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Moses Lake’s Niko Rimple, right, and Logan LaBonte, left, will both run in the Mavs’ boys 4x400-meter relay at the 4A State Track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School.
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Ephrata’s 4x100-meter relay team will run at the 2A State track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma.
Ian Bivona serves as the Columbia Basin Herald’s sports reporter and is a graduate of Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. He enjoys the behind-the-scenes stories that lead up to the wins and losses of the various sports teams in the Basin. Football is his favorite sport, though he likes them all, and his favorite team is the Jets. He lives in Soap Lake with his cat, Honey. | May 25, 2023 1:00 AM
COLUMBIA BASIN – Sixty-seven Columbia Basin track and field athletes are moving on to state championships in Yakima and Tacoma starting on Thursday. See below for a full list of student-athletes moving on to state competitions.
2A/3A/4A State Track and Field Championships - Mount Tahoma Stadium at Mount Tahoma High School.
4A
Moses Lake
Ty Rimple - boys 200-meter dash, Heat 3; boys 400-meter dash, Heat 2.
Boys 4x400-meter relay (Niko Rimple, Ty Rimple, Logan LaBonte, Ethan LaBonte, Jake Goude, Joseph Fitts and Blazer Luiten), Heat 1.
Jason Byers - boys high jump.
Hunter Blackman - boys javelin, Flight 2.
Sydney Macdonald - girls 100-meter hurdles, Heat 1; girls high jump; girls triple jump, Flight 1.
Girls 4x100-meter relay (Kaiya Char, Kailee Kellum, Miciah Higley, Addy Burns, Macdonald, Madison Bond and Ingrid De La Rosa), Heat 2.
Girls 4x200-meter relay (Higley, Burns, Bond, Char, Macdonald, Kellum and De La Rosa), Heat 1.
Kellum - girls long jump, Flight 2.
Bond - girls triple jump, Flight 1.
2A
Ephrata
Joshua Green - boys 100-meter dash, Heat 3; boys 200-meter dash, Heat 2.
Hayden Roberts - boys 800-meter run, Heat 1; boys 1600-meter run
Boys 4x100-meter relay (Green, Travis Hendrick, Tyler Raine, Hunter Handy, Daniel Villa, Alexander Belino, Landon Schafer and Felipe Esquivel), Heat 3.
Boys 4x400-meter relay (Raine, Hendrick, Roberts, Green, Angel Avila, Villa, Hayden Malone and Zachary Reyes), Heat 1.
Weslee Kriete - boys shot put, Flight 2.
Mckenzie Paullin - girls shot put, Flight 2; girls discus, Flight 1.
Benjamin Belino - boys 100-meter wheelchair; boys 400-meter wheelchair; boys 800-meter wheelchair; boys 1600-meter wheelchair.
Othello
Lacey Garza - girls discus, Flight 1.
1A/2B/1B State Track and Field Championships - Zaepfel Stadium at Eisenhower High School.
1A
Quincy
Jayden Richards - boys 200-meter dash, Heat 1.
Jasmine Vasquez - girls 100-meter dash, Heat 1; girls high jump.
Joceline Schaapman - girls 300-meter hurdles, Heat 2; girls long jump, Flight 2.
Royal
Abel Garcia - boys discus, Flight 1.
Edgar Delarosa - boys high jump.
Louden Smith - boys pole vault.
Ivy Delay - girls 100-meter dash, Heat 2; girls 200-meter dash, Heat 1.
Briana Guerrero - girls 400-meter dash, Heat 2.
Girls 4x100 (Samantha Fitzhugh, Briana Cedillo, Guerrero, Delay and Sharon Arroyo), Heat 1.
Fitzhugh - girls pole vault.
Wahluke
Daisy Barajas - girls javelin, Flight 1; girls triple jump, Flight 1.
2B
LRS
Hayden Melcher - boys 100-meter dash, Heat 1; boys 200-meter dash, Heat 1.
Boys 4x100-meter relay (JP McAnally, Shawn Steinberger, Damon Schilling, Melcher, John Stromberger, Aidan Miller, Carson Kubik and Bridger Moore), Heat 2.
Zoe Galbreath - girls 400-meter dash, Heat 2; girls pole vault.
Myra Miller - girls discus, Flight 2.
1B
ACH
Kaylee Woodtka - girls 100-meter dash, Heat 1; girls 200-meter dash, Heat 2; girls long jump, Flight 1; girls triple jump, Flight 2.
Chloe Jensen - girls 800-meter run; girls 100-meter hurdles, Heat 2; girls 300-meter hurdles, Heat 1.
MLCA/CCS
Brynlynn King - girls 1600-meter run; girls 3200-meter run.
Bree Edwards - girls 1600-meter run; girls 3200-meter run.
Girls 4x400-meter relay (Amelia Shopbell, Jennika Yushchuk, Edwards, King, Lindsey Risdon and McKenna Meise), Heat 1.
Meise - girls shot put, Flight 1; girls discus, Flight 1.
Soap Lake
Pavlo Stoyan - boys 800-meter run, Heat 1.
Sage Hart - girls 400-meter dash, Heat 1.
Mylee Dana - girls 300-meter hurdles, Heat 1.
Monce Flores - girls javelin, Flight 1.
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Mavs defeat Sunnyside, finish third in league
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