Cats triumph at divisional track

by The Daily Inter Lake
| May 23, 2010 2:00 AM

LIBBY - It was the same old story for the Polson girls track team, but in Columbia Falls there's a new boys divisional champion team.

On Saturday, the Pirates wrapped up the two-day meet by defending their Northwestern A girls track title with a 216-point performance while the Columbia Falls boys did their own piling up, totaling 206 points and winning the program's first divisional trophy since 1993.

Polson had four first-place finishers and 17 top-five performances on the final day and repeated as the best in the Northwest for the first time since the program did it in 2003 and 2004. Both those years Polson went on to win state.

Whitefish was second with 131 1/2 and Columbia Falls was third with 74 1/2.

On the boys side, Polson was second place with 116 and Whitefish third with 85.

A strong core of distance runners from the reigning state champion cross country team paced the Wildcats. Derrick Williams won the 800 while Patric Jessat followed up in second. Jessat also placed third in the 200.

Justin Whitman and brother Shawn went 1-2 in the 3,200, respectively. In the 800, Shawn placed fourth and Justin came in fifth.

Columbia Falls' Taylor Martinson won the long jump and placed second in both the 100 and 200. Jacob Kinder was second in the 300 hurdles while Kodiak Gimbel took fourth. Gimbel also placed second in the high jump. Nate Thompson was second in the javelin and third in the long jump. In the shot put, Daniel Jones took third and Mitchell Wassam placed fifth.

The Polson girls are striding into Laurel for this week's state meet with the chance of winning their second state title in three years. The Pirates last won in 2008 and placed third last year.

On Saturday, Polson's Nicole Davey won the 300 hurdles and ran a leg on the winning long relay team with Katie Finley, Christa Redcrow and Anna DiGiallonardo.

Mesa Starkey won the 3,200. Loni Havlovick had the top shot put and came in second in the javelin. Redcrow was also second in the long jump and tied for third in the 300 hurdles. Finley went on to place fourth in the long jump.

Whitefish's Amanda Foley won both the 100 and 200, Carly Schwickert posted the top 800 time and Olivia Nagler had the best javelin and fourth best high jump.

Kelsey DeWit of Columbia Falls won the high jump and Adessa Durglo of Ronan-St. Ignatius won the long jump.

Rounding out the boys individual winners were Ronan-St. Ingatius' Jordan Franklin (100, high jump), Whitefish's Anto Daoud (200), Libby's Kody Berget (300 hurdles) and Polson's Brock Picard (javelin) and Alex Havlovick (shot put).

The top five finishers in all events advanced to state.

BOYS

Team Totals

Columbia Falls 206, Polson 116, Whitefish 85, Libby 72, Ronan- St. Ignatius 44

100 - 1, Jordan Franklin, RSI, 11.59; 2, Taylor Martinson, CF, 11.62; 3, Anto Daoud, WF, 11.79; 4, Derek Crittendon, WF, 11.88; 5, Iaian Cameron, WF, 12.01; Joe Andrews, Pol, 12.02.

200 - 1, Anto Daoud, WF, 22.47; 2, Taylor Martinson, CF, 22.77; 3, Patric Jessat, CF, 22.95; 4, Joe Andrews, Pol, 23.29; 5, Kody Berget, Lib, 23.30; 6, Iaian Cameron, WF, 23.52

800 - 1, Derrick Williams, CF, 1:59.18; 2, Patric Jessat, CF, 2:00.98; 3, Colter Bull, Pol, 2:01.16; 4, Shawn Whitman, CF, 2:02.26; 5, Justin Whitman, CF, 2:02.65; 6, Kaleb Johnson, CF, 2:03.13

3,200 - 1, Justin Whitman, CF, 10:24.81; 2, Shawn Whitman, CF, 10:27.48; 3, Colter Bull, Pol, 10:33.90; 4, Jacob Thomas, Lib, 10:37.09; 5, Miles Bieber, Pol, 10:43.13; 6, Nathan Knox, WF, 10:57.13.

300 hurdles - 1, Kody Berget, Lib, 40.08; 2, Jacob Kinder, CF, 40.82; 3, Jordan Franklin, RSI, 41.80; 4, Kodiak Gimbel, CF, 42.71; 5, Tyler Troy, Lib, 43.00; 6, Zion Lee, Pol, 43.46.

1,600 relay - 1, Whitefish (Dalton Rice, Logan Harwood, Iaian Cameron, Anto Daoud), 3:26.26; 2, Columbia Falls, 3:29.06; 3, Libby, 3:40.74; 4, Ronan-St. Ignatius.

Javelin - 1, Brock Picard, Pol, 180-4; 2, Nate Thompson, CF, 176-2; 3, Joe Andrews, Pol, 171-3; 4, Kelly May, Lib, 153-10; 5, James Nash, Lib, 152-8; 6, Bentley Smith, WF, 152-1.

