POULSBO — Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt and Adrian Brown and East Jefferson’s Tusker Behrenfeld all had great showings at the Li’l Norway Invitational Track and Field meet this weekend.
A total of 19 1A, 2A and 3A schools competed at the Li’l Norway Invite. Sequim had the best team showing, coming in sixth in the girls meet with 53 points and seventh in the boys meet with 44. East Jefferson was seventh in the girls meet with 44 points and ninth in the boys meet with 35. Port Angeles was 15th in the girls meet with 17 points, while the boys finished 13th with 23 points.
Lynden won both the girls and boys meets with 104 points for the girls and 128.5 for the boys.
Going up against a number of elite 2A and 3A athletes, Pyeatt won the 100-meter dash in 13.51 seconds and the 400-meter run in 59.68 seconds. She also ran the anchor leg for the Sequim 4×400 relay team that took first place. The squad of Hi’lei Robinson, Kaitlyn Bloomenrader, Eve Mavy and Pyeatt won in a time of 4:09.88.
Brown also won multiple events for the Sequim boys. He took first in the 110-meter hurdles in 16.63 seconds and was first in the 300-meter hurdles in 42.27 seconds.
Behrenfeld, competing for 1A East Jefferson, won the javelin with a personal-record throw of 163 feet, 7 inches, beating out a number of 2A and 3A throwers. He already had the second-best 1A javelin distance in the entire state from a meet earlier this year and bettered that throw Saturday.
Jack Gladfelter of Port Angeles also won the 1,600 meters in 4:34.89, a personal record. East Jefferson’s Stephanie Sanchez had a personal record in the 100-meter hurdles, taking first place in 17.58 seconds, just .02 seconds ahead of a hurdler from 3A Bainbridge.
Other local athletes who had good showings included:
Boys
800 meters — Max Allworth-Miles, East Jefferson, second, 2:04.93.
DMR (1,200-400-800-1,600 relay) boys — East Jefferson (Sebastian Manza, Jerome Reaux Jr., Glen Dawson, Allworth-Miles), second, 11:16.07.
3,200 meters — Gladfelter, Port Angeles, third, 9:49.02.
800 meters — Naaman McGuffey, PA, fourth 2:09.79.
Girls
Pole vault — Rileigh VanDyken, Sequim, second, 7-6.
DMR (1,200-400-800-1,600) girls — East Jefferson (Camryn Hines, Fiona Fraser, Lia Poore, Aliyah Yearian), second, 13:13.04.
Shot put — Kennedy Bruch, PA, third, 31-3½.
400 meters — Bruch, PA, fourth, 1:04.79.
Javelin — Jayde Gedelman, PA, fourth, 98-6.
Triple jump — Lia Poore, EJ, fourth, 31-2½.
