Paige Rice leads Alexa Efraimson & Anna Maxwell   The Centennial Invitational once again provided fans some brilliant track & filed action with Sean Keller, Anna Maxwell & Alexa Efraimson leading the way.

Sean Keller of Heritage Today's boys javelin should be exciting with Sean Keller of Heritage (WA) and Cody Danielson of Newberg (OR) both throwing over 200.  Add to that former Centennial runner Rob Collins bringing his team from San Lorenzo Valley in CA to the meet, it should be an interesting meet.

Emily Nist at Foot Locker (Colleen Collins pic)   There was much to cheer last week for area Track & Field athletes but Emily Nist of Bishop Kelly became one of the few girls' to break five minutes for the 1600.

Jefferson Jarvis had a break-out day for Hidden Valley with marks of 60-10.50 in the Shot & 180-11 in the Discus.

Alexa Efraimson Tatum Taylor ran 10.65 and Justin Brown jumped 23-08 to lead the guys.   Hannah Cunliffe ran 11.77, while Alexa Efraimson topped Paige Rice in an exciting 1500.

Paige Rice won the girls' 3K easily at the Oregon Relays in 9:55.   Dan Oekerman of Beaverton pulled away off the final turn to top Wolfgang Beck of Gig Harbor.  The time for  Oekerman was 8:41, which gave him a second advantage over Beck. 

Marist's Austin Baird went 23-05.25 in the Long Jump at the Springfield Rotary Invitational.

Dickson, Harris & Krotzer moved to 3-4-5 on the NAtionalList for 2012.   A National Record in the Javelin at Aloha by Haley Crouser and three national top five times in the Men's Mile at Pasco top the action for the weekend.  That said, there was plenty of action throughout the area and some high quality performances.

Marcus Dickson leads Elite Mile   Anandae Clark of Lakeside established a new State Record in the Pole Vault and MArcus Dickson of White River and Knight Knight of North Central won the Elite Mile races.

Results from the Robinson Twilight

Haley Crouser set a new national record in the javelin with a heave of 181-02 at the Aloha Relays.

South Albany's  Mitchell Gable hopes to win State & already has run 50.47 in the 400 Meters.

Kei-Jian Buckley on the rise in high jump at Liberty and has cleared 6-07.

Double winners included Dillon Henke (Shot & Discus) , Amanda Murray (110 & 200) & Rebecca Davidson (Shot & Disc) Brody Zoller of North Medford  topped 19 in the Long Jump.

Corvallis & Crescent Valley competed in track yesterday.

Jesuit  hopes for another Girls Track title in Metro.

Sunset, Jesuit and Aloha’s boys track teams are ready to race for it all again in 2012

Sheldon's Schmaedick  ran the state's fastest time of the season in the 3K.

Newport's Oshay Dunmore makes impressive debut at Marist meet

A preview of the young West Leinn Track Team.

Gladstone athletes laced second at the Barlow Relays.

Morgan Webber of Canby, whose team has already moved from the Pacific League to the Three Rivers may have to move once again.   Erick Olson takes a look at the issue of redistricting teams in Oregon &  offers some interesting insight.   Of course my question is why such a small state has more divisions than states that are vastly larger (say for example Ohio, which has only three) back east.   I would note that since Oregon went to the new classification Oregon has been non-competitive in the so-called Border Clash.  Sadly trophy inflation is unhelthy as greade inflation.   Both on the field and in the track most of us improve far easier with competition.

Zach Holloway at Silver Falls Invitational Zach Holloway of Central Linn won the 1500 & 3K at the Douglas Invitational and Trever Walker went over 50 in the Shot.   Laura Grube of Crow scored in the Shot, Discus & Javelin.   Overlooked in the review  was Haley Crouser of Greshma, who won the Long Jump (15.4), the Shot Put (44-04) and tied with Alyssa Neal of North Salem in the High Jump by clearing 5-04.   With a long summer if national & international competition in the JAvelin, she skipped that event.    (Not you have to skip to the bottom for track)

There were numerous event records set on Saturday at Medford.  Leading the way were Kodie Archer of South Medford, who went 39.85 in the 300 Hurdles and Halley Folspm of Nrth Medford, who managed 46.99 in the same event.   Folsom also tied for first with Joy Harpham of Ashland in the High Jump with 5-00.   JoAnne Jessee broke the 40 barrier in the Shot Put with 42-04.   Paul Adams broke Cole Watson's record in the Mile with 4:29, while the girls' event was claimed by Kayla Parsons of South Medford, who clocked 5:36.22.

Katie Knight of North Central High in Spokane placed third in the Girls' 3200 meter at Arcadia in a fine time of 10:20, while Emily Nist of Bishop Kellyy in Boise was ninth.    Hannah Cunliffe of Washington won her heat in the 200 but placed fourth over all with a mark of 24.22.

The University of Oregon will host the Pepsi Team Invitational with Texas A & M joing Washington & UCLA

Elijah Greer of the University of Oregon is Ready for a Stellar Spring

Aloha's Thomas Tyner is being conservative this spring due to a sore hamstring.

(Marcus Dickson winning at Brooks) The Kent Meridian Invitational topped action in the Northwest last week and Marcus Dickson ran a national best 1:50 in the 800 Meters at the kent Meridian Invitational.

Kristen Coffman (Rt) with Mikayla Fricker in January Oregon State Signed 7 athletes for Cross Country and Track.

Morgan Anderson in 3K Morgan Anderson, Gracie Todd & Jackson Haselnus made things interesting at the Canby All-Comers meet.