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THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
SEPTEMBER 11, 2011
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AREA SPORTS
NC’s Knight wins
Moment of silence
Tracy Walters Invite girls race missed Neale
By Dave Trimmer
[email protected],
(509) 927-2154
It’s hard to be disappointed with what transpired at the Fifth Annual
Tracy Walters Invitational
cross country meet, but it’s
hard not to be.
Before the girls took off at
Audubon Park Saturday
morning, Amy-Eloise Neale
of Glacier Peak, one of the
premier distance runners in
the country, was scratched
with a hamstring injury.
That left North Central’s
Katie Knight and Shadle
Park’s Kendra Weitz without the target they’ve been
chasing the previous two
years.
As Tracy Walters said
when he heard the announcement, “Aw, shoot,
I’ve been thinking about
that all summer.”
But by the time the
legendary coach handed out
the awards he was all smiles
after another memorable
day that included two meet
records and varsity team
champions repeating.
Knight tied her course record of 17 minutes, 41 seconds for 3 miles, breaking
the meet record set by
Coeur d’Alene’s Kinsey Gomez last year by 7 seconds.
And Bozeman’s impressive
young team repeated with
111 points, 35 clear of Jesuit
of Portland. Kamiakin was
third with 227, followed by
Coeur d’Alene at 253.
Senior Anthony Armstrong of Kamiakin defended his individual crown,
breaking his meet record of
15:15 set last season by 8 seconds, 6 seconds shy of the
18-year old course record.
The Braves also gave Walters’ alma mater quite a
scare, but NC won for the
fifth time with 146 points, 30
in front of Kamiakin with
Bozeman and Jesuit tied at
211.
Armstrong, a senior, was
30 seconds in front of NC
junior Keith Williams, who
beat sophomore teammate
Kai Wilmot by 1 second,
with NC junior Austen Frostad in fifth.
However, there was a
poignant moment before
the boys race, with a moment of silence for Tommy
Hawkins. Hawkins, a senior
co-captain on the Ferris
state-placing team last fall,
died last Saturday.
Each team consisted of 10
runners, with the top eight
being scored.
DAN PELLE [email protected]
Ferris runners bow heads before Tracy Walters Invitational to
honor former teammate Tom Hawkins, who died last week.
CROSS
COUNTRY
Meadlander Invitational
DAN PELLE [email protected]
North Central's Katie Knight puts some distance
between herself and Shadle Park's Kendra Weitz.
zled. After Neale was scratched,
Knight set a blistering pace and
Weitz faded, collapsing midway
through the third lap, although
she got up to finish 37th.
Weitz was only 13 seconds behind Knight at the end of the second lap.
“I was giving it all I had but I
wasn’t going anywhere,” Weitz
said.
Katie Biachnini of Glacier Peak,
another junior, edged sophomore Caroline Hardin of Bozeman for second, about a halfminute behind Knight.
“It was pretty toasty out here,”
Knight said. “I was feeling it, especially up on top, (but) I felt really good today.”
Andie Creek gave Bozeman
two sophomores in the top eight
and then four straight Hawks
came in starting with senior Michelle Cline at 16th, followed by
freshman Bridgett Creel, sophomore Malika Arnold and junior
Katie Stephens.
Boys
NC coach Jon Knight was happy to get away with a win, entering the season without a senior
leader for the first time.
“One thing I tell the guys before a race, ‘All things are still
possible,’ ” he said. “This is a new
group of guys. Some ask if you
can do it again. We’re not putting
that kind of pressure on them.”
Armstrong ran alone from early in the second lap but he was alGirls
This race simply fizzled as far most 2 minutes in front of his
as the individual battle among eighth-place teammate while the
three juniors, although it still siz- Indians ran within 73 seconds of
each other.
“Nick Taylor (12th), a junior,
really stepped up,” Knight said.
“Another kid, Oliver Reed, a
sophomore, really had a great
run (23rd).”
G Greater Spokane League
distance stars Nathan Weitz and
Andrew Gardner put on a pretty
good show, but it was anything
but riveting.
