Track 2010-03-24 at OHHS

The first home track meet of the season was held at Oak Harbor High School Wednesday afternoon. The girls won their 18-event side of the meet, scoring 88.5 points to Stanwood's 75.5 and Cascade's 24. Things were reversed on the boys side as Cascade and Stanwood dominated. Cascade was on top with 72 points, just .5 ahead of Stanwood. Oak Harbor scored 36.5.

As would be expected early in the season, there were many personal bests set at the meet, and some were very impressive.

In the 100 meter dash, senior Jason Curles finished 2nd in 11.8 seconds, .3 seconds faster than is previous best. Jason also cut .65 seconds off his 200 meter time, finishing 3rd.

Although he didn't set a PR, Chris Opdyke won a close 400 meter dash, finishing just .07 seconds better than 2nd place.

Senior Matt Bolte dominated the 800 meter run, finishing in a time of 2:00.78, nearly 10 seconds better than his best time from 2009 and nearly 8 seconds in front of the 2nd place runner. Connor Meyer finished in 7th but cut his time by 16 seconds and all the other OH runners also set PRs - Crebbin, Lucas Salmons, Thomas Honeycutt and Nate Miller.

Other PRs for the boys were set by Aaron Boesch in the 100, Jalen Williams and Noel Cheeseboro in the 200, Josh Crebbin and Mike Kincy in the 400. In the 1600, John Kartenbach, Honeycutt and Salmons all PR'd.

In field events, Terry Rawls and Austin Church both set new records in the shot put, with Rawls improving by over 7 feet to 38-6 and Dakota Sinchak and Zach Wallace both improved by over 9 feet in the javelin.

The jumpers also showed improvement. Derrick Clarit finished 3rd in the long jump while Andy Haag, Sam Schultz and Spencer Matthews all improved. Haag and Andrew Hernkind set PRs in the triple jump.

The girls had several 1-2-3 finishes on the day let by senior sprinter/jumper Shantae Young who won 3 individual events and was in the winning 4x100 relay.

In the 100 it was freshman Naomi Walker and Christina Alexander behind Young and Janessa Ramos finished 4th. Walker also went on to win the 200 meter dash.

Addy Royal finished 1st in the 800 meter run and finished 2nd in the 1600. Behind Royal in the 800 were Hannah Bressler, Christina Wicker and Bri Petersen, all with new PRs.

Junior Allison Duvenez continued her dominance in the hurdles races, winning both the 100 and 300m races. She won the 100 by nearly a second and the 300 by over 3 seconds.

In addition to winning the 4x100 relay, Oak Harbor also won the 4x400 relay. It was quite a race Maura McKole catching up to the Stanwood runner near the end of her lap then Adrianna Royal took the lead on the final turn.

PRs were set in running events by Walker in the 100 and Janelle Yoshimoto in the 200. In the 800, 3 of the 4 girls set PRs - Hannah Bressler and Bri Peterson improved their times by 6 seconds, and Christina Wicker cut a second of her best. Freshman Joem Evangelista cut .6 seconds off her 100 hurdles time, lowering it to 19.01.

In field events, Wildcat women were 1-2-3 in both the long jump and triple jump. Young won both events with PRs and in the long jump was followed by Walker and Janelle Yoshimoto. In the triple jump it was Nicki Mowbray and Allison Bristow in 2nd and 3rd with freshman Chylan Bass in 4th.

Amanda Alvarado finished 3rd in the shot put and Mowbray 1st in the high jump - she beat her nearest opponent by 4 inches - quite a bit for high school jumping! Dominique Jackson (DJ to her friends) finished 2nd in the discus.

In addition to her 3rd place finish, Alvarado set a PR with a put of 32-9. Freshman Danielle Teasley also set a PR at 24-1. DJ threw the discus 93 feet - 10 feet further than her previous best and Elizabeth Adkins and Carlie Olson added 5 feet to their PRs.

In the Javelin, freshman Ciera Wiser finished in 8th place but was ecstatic with her effort. She threw 87-6, which is EIGHTEEN FEET further than her throw last week! Hers wasn't the only double-digit improvement as Mowbray threw 92-10 to add 13-3 to her PR. Nikita Ford and Tatiana Cumming also set PRs in the javelin.

Over 200 photos, in event order, are posted HERE.