WESCO Freshman track championships

The Oak Harbor track freshmen - both boys and girls - were at Arlington Monday for the WESCO Freshman Track & Field championships. DISCLAIMER - I used the spelling of your name from the athletic.net website, unless I know it's wrong. If your name is misspelled, let me know and I'll correct it. All results are from the OHHS page of the athletic.net website.

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The boys did well, garnering two 2nd place finishes and 14 top-8 finishers. Leading for the boys were Douglas Kim, finishing 2nd in the 400 meter dash with a time of just over 59 seconds and Tyler Schell also second in the 3200 meter run, turning in a time of 10:38. he was just 20 seconds in front of teammate Nate Miller who finished 4th overall. Tyler and Nate, along with Devin Schell also ran the 1600.

Aaron Boesch was the go-to guy in the 100 and 200 meter dash, finishing first among the Wildcats, followed by just a couple tenths of a second by Marcus Jordan. Other Wildcat sprinters were Ian Sinchak, Douglas Kim, Logan Williams and Nathan Schultz.

Adrian Jimenez was the sole hurdler for the Wildcat men, finishing 4th and 5th, respectively, in the 110 and 300m hurdle races and setting personal records in both.

In Field events, Marcus Jordan finished 3rd in the shot put, Brandon Maragrag 8th in Discus, Aaron Boesch 5th in the high jump. Logan Williams and Ian Sinchak were long jumpers, but unfortunately, did not place in the top 8.

The girls can boast 3 champions - Abby Leete in the 3200, Allison Duvenez in the 300 hurdles, and Janessa Ramos in the 200 and long jump. Abby cut a second off her personal best, then went on to run the 1600 and 800, setting another PR in the 1600. Janessa ran the 200 in 27.98, a second off her best, and jumped 16 feet, 1/2 inch, which is almost a foot longer than her previous PR and 6 inches more than 2nd place. Janessa also placed 2nd in the 100 and Allison 3rd in the 100 hurdles. The girls had 14 other top-8 finishes.

Sprinters on the girls team, in addition to Ramos, were Nichelle Duncans, Janelle "Yoshi" Yoshimoto, Emily Parish, Tori Nickerson, Neomi Story, Rebecca Ogren and Millie Goebel.

In the hurdles, Rebecca Ogren ran her first ever hurdle race in the 100, finishing a respectable 10th.

Amanda Alvorado and Sam Schortzmann were the shot putters, finishing 5th and 7th. Yoshi placed 3rd in the javelin, followed by Mille Goebel in 4th and Amanda Alvorado in 8th. Emily Parish was the lone high jumper (4th) and Nickerson, Yoshi, and Parish were also in the long jump.

Next up for track is the WESCO JV Championships this coming Wednesday (April 30th) at Wildcat Memorial Stadium.