Liberty Bell’s Magnus Treise set a personal record to take third place in the javelin with a throw that qualified him for the state meet.
Girls win district meet again, boys finish in fourth place
Liberty Bell High School will be taking what is likely its largest contingent ever to the state 2B track meet in Cheney this week, after the girls took first place and the boys fourth place in the 2B District 5/6 championships last weekend at Kittitas.
Coach Rocky Kulsrud said that six boys and 13 girls will make the trip to Eastern Washington University, with events starting Friday (May 25) and continuing through Saturday (May 26).
Last weekend’s title added to the season’s accomplishments for the girls, who earlier won the subdistrict meet for the second consecutive year. The boys were third at the subdistrict meet.
At Kittitas, the girls scored 129 points to second-place Bridgeport’s 96. The Liberty Bell boys scored 69 points behind Kittitas (101), Manson (82) and Oroville (75). The top five finishers in each event qualified for the state meet.
Highlights for the girls included dominance in the distance races, and more impressive performances in the relays.
The girls 4×200-meter relay team of freshman Sammy Curtis, junior Sally Thornton-White, sophomore Ali Palm and junior Athena Milani won with the second-best time in school history, Kulsrud said. Also winning was the 4x100M relay team of Curtis, Palm, Thornton-White and Angelique Kelley, who also recorded the second-fastest time in Liberty Bell history, Kulsrud said. The 4x400M team of freshman Keeley Brooks, Thornton-White, freshman Liv Aspholm and Milani took second place.
Liberty Bell ruled the 800M run: Brooks took first, Aspholm second and junior Ava Mott third. Aspholm won the 1,600M with junior Icel Sukovaty in third and freshman Lindsay Worrell in a state-qualifying fifth-place finish. Sukovaty came back to take second in the 3,200M, with Worrell once again qualifying in fifth place.
Curtis was third in the 100M dash and second in the 200M with a personal record.
Milani took third in the 300M hurdles.
In field events, Palm finished second in the triple jump with a PR that moved her to eighth place in the Liberty Bell all-time record books. Sophomore Tommie Ochoa, who finished fifth, will join Palm in the event at Cheney.
Senior Lauren Ochoa qualified for state with a fourth place in the discus and fifth in the javelin.
On the boys’ side, senior Seth Stevie and junior Brayden White took first and second in the 300M hurdles, White with a PR time. Stevie ran a PR in the 110M hurdles for third place.
Junior Emerson Worrell qualified for state with a second-place finish in the 800M. Freshman Bodie Paul is also going to state after taking third in the 1,600M run.
The 4x400M relay team of senior Carson Gunnip-Hunter, White, Stevie and Worrell took fourth place.
Sophomore Magnus Treise qualified for two events: the javelin, where he took third with a PR, and the triple jump, which he won with another PR.
“With 19 kids competing at state we will be busy but we are looking forward to the challenge,” Kulsrud said.
Last year, 14 Liberty Bell athletes qualified for the state meet.
