2B
COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL May 20, 2015
B OYS T RACK A ND F IELD
Continued from 1B
off a late charge by Sweet
Home’s Eric Flierl for a wire-
to-wire victory in the 110 meter
hurdles.
“When [Flierl] started pull-
ing up to me, I got tense and
thought, ‘Oh man, I just need
to win,’ he said. “So I tried go-
ing even harder, and I hit a few
more but I cleaned up my race
at the end.”
Tharpe, who also placed third
in the 100 and the 300 hurdles,
is making his second-straight
trip to state 110 hurdles and his
fi rst as the district champion.
“It means everything to me,”
he said of his fi rst league title.
“I’ve been working so hard to
get up to this point and it’s ex-
citing.”
In the 800, Tyler Ledford ran
a conservative 2:04.46 to fi nish
second and qualify for state.
Through the early part of
the season, Ledford considered
himself more of a 3000-meter
runner, but he said that he has
defi nitely found his race in the
800.
Lion Brad Geisler also
punched his ticket to state with
a second-place fi nish in the dis-
cus on Thursday.
“I feel honored because that’s
been the goal all season,” he
said.
Geisler, who has had an in-
consistent season, entered the
fi nals in second with a mark
of 117-2 and fell into third
when a Junction City freshman
launched a 121-foot, fi ve-inch
throw. But Geisler did not panic
and reclaimed second place on
his very next throw — a mark
of 125-4.
“Stressing about throwing
good was how I started to slump
in the fi rst place,” he said. “So,
instead of looking at it as an-
other guy who could beat me,
I stayed calm and threw it right
back in his face.”
The Lions narrowly missed
out on berths to state in the
4x100 and 4x400 relays.
In the short relay, Cottage
Grove entered the fi nal pass in
fi rst place, but anchor Bryn-
den Howell, who had been sick
during the week and scratched
from his individual events, was
passed by Sweet Home and
Junction City.
The long relay team of Tucker
Porter, Jayden Tucker, Ledford
and Howard fi nished in 3:30.58,
just behind Sisters (3:29.68) and
Junction City (3:30.10). Howard
was unoffi cially clocked at 49.9
on his anchor leg.
The Lions, who fi nished with
118 team points, came close to
second place, which was shared
by Junction City and Sweet
Home with 122 each. But no-
body was catching Elmira, who
outdistanced the competition
with 208 points.
The Falcons got eight individ-
ual victories en route to victory.
Zach Beltz won the 100, 200,
long jump and triple jump; Zane
Wardwell, who was named fi eld
athlete of the meet, took fi rst
place in the shot put and discus;
and Gary Younce and Jeff Linn
added victories in the javelin
and pole vault, respectively.
Sweet Home’s Jakob Hiett,
who shared track athlete of the
meet honors with Beltz, won the
1,500 and 3,000.
G IRLS T RACK A ND F IELD
Sky-Em Baseball
Team
Sisters
Sweet Home
Elmira
Cottage Grove
Junction City
Sutherlin
Continued from 1B
“Coming into this I was con-
fi dent and had the mindset that I
was going to tear up the compe-
tition,” she said.
Borigo, who has only been
throwing the shot since last year,
said she did not anticipate being
the district favorite at the start
of the season when she was still
hovering around 34 feet, but she
became more comfortable with
that expectation as she contin-
ued to improve.
“Next week at state, I’m just
hoping to beat my own mark,”
she said. “And if I can get my
glides down I should be able to
do that because I’ve done all of
my far throws this year standing
up.”
Teammate Courtney Hammel
also took home a district title.
She came into the meet ranked
second in the discus but threw a
PR of 118-6 and beat her closest
competitor by fi ve feet.
“I just did what I always do,”
said Hammel, who improved on
her previous best by over four
feet. “I’ve gotten second place at
every invitational we’ve been to
this year, and I told myself that
today was the day that I was go-
ing to take that fi rst place spot.”
Weybright qualifi ed for state
by taking second in the 800. Af-
ter coming through the fi rst lap
in 73 seconds, she surged to the
lead with 300 meters to go. But
Junction City’s Shayla Solomon
covered Weybright’s move and
kicked past her over the fi nal
50 meters to win, 2:25.50 to
2:26.19.
“I wanted get a little more
of a gap [on the fi eld] and it
seemed to work for a little bit,”
Weybright said of her move to
the lead. “ But Shayla is a very
strong runner; I wasn’t surprised
that she was there in the end.
