Ferdas life Whitefish to divisional track titles

| May 21, 2006 1:00 AM

The Daily Inter Lake

POLSON - The Whitefish girls stayed on top while the Whitefish boys are back on top.

The Bulldogs cleaned up Saturday on the final day of competition at the Northwestern A divisional track and field meet by sweeping both team titles.

The WHS girls defended their crown with a 145-point total while the WHS boys took the top spot with 144. The boys, third a year ago, have now won seven division titles in the last 11 years.

The Polson boys finished second, 106, with Ronan/St. Ignatius, 108 1/2, second on the girls side.

Taylor Ferda was a double winner for the Bulldogs on the final day, claiming firsts in the 100 (11.55) and 200 (22.80). On Friday he won the 400 and 100 hurdles.

Whitefish's Chris Hicks, who won five divisional events a year ago, was only a double winner this time. He won the high jump (6-2) on the final day. Friday, he had the best triple jump with a divisonal record distance.

Libby's Kyle Baker was the other double winner for the boys Saturday, winning the javelin (184-6) and shot put (49-5 1/2).

Whitefish's Courtney Ferda and Bigfork's Brooke Andrus also doubled up with individual firsts on the final day and both finished the meet three titles.

Ferda won the 100 (12.87) and 200 (25.9) on Saturday while Andrus posted best times in the 800 (2:16.11) and 3,200 (11:15.98, a new meet record).

On Friday, Ferda won the 400 and Andrus the 1,600, both in record divisional times.

The top five individuals and relays advance to the state meet, which begins Friday in Butte.

BOYS

Team Totals

Whitefish 144, Polson 106, Ronan-St. Ignatius 89, Libby 80, Columbia Falls 62, Bigfork 44.

Individual Events

100 - 1, Taylor Ferda, WF, 11.55; 2, Wilson, CF, 11.74; 3, Bryce Picard, Pol, 11.74; 4, Andrew Orr, Lib, 11.78; 5, Henry King, WF, 11.80; 6, Andrew Whittaker, BF, 11.80.

200 - Taylor Ferda, WF, 22.80; 2, Bryce Picard, Pol, 23.00; 3, Tylar Espinosa, RSI, 23.30; 4, Sterling Green, RSI, 23.50; 5, Kevin Love, Pol, 23.60; 6, Chad Edwards, BF, 23.70.

800 - 1, Chris Ogle, Pol, 2:00.43; 2, Logan Torgison, Pol, 2:03.00; 3, Andrew Graham, RSI, 2:05.76; 4, Sterling Green, RSI, 2:06.78; 5, Michael Taylor, CF, 2:07.16; 6, Charley May, Lib, 2:12.80.

3,200 - 1, Michael Fisher, RSI, 9:54.91; Logan Torgison, Pol, 10:04.12; 3, Andrew Graham, RSI, 10:29.22; 4, Erik Stedje, RSI, 10:29.82; 5, Drew Coco, WF, 10:35.11; 6, Jacob Fern, WF, 11:05.72.

300 hurdles - 1, Ted Morigeau, Pol, 40.40; 2, Eric Wehrman, BF, 41.13; 3, Chris Hicks, WF, 41.39; 4, Andy Nelson, Pol, 41.90; 5, Jack Scherman, CF, 42.88; 6, Bjorn Peterson, WF, 43.79.

1,600 relay - 1, Whitefish (Kyle Becker, Austin Troiano, Chris Hicks, Taylor Ferda) 3:29.69; 2, Polson 3:30.94; 3, Bigfork 3:35.27; 4, Ronan-St. Ignatius 3:37.02; 5, Columbia Falls 3:40.46; 6, Libby 3:44.26.

Javelin - 1, Kyle Baker, Lib, 184-6; 2, Rusty Naccarato, Lib, 176-11; 3, Richard Brumbaugh, Lib, 176-4; 4, Steve Bertelsen, Lib, 159-4; 5, Christian Lehnert, Lib, 144-7; 6, Adam Skogen, RSI, 140-8.

Shot put - 1, Kyle Baker, Lib, 49-5 1/2; 2, Richard Brumbaugh, Lib, 48-3; 3, Todd Harthan, WF, 47-6; 4, Mike McCracken, WF, 47-1; 5, Alan Skogen, RSI, 46-9; 6, Keith Catt, CF, 45-10.

