Hailey's Phil Homer Field was the site of Saturday's Idaho State/South Hershey track and field meet staged on a cool but sun-splashed morning for over 100 youngsters ages 9-14.
Blaine County athletes collected nine gold medals among the 42 events run crisply over two-and-a-half hours by a well-organized committee of volunteers. The kids and their parents were proud of their efforts and many improvements were made in times and distances.
Incoming Wood River High School ninth grader Kaitana Martinez defended her State Hershey South title in the girls' 13-14 softball throw with a toss of 179 feet and 3 inches, which was nearly 70 feet farther than the next-best competitor.
Carey School's Micaela Adamson also defended her state title in the girls' 13-14 standing long jump at 7 feet and 4.5 inches. The winner in the boys' 13-14 softball throw was Hailey's Ben Williams in 195-6.
Winning individual titles in the 11-12 age group were Ciceley Peavey in girls' softball throw at 115-8 and Cooper Bailey by nearly five seconds in boys' 400-meter dash at 1:06.96. Standing long jump winners in 9-10 were Hailey's Riley Boice in 6 feet and 7.25 inches and Carey's Jordan Adams in 6 feet and 5.75 inches.
Blaine County boasted two 4x100m relay gold medalists—the boys' 13-14 group of Drew Barsch, Tommy Bailey, KJ Savaria and Braxton Parish in a speedy 53.90 seconds, and the boys' 11-12 squad of Brandon Dolenar, Drew Morse, Quinn Guthrie and Cooper Bailey 1:00.81.
Athletes from Boise, Caldwell, Rexburg, Idaho Falls, Twin Falls, Soda Springs, Pocatello and Fairfield joined the Blaine County kids for Saturday's meet.
The Idaho State/North Hershey meet is at Rathdrum June 21. Other western region state results will be compared with Saturday's Hailey outcome to determine qualifiers for August's North American finals at Hershey, Pa.
Full results follow:
June 7, 2008, the annual Idaho State/South Hershey track and field meet at Phil Homer Field, Wood River High School in Hailey. Local athletes qualified for state during the annual Hershey/Blaine County track and field meet May 3 in Carey. Abbreviations are Rexburg (R), Pocatello (Poc), Twin Falls (TF), Camas County (CC) and Boise (B).
Ages 9-10 (1998-99)
Girls' standing long jump: 1—Riley Boice (Hailey) 6-7.25 (more than 8 inches farther than her county track meet jump). 2—Natalie Kolsen (R) 5-11.25. 3—Elizabeth Mathews (R) 6-2.25. 4—Bryanna Herron (B) 6-1. 5—Sierra Anderson (R) 5-11.25. 6—Juliann Hollingsworth (Poc) 5-7.75. 7—Kari Taylor (B) 5-3.
Girls' softball throw: 1—Tori Pinnock (R) 87-3. 2—Samantha Beverly (TF) 86-2. 3—Lindsey Cook (R) 83-9. 4—Sarah Rau (Hailey) 83-0 (10-0 farther than the county meet). 5—Keneika Webster (B) 76-2. 6—Makenna Gunter (Poc) 71-9. 7—Etta Seaman (CC) 68-3. 8—Aubree Chatterton (B) 54-0.
Girls' 50m: 1—Natalie Kolsen (R) 8.02.9. 2—Aubree Chatterton (B) 8.03.1. 3—Keneika Webster (B) 8.65. 4—Riley Boice (Hailey) 8.89 (.43 seconds faster than the county meet). 5—Kelsey Barker (Bellevue) 9.14 (.41 seconds faster). 6—Madison Bauman (TF) 9.38.
Girls' 100m: 1—Natalie Kolsen (R) 15.22. 2—Aubree Chatterton (B) 15.37. 3—Olivia Shippen (R) 16.27. 4—Etta Seaman (CC) 16.97 (.80 seconds faster than the county meet). 5—Makenna Gunter (Poc) 18.35.2. 6—Clarissa Kirkland (Carey) 18.73.
Girls' 200m: 1—Lindsey Cook (R) 32.92. 2—Sierra Anderson (R) 35.96.4. 3—Tori Pinnock (R) 36.27. 4—Sarah Rau (Hailey) 36.43 (.22 seconds faster than the county meet). 5—Makenna Gunter (Poc) 41.58.6. 6—Samantha Beverly (TF) 41.62. 7—Juliann Hollingsworth (Poc) 42.77.
