Medical Lake track heads to districts with eyes on state berths

Just as co-head coach Gene Blankenship predicted privately, Medical Lake’s boys cruised to victory, 92-62 over Riverside in a Northeast A League dual meet May 12 at home.

But what was surprising to him was the performance of his girls who fell to Riverside by just four points — 70-66 — in the final tune up before district and state competition. And had it not been for an admitted error by Blankenship, the girls were likely on track for an upset victory.

“On the girls’ (side) we made a couple of coaching errors,” Blankenship said. “Blame that on me.”

He failed to put any competitors in the hurd...