FORKS — Port Angeles’ Lainnie Lyamba and Forks’ Cole Baysinger led their track and field teams to victories at the Forks Lions Club Invitational.
Baysinger won the high jump (5 feet, 10 inches) and the triple jump (37-07.5) and took third in the javelin to earn Boys MVP honors and lead the Spartans to the boys championship Saturday.
“He had 6 feet in the high jump, but he just didn’t hold it long enough,” Forks coach Pam Gale said. “That was still great for him.
“He just started triple jumping recently. It’s wide open in our district, and now he’s the No. 2-ranked kid.”
Along with Andrew Wilder, Peyton Rondeau and Austin Pegram, Baysinger also ran a leg in Forks’ first-place 4×400-meter relay, which finished in 3 minutes, 54.16 seconds.
Individually for Forks, Pegram won the 400 (54.86 seconds) and 800 (2:13.79), while Hugo Lucas took the 1,600 (4:59.77) and Alan Ensastegui the 3,200 (10:21.21).
Forks had four of the top five times in the 1,600. Behind Hugo Lucas was Port Angeles’ Hunter Dempsey in second place. After that were three Spartans, Josue Lucas, Ensastegui and Joseph Mariner, taking the third through fifth places.
The Forks boys accumulated 105 points in the meet. Port Angeles was second with 76.5, Crescent had 51, Neah Bay had 45.5 and Clallam Bay finished with 45.
“I don’t remember the last time we won the Forks Invitational,” Gale said.
Port Angeles won two of the throwing events: Jacob Kennedy took the shot put with a distance of 41-07, and Paul Van Rossen the discus with a 124-02.
Jordan Scott won the two hurdles for the Crescent boys. He ran the 110 in 18.62 seconds and the 300 in 48.33 seconds.
Wyatt McNeece (shot put and discus) and Jacob Baillargeon (long jump) each had second-place showings for the Loggers, as did Kyle Buchanan, Baillargeon, Caleb Green and Scott in the 4×100 relay.
Clallam Bay freshman Clayton Willis won the long jump with a distance of 19-02.75 and finished second in the high jump and the 100-meter dash.
Alan Greene took first in the javelin with a throw of 130-05.
Jamari Signor, Martin Cummings, Greene and Willis teamed to place second in the 4×400 relay.
Cameron Buzzell was part of all three of Neah Bay boys’ wins.
He won the 100 (11.73 seconds) and the 200 (24.45 seconds), and teamed with Anthony Bitegeko, Nathaniel Gamez-LaChester and Chris Tageant to win the 4×100 relay with a time of 48.12 seconds.
Lyamba earns Girls MVP
Lyamba, Gracie Long and Maddie Dougherty led Port Angeles to a dominating girls title Saturday.
The three sophomores combined to win eight events.
Lyamba was named Girls MVP after taking first in the 100 (13.76 seconds), long jump (13-11.25) and triple jump (30-0.5).
Long also won three events, the 400 (1:04.31), 800 (2:38.21) and high jump (4-10).
Dougherty took first in the 1,600 (6:01.54) and 3,200 (12:55.34). Teammate Lael Butler was right behind Dougherty in both events.
The Riders also had two wins in the throwing events and one in the relays.
Devin Edwards finished first in the shot put (28-09), and Ciara Gentry won the javelin (102-07).
Haili Farnam-Vessey, Ciara Gentry, Cassidy Hodgin and Madison St. George teamed up to win the 4×100 relay in 55.24 seconds.
The Riders racked up a whopping 164 points, more than lapping second-place Clallam Bay, which had 77. Then came Crescent with 43.5 points, Forks with 30.5 and Neah Bay with 26.
The Clallam Bay girls had five first-place finishes.
Miriam Wonderly, Atokena Abe, Molly McCoy and Kendra Anderson won the 4×400 relay with a time of 4:45.20.
Jennica Maines, Abe, Anderson and McCoy took first in the 4×200 relay by finishing in 1:58.65.
McCoy also took first in the 100 hurdles (18.41 seconds), while Wonderly also won the 200 (30.02 seconds).
Zeria Signor had the meet’s longest discus throw at 85-09.
McKenzie Brannan threw herself to a pair of runner-up finishes for the Crescent girls. Brannon took second in the shot put (27-01) and the javelin (88-02).
Grace Baillargeon was second for the Loggers in the 400, and Leonie Hofmann was second in the 800.
Sophomore Ella Damron was the lone winner for the Forks girls, placing first in the 300 hurdles with a time of 59.67 seconds.
Marissa Bailey placed third in the 3,200, and Kayleen Bailey did likewise in the 1,600.
Kayla Winck was part of two second-place finishes for Neah Bay.
She was the runner-up in the triple jump (26-01) and teamed up with Jayelei Della, Emily Marrs and Charlotte Shaw to place second in the 4×400 relay.
Finishing her own run-jump-throw trifecta, Winck also placed fifth in the discus.
Wolves fourth and seventh at Tacoma Invite
TACOMA — The Sequim girls finished tied for fourth and the boys tied for seventh at the 19-school Tacoma Invite at the Lincoln Bowl.
Waverly Shreffler led the Wolves by taking first in the girls 800-meter run with a time of 2:20.25 and teaming up with Audrey Shingleton, Gretchen Happe and Kiara Pierson to win the 4×400 relay Saturday.
Shingleton also placed second in the 1,600, and Abigail Hansted did likewise in the pole vault.
For the Sequim boys, Oscar Herrera placed second in the 110- and 300-hurdles. Only Malik Messiah of Class 4A Todd Beamer ran faster hurdles, and Herrera was on Messiah’s heels in both events.
Jackson Oliver achieved a season-best 6 feet, 4 inches in the high jump, which earned him a second-place finish.
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Compiled using team reports.
Sports reporter Michael Carman contributed to this report.
