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WEDNESDAY May 24, 2017 Monument’s Pettit repeats as 100-meter state champ Relay team places fourth By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle Monument High School has a student population of just 19, but that didn’t stop their four-member girls track team and one boy from shining at the OSAA 1A Track and Field State Championships held Thursday and Friday at Uni- versity of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene. Sophomore Sophie Pettit won her second consecutive 1A 100-meter dash Friday. “It was really cool to re- peat,” Pettit said. “The com- petition for the sprints was a lot tougher this year. Everyone has gotten a lot better.” She posted a time of 12.7, shaving .05 off her winning time from last year. Pettit also placed fourth in the 200 with a season-record time of 26.67, Sonna Smith awarded Coach of the Year fi fth in the long jump (15- 06.00) and fourth as a member of the 4x100-meter relay team (53.46), which included Fay- the Schafer, Kyla Emerson and Dinorha Vidrio Landin. Fresh- man Aubrey Bowlus was on hand as an alternate. “The 4x100 was really ex- citing,” Pettit said. “At the be- ginning of the year, none of us thought we would go to state. It was really cool just to take the team to state and compete there. I think the relay and the Monument’s Sophie Pettit lets out a victorious yell after winning the 1A girls 100-meter dash Friday at the OSAA Track and Field State Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene. 100 were my favorite.” She said reaching state each year is her goal. “I’m looking forward to next season,” she said. “I’m really trying to get a four-time repeat in the 100.” Emerson set a personal re- cord when she placed fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.90, and she was sixth in the 300-meter hurdles (50.93). EO Media Group Kathy Aney See PETTIT, Page B10 ‘COULDN’T BE PROUDER’ Young Grant Union girls team soars to second at state Sophomores win titles in javelin, triple jump By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle Blue Mountain Eagle Grant Union track and fi eld head coach Sonna Smith was honored Satur- day in Eugene as the Girls 2A Coach of the Year by the Oregon Athletic Coaches Association. She received the plaque at Autzen Stadium, awarded for the 2016 girls team she led to a state championship ti- tle. The team included Chelsie Kodesh, Kaylee Wright, Kenzie Wilson, Samatha Brock, Sydney Brockway, Jozie Rude and Kori Pentzer. Smith said she gives much of the credit for the award to her assistant coaches, including Ken Boethin, hur- dles; John Houk, long jump and triple jump; Kelsy Wright, javelin; Angie Lus- co, discus and shot put; Buzz Gilmore, pole vault; and Emma Robinson, high jump. Smith trains athletes for sprints, distance and relay. Smith once before received a Coach of the Year award when the Grant Union boys 2A team won the state title in 2007. The Eagle/Angel Carpenter Grant Union head track and field coach Sonna Smith received the Oregon Athletic Coaches Association 2A girls Coach of the Year Award. In the photo, she stands with the plaque at the Grant Union track in John Day. EO Media Group/Kathy Aney Trinity Hutchison of Grant Union triple jumps Friday at the OSAA Track and Field State Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene. Hutchison won the event with a jump of 34 feet, 10 inches. More photos can be found online at MyEagleNews.com/sports. The young fi ve-member Grant Union girls team aimed for the top spot at the May 17-18 2A Track and Field State Championships in Eugene, landing in second with 82 points, just four points behind 11-member East Linn Christian. Two Grant Union Prospector soph- omore girls earned state track and fi eld titles at University of Oregon’s Hayward Field, including Kaylee Wright, who set a season-record with her javelin throw of 128-11, and Trinity Hutchison in the triple jump with a leap of 34-10.00. The Prospectors were hoping for a repeat of last year’s state championship win, and after the close loss, the team is already making plans for a strong come- back in 2018. After seeing East Linn, a team of ju- niors and seniors, pull ahead of them in one of the last events of the day — the 4x400-meter relay — a race which Grant Union didn’t have on the list this year, the Prospectors started plans to improve their score. “The athletes that are coming back next year immediately sat down and thought of who they could recruit for next year for the 4x400,” said Grant Union head coach Sonna Smith. This year’s Prospector girls team was comprised of one freshman, three soph- omores and one junior. Earning 28 points for Grant Union, Wright also had second-place fi nishes in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.91, the high jump at a height of 4-10.00 and was part of the second-place 4x100 team, which also included Sydney Brockway, Hutchison and Sierra Cates, with a time of 50.97. “That was something I was really proud of,” Wright said of the relay. “We went in second and ended the day bet- ter than we had planned. Our time was improved — not easy being sophomores and freshmen, competing against seniors and juniors.” Cates said their handoffs improved signifi cantly over the season. “We worked on our handoff all week,” she said. “They all did a good job, and we ended up being faster, each leg of the race.” See TRACK, Page B3 Grant Union softball still in the game Humphreys fi nishes Lady Pros face Glide at 2:30 p.m. By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle The Grant Union Pros- pector softball team will compete in round one of the OSAA Softball State Cham- pionship this week as they face the Glide Wildcats at 2:30 p.m. today in Glide. The Grant Union team, led by head coach DeAnna Nash, also includes one ath- lete from Dayville School second in javelin at state meet for Dayville UP NEXT: PROSPECTORS • Grant Union Prospectors at Glide Wildcats • Today, 2:30 p.m. By Angel Carpenter Blue Mountain Eagle and one from Prairie City School. If Grant Union (No. 11, 18-6) beats Glide (No. 6, 18- 5), they will play the winner of the Dayton versus Burns game in quarterfi nal action Friday, May 26, the time to See SOFTBALL, Page B2 The Eagle/Angel Carpenter Grant Union Prospector Reagan Shelley gets the signal from head coach DeAnna Nash to take it on home from third in Friday’s league playoff against the Burns Hilanders in Vale. Dayville sophomore Kristina Humphreys threw javelin for second place at 117-09 at the OSAA 1A Track and Field State Cham- pionships. She competed on Friday at University of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene along with 11 other athletes in the fi nals. Humphreys said she only recognized two of her oppo- nents this year. “It was a really cool expe- rience visiting with the other competitors, asking how far they throw,” she said. Humphreys won the ti- tle last year with a throw of 129-02. See DAYVILLE, Page B3
