All but two Bruin Invitational records are safe until next year.
The two record-setting performances during last Saturday's 14th annual Bruin Invitational came from Stevenson junior Rylee Walker, in the girls high jump, and Stevenson's girls 4x100-meter relay.
Walker cleared 5 feet, 4 inches to break the meet record of 5-3 (set in 2000 by La Center's Renee Morkin) and her own week-old Stevenson High School record by three inches. She also ran a leg of the 4x100 relay, which finished in 51.41 seconds, 11/100ths faster than the old standard of 51.52 set in 1996 by La Center.
Those two victories were among the 11 posted by Stevenson's undefeated girls team, which won its side of the invitational--for the third year in a row--with 185 points.
Stevenson sophomore Amanda Stump, who placed first in the 100 and 200 sprints and anchored the Bulldogs' record-breaking 4x100 relay, was named Girl Athlete of the Meet.
Hockinson, led by two-event winner Sarah Porter, was second (147) in the five-team field, followed by host Columbia High (80), which won just one event, the 4x200 relay.
On the boys side, Columbia ended Washougal's two-year reign as invitational champion.
The Bruins scored 11 points in the meet's final two events--the 3200-meter run and 4x400 relay--to overtake Stevenson and win, 112 to 105. Washougal was a distant fifth (76).
Senior Nolan Kenoyer's victories in the 110 and 300 hurdles paced the CHS boys, who also got first-place efforts from senior Andrew Culp in the 100 and sophomore Kyle Earls in the 200.
Kenoyer also managed one of CHS's four second-place finishes. His came in the triple jump and helped him earn Boy Athlete of the Meet co-honors.
Justin Kadoun of Onalaska, winner of the long jump and 400 and runner-up in the 200, shared the award.
Other notable performances during the day were turned in by Columbia High's Ashley Neff and Whitney Reynier; Porter of Hockinson; and Baily Nelson and Kaitlyn Richards of Stevenson, and Onalaska's Spencer Hunt.
Neff, a senior, set a new personal record of 2:36.55 in the 800 run, which was good for third place. Reynier, a freshman, leaped a career-best 14-5 to take second in the long jump.
Porter, who won the 800, earlier made a run at the meet record in the 3200.
She was on a record-breaking pace through six laps but lost some of her zip on the seventh. She finished with a strong kick down the home stretch, however, to cross the line in 11:41.03, just over a second off the meet record.
Nelson and Richards each won two events--the former the discus and 100 hurdles, the latter the triple and long jumps--and finished second in another (Nelson in the shot put, Richards in the javelin).
Hunt took the tape in the 1600 and 800 runs to join the double-winners' circle.
Still, nothing topped the result of the boys 4x400 relay, which decided the outcome of the boys team competition.
The Columbia High foursome of sophomore Robert Plante, Culp, Earls and senior Matt Cooley needed to beat the Stevenson quartet to the finish to lock up the team title.
And that it did, coming in 3.98 seconds behind the victorious Onalaska crew, which completed four laps in 3:41.18.
Stevenson, which led 103-101 with two events remaining, could do no better than fifth.
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