Cedarcrest track and field takes on Wesco rivals

Cedarcrest High School’s track and field teams went the short distance up to Monroe High School in Monroe yesterday to compete against their Sky Valley rivals from the Bearcats, along with athletes from Everett’s Cascade High School. The Red Wolve girls took second in the Wesco 2A/3A three-way meet with 52 points, while Cedarcrest’s boys finished third in their three-way scoring 26 ½ points. Monroe won both the boys and girls’ team titles.

The Red Wolve girls’ efforts were headlined by a sweep in the hurdles events for Sadie Schaefer. Schaefer took the 100m hurdles in 17.92 seconds, followed up by a win in the 300m competition, clocking 51.65. Summer Soptich also had a solid day, winning the long jump with a clearance of 15 feet, five inches, then taking second in the 400m with a time of 1:06.12. Maddy Brooks had similar results in the throwing events, winning the discus with a toss of 105’ 11 ½” then taking second in the shot put throwing that 25’2”. Kaylee Scott won the pole vault clearing seven feet, and there was a one-two Cedarcrest sweep in the 800m, with Cassidy Moon winning the race with a time of 2:38.74. Avery Zlateff was runner up about four-tenths of a second back.

Red Wolve 4×400 relay units swept those races, with the girls’ crew of Zlateff, Moon, Sierra Swart and Lydia Swenson winning their race clocking 4:47.73, and the boys’ foursome of Nate Bergman, London Haley, Brooks Sammarco and Shawn Watson winning their relay with a time of 3:43 flat. Both Bergman and Haley also won individual races on the boys side; Haley took the 800m in a time of 2:07.44 while Bergman grabbed the 1600m in a time of 4:53.79.

Elsewhere, Ethan Swenson rounded out the boys’ event wins taking the 200m in a time of 23.53, and Spencer Pitt was runner-up in the 300m hurdles clocking 47.66.

Cedarcrest tomorrow heads over the Cascades to compete at the Don Holder Relays, hosted by Eisenhower High School at their stadium, Zaepfel Stadium, in Yakima. They will host their first Wesco regular season meet of the spring next Thursday, when they meet Kamiak and Shorecrest at CHS’s stadium in Duvall. The meet begins at 4:00 and will end around sundown.