Coupeville grabs 14 medals at state meet / Track

By Jim Waller • May 27, 2018 1:30 am

Nine Coupeville High School athletes combined to win 14 medals at the state 1A track meet May 24-26 at Eastern Washington University in Cheney.

The medal haul helped the Coupeville boys, coached by Randy King, finish fifth in the team standings with 34 points; King’s took the title with 58.

Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) won the girls crown with 68 points, and the Wolves finished 24th with 9.

Four of the Wolves’ 14 medals were for second place — three by the boys and two of those by Jacob Smith.

Smith, a senior, ran second in the 100 meters (11.64) and 200 (22.75).

Junior Danny Conlisk was the 400 runner-up (49.7).

Micah Holmes of Lakeside won the 100 (11.39) and LaSalle’s Peterson Bohannon took the 200 (22.7) and 400 (48.83).

Smith and Conlisk also ran on the fifth-place 4×400 team (3:31) with Henry Wynn and Sean Toomey-Stout.

Smith, Sean Toomey-Stout, Cameron Toomey-Stout and Jean Lund Olsen finished seven in the 4×100 (45.16).

Smith became only the second Wolf to win four medals in one state meet; Jon Chittim claimed four in 2006.

Ariah Bepler leaped 6-02 in the high jump, good for fifth, and was 11th in the triple jump (39-02.5).

Cameron Toomey-Stout was 14th in the long jump (20) and triple jump (37-05.5), and Sean Toomey-Stout was 15th in the long jump (19-06.5).

Chris Battaglia nabbed 15th in the discus (101), and Ryan Labrador was 16th in the shot put (38-4).

For the girls, Lindsey Roberts was second in the 100 hurdles (15.63), beating two rivals along the way.

She topped Port Townsend’s Aubry Botkin, who defeated Roberts several times earlier this season and came into the state meet with the best time, and South Whidbey’s Sophia Nielsen. Botkin (16.04) was sixth and Nielsen (16.76) eighth.

Cassidy Moody was the only other Coupeville girl to place, taking eighth in the long jump (16-02.75).

Roberts, Ashlie Shank, Mallory Kortuem and Maya Toomey-Stout placed 11th in the 4×200 (1:48.46) and 15th in the 4×100 (54,21).

Allison Wenzel grabbed ninth in the discus (106-04), and Lauren Payne was 11th in the javelin (109-02).