Coupeville Sports

   Jacob Smith, seen here during an earlier meet, won three times Thursday in Langley. (John Fisken photo)

It was an unexpected beat-down.

Sparked by two school records, seven wins and 29 PRs, the Coupeville High School boys’ track and field squad stunned three of its former Cascade Conference rivals Thursday afternoon in Langley.

On the day Wolf seniors Dalton Martin (discus) and Jordan Ford (pole vault) put their names up on the big board in the gym, CHS won its first team meet title in a very long time.

Individual excellence has not been an issue in recent years, but team depth has for Coupeville.

Not so Thursday, as the Wolves rang up 84 points to South Whidbey’s 63.

Sultan (57) and Granite Falls (50) rounded out the team battle on the boys side.

The Wolf girls swept both relay events, but fell prey to the depth issue and finished fourth with 34 points, trailing Granite Falls (82), South Whidbey (82) and Sultan (75).

While Makana Stone and her teammates on the relay squads (Sylvia Hurlburt, Lauren Grove and Lindsey Roberts) tend to get a lot of buzz, and quite fairly with all their accomplishments, Thursday belonged to the boys.

Martin, making his first appearance of the season, shattered the CHS discus mark by eight feet, while Ford broke the pole vault record by three inches.

It was just his second try at the event since moving to Coupeville, and he went 15 inches higher in a week’s time.

Sophomore Jacob Smith was a three-time winner, zipping to titles in the 100 and 200 before joining Ford, Jacob Martin and Gabe Eck to win the 4 x 100.

Dalton Martin won both the shot put and discus, while Lathom Kelley ran the fastest time in 1A this year in the 300 hurdles and Ryan Griggs triumphed in the high jump.

“A great meet for the Wolves!,” said an understandably giddy Coupeville track coach Randy King.

Complete CHS results:

GIRLS:

100 — Madison Rixe (9th) 14.63 *PR*; Mckenzie Meyer (12th) 15.12 *PR*; Ashlie Shank (13th) 15.13 *PR*; Julia Jones (19th) 18.49 *PR*

200 — Lauren Grove (4th) 28.07 *PR*; Lindsey Roberts (6th) 28.95; Rixe (7th) 30.22 *PR*; Shank (10th) 31.27 *PR*

800 — Makana Stone (2nd) 2:27.42 *PR*

100 Hurdles — Roberts (4th) 18.02

300 Hurdles — Meyer (4th) 56.92 *PR*; Lauren Bayne (5th) 1:00.67

4 x100 — Grove, Sylvia Hurlburt, Roberts, Stone (1st) 51.37; Jovanah Foote, Meyer, Abby Parker, Shank (4th) 1:01.05

4 x 200 — Grove, Hurlburt, Roberts, Stone (1st) 1:49.32

Shot put — Skyler Lawrence (4th) 29-09.75; Alexxis Otto (7th) 25-00; Naika Hallam (9th) 20-05.75; Emma Smith (11th) 20-00; Estefanny Liquidano (13th) 15-07.50

Discus — Lawrence (3rd) 84-03; Otto (7th) 73-10; Parker (10th) 64-03; E. Smith (11th) 63-04 *PR*; Allison Wenzel (12th) 63-00; Liquidano (15th) 43-00 *PR*; Foote (16th) 42-03

Javelin — Bayne (5th) 80-11 *PR*; Parker (7th) 74-01 *PR*; Lawrence (8th) 74-00; Hallam (9th) 72-08; Wenzel (10th) 70-02; Otto (15th) 59-04 *PR*; Foote (17th) 46-04

High Jump — Bayne (4th) 4-04

Triple Jump — Grove (3rd) 29-09 *PR*

BOYS:

100 — Jacob Smith (1st) 11.90, Lathom Kelley (2nd) 11.99; Jordan Ford (6th) 12.29 *PR*; Jared Helmstadter (7th) 12.31; Gabe Eck (11th) 12.54; Kyle Burnett (15th) 13.54; Hunter Downes (17th) 14.15

200 — J. Smith (1st) 24.03 *PR*; Danny Conlisk (5th) 25.83; Henry Wynn (7th) 26.25 *PR*; Burnett (9th) 29.24

400 — Helmstadter (2nd) 55.88; Conlisk (3rd) 56.57 *PR*; Wynn (5th) 59.35 *PR*; Nile Lockwood (6th) 1:06.07 *PR*

1600 — Conlisk (3rd) 5:03.82 *PR*; Wynn (6th) 5:10.27 *PR*; Jakobi Baumann (14th) 6:31.51

3200 — Baumann (4th) 14:16.37

300 Hurdles — Kelley (1st) 41.48 *PR*

4×100 — J. Smith, Eck, Jacob Martin, Ford (1st) 46.09; Downes, Grey Rische, Burnett, Connor Thompson (4th) 51.90

Shot Put — Dalton Martin (1st) 44-04 *PR*; Chris Battaglia (7th) 32-02 *PR*; Thompson (8th) 31-10.50; Mitchell Carroll (9th) 31-06 *PR*; Rische (14th) 28-02.25 *PR*; Keahi Sorrows (15th) 28-02; Luke Carlson (17th) 24-02 *PR*

Discus — D. Martin (1st) 158-05 *PR*; Battaglia (5th) 104-09 *PR*; Sorrows (13th) 72-10

Javelin — Rische (5th) 121-05; Ariah Bepler (13th) 92-11 *PR*; Lockwood (16th) 71-09; Carlson (17th) 71-00 *PR*; Sorrows (19th) 64-00 *PR*

Pole Vault — Ford (2nd) 11-09 *PR*

High Jump — Ryan Griggs (1st) 5-06; Battaglia (2nd) 5-04 *PR*; Ford (3rd) 5-02

Long Jump — Carroll (4th) 17-10.50 *PR*; Eck (4th) 17-10.50 *PR*; Battaglia (6th) 17-04.50 *PR*; Bepler (7th) 15-07.50 *PR*; Downes (8th) 14-11 *PR*; Lockwood (11th) 14-08.50 *PR*; Baumann (13th) 10-10 *PR*

Triple Jump — Carroll (2nd) 37-04.50 *PR*; Griggs (3rd) 35-10; Thompson (5th) 35-02