WHITEFISH BOYS AND POLSON GIRLS ARE DIVISIONAL CHAMPS!

May 24, 2009

Northwest Montana A Conference

WHITEFISH BOYS AND POLSON GIRLS ARE DIVISIONAL CHAMPS!  IN OTHER BOYS FINISHES, COLUMBIA FALLS TOOK 2ND, POLSON TOOK 3RD AND LIBBY TOOK 4TH.  IN GIRLS ACTION, WHITEFISH FINISHED 2ND AND RONAN FINISHED 3RD.

POLSON - The Polson girls and the Whitefish boys claimed the team titles Saturday at the Northwestern A divisional track meet.

The Pirates won just two events on the final day Saturday, but used their superior depth to hold off Whitefish, 139-124. Ronan-St. Ignatius was third at 76.

Drew Coco won a pair of events to lead the Bulldogs to the title with 162.5 points. Columbia Falls was second at 136.5, followed by Polson with 87.

The Polson girls got wins from Loni Havlovick in the shot put (36.10.75) and Christa Redcrow in the long jump (16-5.75).

Sadie McMillan of Ronan-St. Ignatius and Kayla Carlson of Bigfork were double winners. McMillan won the 100 in 13.06 and the 200 in 26.8. Carlson improved her best time of the season by three seconds in the 800 to 2:19, and also won the 3,200 in 11:53.

Bigfork's Mallery Knoll won the 300 hurdles in a blistering 45.9 seconds, one of just four marks under 46 seconds in the state this season.

Coco posted the best 800 time in the state this season at 1:57 for the Whitefish boys. That's two full seconds better than any time in the state this spring. Coco added a win in the 3,200, finishing in 10:15.

Other wins for the Bulldogs came from Aaron Tkachyk in the long jump (21-8.25) and Willie Roche in the high jump (6-6).

The top five placers advanced to the State A meet, which begins Friday in Butte.

GIRLS

Team scores: Polson 139, Whitefish 124, Ronan-St. Ignatius 76, Bigfork 70, Columbia Falls 62fi, Libby 54fi.

100 - 1, Sadie McMillan, RSI, 13.06; 2, Mallery Knoll, BF, 13.21; 3, Sierra Pete, Pol, 13.24; 4, Sophia Lewis-Peterson, CF, 13.470; 5, Amanda Foley, WF, 13.479; 6, McKenzie Reeve, CF, 13.78.

200 - 1, Sadie McMillan, RSI, 26.8; 2, Mallery Knoll, BF, 27.13; 3, Sierra Pete, Pol, 27.19; 4, Amanda Foley, WF, 27.66; 5, Sophia Lewis-Peterson, CF, 27.67; 6, Tabitha Carlson, RSI, 27.9.

800 - 1, Kayla Carlson, BF, 2:19; 2, Stella Holt, WF, 2:26; 3, Carly Schwickert, WF, 2:29; 4, Breanna Leggit, WF, 2:30.3; 5, Cedar Jordt, CF, 2:30.6; 6, Ashli Fairbanks, CF, 2:30.9.

3,200 - 1, Kayla Carlson, BF, 11:53; 2, Jessica Sagen, WF, 12:17; 3, Bailey Eaton, WF, 12:25; 4, Mesa Starkey, Pol, 12:32; 5, Jinise Osborne, CF, 12:50; 6, Nicki Moser, CF, 13:30.

300 hurdles - 1, Mallery Knoll, BF, 45.9; 2, Breanne Kelley, Pol, 46.8; 3, Christa Redcrow, Pol, 46.9; 4, Sadie McMillan, RSI, 47.2; 5, Ariel Ducote, WF, 48.6; 6, Megan Apple, WF, 48.7.

Javelin - 1, Stephany Kluver, Lib, 127-1; 2, Alyssa Ladenburg, CF, 119-9; 3, Olivia Nagler, WF, 108-4; 4, Rachel Sweedman, Lib, 104-6; 5, Tara Johnson, Pol, 101-0; 6, Lisa Larsson, RSI, 100-11.

