EUGENE — Bandon’s girls scored in event after event Friday at the state track meet, claiming their second straight Class 2A title.
Marley Petrey led the way, just as she had a year earlier. She repeated as athlete of the meet for scoring the most points of any individual, winning three of her four events and placing second in the other.
But she had a bunch of help from her teammates as the Tigers scored in all but one of the running events and four of the seven field events and amassed 97 points, far more than Enterprise-Wallowa (68) and East Linn Christian (64).
“I’m so thrilled with how everybody stepped up,” Bandon coach Brent Hutton said, noting that eight of the nine girls he brought to Eugene placed in at least one event.
Petrey, who overcame a muscle injury late in the season, repeated as champion in the 100 (12.82 seconds) and long jump (16 feet, 2 ½ inches) and added the 300-meter hurdles title that just eluded her last year (46.07). She was just edged out for the triple jump title for the second year in a row, leaping 34-4 ¾.
“It went better than I expected for sure,” she said. “My main goal was to top last year, when I got two firsts and two seconds.”
Petrey was thrilled by the successes of her teammates.
“Every girl has done so well,” she said. “Oh my gosh! The amount of try this group has is amazing — the willingness to work their hardest.
“It’s made me try so much harder.”
Analise Miller, the only senior in the group of Friday scorers (fellow senior Katelyn Senn was second in the javelin Thursday), also had a big day, finishing second in the 800 with a new best of 2:23.77.
Miller, who also was sixth in the 3,000 on Thursday with a new personal best despite throwing up just before crossing the finish line, also tried wrestling for the first time this year, narrowly missing advancing to state in that emerging sport.
“Wrestling was so fun,” she said. “It taught me a lot for running — it taught me how to really dig deep. You really can’t let down in wrestling. You’ll get pinned.”
Miller dug deep in the 800 and 3,000, but also as anchor leg for both Bandon’s placing relay teams.
She combined with Giada Moore, Caitlin Michalek (the javelin winner Thursday) and Makiah Vierck to place sixth in the 4x100 relay in 52.36 seconds despite running in the first, slower heat.
“It was crazy,” Miller said. “I was trying to hype up our girls. We made it to state in the 4x100. We hadn’t done that before.”
Miller passed another runner in the 4x100 relay and then out-raced an East Linn Christian opponent in the home stretch of the 4x400 as the Tigers placed fourth in 4:17.02 with a group that also included Safaa Dimitruk and sisters Makiah and Makenna Vierck.
Makiah Vierck also placed third in the 100 hurdles (16.79) while Makenna Vierck was eighth in the 100 (13.22) and 400 (1:04.87) and seventh in the 200 (27.21). Moore, a freshman, placed third in the 300 hurdles (48.15).
In addition to her win in the javelin Thursday, Michalek placed fourth and Makiah Vierck seventh in the high jump.
Bandon was the only girls team from the South Coast to score in the Class 2A meet.
Reedsport’s Clayton Wilson was a champion for the second straight day in the boys meet, adding the title in the 1,500 to his win in the 3,000 a day earlier.
“It means a lot to me,” the junior said after easily besting the field with his time of 4:10.23.
Unlike the 3,000, when he took command in the latter portions of the race, he opened a lead early in the 1,500 when none of the other runners tried to push the pace.
The two wins have him excited for his senior season.
“It’s given me a lot to look at for next year,” he said.
Reedsport also got a sixth-place finish in the discus by Myles Morgan (124-5).
Gold Beach, meanwhile, got titles in both the throwing events contested Friday.
Korben Storns won the discus with a throw of 149-4 and Nelson Wilstead took the javelin with a heave of 172-2.
Storns had finished fourth in the shot put on Thursday and the Panthers finished 10th, one spot in front of Reedsport, in the team race.
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