Girls' 400m: 1—Lindsey Cook (R) 1:16.61. 2—Bronwyn Butuk (B) 1:20.48. 3—Kari Taylor (B) 1:37.53. 4—Juliann Hollingsworth (Poc) 1:43.00. 5—Breanne Durtschi (Carey) 1:49.32.
Girls' 400m relay: 1—Hailey (Riley Boice, Ashley Carnduff, Tess Hollister, Sarah Rau) 1:11.04 (.70 seconds faster than the county meet).
Boys' standing long jump: 1—Jordan Adams (Carey) 6-5.75 (nearly 5 inches farther than the county meet). 2—Jaron Duffin (Poc) 6-3.5. 3—Jaden Brown (Poc) 6-2. 4—Parker Critz (B) 5-11. 5—Stephen Stutz (R) 5-7.
Boys' softball throw: 1—Dallin Blaser (Poc) 117-10. 2—Tanner Meyers (Soda Springs) 111-3. 3—Walker Whaley (Hailey) 107-11. 4—Mitchell Smith (R) 107-4. 5—Michael DeHaas (B) 106-1. 6—Jaron Rose (R) 94-6. 7—Alex Venslauskas (Woodside) 80-0.
Boys' 50m: 1—Hayden Livingston (R) 7.57. 2—Dallin Blaser (Poc) 7.76. 3—Jaden Brown (Poc) 8.36. 4—Austin Nelson (R) 8.37. 5—Brayden Bowers (Bellevue) 8.50. 6—Parker Critz (B) 8.98. 7—Tyler Lawrence (Caldwell) 9.38.
Boys' 100m: 1—Dallin Blaser (Poc) 15.45. 2—Jaron Rose (R) 15.72. 3—Garrett Rawlings (Ketchum) 15.78.4. 4—Walker Whaley (Hailey) 15.78.6 (.34 seconds faster than the county meet). 5—Michael DeHaas (B) 15.85. 6—Jaden Brown (Poc) 16.42. 7—Austin Nelson (R) 16.50. 8—Jaron Duffin (Poc) 16.65.
Boys' 200m: 1—Tanner Meyers (Soda Springs) 32.85. 2—Michael DeHaas (B) 35.00. 3—Jordan Adams (Carey) 35.18. 4—Stephen Stutz (R) 35.75. 5—Mitchell Smith (R) 36.68. 6—Jaron Duffin (Poc) 38.43. 7—Patrick Summerlin (CC) 39.99. 8—Nielson Lundgren (TF) 41.64. 9—Zachary Moulton (Caldwell) 43.58.
Boys' 400m: 1—Hayden Livingston (R) 1:09.64. 2—Tanner Meyers (Soda Springs) 1:16.96. 3—Garrett Rawlings (Ketchum) 1:18.56 (7 seconds faster than the county meet). 4—Cameron Garner (R) 1:20.21. 5—Stephen Stutz (R) 1:22.47. 6—Jordan Adams (Carey) 1:25.73.
Boys' 400m relay: 1—Rexburg (Mitchell Smith, Cameron Garner, Dawson Pocock, Jaron Rose) 1:10.01.
Ages 11-12 (1996-97)
Girls' standing long jump: 1—Linley Baker (IdFalls) 7-1 (defends her championship). 2—Ashley Critz (B) 7-1. 3—Mataia Roderick (R) 7-0.25. 4—Abbie Ireland (R) 6-9. 5—Brittney Bowers (Bellevue) 6-6.25 (over 4 inches farther than the county meet). 6—Jessie Gregory (Caldwell) 6-3.75. 7—Lilly Rivera (Carey) 6-1.75 (nearly 3 inches farther). 8—Kendra Keller (TF) 5-10.75.
Girls' softball throw: 1—Ciceley Peavey (Woodside) 115-8 (12-4 farther than the county meet). 2—Cameron Cardenas (Caldwell) 113-7. 3—Lacey Hamilton (R) 107-0. 4—Ashley Hicks (Blaine) 105-5 (7 feet farther). 5—Ashley Critz (B) 101-8. 6—Kassidy Barnes (B) 95-1. 7—Lydia Garner (R) 89-5. 8—Lacey Teske (TF) 84-5. 9—Monica Muncy (Caldwell) 79-9.
