The Port Townsend boys track and field team had a historic week last week, breaking one long-standing record and tying an even longer-standing record.
At the Redhawks’ home meet last Wednesday, the quartet of Koby Weidner, Isaiah Mason, Mark Streett and Cameron Constantine ran their third and final 4×200-meter relay of the season.
They took first with a time of 1 minute, 34.14 seconds, which ties the school record originally set in 1971 by Don Sandvig, John Minish, Kurt Holmes and George Southerland.
Later in the meet, the winning 4×100 relay team of Weidner, Mason, Zach Wilson and Constantine ran a 45.17 to come within three-hundredths of a second of the 1976 school record for the second time this season.
On Saturday, a small Port Townsend contingent competed at the Shelton Invitational, the premier track meet of the season on the west side of Puget Sound.
The Redhawks stepped up to the level of competition, beating all Class 1A competitors and placing in the top half of the elite fields of 16.
In the 4×100 relay team of Weidner, Mason, Mark Streett and Constantine placed eighth with a breakthrough time of 44.87 seconds to wrest the school record from the 1976 team (Brad Boland, Jim Freitas, Pat Powers and Howie Gauthier).
