WEDNESDAY
May 20, 2015
Five GU athletes vault to state
Three are district champs in their field events
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TRACK
GU track stars soar
Grant Union track team
members headed to state
competition this week include:
Michael Ashmead (long jump),
Andrew Copenhaver (pole
vault), Chelsie Kodesh (discus,
javelin), Kori Pentzer (long
jump, triple jump, 100 hurdles)
and Jozie Rude (discus, shot
put, pole vault).
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The rainfall
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district meet.
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Contributed photo
The four-member Monument girls track team is
bound for the state championship this week in
Eugene. From left: Dinorha Vidrio Landin (4x400),
Treiquella Osborne (discus, long jump, triple
jump), Maya Thomas (1,500, 3,000, 4x400) and
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PC’s Garrett
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in pole vault
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Grant Union’s Philipp Jaletzky races in the 300-meter hurdle event at the 2A-6 Wapiti League District
Championships – this was the first district meet to be held at Grant Union’s new track.
Grant Union Prospector
Antonio Dancer flies
forward. He set personal
records in the long jump Grant Union’s Trejan Speth sets his pace
and triple jump.
in the 1,500-meter run at the district meet.
Grant
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flies to a
first place
finish; she’s
seeded first
in state in
the long
jump and
second in
the triple
jump.
Lady Pros earn trip to district playoffs
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King reaches first base in a game
earlier this season, with assistant
coach Les DeHaven standing
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Prairie City School track
and field athlete Garrett
Hitz is “well-decorated”
after the 1A-SD4 District
Championship in Baker
City. He won first in pole
vault, first in javelin,
second in 300-meter
hurdles and third in
110-meter hurdles.
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