Girls' 100m: 1—Caitlin Lackey (Poc) 14.07. 2—Ashley Critz (B) 14.33. 3—Mataia Roderick (R) 14.94. 4—Emren Fogle (R) 15.04. 5—Lydia Garner (R) 15.11. 6—Kaedi Fry (Bellevue) 15.28 (.68 seconds faster than the county meet). 7—Ashley Hirning (Poc) 15.42. 8—Jessie Gregory (Caldwell) 15.79. 9—Cameron Cardenas (Caldwell) 16.12. 10—Daphne Kirkland (Carey) 16.17. 11—Kendra Keller (TF) 16.49.
Girls' 200m: 1—Cassidy Cook (R) 31.65. 2—Abbie Ireland (R) 32.39. 3—Brooke Klaass (R) 32.73. 4—Brittney Bowers (Bellevue) 33.22. 5—Sydney Taylor (B) 33.65. 6—Kelsey Sims (WRMS) 33.67. 7—Jessie Gregory (Caldwell) 33.69. 8—Desiree Herron (B) 33.76. 9—Cameron Cardenas (Caldwell) 33.94. 10—Sarah Holt (Poc) 34.31.
Girls' 400m: 1—Sofia Broadbent (B) 1:08.08. 2—Brooke Griffith (R) 1:08.08.9. 3—Sarah Abbott (R) 1:09.35. 4—Brittney Bowers (Bellevue) 1:14.73. 5—Kari Anna Kuklinski (B) 1:16.80. 6—Kaedi Fry (Bellevue) 1:19.34 (nearly 3 seconds faster than the county meet). 7—Lacey Teske (TF) 1:23.05. 8—Presli Hutchison (Poc) 1:24.44 .
Girls' 800m: 1—Erin Buttons (R) 2:37.03. 2—Brooke Griffith (R) 2:46.90. 3—Sara Powell (R) 2:47.66. 4—Lacey Teske (TF) 3:06.88. 5—Tatum Morell (Ketchum) 3:07.88 (1.17 seconds faster than the county meet). 6—Presli Hutchison (Poc) 3:10.64. 7—Kenya Schott (Ketchum) 3:10.84 (4 seconds faster). 8—Kari Anna Kuklinski (B) 3:10.90.
Girls' 400m relay: 1—Rexburg (Sarah Abbott, Hannah Abbott, Madelen Stosich, Erin Buttars) 59.47. 2—Rexburg (McKenzie Siddoway, Emmrew Fogie, Lydia Garner, Olivia Redd) 1:00.17. 3—Pocatello (Sarah Holt, Alicia Son, Ashley Hirning, Caitlin Lackey) 1:02.40. 4—Rexburg (Alexia Klaass, Brooke Klaass, Abbie Ireland, Linley Baker) 1:04.00. 5—Woodside (Brittany Bradley, Ciceley Peavey, Abigail Barton, Ashley Hicks) 1:09.46.
Boys' standing long jump: 1—Dakota Baker (R) 7-4.5. 2—Kade Ready (B) 7-2.25. 3—Jason Crimmins (B) 6-10.75. 4—Cooper Bailey (WRMS) 6-10.5. 5—Evan Allen (TF) 6-6.25. 6—Ryley Nelson (R) 6-3. 7—Chase Steinmetz (TF) 6-3. 8—Alex Grimaldo (Caldwell) 5-3.25.
Boys' softball throw: 1—Dallas Crane (R) 167-7. 2—Cameron Benson (Hailey) 161-7 (nearly 13 feet farther than the county meet). 3—Riley Yamauchi (Soda Springs) 124-10. 4—Tanner Pocock (R) 115-6. 5—McKay Moulton (Caldwell) 109-4. 6—Dustin Esplin (B) 106-1. 7—Alexander Lawrence (Caldwell) 105-9.
