By Randy Parks
Burns Times-Herald

The Crane track teams began their 2008 seasons by competing in the Nyssa Ice Breaker meet on Tuesday, March 11, and the Diane Thurmond Invitational in Harper on Friday, March 21.

Individual placers for the Mustangs at the Harper meet are as follows:
Girls
Discus — Rachel Pelroy 3rd (85’ 6”).
Long jump — Savannah Duff 4th (13’ 1”).
High jump — Natalie Bentz 1st (4’ 10”).
Pole vault — Bentz 2nd Tie (7’ 6”).
1,500m — Delilas Korth 5th (6:13), Bethany Milburn 6th (6:32).
100m — Caity DeBoer 3rd (13.70), Emilee O’Toole 4th (14.00), Alex Borelli 5th (14.07).
400m — Milburn 6th (1:14.52).
100m hurdles — Briana Brown 3rd (19.36), Duff 4th (19.96).
800m — Iris Gunkel 2nd (3:06).
200m — Lindy Steeves 5th (28.24), DeBoer 6th (29.50).
300m hurdles — Milburn 3rd (55.00).
3,000m — Korth 3rd (13:49), Gunkel 5th (14:12).
4x100m relay — “A” team  1st (Steeves, BeBoer, Borelli, O’Toole 53.50), “B” team 4th (Brenda Otley, Lily Valentine, Shannon Norris, Taylor Campbell 1:03.90).
4x400m relay — “A” team 2nd (Steeves, O’Toole, Bentz, Borelli 4:26.90).
Boys
Shot put — Carl Neumann 3rd (35’ 8 1/2”).
Discus — Raymond Thompson 2nd (104’ 9 1/2”).
Javelin — Thompson 3rd (143’ 0”), Jeran Conaway 5th (136’ 2”).
Long jump — Dallen Davies 1st (19’ 8 1/2”), Levi Crisp 2nd (17’ 11 1/2”), Kyle Borelli 3rd (17’ 8”), Blake Steeves 6th (17’ 1/4”).
Triple jump — Steeves 1st (37’ 7 1/2”).
High jump — Borelli 1st (5’ 8”), Chris Brower 4th (5’ 4”).
Pole vault — Conaway 2nd (9’ 6”), Borelli 5th Tie (9’ 0”).
1,500m — Borelli 3rd (4:57.87), Ty Harris 6th (5:29.66).
100m — Crisp 2nd (11.80), Brower 5th (12.01).
400m — Milton Merritt 4th (57.65).
200m — Davies 2nd (23.50).
300m hurdles — Conaway 2nd (47.68), TJ Potter 3rd (48.40).
3,000m — Garrett DeGraw 1st (10.23), Gus Titus 2nd (10:35), Lewis Whiting 4th (11:35.35), Daniel Rothgeb 5th (13.13.69), Tom Gunkel 6th (14:10).
4x100m relay — “A” team 1st (Davies, Thompson, Brower, Crisp 45.70), “C” team 4th (Neumann, Alan Robertson, Whiting, Merritt 53.09), “B” team 5th (Harris, Potter, DeGraw, Conaway 53.20).
4x400m relay — “A” team 1st (Davies, Thompson, Merritt, Crisp 3:46.38).

