La Conner track teams impact County Meet

La Conner High thinclads didn’t just compete against bigger schools at the Skagit County Track & Field Championships last week.

They also competed against themselves.

And came out winners on both scores.

The La Conner boys and girls combined to post more than two dozen personal records and win two county titles — and that was just in the first day alone.

By meet’s end on Friday, both the Braves and Lady Braves had topped the Century Mark in team points, highlighted by a nice haul of medals from the two-day event at Burlington’s storied Kirkby Field.

The Braves finished third overall, with 104 points, trailing host Burlington-Edison, 182, and Mount Vernon High, 126. Sedro-Woolley, 88, was fourth.

Burlington-Edison completed a sweep of the 110th annual County Meet, running away from Anacortes 216-149 on the girls’ side of the leaderboard. Mount Vernon edged La Conner 111-108 for third place.

The Lady Braves, meanwhile, finished well ahead of Sedro-Woolley, 60, which settled for fourth place.

Sophomore sprinter Emma Lee paced the La Conner girls. She captured both the 100 and 200 meter dash crowns.

Lee hit the tape in :13.05 to claim the 100 meter finale, with teammate Sofie Thulen, :13.85, edging B-E’s Hannah Holmes for the bronze.

Lee won the 200 meters with a :26.95 clocking.

Thulen, a junior, mined silver in her speciality events — the 100 and 300 meter hurdles.

She ran a :16.50 in the 100 hurdles and a :48.11 in the 300. Thulen shaved time from her prelim heats in both events, and joined Burlington-Edison senior Abby Dimock as the only entrants to break 50 seconds in the 300 hurdles.

The Lady Braves were also solid in the relays and field contests.

La Conner’s quartet breezed to the county sprint relay title with a 4x100 time of :50.94. The Lady Braves’ 4x200 and mile relay teams placed second and fourth, respectively.

Off the oval, La Conner sophomore Sarah Hastings was third in both the shot put, 32’-5 1/2”, and discus, 102’-9”, finishes matched by Lady Braves Matty Lagerwey, long jump and triple jump, and Sage Burgmeier, javelin.

Lagerwey went 15’-6 1/2” in the long jump and 32’-10” in the triple. Burgmeier was just shy of 100 feet in the javelin, recording a toss of 99’-10”, a half-foot longer than that turned in by Lady Brave Ashley Watkins, who clinched fourth spot.

For the Braves, Brady Nelson and Josh Summers reached the Winner’s Circle before the meet was halfway complete. Nelson emerged triumphant in the javelin and Summers claimed the high jump in Thursday’s Day One action.

Nelson dominated the javelin. No one came within 13 feet of his 159’-1” winning throw.

Summers, who added a second place finish in the 110 meter hurdles, was best in the high jump at 5’-10”. The versatile Nelson, 5’-8”, was runnerup in the high jump.

Kolbe Rasler and Budda Luna likewise added silver to the Braves’ medal count. Rasler placed second in the 400 meters with a :52.60 effort. Luna leapt 41’-0” in the triple jump.

The La Conner sprint relay team, clocked at :45.48, was second to Mount Vernon, :44.65, in the 4x100.

La Conner’s Harrison Orkney was third in the 100 meters, :11.88, while the Braves’ Seth Schuh took third place in the discus, 127’-10”.

La Conner shot putters David Thomas, fourth, and Michael Page, fifth, narrowly missed spots on the medal podium for a contest that drew more than 30 entrants.

Both La Conner teams get back to work tomorrow, Thursday, with the annual league championship meet in Mount Vernon. Action is set to get underway at 4 p.m.