Sports Shorts for April 4, 2018
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St. Ignatius’ Afton Brander heads to the sand on her final leap of the triple jump. She took second in the event with a jump of 32 feet 8.5 inches.
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Arlee’s Peyton Lammerding throws in the shot put at Frenchtown on March 29. Her best throw of 33 feet 10 inches earned her third place.
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Karolyna Buck heads over the bar in the high jump. She took second place and auto qualified for state by clearing 5 feet.
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Mission Bulldog Flint McPherson flies through the air in the Long Jump at the Jim Johnson Invitation at Frenchtown Thursday, March 29.
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Polson’s Colton Cote clears the final hurdle of the 300-meter hurdles at the Gene Hughes Invitational on March 24. Cote won the event with a time of 50.02 seconds.
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Polson’s Bea Frissell heads down the final stretch of the 800-meter at the Gene Hughes Invitational track meet on March 24. She finished in 2:32.37 seconds earning the Polson Varsity Girls their only first place in Corvallis.
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Track & Field
On Thursday at the Jim Johnson Invitational in Frenchtown, the Mission Bulldogs boys track & field team placed eighth out of 17 teams, while the Lady Bulldogs finished seventh and the Arlee Scarlets finished sixteenth.
Mission Bulldog Michael Durglo placed second in the javelin with a throw of 146 feet, 9 inches and placed third in both shot put and discus.
Lady Bulldog Afton Brander finished second in the triple-jump, fourth in the high-jump and fifth in the long-jump, while teammate and sister Syd Brander placed fifth in the 100 and fourth in the triple-jump.
Karolyna Buck claimed second in the high-jump with a state qualifying mark of 5-feet even. Buck raced to a sixth-place finish in the 800 and a fifth-place finish in the 1600.
