May 30, 2009 in Sports

Egland’s marathon day ends with gold

Steve Bergum
Staff writer
 

Liz Cobb of Chewelah flies over the long jump pit to win the event in the 1A meet at Cheney.
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You don’t earn extra money for working overtime at a high school track meet, but then it’s hard to put a price on the sense of pride you get from finally finishing the job.

Especially when you get it as right as Anandae Egland did during Friday’s opening day of the State 1A track and field championships at Eastern Washington University’s Woodward Field.

Egland, a freshman from Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) with a strong gymnastics background, survived a spirited challenge from Seattle Academy’s Zoe Mesnik-Greene – and a nearly three-hour break from competition – to capture the girls pole vault …

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