Lauren Sego’s record-setting javelin toss highlighted a strong showing by Shorewood at the Davis Invitational April 10 in Yakima.
The sophomore thrower set a meet and school record with her first-place mark of 137 feet even at the 78th annual track and field invite.
“It wasn’t great form. It was real low,” Sego said of her winning toss. “If I had better form, it would have gone a lot farther.”
The throw topped Sego’s career-best mark of 122 feet, 4 inches from a league meet earlier this season, as well as Amy Taylor’s school-record toss of 130-2.
“I wasn’t thinking about any of that. I just wanted to get a (personal record) pretty bad and hopefully go above 130,” said Sego, who placed second in the event at last year’s Northwest District 4A meet and was a state alternate.
Sego currently ranks second statewide in the javelin behind Skyview’s Kara Patterson (137-1) and is one of just four girls at any classification to top 130 feet this spring.
Rachel Eckerlin won the 3,200-meter run by more than 30 seconds in a time of 11:29.3 and Amy Simon placed third in the 400-meters in 1:01.3.
The 1,600 girls relay team of Annie Boone, Hilary Zetlen, Simon and Lily Albin clocked the second-fastest time in the state this season (4:06.8) and finished second. The 800 relay team of Boone, Zetlen, Katie Whittle and Christa Brediger took third (1:48.9).
On the boys side, Ishmael Easton won the shot put (48-5) and took third in the discus (129-9).MLT NAMES COACHES: Mountlake Terrace has hired alum Tony Umayam to coach football and Edmonds-Woodway grad Deidra Ducheane to coach girls basketball.
A 1990 Terrace graduate, Umayam competed in football and track for the Hawks before playing football for Willamette University in Salem, Ore. A former assistant football coach at Terrace and Jackson, Umayam is currently an assistant at Mercer Island.
Ducheane played basketball for E-W before moving onto Chaffey Community College in Cucamunga, Calif., where a knee injury ended her college hoops career.TRACKING THE GRADS: Shorecrest High School graduate Kristina Thorson, a sophomore pitcher at UC Berkeley, was named Pac-10 Pitcher of the Week for March 10-16.
Thorson pitched the first perfect game of her career March 12 against Virginia, striking out eight in a five-inning Cal victory. The next day Thorson collected a save and pitched a complete game.
To close out the weekend, Thorson pitched 42/3 innings in Cal’s 5-4 victory over Washington in the championship game of the National Invitational Softball Tournament.
For the week, Thorson pitched 19 innings, faced 70 batters, struck out 24, allowed just 10 hits, en route to three wins and a save. She improved her record to 12-0, with three saves and a 0.77 ERA.
Shorewood grad Sean Rybar has latched on with the Western Baptist College baseball team. Rybar, a 6-foot junior who played at Everett Community College last season, is starting at second base for Western Baptist, an NAIA school in Salem, Ore.WIAA NEWS: The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association has announced that the Class 3A and 4A state volleyball tournaments will return to the Everett Events Center in November, albeit a week earlier.
The tournaments, traditionally held the second weekend in November, will run Nov. 5-6.
“The (WIAA Executive) Board decision was based upon the success of the 2003-04 event in Everett,” the WIAA said in a press release.
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