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Wednesday, April 13, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Track teams open league action
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
Getting back to competi-
tion after a long spring break
did not faze the Outlaws. They
opened the Sky-Em season
with strong early season per-
formances at a four-way meet
that included league rivals
Sweet Home and Elmira, as
well as 3A Creswell in a con-
test held Thursday, April 7, at
Elmira.
“It was good to have our
first meet in three weeks,” said
Head Coach Jeff Larson. “The
wonderful weather and solid
level of competition brought
out the best in the Outlaws.”
The girls took top hon-
ors among the four teams,
amassing 108 points, prov-
ing that they are the favorites
to defend their District team
title. Elmira finished a distant
second with 62.5 points, fol-
lowed by Sweet Home (52.5)
and Creswell (38).
Sisters won seven of the
10 running events behind the
efforts of the sprinters and
hurdlers. The Outlaws got
off to a fast start, winning the
400-meter relay (Macadia
Calavan, Mandi Calavan,
Michaela Miller and Erynn
Ricker) in 51.87.
Ricker crossed first in the
100 (13.2), followed closely
by Mandi Calavan (13.6).
Mandi came back to win
the 200 later in the meet in
27.92. The Outlaws swept
the 100 hurdles as Sabrina
Reifschneider broke the tape
in 17.09 to edge Michaela
Miller (17.19) and freshman
Kendra Sitz (17.73).
Miller turned the tables
in the 300 hurdles, clipping
Reifschneider 49.64 to 49.74.
The 1,600-meter relay
team of the Calavan sisters,
Sitz, and Rylee Weber had
no trouble dispatching the
rest of the competition with
a winning time of 4:21.88, a
full five seconds ahead of the
runners-up.
Larson knows that relay
time will just keep getting
faster and faster as the season
continues.
“Our depth is going to
makes us very strong in all the
sprinting events as the season
progresses,” he said.
The distance racers will
continue to develop as
well, according to Larson.
Freshman Alexa Stewart
earned her first varsity win
in the 800 with a time of
2:43.73. Her freshman team-
mates Tate Ricker and Molly
Winter finished third and fifth
respectively.
Megan Calarco picked up
a second-place finish in the
3,000 meters in 13:03.
The jumping events turned
out to be successful for
Sisters. The Outlaws swept
the pole vault as Tessa O’Hern
and Erynn Ricker each cleared
9 feet, Nicole Kersavage got
over the bar at 8 feet for third
place and Michaela Miller
won the triple jump in her
very first attempt at the event
in competition with a mark of
32 feet 1.5 inches.
The Outlaws did not
fare as well in the throwing
events other than the javelin,
in which Julianne Meeter
Gordon’s
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photo by Jerry baldoCK
marissa young competes in shot put at elmira.
finished second (107 feet
even) and Nina Horner fourth
(92 feet 7 inches).
The boys team showed
that they are much improved
over the 2015 campaign as
the scratched out a second-
place team finish that likely
surprised their league rivals.
Elmira won the meet with
93.5 points, followed by
Sisters (80.5), Sweet Home
(74), and Creswell (16).
The meet could have
gone either way, according to
Larson.
“We had some surprises as
well as some spots where we
know we will do better in the
future,” he said.
A disqualification for the
Outlaws in the 400 relay
turned out to be costly.
“Let’s just say there was
a lot of contact in that race,
which cost us the chance to
make a clean exchange,” said
Larson.
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