SIX - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Ione track brings home medals from first regular meet
Young team shows promising season start
Ione junior Jorge Aguilar sets a PR with a 40’ 0.5” shot put.
–Photo by Paula Emmel
By Paula Emmel
The Ione track team
attended the Mullen-Leavitt
Invitational in The Dalles
Thursday, March 19, bring-
ing home several medals to
start their season.
Ione Track and Field
has a mostly young team
this year. However, some
returning juniors started
right where they left off
last year. Rachel Holland
threw her javelin with a
new personal record (PR)
of 103’9”, an increase of
6’7” inches over her best
last year.
Jorge Aguilar bested
his shot put distance by
1’3” for a new PR of 40’
0.5”. Also returning was
sophomore Karsen Dumler,
who set a PR in shot put
with a distance of 26’8”, an
improvement of 1’9”.
Returning sophomore
Ashley Medina threw her
discus just 6 feet short of
her personal best, making
a strong showing of the
season to come.
Returning sophomore
Hector Aguilar ran all three
of his races just short of
his personal bests from
last year. We look for good
things from him.
Returning junior Ann
Rietmann had a trouble-
some start with getting
penned inside and had to
drop back and go around
the pack in her 800M
run. She did a good job at
3:08.26a. Also a returning
junior, Jessie Flynn had a
strong showing of her tal-
ent, placing high in all of
her events—second in high
jump and 300M hurdles and
fourth in long jump.
Returning senior Os-
kar Peterson was unable
to compete, as he was di-
agnosed with a torn ACL
and meniscus of his knee,
an injury he incurred dur-
ing basketball season and
that had been troubling
him throughout practice.
He will need surgery and
likely miss the rest of track
season, much to his disap-
pointment.
A new-comer, senior
TJ Patton, competed in his
first 1500M with an impres-
sive time of 5:30.99a. He
also threw the discus. With
some technique and getting
over being sick, he will do
well this season.
Another new athlete to
the team is junior Frances
Knop. She putted her shot
22’1” and threw her discus
34’3”. With some experi-
ence, she also will be a good
contender.
Incoming freshman
Kaitlin Garrett placed
eighth with her throw of
64’3” in the discus. She
also putted the shot 24’6.5”.
Incoming freshman Maggie
Flynn ran a Personal Best
100M (15.39a) and Long
Jumped a personal best of
13 feet.
Also new to the team
this year is exchange stu-
dent David Smidmajer from
the Czech Republic. He
participated in two sprints
and threw the discus.
Rounding out the team
are sophomores Henry Pad-
berg, Chris Pryor, Yaniva
Garcia and Noah Lawson,
and freshmen Sonia Me-
dina, Maggie Flynn, Tyson
Epperson and Emily Taylor.
All of them showed well in
their individual competi-
tion.
Eighteen of the 20
athletes competed at The
Dalles. Ione looks forward
to a rewarding season. Next
meet is April 3 at the Car-
nival of Speed in Milton-
Freewater at 11 a.m. To fol-
low the team’s competition,
go to www.athletic.net to
find individual rankings and
scores. Ione is in Special
District 3 of the 1A Division
of Oregon.
Placing at The Dalles:
Jorge Aguilar: 4 th in Shot
Put, 40’ 0.5”; 7 th in Discus,
101’5”
Rachel Holland: 4 th in
400M, 1:07.70a; 1 st in
Javelin, 103’9”
Jessie Flynn: 2 nd in High
Jump, 4’10”; 2 nd in 300M
Hurdles, 50.70a;
4 th in Long Jump, 15’9”
Kaitlin Garrett: 8 th in Dis-
cus, 64’3”
Currently in top 10 of
Special District 3 are:
100M: #8 Smidmajer, #10
H. Aguilar, #7 M. Flynn,
#9 Garcia, #6 Padberg
200M: #5 Smidmajer, #7
Padberg, #10 H. Aguilar
400M: #2 Holland, #9 H.
Aguilar
800M: #4 Rietmann
1500M: #7 TJ Patton
300M: Hurdles #1 J.
Flynn
Shot Put (SP): #2 J. Agui-
lar, #7 Dumler, #9 Pryor,
#6 K. Garrett, #9 Knop
Discus: #3 J. Aguilar, #8
Patton, #10 Smidmajer, #5
K. Garrett, #6 A. Medina
Javelin: #2 Holland, #6
Garcia, #8 Taylor
High Jump (HJ): #1 J.
