Track 3-25 vs Snohomish and Stanwood

On the day before the start of Spring Break, the OHHS Wildcat track team hosted Snohomish and Stanwood in a tri-meet.

In team standings, the OH boys tied with Stanwood for first place with 67.5 points. Snohomish was third with 43 points. On the girls side, Stanwood ran away with the meet, totaling 83 points to Oak Harbor’s 59 and Snohomish’s 42.

Out of a total of 16 events for the boys, Oak Harbor athletes won 6: Stephen Lewis in the 100 and 200 dash, Josh Duhrkopf in the 800 and 1600 meter run, Donovan Hunt in the long jump, and the 4x100 relay team of Hunt, Lewis, Jason Curles and Josh Higbee.

Oak Harbor didn’t just win the 100 and 200, but finished 1-2, with Hunt just a fraction of a second behind Lewis. OH also had 1-2 finishes in the 800 and 1600 as Cody Klauer was right behind Duhrkopf.

In other notable performances, Greg Goebel, in his first 400m race of the year, finished in 2nd place, but knocked almost a second off his best time of 2008. Freshman Matt Reith finished 2nd in the 2-mile race in a respectable time of 10:55.22.

The 4x400 relay team was made of a combination of sprinters and distance runners. Duhrkopf and Matt Bolte represented the distance runners while Goebel and Smith were there for the sprinters. The team ran well, finishing in 2nd place.

Field events also saw non-winning success as Lewis threw the discus for 122 feet 2 inches, over 4 feet further than last weeks’ mark, earning him 3rd place. Nathen Steele threw for a personal best 93-7 for 9th place. In javelin, Sean Welch was 4th with a new PR throw of 133-9 and Cody Church threw over 15 feet further than he did at South Whidbey.

For the girls, junior Shantae Young won the 100 and 200 as well as the long jump, and the 4x200 relay team of Bri Peterson, Katelyn Schneider, Christina Alexander and Janelle Yoshimoto finished first. Close on the heels of Young were freshmen Maura McKole and Christina Alexander who both dropped time from last week’s performances.

McKole ran the 400 for the first time this season, finishing in 4th place, and not far behind were Carolyn Vasquez who cut almost 4 seconds off her previous personal best, and Katelyn Schneider, just .19 seconds behind Vasquez.

Addy Royal was the top distance runner for Oak Harbor, turning in a 2:34 in the 800 and 5:42 in the 1600, finishing 2nd in both races.

Freshman Hannah Bressler ran in both hurdles races, finishing 2nd in the 100 and setting a PR of 18.61, and 3rd in the 300m with another personal best of 53.67 seconds.

In the field events, sophomore Amanda Alvarado was quite pleased with her throw of 32-7, 3 feet better than her best throw last week. Senior Becky Freeman was the top Wildcat in the Discus and Yoshimoto in the javelin. “Yoshi” also finished 2nd in the long jump. Maura McKole and Hope Thompson finished 2-3 in the high jump and Thompson was 2nd in the triple jump.

As always, full results are available HERE.

141 photos, including group pics of the distance runners and throwers, are posted HERE.