6-8th Pirate XC Meet Report – Sunset Beach Invitational – Sunset Beach State Park
Report from Middle School XC Coach Steve Delgado. Eighty-seven girls and seventy-six boys for nine Far West League teams converged on picturesque Sunset Beach State Park for the annual Marshfield hosted Sunset Beach Invitational. The flat course provides fast times as the harriers transverse the beach, creek, trail and marshy grass fields. In the girls race Kaeli Ramos (Siuslaw – 8th) and Kaylee Delzotti (Millicoma – 7th) dueled all the way to the line with the year older Ramos claiming the title but Delzotti a 46 second PR over last year and knowledge she can compete with Ramos at the District meet. Rayne Quinones (MHS – 8th) set a 40 second PR over last year and Jordan Baarstad (Millicoma – 7th) clipped 2:43 off her previous mark. The Lady Pirates finished 3rd in team competition scoring. For the boys Jeremy Roe (MHS – 8th) is finally showing his fitness form with a first place win in 10:25 and a 40 second PR over his time last year. Battling colds Gabe Delgado & Aiden Leahy-Crooks (MHS – 8th), and Zach Holt (Millicoma – 6th) finished 4th, 5th, 6th respectively. Delgado earned a 36 second PR, Leahy-Crooks 55 seconds. Cameron Nye (MHS – 8th) rounded out the scoring 5 in 12th place and showed marked improvement from his times last week. The scoring brought the Pirate total to 28 for another easy win over 2nd place North Bend with 55. The Pirates’ next race will be Saturday October 11th at the Millicoma Marsh Trail. This race is being held in conjunction with the South Coast Running Club’s annual 5k run and a kid’s 1 mile fun run and 400m “Pumpkin Dash”. All proceeds go to benefit our 6-8th grade XC team and the restoration project for the Blossom Gulch Trail. We’d like to thank the following volunteers for their assistant with the meet yesterday and apologize if we miss anyone. We could not do it without you. Timing, Scoring, and Finish Chute Management: Hunter Fales, Barb Young, Karl & Denise Delzotti, and Kaylee Delzotti’s grandparents. Hospitality & Awards: Brandy Thompson, Joan Place, Jordan Graves’ grandmother, and Cindy Delgado. Course Marshalls: Janet Holland, Parker Stocker’s grandfather Burt, Steve Nye, Tara Chard, Monica Picatti, Steve Grant, and Angie & Travis Baarstad. Also a special thanks to SBSP Staff, Greg Mulkey MHS Athletic Director for providing the bus so the team could preview the course on Tuesday and to the Prefontaine Memorial Run Committee for the loan of the Race Clock.
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Marshfield was tenth out of 25 teams at the South Albany Invitational Cross Country Meet Saturday. Crater won the team race with 57-points, while the Pirates tallied 271 to be the top 4A placing team. Individually, Marshfield’s Colby Gillett was 13th overall (16:28), he was followed by 20 Sawyer Heckard (16:39); Dakota Pittullo (17:31); Ian Emlet (18:26); John Hampton (18:36); Cody Harkins (19:12); Ethan Cleveland (19:52). On the girl’s side, Marshfield placed 24th. Camas won with 28-points. Individually for the Pirates: Jane Suppes (22:32); Madelyn Metzler (23:53); Darci Schaefer (23:59); Madelyn Suppes (24:32); Isabel Groth (25:14). In the girl’s 5K Jr./Sr. JV race, Marshfield’s girls were seventh out of nine teams. Individually: Metzin Rodriguez (24:48); Casey Gillett (24:49); Jaycee Smith (26:52); Rose Labrousse (33:05); Lauren Parkes (34:53). In the boy’s 5K Jr./Sr. JV race: Isaac Hasel (20:35); Zach Boice (28:13).
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North Bend’s boys placed second and the Bulldogs girls came in sixth at the Paul Mariman Invitational Cross County meet at Philomath Saturday. Siuslaw won the boys’ race with 55-points, while host Philomath tallied 81 and North Bend 88. There were eleven teams. Indivudally for NB: 6 Michael Brown (17:31.15); 8 Nick Hossley (17:41.61); 19 Alberto Ramirez-Garcia (18:41.77); 30 George LaGesse (19:12.35); 33 Philip Kuckuck (19:16.83); 36 Trenton Berrian (19:30.45); 38 Noah Graber (19:34.91). Molalla won the girl’s race with 59-points. North Bend was sixth out of the 12 teams. Individually for the Bulldogs: 2 Gabby Hobson (20:38.51); 21 Janelle LeBlanc (22:34.93); 29 Megan Rutherford (22:52.30); 40 Kate Riley (24:21.90); 44 Meranda Ferguson (24:45.98).
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North Bend, Marshfield and South Umpqua each won Friday night to improve to 2-0 in the 4A Far West League football race. The unbeaten Bulldogs traveled to Florence and beat Siuslaw 34-21. In Coos Bay, Marshfield took advantage of turnovers by Douglas early en route to a 46-0 half-time lead that ended up being the final score under a running clock in the second half. South Umpqua traveled to Brookings-Harbor and handed the Bruins a 48-22 loss. This week, has South Umpqua (2-0, 4-1) at North Bend (2-0, 5-0), Siuslaw (0-2, 3-2) at Marshfield (2-0, 4-1), and Brookings-Harbor (0-2, 0-5) at Douglas (0-2, 0-5).