High School Sports Feature: Mead Track and Field

The Track and Field powerhouse that is Mead High School (and if you want to talk semantics, they've won the 1990, 1994, 1995, and 1996 state 4A title for the boys, the girls also have the 1996 state 4A title) is back up to their old tricks.

The boys and girls both finished with 10-0 records this season and obviously "ran away" with the Greater Spokane League championship title.

(Ran away? Seriously I kill myself. And you all out there will probably be killing me soon if I keep making bad puns)

Mead disposed of Mt. Spokane 87-63 last Thursday to drop them into a tie with Central Valley at 8-2. I'll keep tabs on how these teams do as the postseason unfolds.

(Special thanks to Dave Trimmer of The Spokesman Review for doing a big feature on the Mead track teams on Friday. It's always good seeing the tracksters getting a lot of ink!)

High School Sports Feature: Shelton Invitational

Yesterday marked the 49th Shelton Invitational in Shelton, Washington. The day was met with rain and a strong breeze.

Oh, and an amazing individual performance on the girls side.

Curtis High School’s Andrea Geubelle came to win. And that she did.

Geubelle, a senior, is the defending 4A State Champion in both the long jump and the triple jump. She won both those events yesterday with 19 feet 0 inches in the long jump and 39 feet 3 1/4 inches in the triple jump.

Both these marks were well behind her season bests though. Her best in the long jump is 19 feet 11 1/2 inches and in the triple jump 41 feet 9 inches. Both these marks rank her in the top 5 nationally.

Geubelle added another gold medal in the 100 meters, finishing in 12.32 seconds.

She also opted to run the 200 meters as a way to add more points for the team competition for Curtis. She finished in 2nd with a time of 25.85 seconds.

Three golds and silver. I'd say that was a successful invitational.

Oh, and an update on the state bests in pole vault. Since I love pole vault.

The best height in the state right now is 15 feet 6 inches. This is held by (Brandon will be happy) two eastside vaulters.

Kyle Brown of Central Valley and Keith Webber of Mead High School both went 15'6" at the Pasco Invitational on April 18th. Brown won the meet.

The second best height (but third best vaulter) is close behind at 15 feet 4 inches. Bryce Borer of Mercer Island High School cleared this height on Saturday, April 25 at the Bellevue Invitational.

There are also two vaulters going 15 feet even. Wes Chamberlain of Ephrata High School and Scott Kolb of Joe Ferris High School.

All five of these boys are seniors.

High School Sports Feature: Rogers' kid a heck of a ballplayer

So I'll plug Rogers High School in Spokane, Wash. any chance I can get. While their baseball team is winless, they do have one kid that is absolutely ripping the ball. Jacob Patridge is hitting an incredible .867.

I think I just heard the Texas Rangers call him up and sign him.

Now while the Pirates are at the bottom of the Greater Spokane League, the Central Valley Bears (11-2), University Titans (10-1) and Mead Panthers are the leaders of the pack. This is looking like it will be a pennant race right down to the very last game.