Host of locals earn state berth after district championship meet

MONTESANO — Twin Harbors area athletes collected seven championships and 31 state-meet qualifications at the 1A District IV Championships held Thursday at Montesano High School.

Montesano’s Madolyn Olson was crowned district champion with a win in the girls 400 meters (61.58) and Hoqiuam’s Karlie Krohn won the javelin title with a personal-best throw of 120-04.

The Montesano Bulldogs placed second in the district as a team with a total of 76.5 points behind Stevenson’s 122.

Monte had just one district winner on the boys side — Donovan Albert winning the 400-meter title with a time of 50.81 — but amassed a total of eight state qualifiers, nearly half of the boys state qualifiers for area 1A schools.

Hoquiam’s Caleb Larsen was the only other local athelte to win a boys 1A District IV title. The junior won the shot put crown with a throw of 48-07.50.

The Elma Eagles girls team finished in a tie for second place with King’s Way Christian with 79 points, well back of the 114 points put up by district champion Seton Catholic.

Elma was led by thrower Jalyn Sackrider and hurdler Jillian Bieker.

Sackrider took home district titles in the shot put (35-09.50) and discus (109-00) while Bieker won the 300-meter hurdles (47.70) and qualified for the state meet with a second-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 16.11. Bieker, along with Jayla Mason, Mesa Zang and Maddi Clark, took the district championship in the girls 4×400-meter relay with a time of 4:15.24.