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LOVERCHECKS CASH IN STATE
Pendleton
girls fi nish
5th in team
standings
By ANNIE FOWLER
East Oregonian
E
UGENE — Reilly
and Kelsey Lover-
check scored the
lion’s share of the
Pendleton girls team points at
the 5A State Track and Field
Championships that ended
Saturday, May 21, at Hayward
Field, Eugene.
Their efforts helped the
Bucks to a fi fth-place fi nish
in the team standings with 39
points, one back of fourth-
place Corvallis. Crescent
Valley won the team title with
67 points, one point better
than North Salem.
“That was the fun part,”
Pendleton coach Larry
Brizendine said of the girls
team. “They competed out of
their minds. We didn’t expect
that.”
Reilly Lovercheck started
her state meet with a fourth-
place fi nish in the long jump
May 20. The following day,
she placed third in the triple
jump with a leap of 36-2 ¼.
“She was second until the
girl from The Dalles (Zoe
Dunn) knocked her to third
with her last jump,” Brizen-
dine said.
On the track, she raced to
a third-place fi nish in the 300
hurdles with a personal best
time of 45.84. She also placed
Kathy Aney/East Oregonian
Pendleton’s Kelsey Lovercheck watches the bar while pole vaulting Saturday, May 21, 2022,
during the 5A Oregon School Activities Association State Track and Field Championships at
Hayward Field, Eugene. Lovercheck took second with a vault of 10 feet, 6 inches and also
placed third in the 200 meter sprint.
fi fth in the 100 hurdles in a
time of 15.88.
Kelsey Lovercheck kept
pace with her twin sister,
fi nishing second in the pole
vault with a personal best
height of 10-6. She cleared
10-6 on her second attempt,
but missed all three attempts
at 11-0 as Rhys Allen of
Willamette won with a PR
height of 11-3.
Lovercheck ranks second
on the school’s pole vault lead-
erboard. The school record is
10-9.
Kelsey Lovercheck also
sprinted to a third-place fi nish
in the 200 with a time of 26.10,
just under her personal best of
26.05, which she ran May 20
in the prelims.
“It’s just their second year
of track,” Brizendine said
of the Loverchecks. “They
played tennis the first two
years. We wish we could have
had them all four years.”
Muriel Hoisington added
to the team points with an
eighth-place fi nish in the 400
with a time of 1:02.30.
In the boys meet, Nolan
Mead soared to new heights
in the high jump, clear-
ing a personal best 6-3 to
fi nish second for the Bucks.
He cleared 6-3 on his fi nal
attempt, then missed all four
attempts at 6-4. Redmond’s
Nathan Wachs cleared 6-4
on his fi nal attempt to win the
title.
“I could see him from
where I was, but I couldn’t see
what the height was,” Brizen-
dine said. “When he went over
the bar, he jumped up and
went running. I knew it must
be good. It was 6-3. That’s a
great height for him.”
The Pendleton boys were
hit with a little bad luck during
the last day of competition.
Javelin thrower Sam
Jennings, who has been
battling an abdominal strain,
attempted just two throws,
the furthest being 151-11. He
did not make the fi nals and
fi nished 10th.
In the 110 hurdles, Andy
Oja looked to be the favorite
after prelims May 20, but he
clipped the third to last hurdle
and went down. He got up and
fi nished seventh in a time of
17.70.
Oja redeemed himself
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in the 300 hurdles, placing
second with a time of 39.41.
Teammate Thaiden Cannin
was seventh with a 42.22.
“The 300 hurdles was a
great race, “Brizendine said.
“The kid (Nathan Fields) that
beat him was legit.”
In the 800, James Thatcher
ran a personal best 1:59.29 to
finish sixth. His best time
before May 21 was 1:59.50.
The Pendleton boys
fi nished eighth in the team
standings with 33 points.
Silverton won the team title
with 79 points, followed by
Crater (69) and Wilsonville
(65).
“We thought the boys
might do bet ter, but
some unfortunate things
happened,” Brizendine said.
“Our best guy was down from
the beginning, that didn’t help.
The kids said they were sorry
we didn’t go out on top. It’s not
like they didn’t give it every-
thing they had. We had an
amazing season, it just didn’t
turn out like we wanted. I’m
still pretty proud of all of
them.”
In the 4A championships,
McLoughlin’s Luis Wolf
cleared 6-0 to place third in
the high jump, while Michael
Doherty fi nished third in the
triple jump with a PR leap of
42-7 ¾.
For the girls, Mac-Hi’s
Kadey Brown fi nished third
in the discus with a PR toss of
107-6.
T h e M a c - H i b oy s
finished 13th in the team
standings with 23 points.
Marshfield won the team
title with 57 points.
In the girls team race, the
Pioneer were 16th with 11
points. Philomath ran away
with the team title with 87
points.
District 8
Championships
He r m i s t o n’s Ryke r
McDonald punched his ticket
to the 3A state track meet in
two events at Central Valley
High School in Spokane.
McDonald, who was
second in the 100 prelims May
20, came out May 21 with a
personal best 11.08 to win the
event. He ranks second on the
school leaderboard.
He also placed second in
the shot put with a personal
best 51-1 ¼.
Teammate Caden Hott-
man won the shot put with a
heave of 56-4, which equals
his personal best. He also won
the discus May 20.
Hermiston fi nished sixth
in the team standings with 57
points. Walla Walla won the
team title with 128.
In the girls meet, Hermis-
ton’s Jackie Garcia fi nished
third in the 800 in a time of
2:20.33 to advance to state.
She will be joined by Cydney
Sanchez, who ran a PR and a
school record 5:16.71 in the
1,600 to fi nish second.
Bailey Young, who earned
trips to state in the shot put
and javelin May 20, added the
discus to her list of things to
do, placing third with a mark
of 111-6.
The Bulldogs finished
third in the team standing with
75 points. Mead ran away with
the team title with 157 points.
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