Shot put - 1, Loni Havlovick, Pol, 36-10�; 2, Natasha Lafferty, Pol, 32-11fi; 3, Erin Baker, Lib, 30-11; 4, Jessica Huntley, Pol, 30-2fi; 5, Phylissa Mathias, Pol, 29-6; 6, Paula Oliviera, WF, 28-7.

Long jump - 1, Christa Redcrow, Pol, 16-5�; 2, Natalie Kearns, WF, 16-0fi; 3, Adessa Durglo, RSI, 15-9; 4, Kaila Forster, Lib, 15-5fi; 5, Rachel Sweedman, Lib, 15-4; 6, Alyssa Ladenburg, CF, 15-2.

High jump - 1, Kelsey Dewit, CF, 5-2; 2, Sadie McMillan, RSI, 5-0; 3, Adessa Durglo, RSI, 5-0; 4, Kayla Dewit, CF, 4-10; 5 (tie), Ketti Wilhelm, CF, and Corey Willis, Lib, 4-8.

BOYS

Team scores: Whitefish 162fi, Columbia Falls 136fi, Polson 87, Libby 64, Bigfork 48, Ronan-St. Ignatius 29.

100 - 1, Dean Phillips, CF, 11.46; 2, Stephen Baumgartner, CF, 11.62; 3, Jason Bowman, Pol, 11.75; 4, Joel Ballard, CF, 11.80; 5, Travis Knoll, BF, 11.89; 6, Anto Daoud, WF, 12.04.

200 - 1, Stephen Baumgartner, CF, 23.3; 2, Anto Daoud, WF, 23.5; 3, Willie Roche, WF, 23.8; 4, Jason Bowman, Pol, 23.93; 5, Joe Andrews, Pol, 23.94; 6, Joel Ballard, CF, 23.99.

800 - 1, Drew Coco, WF, 1:57; 2, Derrick Williams, CF, 2:00; 3, Kaleb Johnson, CF, 2:01; 4, Shawn Whitman, CF, 2:04; 5, Marcus Hungerford, RSI, 2:05; 6, Phillip Sandry, BF, 2:06.

3,200 - 1, Drew Coco, WF, 10:15; 2, Shawn Whitman, CF, 10:26; 3, Justin Whitman, CF, 10:47; 4, Danny Beavers, RSI, 10:50; 5, Dylan Berget, Lib, 11:02; 6, Miles Bieber, Pol, 11:04.

300 hurdles - 1, Chris Alfiero, Pol, 40.7; 2, Seth Wiley, WF, 41.6; 3, Jamie Engledrum, RSI, 42.2; 4, Sam Wiley, WF, 43.0; 5, Ryan Kelley, Pol, 43.4; 6, Tucker Morigeau, Pol, 44.2.

Javelin - 1, Joel Fuller, Lib, 174-11; 2, Dustin Beck, WF, 166-1; 3, Nate Thompson, CF, 156-2; 4, Seth Wright, Lib, 155-0; 5, Adam Skogen, RSI, 153-9; 6, Brock Picard, Pol, 153-3.

Shot put - 1, Donny Tudahl, BF, 46-0; 2, Joel Fuller, Lib, 44-0fi; 3, Zac Bruer, BF, 43-10; 4, Alex Havlovick, Pol, 42-7; 5, Mike Macijanus, CF, 42-1; 6, Tanner Benedict, WF, 41-3.

Long jump - 1, Aaron Tkachyk, WF, 21-8/; 2, Willie Roche, WF, 21-4�; 3, Seth Wright, Lib, 20-6fi; 4, Garrett Pewe, BF, 20-0; 5, Evan Waldron, RSI, 19-8/; 6, Joel Ballard, CF, 19-2fi.

High jump - 1, Willie Roche, WF, 6-6; 2, Seth Wright, Lib, 6-4; 3, Garrett Pewe, BF, 6-4; 4, Kyle Howell, CF, 6-2; 5 (tie), Kodiak Gimbel, CF, and Aaron Tkachyk, WF, 5-10.