with a cleared height of 6 ft. 2 in. The pole vault was won by Noah Brown of Bandon who PR’d at 13 ft. 0 in. At the long jump pit, Sutherlin’s Hunter VanBuren took first with a jump of 19 ft. 11 in. Rhys Hamlow of McKenzie finished fourteenth at 17 ft. 3 in. Walline jumped a new PR distance of 15 ft. 3 in. and Eagle Auden Vailes jumped a Personal Record mark of 14 ft. 9 in. Trenton Ladd of Days Creek, who leaped 39 ft. 6 in, won the triple jump event.

The girl’s competition found McKenzie’s Liliana Jones running a twenty-second place time of 14.82 seconds in the 100 meters. Bandon’s Marley Petrey won the race in 13.03 seconds. Makenna Vierck of Bandon won her 200-meter race with a time of 27.26 seconds. Claire Weiss of McKenzie placed fourth in the 400 meters with a PR time of 1:06.86 minutes. Journey Meyer of Creswell won that race in 1:00.21 minutes, also a PR time.

Eagle freshman Zyla Drake placed ninth in the 800 meters race with a new PR time of 3:17.04 min. Me Woodward of Phoenix won the 800 meters in 2:42.91 min., also a PR. Drake turned in a tenth place time of 6:44.25 min. in the 1500 meters and teammate Myra Dion finished with the fastest Eagle time at 6:17.99 minutes, which is a PR time for the junior athlete.

Elkton’s Madelin Byle won the 1500 meters in 5:47.16 min. Dion finished her 3000 meters in fifth place, running the distance race in 14:28.87 min. Bandon’s Maddie Pahls finished first in the 3000 meters, winning with a PR time of 13:23.32 min. Petra Archer of Elmira won the 100m Hurdles in 17.47 seconds and Jones placed ninth, running a PR time of 22.67 seconds. Clair Weiss established her PR time of 54.24 seconds in the 300m Hurdles; good for fourth place and Bandon’s Marley Petrey won that race in 47.46 seconds.

Elmira won the 4×100 Relay race in 52.47 seconds. McKenzie’s Imani Hagins, Liliana Jones, Beckah Short, and Claire Weiss finished the race in 1:03.29 minutes, which placed the team in seventh place.

The 4×100 Throwers Relay was won by Illinois Valley in a time of 1:04.04 min. Elmira took first in the 4×400 Relay, posting a time of 4:36.05 min. Saray Mendoza of Illinois Valley won the shot put with a top throw of 35 ft. 0 in. Short of McKenzie threw a PR distance marked at 20 ft. 11.5 in., a thirty-first place finish.

Myrtle Point’s Jayme Padgett took top honors in the discus with a winning throw of 101 ft. 8 in. Short finished twenty-eighth with a PR throw of 56 ft.7 in. Bandon junior Caitlyn Michalek threw the javelin 125 ft. 5 in. to win that event. Eagle Dion placed twenty-first with a throw of 65 ft. 5 in. McKenzie junior Linn Goette finished twenty-seventh with her throw of 57 ft. 6 in.

Makenna Vierck of Bandon set a PR mark in the high jump, 5 ft. 2 in., to win that event. Weiss of McKenzie placed eighth with another PR for the Eagle freshman, this one measured at 4 ft. 4 in. Phoenix senior Laurelin Jansen won the pole vault with a PR height of 9 ft. 1 in.

Jessame Pope of Illinois Valley, who jumped 15 ft. 8 in, won the long jump. The Eagle’s Jones leaped 12 ft. 4.5 in, which placed her seventeenth. Weiss again PR’d, placing twenty-eighth at 11 ft. 2 in. And in the triple jump, Bandon’s Marly Petrey won with a jump of 34 ft. 1 in. Weiss jumped 24 ft. 2 in, good for ninth and Short placed eleventh at 22 ft. 8 in.