A small group of East Jefferson Rivals track and field athletes headed north to Bellingham over the weekend, participating in the Birger Solberg Invitational with 58 other schools.
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A small group of East Jefferson Rivals track and field athletes headed north to Bellingham over the weekend, participating in the Birger Solberg Invitational with 58 other schools.
The Rivals group was off to the races on Saturday, April 8, with the girls team finishing 16th overall, the highest placing for a 1A or smaller school.
The first track event of the day for the EJ teams was the girls 4x800-meter relay. The team was led off by freshman Michael Gregg, running in only her second 800-meter race of the year. Gregg paced a nearly dead even 2:59.8 split, maintaining contact with the main pack and giving her teammates a solid competitive chance.
Junior Aliyah Yearian took off the second leg with gusto, storming through the field and moving her team from 15th place up to second with her 2:25.7 split. Junior Fiona Fraser and Senior Camryn Hines, each splitting 2:36 legs, fought back-and-forth battles through the final two legs with the Ballard High and Kamiak High School’s teams. The EJ team ultimately came up 0.1 seconds behind Ballard High to earn third place, with the Shorewood High team posting a runaway victory from over half a lap ahead in the end. The Rivals quartet’s final time of 10:38.93 set a new school record for the event, improving on the mark set last year by more than 25 seconds.
Top scoring athletes for the EJ girls team included Yearian placing third in an exciting 1600-meter race with a time of 5:09.19 (0.01 seconds behind second). Yearian’s mark puts her currently as the top 1A runner in the state, and third known performer all-time for Port Townsend High.
Fraser placed fourth in the 3200-meter run with a five-second personal best in 11:36.39, currently the fifth best mark in the state for 1A competitors.
Other meet highlights included senior rookie Kaylen Pray taking nearly a third of a second off her personal best 100-meter mark into a stiff headwind, placing 13th in 13.55 seconds. That’s currently the second best 100-meter mark in the district. Senior Toby Fulton earned 15th in the discus (114’ 3”) and Hines took 12th in the 800-meter run (2:36.42).
Next up for the EJ track and field teams is the Forks Invitational.
The meet, hosted by Forks High School, is set for Saturday, April 15.