Weitz, from Shadle Park, and
Gardner, from Mead, posted the
fastest two times at the Meadlander, but the race is contested by
classes. That means Weitz ran
alone to the days’ best time of
12:18.06, winning the senior race
by 39 seconds over Mt. Spokane’s Hunter Johnson, the only
other runner to break 13 minutes
for the 2.5-mile course at Mead.
Gardner, a junior, won by 55 seconds in 12:24.04.
Mt. Spokane had the sophomore (Kees Von Michalofski) and
freshman (John Dressel) winners
and Central Valley had the top
team in all four races.
On the girls side, Mt. Spokane
junior Brooklin Young had the
fastest time at 15:59.72. Teammate Molly Cole won the senior
race (16:17.21). Mead edged Mt.
Spokane for the senior title and
Richland for the junior, with the
Bombers taking the sophomores
and Gonzaga Prep the freshmen.
G Conor McCandless finished
fourth over 2 miles in 10:04.64 to
lead the Gonzaga Prep varsity to
a third-place finish at the Bellarmine Invitational. Taylor Cherry
(12:18.91) was fourth in the girls
race as the Bullpups took sixth.
Senior Boys
Team Scores: 1, Central Valley 23. 2, Mt. Spokane 26. 3, Mead 48. 4, Shadle Park 53. 6, Richland 81. 7, Gonzaga Prep 109.
Individuals: 1, Weitz (SP) 12:18.06. 2, Johnson
(MTS) 12:57.38. 3, Fullmer (MTS) 13:29.33. 4,
Seckel (CV) 13:41.48. 5, Brown (CV) 13:44.28.
6, Allen (CV) 13:44.94. 7, Fretheim (Mea)
13:46.22. 8, Seward (CV) 13:51.81. 9, Banning
(SP) 13:55.92. 10, Gilbert (MTS) 13:58.99.
Junior Boys
Team Scores: 1, Central Valley 28. 2, Mead 30.
3, Richland 53. 4, Mt. Spokane 57. 5, Shadle
Park 81. 6, Reardan 114. 7, Gonzaga Prep 119.
Individuals: 1, Gardner (Mead) 12:24.09. 2,
Schofield (Mea) 13:19.76. 3, Giese (CV)
13:28.49. 4, Francis (Ric) 13:43.62. 5, Bolten
(BS) 13:50.21. 6, Brown (MTS) 13:52.49. 7,
Strauss (CV) 13:54.89. 8, Rahn (Mea) 13:58.31.
9, Spencer (CV) 14:03.00. 10, Haffercamp (SP)
4:13.70.
Sophomore Boys
Team Scores: 1, Central Valley 30. 2, Mt. Spokane 42. 3, Big Sky 43. 4, Shadle Park 57. 5,
Mead 78. 6, Richland 83. 7, Gonzaga Prep 147.
8, Reardon 147.
Individuals: 1, Von Michalofski (MTS) 13:10.12.
2, Hanger (SP) 13:15.27. 3, Brown (BS) 13:20.87.
4, Hunter (CV) 13:34.15. 5, Vanderberg (MTS)
13:41.74. 6, Rather (BS) 13:42.56. 7, Brant
(Mead) 14:03.25. 8, Brant (Mea) 14:03.25. 9,
Seely (CV) 14:14.03. 10, Keeve (CV) 14:21.64.
Freshman Boys
Team Scores: 1, Central Valley 26. 2, Richland
33. 3, Mead 50. 4, Gonzaga Prep 72. 5, Mt. Spokane 79.
Individuals: 1, Dressel (MTS) 13:24.80. 2, Shelby (Richland) 14:22.16. 3, Demars (CV)
14:29.55. 4, Nicholls (CV) 14:39.88. 5, Jensen
(CV) 14:41.08. 6, Garner (Mea) 14:45.04. 7, Pegram (CV) 15:02.22. 8, Morrow (Ric) 15:11.71. 9,
Magee (Mea) 15:19.01. 10, French (GP) 15:25.65.
Senior Girls
Team Scores: 1, Mead 23. 2, Mt. Spokane 25. 3,
Richland 40. 4, Gonzaga Prep 70.