Boys' 100m: 1—Kade Ready (B) 13.59. 2—Ryley Nelson (R) 14.07. 3—Reece Foulkrod (Poc) 14.22. 4—Jason Crimmins (B) 14.40. 5—Tanner Pocock (R) 14.69.8. 6—Garrett Mussmann (TF) 14.72. 7—Austin Savaria (Hailey) 14.82 (.28 seconds faster than the county meet). 8—Chase Steinmetz (TF) 14.88. 9—Dallas Crane (R) 14.93. 10—McKay Moulton (Caldwell) 17.78.
Boys' 200m: 1—Kade Ready (B) 28.89. 2—Ryley Nelson (R) 30.69. 3—Reece Foulkrod (Poc) 30.98. 4—Dakota Baker (R) 31.24. 5—Tate Furniss (R) 31.55. 6—Chase Steinmetz (TF) 31.70. 7—Riley Yamauchi (Soda Springs) 32.75. 8—Quinn Guthrie (WRMS) 32.79 (.42 seconds faster than the county meet). 9—Cameron Benson (Hailey) 33.21 .82 seconds faster). 10—Alexander Lawrence (Caldwell) 40.01.
Boys' 400m: 1—Cooper Bailey (WRMS) 1:06.96 (1 second faster than the county meet). 2—Jonathan Stutz (R) 1:11.60. 3—Driztin Herndon (R) 1:13.74. 4—Nate Adamson (Carey) 1:14.05. 5—Tate Furniss (R) 1:15.82. 6—Alex Grimaldo (Caldwell) 1:18.83.
Boys' 800m: 1—Jonathan Stutz (R) 2:40.09. 2—Haydin Herndon (R) 2:41.62. 3—Nate Adamson (Carey) 2:43.18 (over 12 seconds faster than the county meet). 4—Atlee Hlavinka (B) 2:53.08. 5—Austin Savaria (Hailey) 2:54.92 (5.41 seconds faster). 6—Alex Grimaldo (Caldwell) 2:58.01. 7—Driztin Herndon (R) 3:05.58. 8—Christopher Lloyd (Soda Springs) 3:15.10. 9—McKay Moulton (Caldwell) 3:31.71.
Boys' 1600m: 1—Karl Lundgren (TF) 5:15.02. 2—Jake Powell (R) 5:18.26. 3—Derek Foulkrod (Poc) 6:08.21. 4—Jeff Schroeder (Poc) 6:11.00. 5—Lance Tesle (TF) 6:26.66.
Boys' 400m relay: 1—WRMS (Brandon Dolenar, Drew Morse, Quinn Guthrie, Cooper Bailey) 1:00.81 (.27 seconds faster than the county meet). 2—Bellevue (Hunter Frye, Brandon Benson, Cody Carter, Cameron Benson) 1:04.47 (1.66 seconds faster than the county meet). 3—Boise (Dustin Esplin, Alex Cranney, Lane Inwards, Trevor Adcock) 1:05.71.
Ages 13-14 (1994-95)
Girls' standing long jump: 1—Micaela Adamson (Carey) 7-4.5 (defends her state championship, over 3 inches farther than the county meet). 2—Jasmine Nesbitt (TF) 7-0.75. 3—Ariel Pullicar (B) 6-11.5. 4—Emily Porter (R) 6-8.5. 5—Tristin Bowers (WRMS) 6-8 (3 inches farther). 6—Lindsey Jackson (Caldwell) 6-5. 7—Julia Taylor (B) 6-1. 8—Kelsey Yamauchi (Soda Springs) 5-7. 9—Paige Hollingsworth (Poc) 5-5.
Girls' softball throw: 1—Kaitana Martinez (WRMS) 179-3 (defends her state championship). 2--Rachel Samples (R) 110-11. 3—Sadie Dawson (WRMS) 101-4 (more than 16 feet farther than the county meet).
Girls' 100m: 1—Whitney Brown (R) 13.18. 2—Lindsey Gentry (Caldwell) 13.62. 3—Kaitana Martinez (WRMS) 13.73 (.20 seconds faster than the county meet). 4—Micaila Minnix (R) 13.91. 5—Ariel Pullicar (B) 14.22. 6—Emily Porter (R) 14.28. 7—Payton Braseth (B) 14.31. 8—Lindsey Jackson (Caldwell) 14.79. 9—Chloe Davis (WRMS) 15.10 (.50 seconds faster).