Shot put - 1, Alex Havlovick, Pol, 46-5 1/4; 2, Sawyer Zimmerman, Lib, 43-11 1/2; 3, Daniel Jones, CF, 43-5; 4, Clark Rubel, Pol, 43-0; 5, Mitchell Wassam, CF, 42-10 1/4; 6, Kelly Houle, CF, 42-10

High jump - 1, Jordan Franklin, RSI, 6-0; 2, Kodiak Gimbel, CF, 6-0; 3, Vince DiGiallonardo, Pol, 5-10; 4, Eric Malmquist, RSI, 5-8; 5 (tie), Logan Harwood, WF, 5-6, Drew Galbraith, WF, 5-6

Long jump - 1, Taylor Martinson, CF, 20-0; 2, Tyler Troy, Lib, 19-8 1/4; 3, Nate Thompson, CF, 19-3 1/2; 4, Vince DiGiallonardo, Pol, 19-2; 5, Mac Roche, WF, 18-9 1/4; 6, Dean Willey, Lib, 18-8 1/2

GIRLS

Team Totals

Polson 216, Whitefish 131.5, Columbia Falls 74.5, Ronan-St. Ignatius, 54, Libby 49.

Events

100 - 1. Amanda Foley, WF, 13.24; 2. Anna DiGiallonardo, Pol, 13.33; 3. Adessa Durglo, RSI, 13.54; 4. Sophia Lewis-Peterson, CF, 13.78; 5. Katie Finley, Pol, 13.83; 6. Mariah Kanistaneax, WF, 13.94.

200 - 1. Amanda Foley, WF, 27.16; 2. Anna DiGiallonardo, Pol, 27.48; 3. Breanne Kelley, Pol, 27.5; 4. Adessa Durglo, RSI, 28.3; 5. Katie Finley, Pol, 28.78; 6. (tie) Sophia-Lewis Peterson, CF, 28.98, Autumn Fisher, WF, 28.98.

300 hurdles - 1. Nicole Davey, Pol, 45.90; 2. Breanne Kelley, Pol, 47.8; 3. (tie) Megan Apple, WF, 48.4, Christa Redcrow, Pol, 48.4; 5. Jessie Gist, CF, 50.50; 6. Cami Casazza, CF, 52.1.

800 - 1. Carly Schwickert, WF, 2:02.24; 2. Jessica Sagen, WF, 2:27.39; 3. Nikola Falk, Lib, 2:27.88; 4. Cedar Jordt, CF, 2:30.36; 5. Ashli Fairbank, CF, 2:30.51; 6. Mesa Starkey, Pol, 2:31.25.

3200 - 1. Mesa Starkey, Pol, 11:51.82; 2. Jinise Osborne, CF, 11:57.34; 3. Bailey Eaton, WF, 12:07.55; 4. Jessica Sagen, WF, 12:09.27 5. Nikola Falk, Lib, 12:19.51; 6. Loni Hanson, WF, 12:39.66.

1600 relay - 1. Polson, 4:09.14 (Katie Finley, Christa Redcrow, Anna DiGiallonardo, Nicole Davey); 2. Whitefish, 4:14.54; 3. Columbia Falls, 4:16.16; 4. Ronan-St. Ignatius, 4:39.88; 5. Libby, 4:49.53.

Javelin - 1. Olivia Nagler, WF, 117-4; 2. Loni Havlovick, Pol, 105-7; 3. Jenny Larsson, RSI, 101-8; 4. Mariah Hamel, Pol, 98-4; 5. Janessa Courtney, WF, 95-4; 6. Erin Baker, Lib, 92-10.

Shot put - 1. Loni Havlovick, Pol, 38-7; 2. Natasha Lafferty, Pol, 34-0; 3. Katie Emery, Lib, 30-7 1/2; 4. Erin Baker, Lib, 30-5; 5. DJ Conko-Camel, Pol, 29-1; 6. Kionna Keller, CF, 28-11 1/2

High jump - 1. Kelsey Dewit, CF, 5-0; 2. Adessa Durglo, RSI, 4-10; 3. Chancey Auge, Lib, 4-6; 4. Olivia Nagler, WF, 4-8; 5. Jenny Larsson, RSI, 4-6; 6. Ashton Berta, CF, 4-6.

Long jump - 1. Adessa Durglo, RSI, 16-1; 2. Christa Redcrow, Pol, 15-9 1/2; 3. Kayla Forster, Liby, 14-5 3/4; 4. Katie Finley, Pol, 14-5 1/2; 5. Sophia Lewis-Peterson, CF, 14-2 1/2; 6. Jenny Johnson, Lib, 14-1.