Track - League meet 2011-05-11 and 13 at OHHS

This year the WESCO 3A League Championship track meet was at Oak Harbor High School, spread over two days, Wednesday and Friday, May 11th and 13th. The first day, filled with a steady hard rain but little wind, was mostly preliminary heats of running events with a few running and field event finals, did not see Oak Harbor athletes earning a lot of points. At the end of the 1st day, the boys were in last place of 8 teams, earning only 2 points. The girls were 5th of 5 teams with points at 22. Everett was on top of the boys side with 56 points and Glacier Peak for the girls with 57 points.

While there weren't many points, Oak Harbor was positioned to earn more on the second day with a number of runners moving on to the finals in their respective events. Oak Harbor had Josiah Miller and Aaron Boesch both in the 100m and 200m finals, with Miller grabbing the fastest time of the day in the 100m dash. Chris Opdyke qualified for the finals of the 400m dash, Josh Schrum and Connor Meyer in the 800 and Matt Reith in the 1600.

For the girls, Janessa Ramos and Christina Alexander moved on to the finals of the 100m dash and 3 Wildcats, Sarah Young, Christina Alexander and Jalani Bobo all finished in the top 8 of the 200m dash. There were also 3 Oak Harbor runners in the 400 - Christina Wicker, Maura McKole and Jember Jansen. Addy Royal and Hannah Bressler qualified for the 800m run and Allison Duvenez and Raeanna Wynne both qualified for the finals in both the 100m and 300m hurdles.

Field event finals from Wednesday were in the boys shot put, boys high jump, boys long jump, girls discus, girls javelin and girls long jump. Top 8 finishers were Dominique Jackson in the discus (7th), Janelle Yoshimoto in javelin (2nd) and Janessa Ramos in the long jump (5th).

Running finals were held in the boys 1600 (Matt Reith was 7th) and girls 3200 (Christina Wicker 6th, Adrianna Royal 7th and Alex Laiblin 8th).

Friday was the opposite of Wednesday with mostly sunny skies early and a little bit of wind.

Girls final results - top 8 finishes listed:
100m dash - Janessa Ramos 3rd, Christina Alexander 7th.
200m dash - Christina Alexander 5th, Sarah Young 6th, Jalani Bobo 7th
400m dash - Christina Wicker 1st (by nearly a full second - it wasn't even close), Maura McKole 5th, Jember Jansen 7th.
800m run - Adrianna Royal 3rd, Hannah Bressler 7th
1600m run - Adrianna Royal 3rd, Hannah Bressler 7th
100m hurdles - Allison Duvenez 4th, Raeanna Wynne 5th
300m hurdles - Duvenez 1st, Wynne 2nd
Note - both hurdlers set PRs in both their hurdle events. Rae knocked almost 2 seconds off
her previous best time in the 300m final.
4x100m relay - OH 3rd (Yoshimoto, Bobo, Young, Ramos)
4x200m relay - OH 1st (Young, Alexander, Bobo, Ramos)
4x400m relay - OH 2nd (Alexander, Duvenez, Jansen, Ashley Everett)
Shot Put - Dominique Jackson 7th
Long Jump - Ramos 5th
Triple Jump - Katelyn Bristow 7th

Boys top 8 finishers:
100m dash - Josiah Miller 2nd, Aaron Boesch 8th (Miller was beaten by just .02 seconds)
200m dash - Miller 2nd
400m dash - Chris Opdyke 5th
800m run - Josh Schrum 5th, Connor Meyer 7th
3200m run - Matt Reith 6th
4x100m relay - OH 4th (Cody Hernkind, Carlton Johnson, Sheyenne Sams, Aaron Boesch)
4x400m relay - OH 2nd (Johnson, Opdyke, Justin Everett, Miller)
Discus - Keon Crumpton 7th
Javelin - Kevawn Brooks 5th
Pole Vault - Josh Mcvey 4th
Triple Jump - Miller 1st, Hernkind 7th

Full, complete results are available online at Athletic.net

75 photos from Wednesday's event are posted HERE

121 photos from Friday's action are HERE.

Finally, a big shout out to the hundreds of volunteers who worked to make this, and all the other home events happen. Even though it might have been pouring rain, blowing wind, bitter cold or blazing sun, you were there for the kids. Thanks!