PORT ANGELES — Waverly Shreffler’s four first-place finishes helped Sequim edge North Kitsap for the girls title at the Port Angeles Invitational track and field meet.
The Wolves finished with 110 points, while the Vikings racked up 107.
The Port Angels girls’ 94.5 points ranked third at Saturday’s 13-school event.
Seven of the North Olympic Peninsula’s eight track and field squads were opening their 2016 seasons at the meet. The Clallam Bay girls finished eighth (25 points), Crescent took ninth (23), Forks 10th (22), Neah Bay 12th (nine) and Chimacum was 13th (six).
North Kitsap ran away with the boys title, finishing 25 points ahead of second-place Sequim 119-94.
Shreffler won the girls 400-meter run with a time of 1:01.48 in the finals, and the 800 with a 2:26.89.
She also was part of the Wolves’ two first-place relays. She ran the first leg of the 4×200 relay, followed by Gretchen Happe, Telicia Busby and Mercedes Woods.
Shreffler ran the last leg of the 4×400 relay behind Happen, Emma Beeson and Woods.
Woods also had an individual win in the 200 with a time of 27.46 seconds.
Port Angeles had the North Olympic Peninsula’s other three girls varsity titles.
Gracie Long won the 1,500 run (5:17.14) and the 2,000 steeplechase (7:38.99), and Maddie Dougherty took first in the 3,000 (12:00.21).
Sequim boys second
Oscar Herrera and Jackson Oliver won individual and relay titles for the Sequim boys.
Herrera took first in the 110 hurdles (15.25 seconds) and 300 hurdles (40.86 seconds). Oliver won the 800 run (2:07.07).
Oliver and Herrera teamed up with Kane Stoddard and Jason Springer to win the 4×400 relay for the Wolves.
Port Angeles’ Jacob Kennedy was the meet’s shot put winner with a throw of 42 feet, 11 inches.
Chimacum’s Trevon Noel won the discus (127-0).
Clallam Bay freshman Clayton Willis was the day’s only varsity winner to come from Class 1B, taking the long jump with a 20-0.25.
The Roughriders finished sixth as a team (55.5 points). Clallam Bay was eighth (35), Forks took ninth (31), Chimacum 10th (30), Neah Bay 12th (18) and Crescent came in 13th (13).
JV winners
Saturday’s meet was conssisted of varsity and JV competitions.
The varsity level allowed one person from each team to compete in each event.
The JV events were open to everyone else — essentially it was JV in name only — and many area athletes had first-place showins.
Sequim’s Beeson won the girls 100-meter dash, while Crescent’s Grace Baillargeon took first in the 400, Forks’ Chelsea Biciunas won the 800 and Port Angeles’ Lael Butler took first in the 1,500.
Butler also won the 2,000 steeplechase, and Sequim’s Yana Holsel had the best time in the 300 hurdles.
Clallam Bay’s Jennica Maines had a personal-record 4-foot, 10-inch effort to win the high jump.
Two of the three girls JV throwing events went to area athletes: Port Angeles’ Ciara Gentry won the pole vault and Crescent’s McKenzie Brannan won the shot put.
Riley Martin won both boys hurdles for Sequim, and ran with the winning 4×400 relay, along with Curtis Gorr, Justin Hermosada and Conner Martin.
Neah Bay’s Josey Tyree took first in the 3,000 run.
Port Townsend’s Dances wins twice at Seattle Academy Invite
SHORELINE — Port Townsend junior Seren Dances jumped his way to two individual titles at the Seattle Academy Invite at Shoreline Stadium.
Dances won the long jump (20 feet, 3 inches) and the triple jump (41-07.75) at Saturday’s meet, which was formerly known as the Seattle Academy Relays.
Dances also helped the Redhawks claim the 4×100-meter relay, teaming up with Koby Weidner, Kyle Blankenship and Jacob Lundgren to run the relay in 45.93 seconds.
Weidner had two runner-up finishes in the 100 and 200.
The Port Townsend boys took fifth as a team with 60 points. King’s took first with 136.5 points.
The Port Townsend girls finish fourth with 75 points. Sultan won the team title with 118 points.
The Redhawks claimed the 4×100 relay on the girls side as well. Junior Emily Franklin teamed up with freshmen Karlee Kellogg, Aubry Botkin and Eileen Leoso to finish in 56.81 seconds.
Senior Shenoa Snyder was the lone individual winner for Port Townsend. She dominated the shot put with a throw of 30-01.5, which was more than a foot longer than the second-place finisher.
Snyder also placed third in the discus.
Botkin had a runner-up showing in the 100 hurdles, while Leoso took third in the 100 and in the long jump.
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Compiled using team reports.
