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SETTING THE PACE -- Trout Lake/Glenwood sophomore Valerie Vogt holds the lead in the WIAA Class 1B girls 3200-meter final on May 27 in Cheney. Vogt placed second in this meet record-setting race (with a personal-record time), then won the 800 and 1600 on May 28, also with PR times.
The results sheets from last weekend’s WIAA state small-school track and field championships in Cheney read like a “Who’s Who” of Klickitat County high school athletics in 2011.
Klickitat senior Samantha Brewer capped a standout prep career by winning three events, placing second in a fourth and setting two personal records in the process.
Brewer repeated as champion of the Class 1B girls 100-meter hurdles, and won the long jump and the triple jump. Her marks of 16 feet, 5.25 inches in the long jump and 34 feet, 6.75 inches in the triple jump were all-time bests.
In the high jump, Brewer had to settle for second after losing a jump-off to Lindsay Loe of Hunters.
Sophomore Valerie Vogt was the top performer for Trout Lake/Glenwood, which waged a two-day battle with Mt. Rainier Lutheran for the 1B girls team title before coming up short, 82-80. (The difference was Mt. Rainier winning the 4x400 relay; TLG came in second.)
But Vogt did her part for TLG, winning the 800 and 1600 runs (with PRs of 2:25.73 and 5:26.50 respectively), and placing second in a meet record-setting 3200 (with another PR, 12:01.05; see photo caption at right for more information).
Senior Liz Vogt defended her title in the 300 hurdles (with a PR of 47.47 seconds), placed second in the triple jump (which she won in 2010), and took third in both the 200 and the long jump.
Other top placers were: from TLG, senior Krissy Yarnell, fourth in the pole vault and the shot put, and junior Lindsey Scott, third in the 3200 (with a PR of 12:46.06); and, from Lyle/-Wishram, sophomore Chan-telle Hickman, third in the javelin.
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Five Columbia High athletes—led by senior Kirsten Larsen and her victory in the Class 1A girls 100-meter dash—scored medals during last weekend’s WIAA state small-school track and field championships in Cheney.
Larsen, who set personal records in the 100 and the 200 at the district meet in the lead-up to state, edged Kaycee Creech of Cascade Christian (Puyallup), 13.0 seconds to 13.01, in Saturday’s 100 final, in one of the closest finishes in meet history. Larsen went on to wrap up her prep career with a sixth-place effort in the 200.
On the boys side, seniors Joshua Bell and Evan Nystrom posted nearly identical personal-record times last Friday in qualifying for Saturday’s 1A 400 final. Running in separate heats, Bell finished in 50.84 (third fastest qualifier), Nystrom in 50.86 (fourth fastest).
The next day, Nystrom got the better of his teammate, claiming fourth place with a time of 51.03. Bell came in fifth in 51.44.
In Friday’s 1A boys 1600 race, CHS sophomore Brad Rich placed eighth with a PR of 4:30.94. (He ran 10th in Saturday’s 3200 final.)
In field events, senior Jordon Barnedt, competing in his first state meet, scored an eighth-place finish for CHS with a throw of 160 feet, 9 inches.
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Caleb Keys, a senior from Klickitat, made his last high school meet a good one by placing fourth in the discus and sixth in the shot put. His best efforts in both events were PRs: 132 feet, 10 inches in the discus and 40 feet, 9.25 inches in the shot.
Trout Lake/Glenwood Alex King also tallied a pair of PRs during the 2011 championships. He finished fourth in the 1600 (4:54.21) and eighth in the 800 (2:08.01).
For Lyle/Wishram, senior Henry Matai completed his prep career with a second in the 110 high hurdles and a fifth in the shot put.