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Individual placers for the  Nyssa meet:
Girls
Shot put — Taylor Campbell 6th (25’ 5 1/2”).
Discus — Pelroy 4th (66’ 5”), Campbell 6th (65’ 6”).
Javelin — Valentine 7th (66’ 9”).
Long jump — Duff 3rd (12’ 6”).
High jump — Bentz 1st (4’ 10”).
1,500m — Korth 5th (6:15.05), Milburn 7th (6:26.45).
100m — O’Toole 4th (13.40), Borelli 6th (13.47), DeBoer 7th (13.90).
400m — DeBoer 4th (1:14.75).
100m hurdles — Brown 1st (20,22), Duff 2nd (21.22).
800m — Gunkel 6th (3:08.19).
200m — Milburn 7th (30.9).
300m hurdles — Milburn 2nd (60.55).
3,000m — Gunkel 6th (14:38.94).
4×100 relay — “A” team 2nd (Borelli, Brown, DeBoer, O’Toole 55.12). “B” team 5th (Otley, Valentine, Norris, Campbell 1:03.72).6
4x400m relay — “A” team 3rd (O’Toole, Milburn, Korth, Borelli 4:46.00)
Boys
Shot put — Neumann 2nd (38’ 7”).
Discus — Thompson 4th (110’ 11”).
Javelin — Thompson 2nd (137’ 5”), Je. Conaway 3rd (126’ 0”), Robertson 7th (101’ 8”).
Long jump — Matt Holloway 3rd (16’ 7”).
Triple jump — Steeves 3rd (36’ 7”), Rothgeb 6th (24’ 2”).
High jump — Jordan Conaway 1st (6’ 0”), Borelli 2nd (5’ 4”), Je. Conaway 3rd (5’ 4”), Brower and Steeves 6th Tie (5’ 0”).
1,500m — Titus 3rd (4:56.00), Borelli 4th (4:58.03).
100m — Brower 6th (11.72).
110 hurdles — Jo. Conaway 1st (18.47).
800m — Kenny Willsey 4th (2:29.27)).
200m — Davies 2nd (23.75).
300m hurdles — Je. Conaway 1st (47.25), Potter 3rd (49.09).
3,000m — DeGraw 2nd (10:33.50), Titus 3rd (10:59.85), Whiting 5th (12:30.53), Rothgeb 6th (13:42.96), Gunkel 8th (15:52.00).
4×100 relay — “B” team 4th (Steeves, Potter, DeGraw, Je. Conaway 52.15)), “D” team 5th (Neumann, Robertson, Jeff Warburton, Merritt 54.59), “C” team (Colton Ketscher, Gunkel, Harris, Whiting 56.60).
4x400m relay — “A” team 3rd (Jo. Conaway, Borelli, Willsey, Holloway 3:58.85).

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The Burns Hilander track teams traveled to Prineville on Tuesday, March 18, to compete in the Crook County Invitational, their first meet of the year.
The Hilander girls team placed second in the team standings and the Burns boys finished in fifth place.
Crook County won the girls meet with 161.5 points, Burns was second with 71, followed by La Pine with 46, Madras 43.5 and Gilchrist 9.
The host Cowboys also won the boys meet, finishing with 149 points. Madras placed second with 101 points, Gilchrist was third with 32, followed by La Pine with 20 and Burns 10.
The Hilander Top Performer awards, selected by the coaching staff, went to Jamie Higle and Lucas Schaefer.
Individual placers for the Burns teams are as follows:

Girls
100m — Jaela Dinsmore 1st (13.43); Jennifer Higle 3rd (13.88).
200m — Dinsmore 1st (27.36); Stefani Sanders 9th (32.29).
400m — Dinsmore 1st (1:04.03).
800m — Ja. Higle 2nd (2:41.02).
1,500m — Louisa Van Batavia 3rd (5:48.53).
3,000m — L. Van Batavia 2nd (12:28.85).
100m hurdles — Brea Ribeiro 2nd (18.10).
300m hurdles — Ribeiro 2nd (53.49).
400m relay — Ribeiro, Dinsmore, Je. Higle, Ja. Higle 1st (52.71)
Long jump — Sanders 6th (12’ 7 1/2”).
Pole vault — Sanders 5th (6’ 6”).
Discus — Chelsea Siegner 6th (82’ 10”).
Shot put — Taylor Lee 3rd (28’ 8”); Siegner 4th (28’ 4”).
Javelin — Siegner 6th (76’ 9”).

Boys
400m — Ethan Bentz 2nd (56.10); Kraig McCanna 6th (1:05.00).
800m — Ralph Caldwell 7th (2:31.95); Anthony Frail 10th (2:44.34).
1,500m — Devan Attleberger 9th (5:17.89); Frail 11th (5:23.02); Caldwell 12th (5:25.60).
3,000m — Landon Hannaford 5th (12:47.08).
300m hurdles — Lee Nau 5th (57.10).
400m relay — Attleberger, Garrett Bentz, Nau, E. Bentz 5th (50.10).
Pole vault — Philip Kness 7th (8’ 6”); Attleberger 8th (8’ 6”).
Discus — Steven Smartt 7th (105’ 4”); Carraig Colahan 8th (105’ 2”).
Shot put — Smartt 4th (38’).
Javelin — Smartt 2nd (142’ 6”); Colahan 6th (122’ 8”).

The next meet for the Hianders is the Grant Union Invitational in John Day at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 1.