Draven Riddle, a sophomore from Napavine, makes a leap during the long jump event Friday afternoon at the W.F. West High School track.
Jamie Carlson, a senior from Mossyrock, winds up to throw discus Friday afternoon at the W.F. West High School track.
Reece Wallace, a senior from Toledo, lands hard during the long jump event Friday afternoon at the W.F. West High School track.
Chase McCarter, a sophomore from Napavine, takes to the air during the pole vault event Friday afternoon at the W.F. West High School track.
Stephanie Fried, a senior from Mossyrock, takes first in the 4x2 relay Friday afternoon at the W.F. West High School track.
Ava Nelson, a senior from Mossyrock, competes in the the discus event Friday afternoon at the W.F. West High School track.
Andrew Schulz, a junior from Pe Ell, kicks up dirt during the long jump event Friday afternoon at the W.F. West High School track.
A slightly larger stage didn’t change much for Austen Apperson and Mollie Olson, who both won three solo events on Friday at the District 4 2B Track Championships at Chehalis’ Bearcat Stadium.
Apperson, Adna’s junior distance phenom, won three solo events and anchored a winning relay team, while Olson, Napavine’s senior star, picked up three wins and a runner-up.
Apperson won the 800 meters in 1 minute, 57 seconds; won the 1600 by 19 seconds in 4:20; and won the 3200 by edging Northwest Christian’s Noah Phillips, 10:24.30 to 10:24.42. He also teamed up with Zander Blankenship, Brady Collins and Aisan Ryan to win the 4x400 in 3:34.31.
Olson won the 100 hurdles in 15.75 seconds and took second in the 300 hurdles, finishing less than a half-second behind Life Christian’s Landyn Lovelady. She also won the long jump (16 feet, 5 inches) by nearly a foot and took the triple jump at 35-02.
The top six placers in each event qualified for the State 2B championships, which start Thursday in Cheney.
Pe Ell’s boys finished second as team, getting a win from Ryan Shepherd in the javelin (175-0) and a win from Andrew Schulz (21-0) in the long jump. Shepherd also finished fourth in the triple jump and sixth in the long jump, while Schulz was third in the triple jump, the 100 and the 200. Bradley Prestegord was second in the javelin, third in the shot put and fourth in the discus, while Kaleb McCalden was third in the high jump and Willy Ames was fifth in the 110 hurdles.
Adna’s boys finished third. Collins was fourth in the 100 and fifth in the 200, Luke Wellander was second in the 110 hurdles and sixth in the 300 hurdles, and Blankenship, Wellander, Collins and Braden Thomas finished third in the 4x100.
Morton-White Pass’ Tristan Storey was second in the 100 and the 200, and ran a leg of the runner-up 4x100 and 4x400 teams with Manuel Martinez, Jesse Urban and Marcos Garcia. Levi Clements added a fifth-place 300 hurdle finish for MWP.
Napavine’s Draven Riddle won the triple jump (41-11.5), took second in the long jump and finished fifth in the 100, as well as running on the sixth-place 4x100 team. Noah Lantz added a fifth-place finish in the javelin for Napavine.
Mossyrock’s Lucas Johnson and James Cushman finished third and fourth in the 400. Toledo’s qualifiers included Nicholas Marty (sixth, 3200), Anthony Peak (sixth, 110 hurdles), the 4x100 relay team, Ethan Buck (fourth, javelin), and Reece Wallace (fifth, long jump).
Napavine’s girls finished second to Northwest Christian, 104-69. Chloe Stewart was second in the triple jump and long jump and fifth in the 300 hurdles, Trinity Underhill was sixth in the pole vault and Cirstyn Ellison was sixth in the shot put. The Tigers’ 4x200 relay team was also sixth.
Mossyrock’s girls took third. Ava Nelson was third in the javelin and fourth in the discus; Jamie Carlson was fourth in the discus and sixth in the javelin; Heather Edgar was fourth in the shot put; Stephanie Fried was fifth in the 200; Maleah Nixon Klein was sixth in the 200; and Sarah Lovan was fifth in the 400. Lovan, Gracie Lovan, Fried and Nixon Klein won the 4x200 (1:51.99), and the Vikings were fourth in the 4x400 and the 4x100.
Ally Bacon was second in the javelin for Toledo, while Abigail Rowe was third in the 200. Kal Schaplow was fourth in the javelin and Emily Tyner was third in the high jump, and Bacon, Rowe, Schaplow and Alyssa Gaskill took second in the 4x100.
Morton-White Pass’ Kaylen Collette qualified for state in the 3200 (fourth), and Onalaska’s Carmen Cleveland-Barrera qualified in the shot put (third).
Note: Raymond’s Karlee Freeman, a senior who has signed with the University of Southern California, swept the throwing events. Freeman won the discus — her signature event — by over 48 feet with a toss of 166-11, won the shot put by over 8 feet at 46-0, and won the javelin at 125-02. She currently has the best discus distance in the state, regardless of classification, at 173-3 — more than 26 feet further than the next best toss.
