Track & Field: Sequim boys sweep, girls second at home meet

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, March 27, 2019

In the friendly confines of the Sequim High School stadium, the host Wolves earned a bevy of personal bests and nearly completed a meet sweep.

Sequim’s boys took first place in 13 of 17 events to top athletes from Kingston, Klahowya and Chimacum, while Sequim’s girls posted 10 individual wins and placed second behind 1A Klahowya on March 21.

Buoyed by strong performances on the track and in the field, Sequim’s boys racked up 134 team points to out-pace Klahowya’s Eagles (86).

Sequim’s Murray Bingham raced to big wins in both 800 (2:02) and 1,600 meters (4:40) while fellow senior Fischer Jensen added wins in both 110 hurdles (16.52) and 300 hurdles (43.00).

Senior Riley Cowan and sophomore Erik Christiansen also picked up two individual wins. Cowan, a state 2A finals competitor in the javelin last season, won that event with a 169-foot, 4-inch throw, and also won the shot put with a 39-8 mark.

Christiansen won the high jump with a personal best 5-6 leap, and added a win in the discus with a 91-4.5 throw — both personal bests.

Sophomore Logan Laxson picked up a win in the 100 meters with a personal best 11.61-second finish, and teammate Darren Salazar added a win in the 200 meters (24.00).

Senior Keeshawn Whitney topped the field in the triple jump, leaping 39 feet 1.5 inches — a personal record. Teammate Jarrett Allen was third at 37-7.5.

SHS junior Connor Forderer was second in the pole vault with a personal best of 11 feet; sophomore teammate Noah White was third with a 10-foot vault, also a personal best.

Sequim’s boys also swept 4×100 and 4×400 relays.

Sequim freshman Riley Pyeatt earned three individual event victories and sophomore Abby Schroeder had two as Sequim’s girls tallied 79 team points, second to Klahowya (98.5 points).

Pyeatt swept the sprints, winning the 100-meter race in a personal best 13.27, the 200 meters in 27.75 seconds and the 400 in 1:01.32. She also placed second in the long jump with a 14-foot, 5.5-inch mark.

Schroeder cleared 5 feet 3 inches in the high jump — tied for the top mark among all 2A girls in the state (athletic.net) on the young season, and just two inches off Haleigh Harrison’s school mark set in 2011. Schroeder also earned a win in the 300 hurdles (55.14), beating the field by four seconds.

Sequim High senior Shayli Schuman won the 100-meter hurdles in 16.78.

Junior Hope Glasser won the javelin with a 90-3 and placed second in the discus with an 86-3 mark — both personal bests.

SHS senior Elizabeth Sweet won the pole vault after clearing 7 feet 6 inches, and teammate Sonja Govertson was second (7-0).

The Wolves also picked up wins in two of the three relays, with Schuman, Schroeder, Mary McAleer and Lesea Pfeffer winning the 4×100 in 56.44 seconds, and the 4×200 team of Schroeder, Gabby Happe, Daisy Ryan and Mia Underwood winning in 2:01.93.

See more photos from the meet here.

Looking ahead

After a near three-week respite the Wolves play host again, taking on Olympic and Port Townsend in Sequim on April 11.

Select Sequim athletes compete at the Lil’ Norway Invite at North Kitsap High School on April 13 before the next league meet on April 18 — also at North Kitsap High — against North Mason and the host Vikings.