Things just didn’t pan out as I’d
hoped, but it happens.”
Weybright also qualifi ed for
state in the 3,000 by fi nishing
second on Thursday, but she
said she will only run the 800 at
state, which begins Thursday at
Hayward Field.
In the 300 meter hurdles, Cot-
tage Grove’s Celeste Pelham
battled Sisters’ Sabrina Reif-
schneider all the way down the
homestretch for second place.
Pelham ran a personal best of
courtesy photo
Yamaha City League Champions — Drain Chainsaw
W
13
11
9
6
5
1
L
2
4
6
9
10
14
Friday's Results
Sisters 13, Junction City 3
Sweet Home 13, Cottage Grove 5
Elmira 12, Sutherlin 6
Saturday's Results
Sweet Home 5, Cottage Grove 1
Thursday's Games
Cottage Grove at North Marion 5pm
Marshfi eld at Sweet Home
Molalla at Elmira
Summit at Sisters
Sky-Em Softball
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15
11
7
5
4
3
COTTAGE BOWL
Yamaha City League Playoffs
Drain Chainsaw vs Who Cares
Tuesday's Results
Sisters 7, Junction City 6
Elmira 12, Sutherlin 1
Team
Elmira
Sweet Home
Junction City
Cottage Grove
Sutherlin
Sisters
Friday's Results
Elmira 11, Sutherlin 1
Sisters 3, Junction City 1
Sweet Home 10, Cottage Grove 3
Thursday's Games
Junction City at Scappoose
Corbett at Sweet Home
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4
8
10
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12
Tuesday's Results
Elmira 12, Sutherlin 5
Wednesday's Results
Sisters 2, Junction City 1
Sweet Home 8, Cottage Grove 6
Drain Chainsaw: 1287, 1183, 1077
Total - 3547
Who Cares: 1204, 1147, 1153
Total - 3504
MIDDLEFIELD MENS GOLF
Date: May 11
Game: 1-2-3 Best Ball
1, England (BD), Doleman, Wams-
ley, Miller (-27). 2, Hayes, Sparks,
Fisher, Cunningham (-25). 3, Beck-
ett, Dreiling, Waterman, England
(-24). 4, Rickard, Emery, Arney,
Pennington (-23).
Low Gross: 1, Sparks 72. 2, Zuvich
73. 3, Emery 74.
Low Net: 1, Miller 56. 2T, Fisher
57. 2T, Eyman 57.
Closest to the Pin: No. 5, Winters.
No. 7, Zuvich. No. 14, Dreiling.
Longest Putt: No. 2, Emery.
Date: May 14
Game: Scramble w/ Tie Breakers
1, Helms, Eyman, Ingram, Wamsley
(-9). 2, Hamilton, Rickard, Culp,
Dorman (-9). 3, Avery, Gowing,
Winters, Waterman (-8). 4, Emery,
Ryan, Medin, Davis (-8). 5, Bodine,
Hibner, Doudna, Hoover (-7).
Closest to the Pin: No. 5, Winters.
No. 14, Medin. No. 14, Waterman
(Hole in One).
Longest Putt: No. 3, Cooney.
photo by Matt Hollander
Cottage Grove's Hudson Weybright (right) made a big
move to the with 300 meters to go in the 800, but it was
not enough to hold off Junction Ctiy's Shayla Solomon.
49.95 but came up short of qual-
ifying for state.
“That was one of the best rac-
es I’ve run all season,” she said.
“I was beating myself up after
the 100 hurdles (she fi nished
fourth) but I realized I had one
more race and I just put all that
pent up anger towards that race
and it showed. I was really hop-
ing to beat [Reifschneider] but
after the last hurdle there was
nothing left to give.”
Cottage Grove freshman
Keara Murphy also narrowly
missed out on qualifying for
state. After prelims of the long
jump, she was in second place
with a mark of 15-4.75, which
was over a foot better than her
previous PR. But Junction City's
Kamryn Knox leapt out to 15-
9 in the fi nals to push Murphy
down to third.
The Lions also got third-place
showings from Hannah Albrecht
and Melissa Powers in the 100
and javelin, respectively.
Erynn Ricker, a freshman for
Sisters, was named track ath-
lete of the meet after picking up
three individual victories. She
won the 100 in 13.13, the 200 in
26.78 and the pole vault with a
clearance of 9-8.
Knox cleared 4-10 to win the
high jump to add to her victory
in the long jump. She took home
fi eld athlete of the meet honors.
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