SUMNER — Sequim’s Jayson Brocklesby, who set school and district meet records, and Port Angeles’ Jolene Millsap both won individual titles at the 20-team 2A tri-district track and field championships at Sumner High School.
Both Sequim and Port Angeles will send five athletes each to state in seven events.
The Wolves also qualified two boys relays and one girls relay at Saturday’s meet.
Brocklesby and Millsap had the top North Olympic Peninsula performances with the individual titles, and they both qualified for state in two individual events along with Kyle Tupper of Port Angeles and Jasmine McMullin of Sequim.
The 2A state championships are set for Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma on Thursday through Saturday.
Brocklesby, a senior, had another stellar day in track with a first place in the 400 meters with a school- and West Central District meet-record time of 49.67 seconds. He also was runner-up in high jump with a best leap of 6 feet, 4 inches, which ties the meet record.
Relay team second
He also ran on the second-place 4×100 relay team (43.89 seconds) with teammates Lopaka Yasumura, Christian Miles and anchor Judah Breitbach
In addition, Brocklesby was the anchor on the fifth-place 4×400 relay (3:29.74) with teammates Dylan Chatters, Hamish Peers and Oscar Herrera.
Millsap, meanwhile, captured first place in the 100 meters in 12.81 seconds, and the junior took fourth place in the 200 in 26.47.
The top six places qualify for state.
Tupper, a senior, qualified for state in two events as he finished in third place in the 3,200 in 9:46.29, and he took fifth in the 1,600 in 4:26.53.
McMullin also qualified in two events as the Sequim senior was second in triple jump with a school-record distance of 36-08.5, and fourth in long jump with a leap of 16-04.
Sequim senior Yasumura claimed second place in shot with a put of 48-02.75 while two other area athletes grabbed third places.
Port Angeles freshman Willow Suess was third in the 800 meters in 2:24.43 while Sequim junior Sarah Hutchison took third in pole vault (9-09).
Taking fourth place was Port Angeles junior Brittany Norberg in javelin (105-01), while claiming fifth were Port Angeles sophomore Elyse Lovgren in long jump (15-09.5) and Sequim freshman Audrey Shingleton in the 800 meters (2:26.33).
In addition, the Sequim girls 4×400 relay team took fifth place in 4:16.40 with Hutchison, Hannah Hudson, Waverly Shreffler and anchor McMullin.
Sequim captured eighth place in the boys meet with 40 points while the Roughriders took 14th place with 10 points.
The Port Angeles girls finished in a tie for ninth place with 31 points while the Wolves tied for 12th with 27 points.
Four 1A champions
SEATTLE — Chimacum’s Daryl Settlemire and Rafael Pagasian, and Port Townsend’s Skyler Coppenrath and Rebecca Stewart won individual titles at the 23-team 1A tri-district championships at King’s High School.
Settlemire, a senior, broke the tri-district meet record in discus with a throw of 159 feet, 11 inches.
Pagasian, meanwhile, won the long jump with a leap of 20-07.75. Pagasian also is a senior.
Coppenrath and Stewart, both juniors, won the triple jump event for the Redskins in the boys and girls meets.
Coppenrath won with a distance of 41-08.25 while Stewart had a distance of 34-01.
The Cowboys are sending a total of four athletes to the 1A state championships while the Redskins are sending four athletes in six events.
Port Townsend’s Jewel Johnson and Stewart qualified for state in two events each.
Stewart also captured third place in the 300 hurdles in 48.54 seconds, while Johnson, a junior, claimed second place in the 200 meters in 26.45 seconds and third in the 100 in 13.17 seconds.
Other area athletes qualifying for state were Chimacum senior Mel Thornton, who took fourth in the 300 hurdles in 41.88, Chimacum freshman Bailey Castillo, fifth in javelin with a throw of 105-11, and Port Townsend junior Patricia Reeves, who tied for fourth in high jump with a leap of 4-10.
The Port Townsend girls took seventh place with 35.5 points while the Cowboys were 22nd with four.
The Chimacum boys, meanwhile, took 10th with 269 points while the Redskin boys were 15th with 105.
The 1A and 1B track and field state championships are scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.
Forks sends 4 to state
RAINIER — Sophomore Kari Larson and junior Sydney Christensen both captured third place for the Spartans at the 1A Southwest Washington District championships at Rainier High School.
Four Spartans qualified for state along with Larson, who claimed third place in the 800 meters in 2 minutes, 28.08 seconds, and Christensen, who took third in discus with a throw of 104 feet, 8 inches.
In addition, senior Shane WhiteEagle punched his ticket to state by taking fourth in shot put with a heave of 44-05.75, and sophomore Miguel Morales qualified for state by taking fourth in discus with a throw of 134-04.
The 1A and 1B track and field state championships are scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.
