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La Conner High track teams ran with the big dogs last week.
The Braves, in fact, nearly matched the Mount Vernon High Bulldogs stride-for-stride in their half of the annual Clash of the Conferences Meet at Whittaker Field on Friday.
The 4A Bulldogs nipped La Conner 80-76 for fourth place in the boys’ team standings. Burlington-Edison placed first with a 134.5 total.
On the girls’ side, La Conner edged 2A Sedro-Woolley 94-89.5 for fourth place honors. Stanwood compiled 141 points to win the team title.
The Lady Braves were paced by sprinter Emma Lee, who thrilled the home crowd by sweeping the 100 and 200 meter events.
The La Conner junior posted a :13.07 time in the 100. She hit the tape at :26.66 in the 200.
Lee was also part of the Lady Braves’ quartet that mined silver in the 4x200 meter relay. Lee, Matty Lagerwey, Sage Burgmeier, and Nok Pimpisan clocked a 1:45.57, just back of Mount Vernon’s winning entry.
Lagerwey, Lee, Kayla Hagen, and Sofie Thulen added a third place finish in the 100-100-200-400 relay, finishing in 2:01.44, two-tenths of a second ahead of Mount Vernon’s Alyssa Anderson, Ashley Sullivan-Garcia, Jennifer Gonzalez, and Samantha Hill.
The versatile Lagerwey likewise won the long jump at 17’-1”, and placed second in the triple jump with 32’-5”.
Thulen and Sarah Hastings were also multiple medal winners for the Lady Braves.
Thulen silvered in both the 100 and 300 hurdles. She went :16.78 in the 100 and :50.04 in the 300, finishing close behind Bailey Post of Stanwood each time.
Hastings was runner-up in the shot put to Abigail Brown of Mount Vernon and finished third in the discus. Hastings tossed the shot 33’-8”. Her discus throw was 108’-4”.
Brady Nelson, who recently signed a formal letter of intent to compete in track at Everett Community College next year, joined La Conner teammate Budda Luna to capture solo events on the boys’ side of Friday’s competition.
Nelson defeated Mount Vernon’s Kristopher Bonn 157-5” to 151’-0” and claimed the javelin crown. La Conner’s Kaden Murdock tied for third with Hesser Sotelo of Meridian, at 146’-5”.
Luna, meanwhile, won the long jump with a 20’-4” leap. He also struck bronze in the triple jump, going 39’-9 1/2”.
Murdock and Michael Page added further to the Braves’ medal count.
Murdock matched his javelin finish by placing third in the discus. Page clinched the shot put silver behind Burlington-Edison’s Blake Gurney.
Nelson capped a busy day by running a leg on the La Conner sprint relay, which placed second to Sedro-Woolley. Nelson, Geoffrey McGaughey, Jeffrey Johnson, and Elijah Adams combined to clock a :49.92 in the 4x100.
After hounding harriers from the area’s big schools, head coach Peter Voorhees and the La Conner teams are set to return to 2B competition April 11. Then its off to Cashmere on April 15.
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