HRV athletes had another good weekend at the track, competing at the Dean Nice Invite in Gresham. The boys team, missing Sebastian Barajas, who was across town competing in the Nike Jesuit Twilight Relays, placed second overall, losing by 20 points to Marist — a team that narrowly beat HRV the previous weekend at the Summit Invite. The girls squad placed fifth of 15 teams.
Someone other than Sebastian was able to break some school records at the event: Parker Irusta had “a phenomenal day, obliterating the old 200 meter school record” of 22.21 seconds set by Ian McNaughton five years prior, HRV Head Coach Donnie Herneisen reported. Irusta ran a time of 21.95 in the finals. A side note: Herneisen said McNaughton won the 400 in the 5A state championship that year.
Just before winning the long jump competition, Irusta also ran the anchor leg in the winning 4x100 relay team (43.40 total time) along with Parker Kennedy, Ty Stintzi, and Gabe Campos-Davis, which earlier had broken the school record of 43.45 set in 2013. Both Irusta and Kennedy were part of that 2013 relay as well, along with Wyatt Webber and Cesar Rodriguez.
Kennedy had a season’s best effort in the pole vault, clearing 15 feet, 6 inches and narrowly missing 16 feet, which would have broken his own school record in the event. HRV’s distance crew had a great day as a whole group, Herneisen said. Justin Crosswhite and Jesse Wiley both ran PR times in the 1500, while Quinn Fetkenhour and Connor Truax both ran great in the 3000.
Many of the girls also competed very well on Friday, Herneisen reported. Audrey Marble (400, 1:01.83) and Kassidy Davidson (800, 2:28.39) both had big PR times. Katie Kennedy won the high jump competition (5-3), matching her personal record, and Abby Kinoshita set a new PR in the triple jump (33-3), placing second.
Barajas, throwing in a heavy downpour on the west side of Portland at the Jesuit Twilight Relays, won both the discus and shot put, successfully defending his double wins from last year. Barajas threw a 56-5 in the shot and 184-9 in the discus.
“Marks weren’t great, but in some meets, winning is more than enough,” Herneisen noted. “Sometimes we have to try hard to convince some of these athletes that you aren’t going to PR or break a school record every week.”
Wednesday’s meet at Oregon City (4 p.m. start time) will be the final tune up for the varsity athletes before the Columbia River Conference championships May 11-12, which will be held in Hermiston. Friday’s home CRC Novice meet (4 p.m. start time) is the last meet of the year for HRV’s JV athletes.
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