Saturday, March 31, 2012

GarPal Colton Track & Field Score at Milton-Freewater, Oregon

GarPal Colton Track & Field traveled to Milton-Freewater, Oregon, for their first, regular season meet, Wednesday, March 28 and fared quite well!

High Team scorer for the Men's team was senior Jeff Kent, who placed 3rd in the 400 meters with a new personal best of 54.34 (C), 3rd in the pole vault, and 4th in the 100m.  Senior Derrick Bosch placed 6th in the discus, 7th in the shot and 8th in the Javelin.  Junior Anthony Floyd placed 3rd in the Javelin and 5th in the triple jump.  The VikCat men's 4x400 relay team (Floyd, Bosch, Nick Robertson (jr.), and Kevin Knauff (so.)), placed 7th in their first outing.

On the Women's side, high team scorer was shared by junior Holly Leendertsen and junior Grace Druffel.  Leendersten placed 3rd in the long jump.  Druffel placed 3rd in the 300m hurdles.  Junior Cassie Thompson placed 6th in the 200m and 7th in the long jump.  Senior Emma Akin placed 6th in the triple jump.  And Leendertsen, Druffel, Thompson, & Akin placed 3rd in the 4x100 relay.  Jessie Hathaway, the only GPC female thrower, was near her personal best in two of her three events.

The GPC team heads to Clarkston High School on Friday, a meet that was rescheduled from last Wednesday, for another district meet.  Field events begin at 3 pm, track events at 3:15.

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