Athletes open track season with good marks in Reedsport
Mar. 20—Several athletes had good opening marks in the Reedsport Ice Breaker track and field meet last week.
The event included a number of South Coast schools and was one of the first in the state this spring.
Clayton Wilson of host Reedsport opened the spring with a pair of strong wins. He took the 1,500 meters in 4 minutes and 20.1 seconds, a new best, and came back to win the 3,000 in 9:35.4, winning by just over a minute.
Pacific's Tucker Long also had a win on the track, taking the 110 high hurdles in 17.6 seconds. He came back to finish second in the 300 intermediate hurdles in 46.4, a little behind Mohawk's Ewan O'Dea (45.8).
Myrtle Point's Mason Detzler, one of the top throwers in the state at any level, won his two specialties. He had a winning mark of 48 feet, 8 1/4 inches to win the shot put, with Gold Beach's Korben Storns a solid second (46-8 1/4 ).
In the discus, Detzler's winning mark was 153-9, with teammate Logan Clayburn second (133-9).
Gold Beach's Nelson Wilstead won the javelin with a heave of 161-6.
Bandon freshman Noah Brown won the pole vault by clearing 10 feet and combined with teammates Jason Huerta, Aiden Wallace and Reggie Turner to win the 4x400 relay.
On the girls side, Coquille field event specialist Callie Millet won the javelin, beating a pair of Bandon athletes who also had big throws.
Millet won with a mark of 116-10 while Katelyn Senn was second (114-8) and Caitlyn Michalek third (111-6).
Millet also won the pole vault, clearing 10 feet for the first time, and was second to teammate Holli Vigue in the discus, with Vigue throwing 114-4 and Millet 96-7.
Reedsport's Hannah hill won the shot put (28-4 1/2 ), with Vigue second (27-9 1/2 ) and Millet third (27-5).
Ada Millet, Callie's younger sister, won the 100 (13.3), 400 (1:02.9) and 300 hurdles (51.5).
Bandon's Marley Petrey also had a strong opening meet, winning the 200 (26.2) and joining Myrtle Point's Jadelin Warner atop the field in the high jump, with each clearing 4-9. Petrey also was part of the winning 4x400 relay with teammates Analise Miller, Giada Moore and Makenna Vierck.
Myrtle Point won the 4x100 relay with the group of Warner, Olivia Brophy, Taelyn Farmer and McKenzie Robinson (54.2) finishing just ahead of a Bandon squad with Petrey, Senn, Miller and Makiah Vierck (54.7).
Miller won the 800 for Bandon (2:35.7), edging Coquille's Faith Gertner (2:36.0). Makiah Vierck won the 100 hurdles (17.4).
Bryleigh Mead won the 1,500 for Coquille (5:25.7) and teammate Emelia Wirebaugh won the triple jump with a leap of 32 feet.
The various teams will be back in action in other icebreaker meets this week.
Reedsport, Myrtle Point, Gold Beach, Bandon and Pacific all head to Marshfield on Thursday for the Pirates' icebreaker meet.
Coquille and North Bend head north to Florence for the Siuslaw Icebreaker on Thursday.
