Track: Huskies continued to achieve PRS, despite an exhausted line -up

Despite a limited line -up and some tiredness of athletes, the boys from Sweet Home took the fourth of 17 teams and the girls were ninth from 16 on Saturday, May 10th, at the Stayton Invitational Track Meet from 16.

The day after the meeting of the May week (see page 16), the coaches were not sure what was to be expected, said head coach Nathan Whitfield.

“I was a little worried about it because we had had a week in May the day before so that the children were pretty tired,” he said. “You are always a bit dead after the May meeting meeting. But some children did it really well. We had some big PRS.

“We didn't have our full line -up, but the boys made themselves very well overall and the same with the girls. They were right there with Newport.”

Sophomore Gavin Tyler and Senior Jack Simmons were the only event winners for the huskies, which were exposed to teams from the 6A division Glencoe and North Salem to 2a Central Linn and Santiam.

Tyler won the shot with a personal best litter of 47: 9, while Simmons won the spear with 148-2, shortly before the personal best 149: 6, which he threw last week.

Simmons, who only threw the spear in his last route of the high school as a junior (at 128-5) (with Conner Stevens, Kolton Wilmarth and Dillan Davis, the Fifth (45.55) and the 4 × 400-relay (with Wilth, Ryker Burr) and the 4 × 400-relay (with Wilth, Ryker) 400 level (with Wilmard, Ryker) and the 4 × 400-relay (with Wilth, Ryker) and the 4 × 400-relay (with Wilth, Ryker) and the 4 × 400-relay (with Wilth, Ryker) and the 4 × 400-relay (with Wilth, Ryker) and the 4 × 400 relay (with Wilth, Ryker) also threw legs. 3: 34.81.

Simmons also tried out the 300 hurdles for the first time and took 45.31 fifth – which was fast enough to set it up at the Oregon West conference.

“Jack Simmons had a great day,” said Whitfield. “I threw him into the 300 hurdles because I thought he had potential there, and he definitely does it. And Gavin Tyler had a PR in the shot for which he was due.”

Other scorers of the Husky boys were senior citizens Wilmarth, fifth in the 100 in 11.83, Kast, fifth in the 400 in 53.20; and Conner Pace, sixth in discus in a best of the season 126-8. The newcomer Sam Barringer took eighth place in the jump and ended with 5-4.

In the boys 3000, the newcomer Evan Knight turned the fastest time of the year for the huskies in his first attempt on the route and ended in 10: 44.58, half a step before the second team -mate Conner Spencer, who performed in 10: 48.91.

On the girl's side was the top finisher of the day Junior McKenzie Miller, who was second in a PR of 11: 12.12 in the 3000 PR.

The 4 × 100 relay team by Brooke Elder, Delainie Pratt, Jayla Moore and Loralai Mark, took 53.39, the best season. While Noelle Helfrich, Miu Simmons, Selah Wright and Sophia Stock were also in the 4 × 400 seventh place and driven 4: 37.57.

It was Wright's first event on the route in the high school, when she specialized in the throws, usually a thrower, and Simmons, who mainly concentrated at distance events this year and only twice a high school relay twice, turned half a second step for half a second.

“It was a little surprise,” said Whitfield about the 4 × 400 performance.

Wright, a junior, was sixth in the shot (32-7), in front of the teammate Emerson Martineau, who broke the 30-foot barrier with a PR of 30-6½. Wright was the seventh disc with a best effort of 92-0.

Elder, a second year, was fifth in the 100 (13.62), Senior Peyton Markell was fourth in the spear (101-5), Mark, a junior, in the long jump in a personal best of 15-2 and eight in the high jump (4-2) and Pratt, a junior, was fifth.

On Monday, May 12th, the Huskies Newport for Senior Night organized it, and how Whitfield expressed it:

Junior-Uni athletes will compete in the district of West JV in Stayton on Thursday, May 15th, while the competitors of the university will rejuvenate to prepare for the Oregon West Conference Championships from May 23 to 24, to be organized by Philomath.