It was quite a haul.
The Coupeville High School track team collected nine medals and set two school records at the state 1A meet in Cheney at Eastern Washington University Thursday through Saturday, May 26-28.
Oak Harbor’s efforts at the 3A state meet at Tacoma’s Mount Tahoma High School included two second-place finishes.
Coupeville
Medals were awarded for top-eight finishers in each event, and the nine collected by Coupeville tied for the most by a Wolf team in 10 years, helping the girls finish 12th in the team standings with 22 points and the boys 15th with 15.5.
Naches Valley, with 63 points, won the girls team title, while Zillah won the boys with 58.5.
Coupeville senior Makana Stone and freshman Lindsey Roberts each earned three medals, placing in an individual event and in two relays with junior Lauren Grove and senior Sylvia Hurlburt.
The quartet placed third in the 4×200 in a school record 1:46.41, and sixth in the 4×100 in 50.99. In the preliminaries of the 4×100, the Wolves posted a school record 50.66.
Grove, Hurlburt and Stone, along with then-senior Marisa Etzell, finished fifth in the 4×200 in 2015.
Stone took second in the 400 meters in 58.74, trailing three-time champion Maya Jackson of Northwest by two seconds. Stone also finished second in the event as a sophomore and fourth as a junior.
Roberts grabbed fourth in the 100 hurdles in 16.39.
Junior Skyler Lawrence was 12th in the shot put (32-03), and Grove ran 15th in the 200 (27.5).
Lawrence took 16th in the shot put last spring.
Senior Dalton Martin starred for the boys, taking second in the discus (160-06), eighth in the shot put (47-07.75) and eighth in the javelin (149-03). It was just the fourth time Martin threw the javelin in competition.
In the discus, Martin was runner up to Chelan’s Jose Padilla, who set a Washington record regardless of classification with a throw of 195 feet.
Martin placed fifth in the discus in last year’s state meet.
Sophomore Jacob Smith snared fourth in the 200 (23.06) and 11th in the 100 (11.76).
Senior Jordan Ford finished the scoring for the Wolves by tying for eighth in the pole vault (12-06).
Freshman Chris Battaglia took 14th in the high jump (5-04), junior Mitchell Carroll was 15th in the triple jump (38-02.75) and freshman Danny Conlisk was 17th in the 800 (2:07.83).
Smith, Conlisk, sophomore Henry Wynn and senior Jared Helmstadter ran 15th in the 4×400 relay (3:44.3).
Oak Harbor
The two seconds, one by the boys and one by the girls, were good for eight points each and were the only points recorded by the Wildcats.
The Wildcat boys team finished tied for 22nd; Lincoln of Tacoma won with 45.66.
The girls finished 25th in the team standings. Oak Harbor’s Western Conference foe Lynnwood took the team title with 55 points. Wesco put in a strong showing, with Mountlake Terrace (35 points) finishing third and Stanwood (28) seventh.
Wildcat senior Joseph Noland placed second in the discus, putting a cap on a year of constant improvement. His throw of 168-07 was nearly 11 feet farther than his previous best, and he entered the season with a PR of 129-04 as a junior.
Kamiakin’s Wyatt Musser won the discus with a throw of 185-10.
The Oak Harbor girls 4×100 relay team of sophomore Amaya Rittierodt and seniors Alana Austin, Janae Payne and Matti Miesle sprinted to second place with a time of 49.38. Enumclaw won in 49.17.
Austin was the only Wildcat girl to compete in an individual event, running 14th in the 200 in 26.68.
On the boys side, senior Tanner Walker took 11th in the javelin (148-05).
Senior Jared Gray was 15th in the 300 hurdles (41.2) and 17th in the 110 hurdles (16.16) and ran on the 14th-place 4×400 team with senior Daniel Guerrero, sophomore Mac Nuanez and junior Josh Cote (3:33.34).
Nuanez (14th, 51.44) and Cote (16th, 52.74) also competed in the 400 meters.
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Coupeville’s Dalton Martin placed second in the discus in the state 1A meet. He also took eighth in the shot put and javelin. Photo by John Fisken.