Flynn
Long Jump (LJ): #6 Ep-
person, #7 Dumler, #1 J.
Flynn, #6 M. Flynn, #7
Garcia
Currently in the top 10 of
1A are juniors:
J. Aguilar: #2 Shot Put
(SP), #7 Discus
R. Holland: #2 400M, #3
Javelin
J. Flynn: #1 Long Jump
(LJ), #2 High Jump (HJ),
#1 300M Hurdles
A. Rietmann: #6 800M
Total team results
from The Dalles are as
follows:
Mens Results
100 Meters - Varsity -
Finals
24. Henry Padberg, 12.99a
33. David Smidmajer,
13.55a
42. Hector Aguilar, 14.37a
200 Meters - Varsity -
Finals
19. David Smidmajer,
27.44a
24. Henry Padberg, 27.78a
35. Hector Aguilar, 29.88a
37. Tyson Epperson,
31.99a
400 Meters - Varsity -
Finals
14. Hector Aguilar,
1:09.18a
1500 Meters - Varsity -
Finals
15. TJ Patton, 5:30.99a
Shot Put - 12lb - Varsity -
Finals
4. Jorge Aguilar , 40-00.50
27. Karsen Dumler, 26-
08.00
33. Chris Pryor, 23-07.50
Discus - 1.6kg - Varsity -
Finals
7. Jorge Aguilar, 101-05
17. TJ Patton, 79-10
22. David Smidmajer,
76-09
35. Chris Pryor, 60-08
Javelin - 800g - Varsity -
Finals
31. Tyson Epperson, 64-00
Long Jump - Varsity -
Finals
24. Tyson Epperson, 12-
08.00
25. Karsen Dumler, 12-
04.00
Womens Results
100 Meters - Varsity -
Finals
18. Maggie Flynn, 15.39a
21. Yaniva Garcia, 15.76a
29. Emily Taylor, 16.63a
400 Meters - Varsity -
Finals
4. Rachel Holland,
1:07.70a
800 Meters - Varsity -
Finals
11. Ann Rietmann,
3:08.26a
300m Hurdles - 30” - Var-
sity - Finals
2. Jessie Flynn, 50.70a
Shot Put - 4kg - Varsity -
Finals
10. Kaitlin Garrett, 24-
06.50
15. Frances Knop, 22-
01.00
18. Sonia Medina, 20-
09.50
19. Ashley Medina, 19-
08.00
Discus - 1kg - Varsity -
Finals
8. Kaitlin Garrett, 64-03
11. Ashley Medina, 57-06
19. Sonia Medina, 45-04
23. Frances Knop, 34-03
Javelin - 600g - Varsity -
Finals
1. Rachel Holland, 103’09
14. Yaniva Garcia, 64’10
18. Emily Taylor, 54-11
High Jump - Varsity -
Finals
2. Jessie Flynn, 4-10.00
Long Jump - Varsity -
Finals
4. Jessie Flynn, 15-09.00
12. Maggie Flynn, 13-
00.00
14. Yaniva Garcia, 12-
11.50
Cardinal junior Rachel Holland sets a PR in javelin with a
throw of 103’ 9” inches. –Photo by Paula Emmel
Historical society kicks into gear with
museum trip
The Morrow County
Historical Society is spon-
soring a trip to the Western
Antique Aeroplane & Au-
tomobile Museum in Hood
River on Saturday, April 11.
The MCHC group will
depart from St. Patrick’s
Senior Center in Heppner at
7:45 a.m. and arrive back at
the senior center at 5 p.m.
The WAAAM Air &
Auto Museum has one of
the largest collections of
still-flying antique aero-
planes and still-driving
antique automobiles in the
country.
Plus, April 11 is a sec-
ond Saturday of the month,
which happens to be the
day of the month when
WAAAM volunteers fly
and drive the artifacts for
visitors’ enjoyment.
Cost of the trip will be
$10 per-person admission
to the museum, an esti-
mated $10 per person for
gas and driver for those who
ride the senior bus, and cost
of lunch.
Lunch will be from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There
are food vendors on-site
at the museum; cost for
lunch from the vendors is
estimated at $7, but partici-
pants may also eat off-site
or bring a sack lunch.
A sign-up sheet is avail-
able at the senior center in
Heppner.
Questions, call Dave
DeMayo at 541-676-8017. Volunteers do some spring cleaning on an antique tractor at
the WAAAM. –Contributed photo courtesy of WAAAM
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