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Oregon State Meet 2014 Recap - DyeStat

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DyeStat.com   May 26th 2014, 7:48pm
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Sheldon smashes all-time 4x100 record

 

State Meet Highlights

 
The Oregon state meet is fortunate to call Hayward Field home and it annually brings one of the biggest crowds to the historic track. Oregon has experimented the last few years with a three-day, six-class format and two-section finals in the 4x400 relays. The event manages to absorb these changes and press on. The 2014 edition will be noted for the all-time state best 4x100 relay of the Sheldon boys, who sped to 41.19, and the sister acts (twins Kerissa and Venessa D'Arpino of North Valley, Class 4A; Piper and Ella Donaghu of Grant, Class 6A). The D'Arpinos went 1-2 in the 100, 200 and 400 for the second straight year. The Donaghus went 1-2 in the 1,500 and each won an event (Piper the 800, Ella the 3,000).


Top Performances:

 
- Mitch Horning, Tyus Kuykendall, and brothers Adam and Nathan Starnes stripped nearly a quarter second from the all-time state best in the 4x100 relay with 41.19. For Sheldon, that's the fourth best relay time in the country outside of Texas (which has 16 of the top 20). The guys had previously broken the record at the Jesuit Relays with 41.41 this spring. Horning proved to be the state's best sprinter. He won the 100 (10.77) and was second in the 200.

 
- The D'Arpino sisters of North Valley (Grants Pass) had both been a little faster in 2013, but they rose to the occasion in their final high school meet. Kerissa won the 100 (11.94) and 200 (24.34w) and was second in the 400 (55.63). Venessa was second in the 100 (12.00) and 200 (24.42w) and won the 400 (55.36). They were also part of a winning 4x100 relay, so accounted for 64 of the team's 65 points.

 
- Ella Donaghu, sophomore from Grant, became Oregon's all-time record holder in the 3,000 meters a couple of weeks ago. With that goal out of the way, she and her older sister Piper set out to score as many points as possible. Ella won the 3,000 and PR'd in the 1,500 with her win in 4:31.21. Piper, a senior, won her third straight 800 meters title (2:12.20) and was right behind Ella in the 1500 (4:34.92). As it turned out, Grant was one point short of Central Catholic after the 4x400 relay in the race for the team title.

 
- Matthew Maton, a junior at Summit, really went after it in the 1,500 in order to try and pin down a World Juniors qualifying mark. He went out in 59.8 and was at 2:02 through 800, but a windy backstretch and a lack of competition up front made the task (3:48.00) too hard. He finished with 3:53.08 – and won by more than six seconds. A day earlier, he waited to seize control of the 3,000 and won in 8:29.87. Next up is the Dream Mile in New York City.

 
- Becca Houk, a 5-1 senior from Oregon City, may have been projected to reach the finals but not to win 6A sprint titles. But no one executed better than Houk and she was rewarded with two PRs – 12.04 in the 100 and 24.74w in the 200. She placed third in both events last year. A few weeks back, she placed fifth in the 100 at the Jesuit Twilight Relays.


- Laura Taylor Tualatin cleared 12-8 for a state meet record in the girls pole vault and then took three attempts at her big goal – Sarah Sasaki's 1999 all-time state record 13-0. Taylor knows that it's about time that record went down, but a slight injury kept her from clearing 13-0.50. She said she would keep trying in the postseason.


- Danelle Woodcock of Barlow has become one of the premier athletes in the state and won the long jump with 19-0 and anchored her 4x100 team to a victory in 47.74. Also, she was fourth in the 100.


- Max Dordevic overcame an injury that wiped out part of his season to win the 400 (48.64) and the 300 hurdles (37.93) to lead Jesuit to the 6A team win. He also anchored the 4x400 relay to victory.


- Connor McLean of Clackamas was the high point scorer in Class 6A with 26 points. He won the pole vault, 110 hurdles (14.27) and was third in the long jump.


- Tristan James of West Salem, a junior, popped a big winning jump in the triple jump, 48-10. That's 11th best in state history.


- Harrison Schrage, a sophomore from Grant, won his second straight long jump title with a PR 24-1.50. He also took second in the triple jump with a wind-aided 47-7.25 and was fifth in the 100 meters.


- John Nizich, the national leader in the javelin, threw 218-11 to win the event for Central Catholic.


Top Teams:


The Central Catholic girls had never finished in the top 10 at the state meet before, but 2014 was a year of ascension for the program. Sophomore Olivia Gabriel won the 400 and was fourth in the 200, and ran on two winning relays. Two placers in the high jump – and eight points – put the Rams in position to surpass Grant on the 4x400 relay. Central Catholic needed to beat Grant by two points and the two schools went 1-2. It made the final team tally Central Catholic 54, Grant 53. Jesuit repeated at the 6A boys champion, and the 1-2 finish of Max Dordevic and Carlos Coleman in the 400 was emblematic of the team's domination in 2014. The Crusaders scored 97 points.


Summit of Bend won its eighth straight Class 5A girls championship and has owned the trophy ever since the state split from four classes into six in 2006. The Storm scored 125 points, including the 800 (freshman Sarah Reeves) and the 4x400. Marist, led by future Oregon Ducks decathlete Liam Henshaw, won the boys title.


In Class 4A, the D'Arpino sisters lifted North Valley to the title. And North Bend, led by high jumper Wyatt Cunningham, prevailed.


Top Competition: Having finished second to Piper Donaghu two years in a row in the Class 6A 800 meters final, Tess Michaelson of Lincoln had to try something new and hope that a third time might be the charm. With 300 meters to go, Michaelson made her push and began to spring away from Donaghu, gaining maybe 10 meters. But she could not break Donaghu, who came back and closed the gap, and then went to the lead coming off the last turn. Donaghu pulled away in 2:12.20 to Michaelson's 2:13.25 – a conservative first lap preventing them from going under 2:10. Donaghu became the first three-time winner in more than 40 years.


Record-breaker: The biggest record of the meet belongs to Sheldon with their 41.19 in the 4x100 relay. Before 2014, the fastest team in Oregon history was Aloha, which had Thomas Tyner (current University of Oregon football star) on the anchor. Before Aloha, it was McKay (2007), which had future Olympian Ryan Bailey.


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"The D'Arpinos went 1-2 in the 100, 200 and 400 for the second straight year." Don't forget Genna Settle (100m) last year.
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