Monday, May 20, 2019
The Observer
BY THE SLIMMEST OF MARGINS
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❆✂♦ ✆❈❉t❊ ❋●❍■❏❑ ▲▼◆❖◗❍❘❙ ❖◗❯●❱❙ ❏❲❖❍■❑ ❳❍❘❍❲❱❨ ❩❲❑■❍❍❬❖◗❯●❱ ◗◆ ❱●❍ r❭ ❯◗❖■❨ ❪❫❫❴ ❆✂♦ ❵✐❛❜t❊❝●❍ ❞◆❱❍❖❡❖◗❨❍ ❯◗❖■❨ ❢❣❢❫❫ ❖❍■❲❑ ❱❍❲❥ ▼❘ ❩❑■❲ ❦▼▼❧❙ ❋❲♠❲◆◆❲●♥❲♣❯●◆❙ ❋●❍■❏❑ ▲▼◆q❖◗❍❘ ❲◆❳ ❩❲❖■◗
s❍❳❲❖❳ ✉◗❱● ❱●❍ ❨❱❲❱❍ ❱◗❱■❍ ❱❖▼❡●❑❴ ❇✂tt✂✇ ✆❈❉t❊❦❍❖▼ ①❍❱❍❖❨❙ ❖◗❯●❱❙ ●❲◆❳❨ ❱●❍ ❏❲❱▼◆ ❱▼ ❋❲♠❲◆◆❲●♥❲♣❯●◆ ❳♣❖◗◆❯ ❱●❍ ❢❣❪❫❫ ❖❍■❲❑❴ ❇✂tt✂✇ ❵✐❛❜t❊ ❩❑■❲ ❦▼▼❧❙ ❖◗❯●❱❙ ❡■❲q❍❳ ❨❍q▼◆❳ ◗◆ ❱●❍ ③❙❫❫❫❴
❇ ✁✂✄☎✆✝ ❇✂✄✝④❆❜❈ ⑤⑥⑦❈❵⑧❈❵
⑨ ⑩❶❷❶❸ ❹❺❷❻❼❽❾❿⑩❺❽❼ ⑩❸❹➀➁❸➂ ➃➄ ❷ ➅➁❷❹❶❽❾❿ ❾➅ ❷ ⑩❸❹❾❿➂ ➅➁❾❻ ❷❿ ❷❶❺➆❸❶❸ ➇❺❾ ➃❷➁❸➆➄ ➈➀❷➆❽➉❸➂ ➅❾➁ ⑩❶❷❶❸➊ ⑨ ➋❸➁❹➀➆❸❷❿ ❸➅➅❾➁❶ ➅➁❾❻
❷ ⑩❸❹❾❿➂ ❽❿➂❽➌❽➂➀❷➆ ➇❺❾ ❺❷➂ ❶❾ ❾➌❸➁❹❾❻❸ ➅❾❾➂ ❼❾❽⑩❾❿❽❿➍ ➎➀⑩❶ ❶❾ ❹❾❻❼❸❶❸➊ ⑨ ❹➁➀❹❽❷➆ ➌❽❹❶❾➁➄ ❽❿ ❷ ➁❸➆❷➄ ➁❷❹❸ ❾➌❸➁ ❷ ➂❽⑩❶➁❽❹❶ ➁❽➌❷➆➊
➏❾❿❶❽❿➀❸➂ ➂❾❻❽❿❷❿❹❸ ❽❿ ❷ ⑩❸❹❾❿➂ ➁❸➆❷➄ ➁❷❹❸➊
➐❺❸⑩❸ ❷➁❸ ➎➀⑩❶ ❷ ➅❸➇ ❾➅ ❶❺❸ ❻➄➁❽❷➂ ❾➅ ❸➆❸❻❸❿❶⑩ ❶❺❷❶ ➅❸➆➆ ❽❿ ❼➆❷❹❸ ❽❿ ❾➁➂❸➁ ➅❾➁ ❶❺❸ ➑❿❶❸➁❼➁❽⑩❸ ➒➀❶➆❷➇⑩ ➍❽➁➆⑩ ❶➁❷❹➓ ❷❿➂ ➅❽❸➆➂ ❶❸❷❻ ❶❾ ➅❽❿❷➆➆➄
➍❸❶ ➇❺❷❶ ❺❷⑩ ❸➆➀➂❸➂ ❽❶ ➅❾➁ ➄❸❷➁⑩ ➔ ❷ ⑩❶❷❶❸ ❶➁❾❼❺➄➊ →➀❶ ❶❺❸ ➒➀❶➆❷➇⑩ ➂❽➂❿➣❶ ➎➀⑩❶ ➍❸❶ ❷❿➄ ❶➁❾❼❺➄➊➐❺❸➄ ➍➁❷➃➃❸➂ ❶❺❸ ⑩❶❷❶❸ ❶❽❶➆❸➊
➛➜➜ ➝➞➟➠➡➢ ➤ ➥➦➧➜ ➨➩
Joseph boys get best-ever second-place finish; girls third
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❇ ✁✂✄☎✆✝ ❇✂✄✝
❚❤✞ ✟✠✡✞☛✈✞☛
When he was a fresh-
man, Tyler Homan was the
lone member of the Joseph
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team to qualify for the state
track meet, and he did so in
the 1A boys 3,000.
Three years later, Homan
✗✌✜✏ ✓✢ ✕✣✏ ✕✖✌✗✘ ✌✕ ✤✏✑✕ -
ern Oregon University in
Monmouth as an individual
champion in the 1A boys 300
hurdles — and, more impor-
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the Eagles have ever had.
Boosted by Homan’s win
