Community Sports
Gig Harbor relay, Peninsula high jumper second at state
Peninsula high jumper Emma Young and the Gig Harbor boys 1,600-meter relay team earned second-place medals at Star Track, the state track meet, May 22 through 24.
The Tides team of Nick Grover, Micah Galeana, Ayden Fink and Ben Stevens covered the 4×400 meter relay in 3:21.88, just barely ahead of third-place Snohomish (3:21.91). Mt. Spokane won the race with a meet-record time of 3:18.34.
Peninsula freshman Young leapt 5 feet, 2 inches, beating her personal best by 2 inches. Atreonia Garner of Spanaway Lake won the event with a jump of 5-3. Peninsula junior Anne Shipp finished fifth with a jump of 5 feet even.
The Gig Harbor boys finished seventh as a team.
Individual results from Star Track:
Gig Harbor: Ben Stevens, 5th in the 200 meters; Nick Grover, 4th in the 400 meters; Jonathan Miles, 4th in the 800 meters; 400 meter relay team (Ayden Fink, Ben Stevens, Josiah O’Neill, Nick Grover), fourth; 1,600 meter relay team (Nick Grover, Micah Galeana, Ayden Fink, Ben Stevens), second; Reese Morkert, 3rd in the 3,200 meters Lydia Ward, 3rd in the javelin.
Peninsula: Nathan Kuhnau, 4th in the 300 meter hurdles; Hannah Lee, 6th in the 3,200 meters; Emma Young, 2nd in the high jump; Anne Shipp: 5th in the high jump.
Emma Young and Anne Shipp of Peninsula finished second and fifth in the high jump at the Class 3A state track meet.
Tennis doubles teams fall at state
Two Gig Harbor tennis doubles teams went 1-2 at the state tournament in Vancouver.
The boys team of Rylan Coovert and Hugh Vicente lost their first-round match to an Edmonds-Woodway duo, then beat a Mead team in a consolation round match. The Tides twosome was eliminated by a team from Lincoln. Teams from Mercer Island took first, second and third in the boys Class 3A doubles tournament.
On the girls side, the Gig Harbor team of Lindsey Muske and Alexa Lavinder won their opening-round match before falling in the quarterfinals to the eventual champions from (you guessed it) Mercer Island. A team from Thomas Jefferson eliminated them in their first consolation round match. Mercer Island teams took first and second.