Myron has shot at her own ‘three-peat’

After another district meet, Pullman’s Lindsay Myron is off to a familiar event – the State 2A track and field championships.

Myron will defend three titles at the state meet, joining dozens of other local qualifying athletes after Friday’s finals at the two-day District 7 2A meet at Cheney. The top two in each event automatically advance, and others who meet qualifying marks will also move on to the state meet Friday and next Saturday at Mt. Tahoma High School in Tacoma.

Myron, who suffered a bad ankle sprain during spring break, won all three of the events she will defend next weekend – the 100-meter hurdles, the 300 hurdles and her favorite event, the triple jump.

“She’s battled a lot of adversity to get back in this,” assistant/hurdle coach Kristen Walker said. “When you’re injured it sucks a lot of the joy out of it and it’s great to be seeing her full of joy again.”

The Cornell University-bound senior is the three-time defending state champion in the triple jump. Her mark of 36 feet, 5 inches was 25 inches ahead of second-place finisher Bailey Wold of West Valley. Myron finished ahead of Clarkston’s Alyssa James in both hurdles events.

“It’s pretty cool,” Myron said. “I had a slow start to the year because of my ankle, so I feel good just in time and I am really focusing on the triple jump, but it would be great to win all three again.”

Colville’s David Musson once again thumped the competition in the boys javelin with a throw of 210-9. West Valley’s Ryan Rose was second at 176-8.

Musson has the state’s best throw of all classifications at 211-2, which he threw two weeks ago at a Great Northern League meet at West Valley. That mark also makes him the second-best performer in the nation.

The junior is looking to continue the pattern he has developed at the state meet. Musson finished third his freshman year, second last year as a sophomore, and is confident he can take home the title this year.

“He has worked extremely hard and shouldn’t have a problem winning over at state if he stays humble and focused,” said Colville throwing coach Bob Gumm.

The Colville distance runners had a successful meet as well.

Brittney Williams won the girls 3,200 (11:43.3) and finished second in the 1,600 (5:21.9) behind Deer Park’s Chantel Duenich (5:17.2). Justin Rose broke away from a tight group in the second mile to win the boys 3,200 in 9:54.5, 2 seconds ahead of West Valley’s Justin Degenhart.

Cheney nailed down all four spots in the boys shot put and discus. Griffon Jones won the shot put (49-1) and discus (158-0), ahead of second-place finishers John Quisenberry (44-7) and Jeff Rodgers (135-4).

West Valley’s Ashley Kenney and Pullman’s Anna Albrecht took turns winning throwing events. Albrecht beat Kenney solidly in the girls shot put with a state-best throw of 44-0, but Kenney won the discus with a throw of 133-3 over Albrecht’s 120-6.

Junior Jesus Fregoso (Cheney) finished first in the boys 100 with a time of 10.6 seconds. Colville’s John Roberts (10.8) was second. Fregoso also qualified in the 200, tying Medical Lake’s Daryl Stalworthy for first place (22.4).

West Valley’s Bri Almy finished first in the 200 (25.4) and second in the 100 (12.0), one-tenth of a second behind Cheney’s Shelby Maurer.

Nick Casselman (Pullman) and Blake Caddy (Riverside) swept the boys hurdles events. Casselman was first in both, finishing the 100 hurdles race in 14.7 and the 300 hurdles in 39.0.

The Cheney girls swept the relay events – the 4x100 (51.0), 4x800 (1:48.3) and 4x400 (4:07.3).

District 9 2B

Tekoa-Oakesdale/Rosalia’s Ashley Stabl won the 100 hurdles in 15.5 seconds and took the 400 in 59.9 as the Nighthawks took second place at the meet in Walla Walla. TOR also won the 1,600 relay in 4:23. The Asotin girls won with 125 points.

For the boys, Kris Widman won the high jump with a leap of 6-0 and Tekoa-Oakesdale/Rosalia finished third with 84.5 points.

TOR’s Chris Poland won the 400 in 52.2 and teammate Reid Wagner took the 800 in 2:05.

Waitsburg finished first with 152 points, followed by DeSales with 114.