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the pole vault during the CCC championship
meet, enters 10th in the event with a height
cleared of 11 feet 11-3/4.
Additional individuals who are outside the
top 10 but who Welch said have realistic all-
American opportunities, which go to the top
ing and pitching struggles
in the contest.
Malachi Roberts drove
in three runs in the win,
Gus Ramsden went 4-for-
4 and Chris Nobles added
a pair of hits.
Coy
Aschenbrenner
tossed 4-2/3 innings for
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Lane in the heptathlon. Lane enters nationals
with the 11th best mark at 4,476 points, but
that total is just 86 points behind eighth place
ate ✳✰✹ ✵✪✱✱ ✮✭✳✰ ✼✽✾ ✿✴✫✰✮✱ ✴✸✮✱✫✹✪ ✮✭✪ ✮✴✿ ✯✻✪❀
Another freshman, Kalulusno Ngaida, en-
ters in a tie for 13th in the high jump at 5 feet
5-3/4. She is also just 30th in the triple jump
at 37 feet 9-1/2, but Welch believes she could
-
als.
-
ure out how to get on the board and not foul,”
Welch said.
-
ers are Katie Emerson and Haley White in the
400 hurdles, who enter with times of 1:04.12
and 1:04.45, respectively, which are 18th and
21st in the nation.
Eastern could also get its relay teams on the
podium. The 4x800 team, which Welch said
will likely be Michelle Herbes, Faith Homer,
Megan Boals and Katie Jo Gebhart, enters
fourth at 9:16.40. The 4x400 team — likely
Dodd, Michelle Herbes, Elizabeth Herbes and
either Boals or Lane — is ninth at 3:53.65,
and the 4x100 relay — likely White, Kinnah
Rhodes, Jolley and Elizabeth Herbes — is
16th at 47.89.
Welch said who ultimately does run in those
races will depend on some of the other com-
petitions at nationals, especially with athletes
who overlap in several events.
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“The goal is to get the 4x400 (team) back
pole vault all-American discussion. He’s in a
tie for 22nd nationally at 15 feet 3, but is just
six inches outside the top eight.
The javelin is the event that could land
Eastern the most all-Americans. Three Moun-
taineer men — Jakob Sandhagen (195 feet
4), Dawson Kennon (190 feet 3) and Moses
McAninch (187 feet 11) — were all automatic
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championships had all
been achieved under his
watch. But not girls track.
Until Saturday.
▼■ ❆✭✳✮ ✯✲✱✮ ✿✴✫✰✮ ✲✴✵✵✱
right into this one of how
storybook-like the details
of the title came about.
Hollywood couldn’t make
it up. It shows that life tru-
✵❏ ✫✱ ✱✮✲✳✰✬✪✲ ✮✭✳✰ ✯✷✮✫✴✰❀
It wouldn’t be a stretch to
have a story with each of
the individual elements.
The close margin in the
team score and in the 100
— Hollywood may think of
that. The title being won
at the head coach’s alma
mater — sure. A freshman
overcoming food poison-
ing? They may take that,
but that would be pushing
the lines of believability.
All of those elements
and more? That would
never be bought. And yet
that is what happened.
for the 4x800 to be in the mix,” he said.
He added that while the women’s team
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“whale of a meet” to be in the top 10.
The men’s team is taking just six athletes
but has a national leader among that group
❃✫✰✸✮✪✱ P✪▲✴✲✪ ✮✭✪ ✯✰✳✵
day of the meet got going
on Saturday, and he was
clearly concerned about
the health of Vaughn, who
had gotten food poison-
ing the night before. She
showed up for warmups
on the track right before I
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and even then there was
uncertainty.
As I left the coach to get
myself set up for the day,
the thought did cross my
mind of what a story it
would be if she overcame
the illness and helped the
team win state.
And it was a hot topic
of discussion — among
countless others — when
that was exactly what hap-
pened when she ran in
Sandhagen heads in ranked ninth.
“Jakob was talking about (how) he’s ranked
ninth now, but a couple weeks ago he was
in the pole vault with a mark of 16 feet 6-3/4.
