TACOMA — Port Angeles’ Gracie Long ran a personal best, cracking 5 minutes in the 1,600-meter run to win the state 2A championship in that event.
Long won the race with a time of 4 minutes, 58.72 seconds, beating Kristen Garcia of Sedro-Woolley in a sprint to the finish by 0.37 of a second.
Port Angeles’ Maddie Dougherty finished 11th in Thursday’s race with a time of 5:11.64.
On Saturday, in Long’s final day of running high school track for Port Angeles, Long and Garcia dueled again in the 3,200. Long finished second in the 3,200 with a time of 11:00.89. Garcia won with a time of 10:55.26. Dougherty cracked the top 10, finishing 10th at 11:27.91.
Long’s sister, Millie, came in third in the 300-meter hurdles on Saturday with a time of 45.57.
The Long sisters have tallied 24 team points for the girl Roughriders so far with the team’s 4×400 race (both sisters run on that team) one of the last events left on Saturday.
Four Sequim athletes have also placed in their events. Riley Martin came in third place in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.30. Tyrell Edge of Franklin Pierce won the race with a time of 14.90 seconds.
Sequim’s Riley Cowan was fourth in the javelin with a throw of 182 feet, 6½ inches, a personal best. His throw was just eight feet behind the winning distance of 190-8 by Nicholas Oesterling of Bellingham.
Sequim’s Fischer Jensen was fifth in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 41.03 Saturday. Murray Bingham for the Wolves was seventh Saturday in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:57.52.
1A, 1B Meet
At the 1A and 1B meet in Cheney, the best showing so far has been from Forks’ Cole Baysinger, who came in fifth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.90.
Kaylin Signor of Clallam Bay finished sixth in the high jump with a leap of 4-6 and Aubry Botkin of Port Townsend who finished sixth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.04 seconds. That time is well off Botkin’s season-best, but overall times in this race and other sprints in Cheney were a bit slow as there was a headwind up to 6 miles an hour.
Kayla Winck of Neah Bay finished seventh in the shot put with a distance of 33-2¾, while her teammate Mateo Garcia finished seventh in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 18.01. Ryan Strid of Clallam Bay finished seventh in the 100-meter dash with a time 12.31 seconds.
Final results of the 1B, 1A and 2A track meets will be published in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News sports section.
State 2A Track and Field Championships
Mount Tahoma High School, Tacoma
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Results
Boys
Pole Vault — Liam Byrne, Sequim, 12th, 12-6
Javelin — Riley Cowan, Sequim, fourth, 182-6½; Payton Glasser, Sequim, 15th, 149-11.
1,600-Meter Run — Murray Bingham, Sequim, 15th, 4:36.15.
High Jump — Liam Clark, PA, 15th, 5-8; Grady Bourm, PA, 16th, 5-6.
110-Meter Hurdles — Riley Martin, Sequim, third, 15.30.
800-Meter Run — Bingham, Sequim, seventh, 1:57.52.
300-Meter Hurdles — Fischer Jensen, Sequim, fifth, 41.03.
Triple Jump — Clark, PA, 39-8½.
Girls
High Jump — Gracie Long, PA, 11th, 4-10.00; Delaney Wenzl, PA, 11th, 4-10.
1,600-Meter Run — Gracie Long, PA, first, 4:58.72; Maddie Dougherty, PA, 11th, 5:11.64.
3,200-Meter Run — Gracie Long, PA, second, 11:00.89; Dougherty, PA, 10th, 11:27.91.
300-Meter Hurdles — Millie Long, PA, third, 45.57.
State 1A Track and Field Championships
Eastern Washington University, Cheney
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday Final Results
Boys
Discus — Luke Dahlgren, Forks, 10th, 126-1; Dylan Tracer, Port Townsend, 13th, 110-4.
100-Meter Run — Cole Baysinger, Forks, fifth, 11.90.
Girls
100-Meter Hurdles — Aubry Botkin, PT, sixth, 16.04.
Javelin — Jadeah Nordberg-Williams, Chimacum, ninth, 109-3.
State 1B Track and Field Championships
Eastern Washington University, Cheney
Thursday, Friday and Saturday Final Results
Boys
Triple Jump — Isaac Jay Brunk, Neah Bay, 11th, 36-10.
110-Meter Hurdles — Mateo Garcia, NB, seventh, 18.01.
100-Meter Dash — Ryan Strid, Clallam Bay, seventh, 12.31.
Girls
High Jump — Kaylin Signor, Clallam Bay, sixth, 4-6.
Shot Put — Kayla Winck, NB, seventh, 33-2¾ Raine Westfall, Crescent, 10th, 31-2¾.
4×200 Relay — Clallam Bay (Kendra Anderson, Signor, Hannah Olson, Miriam Wonderly), eighth, 1:58.69.
3,200-Meter Run — Sidney Smith, CB, 13th, 14:09.36.
1,600-meter state champion Gracie Long of Port Angeles, right, and second-place finisher Kristen Garcia hug after Long beat Garcia by 0.37 of a second to take first place. At left is Port Angeles’ Maddie Dougherty, who finished 11th in the race. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Sequim’s Murray Bingham carries the baton during the preliminaries of the 4×400 relay at the 2A state Track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School. Sequim came in third in its heat and moved on to the finals late Saturday afternoon, seeded fifth. Other 4×400 members are Logan Laxson, Darren Salazar and Alec Shingleton. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group).
Sequim’s Riley Martin runs in the 110-meter hurdles at the 2A state Track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School, finishing third in the state with a time of 15.30. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Port Angeles’ Delaney Wenzl prepares to jump in the high jump at the 2A state Track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School. Wenzl finished 11th with a height of 4-10, tied with teammate Gracie Long. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Port Angeles’ Millie Long, second from left, runs in the preliminaries of the 100-meter hurdles at the 2A state Track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School. Long wasn’t able to move on to the finals in the 100 meters, but she won her heat in the 300-meter hurdles. She went on to finish third in the 300 hurdles. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Port Angeles’ Gracie Long, clears the bar in the high jump at the 2A state Track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School. Long finished 11th in the state with a height of 4-10. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group).
