North Bend’s girls won the Sky-Em League track title at their home facility on Saturday and both the Bulldogs and Pirates qualified a bunch of athletes for this week’s Class 4A state meet in Eugene.
North Bend’s girls scored 182.5 points to easily beat Junction City (157.5), Marist Catholic (155), Cottage Grove (84) and Marsfield (70) and the Bulldogs also won the coed team title.
Ellie Massie raced to wins in both the 1,500 (5 minutes and 4.35 seconds) and 3,000 (10:56.23) for the Bulldogs. She also teamed with Emma Slade, Eva Jensen and Lauren Efraimson to win the 4x400 relay (4:16.86).
Efraimson also was a double-winner for the Bulldogs, taking the triple jump (10.57 meters) and 400 meters (1:02.67) and finished second in the 300 hurdles (50.96) to qualify for state in that event. The top two finishers advanced to state, along with any other athletes who hit auto qualifying standards.
For North Bend, that meant two athletes at state in several events.
Lennon Riddle won the 300 hurdles (50.04) and Drew Hood won the 100 hurdles (16.29) for North Bend. Hood also finished second behind Efraimson in the triple jump (10.43) and behind Cottage Grove’s Makya Alsup in the javelin (34.28).
North Bend also had two qualifiers in the pole vault. Abby Woodruff won by clearing 2.97 meters. Junction City’s Elaina Deming finished second at 2.90 meters, but on her 18th birthday, North Bend’s Roxy Day also got over the bar at 2.90, the automatic qualifier for the state meet. Slade advanced as a wild card selection in the high jump after clearing 1.49 meters.
Marshfield’s girls had one state qualifier, Daphne Scriven, who won the discus (37.14 meters) and finished second in the shot put (10.07). Scriven shared outstanding thrower of the meet honors with Marist Catholic’s Zakiya Newman, who won the shot put and was second in the discus.
Massie shared outstanding runner with Marist Catholic’s Bella Gubrub, who won the 100 and 200 and was part of the winning 4x100 relay team.
Cottage Grove won the boys team title with 172.5 points, while Marshfield (131) edged North Bend (130) for second. Marist Catholic had 121 and Junction City 96.5.
Marshfield had a good weekend in qualifying for the state meet, where the Pirates are two-time defending champions.
Bodey Lutes was named the outstanding boys runner after winning the 200 (21.97) and 400 (50.27) and helping the Pirates to wins in both relays.
In the 4x100, Lutes teamed with Joe Herbert, Quinton Kloster and Carter McGriff to win edge North Bend in a photo finish. Marshfield’s winning time was 43.44 while the Bulldogs’ quartet of Cole Hanson, Andrew Efraimson, Miles Baxter and Jason Padgett finished in 43.46.
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