The sophomore is one of only three athletes
at the NAIA level to clear 16 feet this season.
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said. “It’s a matter of how well he adapts to
the runway and the travel. That was a pretty
big PR at the conference meet. He just needs
to do what he was doing the last few weeks
could place well, (and) if they PR, they could
be in good shape.”
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who is 20th in the men’s 1,500 in 3:55.81.
The national meet begins Thursday and
runs through Saturday.
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Darrian Walker could also factor into the
both state-winning relay
teams and scored vital
points in the 400.
3) Enterprise deserves
the time in the limelight,
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weren’t alone in continu-
ing the high level of success
at state from this region.
Five other teams reached
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continuing a strong run of
their own, others return-
ing to former days of glory.
The Joseph boys took sec-
-
ish ever, three years after
sending only one athlete
to state. The Joseph girls,
largely on the shoulders of
two athletes, placed third,
continuing one of the more
dominant runs in the state
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now two third-place tro-
phies in that span).
The Elgin boys had their
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❲❏ ✮✭✪ ❑✳❏✶ ✮✭✪ ✪❄✴✲✮ been a rough patch on the
of that Enterprise fresh- ✮✲✳✷●❀ ✺✰✵❏ ✴✰✷✪ ✫✰ ✮✭✳✮
man, Savannah Vaughn,
may be the most impres-
/ Page 7A sive feat of the whole
weekend. I stopped and
chatted with Moody a few
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stretch had they been in
the top 10, and as I noted
Monday, just four years
ago not one athlete on the
team made it to state.
And last year’s two state
champions, the Cove girls
and the La Grande boys
(up in Gresham), gutted
through injuries to key
athletes to come away in
-
grams (and individuals)
it didn’t match what they
hoped, but they still de-
serve a tip of the hat for
being among the state’s
top programs even while at
less than 100 percent. And
for good measure, let’s not
leave out the Cove boys
(seventh place), Powder
Valley boys (10th place) or
Elgin girls (10th place with
three athletes).
4) Double dipping:
Three athletes not only
claimed individual titles in
two events, they crushed
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walking seven and striking
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In the title contest, the
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runs to distance them-
selves for the victory.
The Eagles scored single
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Nave’s RBI groundout in
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Valley within 5-3. But Ir-
rigon plated two runs in
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scored three more times
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margin.
Aschenbrenner,
who
went 2-for-3, added an
RBI for the Eagles.
Wallowa Valley (15-7
overall) secured the dis-
trict’s No. 2 seed into the
-
gin the postseason today
on the road against Hori-
zon Christian, the top seed
from Special District 1.
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the competition. Tim Ste-
vens has left a mark that
will be tough to erase in
the 1A boys division as
the Cove senior — who by
the way is one of the most
humble athletes I’ve ever
➋
a three-time champion in
the 1,500 and 3,000 and
holds the state meet record
in both events. Ellyse Tin-
gelstad is setting herself
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her career next year as the
Joseph junior repeated in
both the 1A girls 1,500 and
3,000. And sophomore
Aaliyah Burton of Elgin
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sweeping the 1A girls 100
hurdles and 300 hurdles.
And none of these races,
with the exception of Bur-
ton coming back late to
win the 300 hurdle race,
were close. While there are
several other standout ath-
letes, these are three whom
I feel deserve some addi-
tional commendation. And
it won’t be the last we hear
of any of them — both Bur-
ton and Tingelstad will be
looking to add to their prep
legacies next year, and Ste-
vens will be blazing trails at
the University of Idaho.
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✺✲✪✬✴✰
showed itself well, once
again proving that, pound
for pound, it’s the most
dominant corner of the
state in track.
What’s to come next
year, of course, is hard to
say. But this little slice of
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shine among the raindrops
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home ample hardware and
numerous dazzling perfor-
mances.
And another team will
come home with a wild
tale of how they won a
state title — I can almost
guarantee it. After all, that
is what I’ve come to ex-
pect. And the athletes have
delivered, time and time
again.
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