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SPORTS
Wallowa County Chieftain
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Benjamin Lonergan for the Wallowa County Chieftain
From left to right, Hero Peters, Shelby Moncrief, Ashlyn Gray and Savannah Vaughn of Enterprise High School pose Saturday for a picture after receiving medals for their first
place finish in the girls 2A 4x100 relay at Western Oregon University in Monmouth.
OUTLAWS
FOR
THE
WIN
Moncrief helps
Enterprise/Wallowa
to state title
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
T
he
Enterprise/Wal-
lowa state title run
was anchored by
Shelby Moncrief, who
took the podium three
times on Saturday at the Class
2A state track and field meet at
Western Oregon University in
Monmouth.
Moncrief roared out of
the gate for the 100 meters
race, running a personal
record 12.75 time and smok-
ing all-comers. Hero Peters
clocked in at fourth place with
a 13.08 time. Moncrief also
placed sixth in the 200 meters.
Savannah Vaughn clocked in
with a 1:01.46 time in the 400
meters for fifth place while
Ashley Wilson ran a 2:30.48
for fifth place in the 800
meters.
Kyla Hook ran a 5:06.35 for
fifth place in the 1500 meters
race and ran a season record
10:54.85 time for the sil-
ver in the 3000 meters. Kar-
lie Bedard ran a season record
49.69 for fourth in the 300
meter hurdles.
The relay teams let their star
shine with the 4x100 team of
Peters, Vaughn, Ashlyn Gray
and Moncrief besting Grant
Union by .18 of a second with
a 50.99 time for the gold. The
4x400 squad of Vaughn, Hook,
Bedard and Moncrief also took
the gold home with a 4:14.23
time.
The boys had a success-
ful meet as well with a sixth
place finish of 35 points. Gar-
rett Thorne took sixth in the
100 meters with an 11.64 time.
Foster Hobbs ran a blister-
ing 50.81 for the silver in the
400 meters while Zac Knapp
brought home the bronze in
the 3000 meters with a 9:11.60
season record time for him.
The 4x100 relay team of
Shane Lund, Hobbs, Jericho
Peters and Garrett Thorne let
the rest of the competition eat
their dust as they blazed their
way to gold with a 44.73 time.
While the 4x400 squad of
Lund, Peters, Austin Brock-
amp and Hobbs cruised in at
sixth place, with a 3:37.62
time.
Colby Harris placed eighth
in the triple jump with a 39-09
leap.
According to coach Dan
Moody, the meet was a nail-
biter from end to end. He said
everyone in the first-day pre-
liminaries scored points for the
squad and everyone in the pre-
liminaries made it to the finals.
“You knew we had a really
good chance at some points
after that, and they didn’t let
us down,” Moody said.
Particularly rewarding was
edging out nemesis Grant
Union for the championship.
Moody said it was a long time
coming.
“It was definitely the
girls’ goal to beat them in the
short (4x100) relay,” he said.
“They’ve been beating us all
year, but we kept getting closer
and closer to them and what
better place than the state meet
to do it?” Moody noted that
the boys squad ended up beat-
ing Culver in the relay, some-
thing they’d hoped to do from
the beginning of the season.
“To start the running events
out with two victories kind of
set a tone for the meet,” he
said. “The kids kept going and
they didn’t back off.”
The coach noted Moncrief’s
.001 second win in the 100
meters race after only qualify-
ing at District as a wild card.
He added that their district
secured the top four places in
the race. As a team, the ladies
went down to the wire before
they knew they’d won while
Contributed/Tom Nordtvedt
Enterprise senior Dylan Marr clears the high jump bar at a height of 5’10” during the 2A state
championships on Saturday.
Contributed/Tom Nordtvedt
Contributed/Tom Nordtvedt
Enterprise freshman Savannah Vaughn
competes in the women’s 400 meters during
Saturday’s 2A track state championships.
Vaughn finished 5th overall with a time of
1:01.68.
Enterprise senior Karli Bedard leads down the
backstretch of the girls 4x400 meter relay near the
end of the state track competition in Monmouth
on Saturday. The girls won the event with a time of
4:14.23.
the boys just missed fourth
place trophy by three points.
“It would have been really
great to bring home two tro-
phies, but the boys did really
great for two days,” Moody
said.
Other athletes Moody
pointed out for performances
were Hook and Savannah
Vaughn for their maturity.
Ashley Wilson’s performance
in the 800 meters was men-
tioned as was Garrett Thorne
in the 100 meters.
“They all had to do a great
job,” he said.
Moody said the champion-
ships were good for more than
his combined team. He said
the entire northeastern region
made their presence known
to schools on the west side of
the state. Still, he was proud-
est of his first team champion-
ship trophy.
“It was very special for me
and this bunch of girls,” he
said. “It’s a neat thing to have,
and I’m so proud of them.”