EUGENE — Mason Detzler and Thomas Ferren carried Myrtle Point to second place at the Class 1A boys state track meet Friday night.
Detzler added the discus title to his shot put title from Thursday, just missing his ultimate goal.
He threw 171 feet, 7 inches on his final attempt, a new personal best but a single inch behind the record set last year by Ray Gerrard of North Douglas.
“I’m disappointed with that,” Detzler said. “But if someone else has the record, I’m glad Ray has it.”
Detzler had the five biggest throws of the day and was a little surprised by how well he did, saying he’s been throwing poorly in recent weeks.
The final throw was pure force.
“I was thinking, this is my last throw, just chuck it,” he said.
His winning mark was almost the best of all six classifications. Class 4A champion Hayden Slaughter had a throw of 175-4, but Detzler’s top throw was far better than the other winners.
Teammate Logan Clayburn joined Detzler on the podium for the second straight day, finishing sixth (133-1) after also placing in the shot put.
Ferren, meanwhile, was a surprise winner in the 100 meters, racing to a new best time of 11.19 seconds. He let out a joyful scream when he realized he had won.
Later in the evening, he also won the 200 meters and placed third in the 110-meter high hurdles. He was awarded athlete of the meet honors for scoring the most points of any Class 2A boy.
It was a sterling effort considering the junior was in his first year of track and field — he joined the team initially to stay in shape for football.
He said he thought his best event would be the hurdles.
“I did the 100 because I knew I’m fast,” he said.
Faster than the rest of the athletes, as it turned out.
“I never thought I would win state,” he said.
His winning times were 11.19 in the 100 and 22.59 in the 200. He ran the hurdles from lane 1 because of a slower qualifying time Thursday, but still finished third in 15.72 seconds.
The Bobcats scored 50 points, not nearly enough to keep up with Imbler (77) but better than third-place Joseph (42).
Myrtle Point’s girls scored in one event Friday.
Myrtle Point’s quartet of Milena Miller, Jadelin Warner, Taelyn Farmer and Kenzie Robinson finished fourth in the 4x100 relay in 52.86.
Robinson had finished fourth in the javelin and Jayme Padgett third in the discus on the meet’s opening day.
Pacific’s boys scored seven points. Tucker Long finished sixth in the 300 hurdles (42.27) and eighth in the 110 hurdles (16.45) and Dalton Steers was sixth in the 100 (11.77).
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