La Pine boys win at Sky-Em meet

Published 5:00 am Friday, April 5, 2013

SWEET HOME — Jeremy Desrosiers won three individual events and ran the first leg of the winning 400-meter relay squad as La Pine finished atop the boys standings at the Sky-Em League three-team track and field meet at Sweet Home High School on Thursday.

The Hawks’ 70 points trumped Elmira’s 54 1⁄2, while Sweet Home rounded out the standings with 44 1⁄2 points.

Desrosiers won the 100- and 200-meter dashes and added a victory in the long jump after leaping 22 feet, four inches, which tied the best mark in the state this season at any classification. Joseph Swayze took first in the triple jump and ran the second leg of the 400 relay for La Pine, while Keegan Kriz (400), Devon Cram-Hill (shot put), Dillon Patrick (discus) and Joshua Ramirez (high jump) won their respective events.

For the girls, it was Chloee Sazama and Brittnie Haigler leading the way with first-place showings, but La Pine finished third with 31 points. Sweet Home won with 74 1⁄2 points, followed by Elmira (67 1⁄2). Sazama cleared 8 feet in the pole vault, and Haigler followed suit in the triple jump with a 32-foot leap.

Holli Glenn finished second in the triple jump, while McKenna Boen (300 hurdles) and Hannah Johnson (400) also recorded runner-up finishes.

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