★✙ ✕✣✏ ✣✩✖✚✎✏✑✥ ✌✙ ✏✢✓✖✕ ★✙
the pole vault that saw three
Eagles reach the podium
and two additional top-three
✛✙★✑✣✏✑✥ ✪✓✑✏✦✣ ✑✗✓✖✏✚ ✫✬
points to take second place
at the 1A state meet, a mere
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champion Dufur.
“This year by far was my
favorite, but it’s been cool
to see kids excited to come
out,” Homan said. “Track is
growing. Everybody knew
we had a chance to get one
of those team trophies. Ev-
erybody was willing to put
in that work. Through the
years there have been more
and more kids come out and
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❇ ✁✂✄☎✆✝ ❇✂✄✝
❚❤✞ ✟✠✡✞☛✈✞☛
Joseph’s Ellyse Tingels-
tad said she still feels the
pressure of maintaining
the tradition of success
started by her sister, Isa-
belle.
Yet the junior standout
is casting her own shadow
★✙ ✕✣✏ ✮✯ ✕✖✌✗✘ ✌✙✚ ✛✏✎✚
world.
Tingelstad claimed two
of the Eagles’ three indi-
vidual state titles at the
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pionships in Monmouth
this weekend, winning the
✧✌✜★✎✔✰✑ ✛✧✕✣ ✗✓✙✑✏✗✩✕★✭✏
title in the 1A girls 3,000
Friday and repeating as
champion in the 1A girls
1,500 Saturday to help lift
the Eagles into third place
as a team.
“It’s really indescribable,
honestly,” Tingelstad said.
“When I was growing up,
I never thought running
would be my thing, and
then I watched my sister
start doing it and really ex-
celling. I still look up to her
and think she is so fast. Be-
ing able to have her to look
up to and keep me going,
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it’s an amazing thing.”
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➛➜➜ ➫➞➭➯➲ ➤ ➥➦➧➜ ➨➩ ❲◆❳ ③❙❫❫❫ ❲❱ ❨❱❲❱❍❙ ❖❍❡❍❲❱◗◆❯ ◗◆ ❏▼❱● ❍♠❍◆❱❨❴