Staff report
Columbia Gorge News
THE GORGE — The Trout Lake girls won the third-place trophy at the OSAA Class 1A state track and field championships May 28-29 at Hayward Field in Eugene.
The 2026 District 3-1A champion Mustangs scored 53 team points to finish behind champion Imbler (91) and runner-up Joseph (84). Trout Lake won the meet’s final event — the 4x400 meter relay — in dramatic fashion and added an individual championship from junior distance runner Melody Stock. She won the 1500-meter run in a meet record 4 minutes, 42.78 seconds, was second in the 800 and ran the second leg on the Mustangs’ winning relay.
Also on that relay team — which ran 4:11.22 — were Riley Rickman, Jade Mclean and Cora Sharp. Mclead capped her high school career with a second-place finish in the pole vault (10-00.5); Sharp was third in the 100 meters (13.09) and fourth in the long jump (16-00.5); and Rickman was eighth in the pole vault in a lifetime best 8-6.75.
The Mustang 4x400 relay raced neck-and-neck with Joseph under the historic Hayward Field lights on a cool, cloud-covered Friday night. Sharp took the baton from Mclean, the team’s lone senior, and patiently closed a three-meter gap on Joseph’s anchor runner Caleigh Johnson down the backstretch. The two runners battled down the final 100-meter straightaway before Sharp edged her at the finish (4:11.22 to 4:11.80). Sharp and Mclean both ran 61-second quarters.
Coach Sharla Rubesh’s team also received team points from Aurora Zoller, who was fifth in the discus (101-0); and Ellie Rubesh, who was eighth in the triple jump (32-01.5). The Mustangs’ 4x100 relay finished a non-scoring ninth (52.64). Lisa and Lupe Medina, Mclean and Sharp ran legs on that relay. Lupe Medina was 12th (50.92) in the 300 hurdles.
Trout Lake finished fourth at state in 2025.
Dufur High, which finished second in the 2026 district meet, was ninth at state with 24 points. The young Ranger team was led by Jacey Calloway, who survived a tiring day in the May 28 preliminaries to advance to the May 29 finals where she was fourth in the 200 (27.18; 27.00 in the prelims) and seventh in the 300 hurdles (after a 48.89 PR and school record 48.43 in the prelims). The sophomore also ran legs on Dufur’s school record-setting 4x100 and 4x400 relays at state.
Teammate Ellie Brock was sixth in the 400 (PR 1:01.08 prelims) and seventh in the 800 (2:28.73). Her 400 time of 1:01.08 was a school record. She also joined Calloway on the relays — along with Hailee Pechanec and Lily Egeland on the seventh-place 4x100 (52.39 school record), and Wilson and Egeland on the eighth-place 4x400 (4:26.86 school record).
Pechanec, a junior, placed at state in two events — she was third in the discus (103-0) and sixth in the girls shot put (31-8). The Ranger distance crew of Alessandra Meza and Ruby Wilson also competed at state. Meza was 10th in the 3000 meters (12:06.87) and 12th in the 1500 (5:32.5), and Wilson was 11th in the 3000 (12:18.14).
The Sherman girls tied for 12th place with 16 points scored by freshman Chloe Simpson. She was second in the triple jump at 35-1; third in the high jump at 5-00.25; and seventh in the long jump at 15-8.75. Junior T’Sharra Lanthorn was ninth in the 3000 in a season best 12:01.05.
South Wasco County’s Bailey Udey finished fourth in the triple jump (34-3) and seventh in the high jump (4-9.75) to score the Redsides’ seven points. Glenwood’s Giana Jackson was sixth in the long jump at 15-9.75.
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