Individuals: 1, Cole (MTS) 16:17.00. 2, Maldonado (Mea) 16:38.05. 3, Duchow (MTS)
16:48.27. 4, Boyer (Big Sky) 16:59.06. 5, Greenhalgh (EV) 17:27.89. 6, Crow (Mea) 17:42.87. 7,
Bosch (Ric) 17:53.27. 8, Whittle (DP) 18:07.19.
9, Diehl (BS) 18:13.49. 10, Webster (Mea)
18:56.69.
Junior Girls
Team Scores: 1, Mead 17. 2, Richland 20.
Individuals: 1, Young (MTS) 15:59.72. 2, Harmon (EV) 16:10.23. 3, Taylor (Ric) 17:17:74. 4,
Palmer (Mea) 17:26.75. 5, Pfarr (Mea) 17:54.26.
6, Lindley (BS) 17:54.86. 7, Watson (Ric)
17:56.42. 8, Jackson (Mea) 18:00.18. 9, Aebischer (DP) 18:11.38. 10, Lakes (Ric) 18:21.50.
Sophomore Girls
Team Scores: 1, Richland 27. 2, Mead 43. 3,
East Valley 43. 4, Reardan 50. 5, Mt. Spokane
72.
Individuals: 1, Perry (Ric) 16:30.19. 2, Bagley
(Ric) 17:27.83. 3, Yang (Mea) 17:31.78. 4, Voigtlaender (Mea) 17:32.50. 5, Roberts (Rea)
17:46.27. 6, Squier (Ric) 17:54.80. 7, Isaacson
(EV) 18:27.02. 8, DePledge (MTS) 18:31.90. 9,
Wynecoop (Rea) 19:11.06. 10, Sabre (EV)
19:51.77.
Freshman Girls
Team Scores: 1, Gonzaga Prep 34. 2, Richland
41. 3, Mt. Spokane 58. 4, Reardan 73.
Individuals: 1, Bradley (Ric) 15:36.30. 2, Sterbis (BS) 16:15.18. 3, Strope (Rea) 17:49.66. 4,
Bullock (Ric) 17:57.62. 5, K. Mikkelson (GP)
18:17.90. 6, Langland (BS) 18:36.95. 7, Sonneland (MTS) 19:26.78. 8, M. Mikkelson (GP)
19:39.96. 9, Barton (GP) 20:04.23. 10, Krahn
(DP) 20:12.35.
Tracy Walters Invitational
At Audubon Park, Spokane
BOYS
1, North Central 146. 2, Kamiakin 176. 3, Bozeman 211. 4, Jesuit 211. 5, Bellevue 287. 6, Ferris
337. 7, Coeur d’Alene 348. 8, Glacier Peak 506.
1, Armstrong (Kam) 15:07. 2, Williams (NC)
15:37. 3, Wilmot (NC) 15:38. 4, Woodland
(Boz) 15:43. 5, Frostad (NC) 15:45. 6, Leavy
(Jes) 15:55. 7, Fowler (Bel) 15:56. 8, Kimsey
(Fer) 16:00. 9, McGuirk (Jes) 16:01. 10, McCormick (Kam) 16:07.
GIRLS
1, Bozeman 11. 2, Jesuit 146. 3, Kamiakin 227. 4,
Coeur d’Alene 253. 5, Eastlake 265. 6, Lewis
And Clark 272. 7, Central Valley 383.
1, Knight (NC) 17:41. 2, Bianchini (GP) 18:15. 3,
Hardin (Boz) 18:19. 4, Kosykh (Elk) 18:38. 5,
Rexus (Kam) 18:59. 6, Brown (CDA) 19:00. 7,
Demaree (Jes) 19:06. 8, Creel (Boz) 19:13. 9,
Artaiz (Jes) 19:27. 10, Davis (GP) 19:29.
LC at Deer Park
BOYS
Lewis and Clark 84, Deer Park 126
1, Goodwin (LC) 13:15. 2, Collins (DP) 13:19. 3,
Estelle (LC) 13:27. 4, Amann (DP) 13:46. 5,
Mathieu (LC) 13:56.
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