Trout Lake freshman Sawyer Dean and junior Landon Heberling finished 1-2 in the boys pole vault, and Sherman High sophomore Sophie Hulke won the girls discus, to highlight Gorge-area finishes at the Class 1A state track and field meet this past week.
Senior Taylor Morehouse etched his name in The Dalles High track and field record book Saturday when he capped an undefeated season by winning the Class 5A boys pole vault state championship.
The Dalles and Hood River track and field teams held dress rehearsals for this weekend’s district championship by competing in their final meets last week.
The Dalles High track and field team headed to the Portland-metro area Friday for different invitational meets this past weekend and the result was golden for two athletes.
Horizon Christian’s track and field meet at Portland’s Catlin Gabel had a bit of everything Saturday, including a 45-minute lightning delay, but the Hawks came away with a second-place boys finish against eight other — mostly larger — schools.
Trout Lake senior Justin Peck powered his way from third to first over the final 150 meters to win the Class 1A track and field state championship in the 800 meters Saturday.
Hood River Valley High seniors, Poppy Miller and Chole Bullock, are track and field tacticians in arguably different ways. They’re also state champions.
Miller defended her 2019 Class 5A pole vault crown — albeit with a COVID-halted 2020 season in between — in a lifetime best 12 feet, and Bullock won the 800 in a personal best 2 minutes, 20.25 seconds at the 5A Invitational last week in Wilsonville.