Whereas they didn’t go away the Portland Monitor Pageant with any trophies or medals, a few of Oregon’s greatest observe and area athletes confirmed out on a stage dominated by faculty and professional athletes over the weekend.
Notably, Crater’s distance working duo of Josiah Tostenson and Tayvon Kitchen got here away with instances that stand among the many better of all time.
Tostenson completed twelfth within the males’s sizzling window 1,500-meter race. His time of three minutes, 36.85 seconds is a brand new Oregon highschool file and is No. 3 all-time within the nation.
A five-time highschool observe and area state champion in Oregon, Tostenson‘s 3:59.00 is the state file within the mile. He’s one in every of simply two Oregon excessive schoolers to file a sub-four-minute mile outdoor.
Kitchen was fifteenth within the males’s sizzling window 5,000 over the weekend, ending in 13:59.11. He’s No. 4 all-time amongst Oregon excessive schoolers, and the fifteenth highschool runner nationally to get under 14 minutes within the occasion.
Kitchen is a one-time Oregon state champion in observe and area and a two-time champion in cross nation. He holds the state file within the 3,000 of seven:58.92, which can be the all-time file nationally for a highschool race and the primary time any Oregon excessive schooler completed underneath eight minutes.
He additionally holds the Oregon highschool file for a 5,000-meter cross nation race.
One other spotlight occasion of the weekend was the ladies excessive efficiency 800. Lincoln’s Sophia Malinoski, a two-time state champion within the 800, completed fifteenth in 2:07.07, which is fourth all-time amongst Oregon excessive schoolers. Behind Malinoski was Banks junior Sophie Schoolmeester (a three-time Class 3A state champion within the 800 and a two-time champion within the 1,500) who completed in 2:15.22.
Lakeridge’s Hannah Huyler additionally completed fifth within the ladies highschool elite 1,500 in 4:37.92.
— Nik Streng covers highschool sports activities in Oregon. Attain him at nstreng@oregonian.com or @NikStreng