Girls' 200m: 1—Whitney Brown (R) 27.70. 2—Micaela Adamson (Carey) 28.78. 3—Emily Porter (R) 28.84. 4—Kaitana Martinez (WRMS) 28.99. 5—Ariel Pullicar (B) 30.38. 6—Payton Braseth (B) 31.31. 7—Maddie Blaylock (Caldwell) 31.73. 8—Kelsey Yamauchi (Soda Springs) 32.20.
Girls' 800m: 1—Jasmine Nesbitt (TF) 2:35.15. 2—Callie Evans (R) 2:35.42. 3—Korbin Traughber (R) 2:43.90. 4—Tristin Bowers (WRMS) 2:54.88 (more than 14 seconds faster than the county meet). 5—Kelsey Yamauchi (Soda Springs) 2:57.19. 6—Alesha Trujillo (B) 2:57.43. 7—Paige Hollingsworth (Poc) 3:37.62.
Girls' 1600m: 1—Callie Evans (R) 5:52.28. 2—Carly Hansen (R) 6:01.59.2. 3—Korbin Traughber (R) 6:01.59.5. 4—Jaide Parke (Carey) 6:35.03 (nearly 2 seconds faster than the county meet). 5—Julia Taylor (B) 7:41.62. 6—Charmaine Kirkland (Carey) 7:48.00 (over 7 seconds faster).
Girls' 400m relay: 1—Caldwell (Maddie Blaylock, Erika Rohrbacher, Kylie Chastain, Lindsey Gentry) 56.62. 2—Rexburg (Cheryl Hirschi, Hailey, Ontaya Hobbs, Kali Peterson) 59.24. 3—Carey (Angelica Zarate, Charmaine Kirkland, Jaide Parke, Micaela Adamson) 1:02.46. 4—Rexburg (Emily McDonald, Sydney Brewer, Samantha Luthy, Hannah Paul) 1:03.33. 5—WRMS (Tristin Bowers, Sadie Dawson, Elana King-Nakaoka, Chloe Davis) 1:04.54.
Boys' standing long jump: 1—Jacob Inman (B) 8-2.25. 2—Shaun Benight (Caldwell) 8-1.75. 3—Tommy Bailey (WRMS) 7-5 (nearly 5 inches farther than the county meet). 4—Andy Austin (R) 7-1.75. 5—Karl Lundgren (TF) 6-9. 6—Wyatt Holt (Poc) 6-8.5.
Boys' softball throw: 1—Ben Williams (WRMS) 195-6 (nearly 18 feet farther than the county meet). 2—KJ Savaria (WRMS) 181-0 (nearly 11 feet farther). 3—Devon Smith (R) 169-3. 4—Cameron Packwood (B) 167-8. 5—Jake Powell (R) 123-7.
Boys' 100m: 1—Cameron Packwood (B) 12.90. 2—Cody Bowden (R) 13.25. 3—Shaun Benight (Caldwell) 13.38. 4—Jacob Inman (B) 13.39. 5—Drew Barsch (WRMS) 13.86 (.34 seconds faster than the county meet). 6—Tori Alvarez (Carey) 14.08 (.13 seconds faster). 7—Andy Austin (R) 14.17. 8—Wyatt Holt (Poc) 14.38. 9—Alex Wachs (R) 14.47.
Boys' 200m: 1—Cameron Packwood (B) 26.41. 2—Jacob Inman (B) 27.33. 3—Cody Bowden (R) 27.68. 4—Shaun Benight (Caldwell) 28.50. 5—Tommy Bailey (WRMS) 29.41. 6—Tori Alvarez (Carey) 29.53 (.50 seconds faster than the county meet). 7—Alex Wachs (R) 30.40.
Boys' 800m: 1—Gavin Ritchie (R) 2:18.41. 2—Jake Powell (R) 2:27.10. 3—Karl Lundgren (TF) 2:34.63.
Boys' 400m relay: 1—WRMS (Drew Barsch, Tommy Bailey, KJ Savaria, Braxton Parish) 53.90 (nearly 4 seconds faster than the county meet). 2—WRMS (Zach Dolenar, Jared Anderson, Steven Poklemba, Austin Savaria) 1:00.76 (more than 3 seconds faster).