High jump - 1, Chris Hicks, WF, 6-2; 2, Kyle Baker, Lib, 6-2; 3, Colt Idol, WF, 6-0; 4, Shawn Reed, BF, 6-0; 5, Chase Fairbanks, CF, 6-0; 6, Cameron Barber, RSI, 6-0.

Long jump - 1, Eric Wehrman, BF, 20-0; 2, Chris Hicks, WF, 19-10; 3, Jack Scherman, CF, 19-7 1/2; 4, Cameron Barber, RSI, 19-6; 5, Kyle Jangula, CF, 19-6; 6, Andrew Orr, Lib, 19-5 1/2.

GIRLS

Team Totals

Whitefish 145, Ronan-St. Ignatius 108 1/2, Polson 95, Columbia Falls 86 1/2, Bigfork 82, Libby 8.

Individual Events

100 - 1, Courtney Ferda, WF, 12.87; 2, Briana Malmquist, RSI, 12.99; 3, Marni Hale, WF, 13.35; 4, Janelle Lundeen, Pol, 13.40; 5, Tenille Hennessey, RSI, 13.43; 6, Charlene Miller, BF, 13.50.

200 - 1, Courtney Ferda, WF, 25.9; 2, Briana Malmquist, RSI, 26.7; 3, Merilee Mowbray, Pol, 27.0; 4, Marni Hale, WF, 27.2; 5, Tenille Hennessey, RSI, 27.3; 6, Caitlin Roberson, BF, 27.5.

800 - 1, Brooke Andrus, BF, 2:16.11; 2, Terinee McCready, RSI, 2:26.71; 3, Jessica Boyer, CF, 2:27.90; 4, Beth Donovan, WF, 2:29.81; 5, Lauren Kuennen, WF, 2:30.48; 6, Kali Cook, Pol, 2:30.71.

3,200 - 1, Brooke Andrus, BF, 11:15.89 (meet record; old record 11:19.50, Andrus, 2005); 2, Terinee McCready, RSI, 11:48.75; 3, Kaneesha Benson, RSI, 12:43.80; 4, Jessica Boyer, CF, 12:52.40; 5, Clare Miller, WF, 13:09.44; 6, Janna Rozar, WF, 13:27.08.

300 hurdles - 1, Sadie McMillan, RSI, 47.90; 2, Ashley Ferda, WF, 48.01; 3, Erin Greiner, WF, 49.80; 4, Brittany Hall, BF, 49.81; 5, Christa Solomon, RSI, 53.54; 6, Ariel Ducote, WF, 54.33.

1,600 relay - 1, Whitefish (Lauren Kuennen, Erin Greiner, Marni Hale, Courtney Ferda) 4:11.26; 2, Polson 4:14.83; 3, Ronan-St. Ignatius 4:16.81; 4, Columbia Falls 4:20.31; 5, Bigfork 4:20.99; 6, Libby 4:32.40.

Javelin - 1, Brittany Gardner, Pol, 108-11; 2, Ashley Ferda, WF, 107-9; 3, Mary Hall, BF, 107-0; 4, Merilee Mowbray, Pol, 104-1; 5, Jessica Davis, CF, 99-3; 6, Tayler Bertelsen, WF, 95-10.

Shot put - 1, Kara Walker, Pol, 38-8; 2, Brittany Gardner, Pol, 33-0; 3, Cayla Fox, BF, 32-10; 4, Leslie Johnson, BF, 32-10; 5, Porche Sherlock, Pol, 32-5; 6, Breanna Brendsel, BF, 31-8 1/2.

High jump - 1, Danielle Rowe, Pol, 5-0; 2, Shanelle Swift, CF, 4-10; 3, Emily Stoltz, CF, 4-8; 4, Sadie McMillan, RSI, 4-8; 5, (tie) Ketti Wilhelm, CF, and Kelsey Cable, RSI, 4-6.

Long jump - 1, Amber Lampman, CF, 15-6 1/2; 2, Erin Greiner, WF, 15-2 1/2; 3, Kelsey Cable, RSI, 15-1/2; 4, Lisa Carter, CF, 15-0; 5, Jylisa Fields, CF, 14-7; 6, Alyssa Ladenburg, CF, 14-4.