MEDICAL LAKE —On a freezing and cold blustery day, the Medical Lake girl’s track and field team had to supply some measure of warmth with its performance.
The Cardinals breezed past Riverside 99-36 and Deer Park 80-66 establishing a dozen personal records along the way in an April 18 Northeast A League win at home. Medical Lake’s boys, meanwhile, also topped Riverside but lost a painfully close competition 73.33 to 70.67 to Deer Park.
“It was windy and cold as can be, I was freezing death all day long,” head coach Gene Blankenship said.
The Cardinal girls won four individual track events, plus five more on the field side.
Freshman Mya Gardner’s 2:47.68 second dash was tops in the 800 meters. ML won both the 100 and 300-meter hurdles as Makalia McKenny clocked a 17.76 second personal record in the 100 and a 52.86 by Adasha Gardner topped the 300 field. Hazel Grubaugh had a PR in 3,200 Meters of 13:51.23 and won that event.
McKenny, Gardner and Grubaugh joined with Allison Appel to win the 4X400 relay in 4 minutes, 40.40 seconds.
Medical Lake picked up almost automatic points from their go-to in Chiche Okemgbo who swept the throwing events, including shot put with a season-best 40-foot, 1-inch toss. She added to that with the discus (92-9) and javelin (105-2) — and a season best 33-9 in the triple jump.
McKenny’s 15-0.5 PR led a one-two finish in the long jump with Gardner second at 14-1.
Besides the team wins, two girls also moved onto the MLHS All-Time top-10. McKenny ran the fourth fastest time, 17.76 seconds in the 100-meter hurdles. Autumn Trout now has the 10th longest throw in the javelin at 93-feet, 4-inches.
Distance events propelled the Medical Lake boys was Hector Gomez and Loghan Bradley were one-two in the 3,200 meters respectively at 11:33.73 and 11:41.41 (a personal record). Nakai Ornelas (5:03.82) and Gomez (5:15.57) had a similar finish in the 1,600.
That was it on the track side for wins with the Cardinals. Important in the big picture or not, four runners-up left them short of sweeping the team side.
“Any performance anywhere different and we probably win,” Blankenship said of the narrow loss to Deer Park.
The Cardinal boys earned four wins in field events where Silas Dutton threw 111-1 in the discus, Chuks Okemgbo the high jump (5-8) and Kaeden Kelso triple jump (32-11). Lebo Holloway’s 17-3 topped teammate Julian Contreras (16-6) in the triple jump.
Stripped of some key performers by the prom later that day, Medical Lake sent limited resources to the annual Mooberry Relays, April 20 at Rogers High School in Spokane.
Still the girls posted six personal records that included Theodora Lalicker in the 100m (15.01) and Katelyn Hoffer in the full mile (6:28.69) a time that moved her onto the MLHS Top-10.
Other personal records came from McKenny in the 300m hurdles, Keilianna Ornelas in the discus, Gardner in the javelin and Mya Gardner in the 100m hurdles.
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