How sweet a sweep is.

Sequim’s track and field squad looked sharp despite the spring break layoff, with both boys and girls teams scoring wins against league rival Port Angeles and 1A foes Port Townsend and Coupeville last week.

In a triple dual meet in Port Townsend on April 14, Sequim’s boys topped Port Angeles 85-49, Port Townsend 93-47 and Coupeville 82-61. Sequim’s girls topped PA 88-63, PT 80-59 and Coupeville 90-54.

Sequim’s tracksters capped the week with a strong showing at the 19-team Tacoma Invite on April 16, with Sequim’s girls tying Todd Beamer for fourth place and Sequim’s boys tying Lindbergh for seventh.

League meet dominance

Leading the way for the SHS girls in their April 14 league meet were seniors Audrey Shingleton and Mattie Clark and the squad’s fleet-footed relay teams.

Shingleton took first in both 800-meter (2:44) and 3,200-meter (12:27, a personal best) races. Sequim’s 4×400 relay team of Waverly Shreffler, Gretchen Happe, Kiara Pierson and Mercedes Woods raced to a 24.3-second win with a 4:190 finish. The Wolves’ 4×200 team (Happe, Pierson, Emma Beeson and Telicia Busby) also scored a win in 1:53, while Sequim High’s 4×100 relay (Happe, Beeson, Busby and Rylee Gray) placed second in 54.02, a half-second behind Port Townsend.

Clark scored a win in the 300-meter hurdles (56.44) and second in the 100-meter hurdles (17.64).

Sequim’s Shreffler, a senior and state 2A competitor last spring, was second in the 1,600-meter race behind rival Gracie Long, a sophomore from Port Angeles. Long edged Shreffler by 3.5 seconds (5:22.90 to 5:26.40).

Sequim freshman Elizabeth Sweet scored a win in the pole vault (7-6) with Pierson in second place (7-0) and SHS’s Hilary Holtrop was second in the high jump (4-6) behind Port Angeles’ Long.

Sequim’s boys were off to the races last week, scoring event wins in seven of 10 events on track oval.

Jackson Oliver, a Sequim senior, was a triple event winner on the day, placing first in the 800 meters (2:09) and 1,600 meters (4:54), and clearing 6 feet to win the high jump.

Senior Wendall Lorenzen raced to a win in the 3,200 meter race (10:52).

SHS’s Oscar Herrera once again put on a show by sweeping the hurdles events, taking the 110-meter high hurdles in 15.68 seconds and 300-meter hurdles in 43.21 seconds; teammate Riley Martin, a freshman, was second in both.

Herrera also took second in the 200-meter race (23.89), then teamed with Curtis Gorr, Logan Habner and Kane Stoddard to take second in the 4×100 relay (45.04).

Sequim took four of the top five places in the 400-meter race, with Habner placing first (55.10), followed by Stoddard, Gorr and Connor Martin.

Sequim’s 4×400 relay team (Gorr, Habner, Stoddard and Jason Springer) outpaced the field for a win in 3:44.

SHS’s Quinton Johnson was second in the pole vault (9 feet) and fellow senior Chris Whitaker was third in the discus (127 feet, 1 inch).

Top marks at in Tacoma

How fast? How about top two-lapper in the state?

Shreffler, the Sequim senior who took fourth place in the 800 meters at last year’s 2A state meet, outpaced the field at the Tacoma Invite at the Lincoln Bowl on Saturday, racing to a 2:20.25 mark — tops among all 2A girls (atheltic.net) and just 0.16 off her personal best.

Shreffler helped Sequim’s girls to a fourth place finish overall with 57 team points, tied with Todd Beamer and just behind top finishers Olympia (90), Peninsula (86) and Mount Tahoma (70.5).

Shingleton backed her teammate’s performance with top finishes of her own, racing to second place in the 1,600 meters (5:24.23, a personal best) and third in the 800 (2:27). Shingleton’s metric mile mark is fourth best 2A girls time in the state and her 800 is seventh-best.

The Wolves also raced to a win in the 4×400 relay, with Shreffler and Shingleton leading off and Happe and Pierson finishing off the 4:15.26 finish — among the top 10 marks in the state 2A ranks.

Abigail Hansted took second in the pole vault (8-6).

On the boys’ side, Herrera finally found some competition in the 110 and 300 hurdles. The SHS senior finished second twice to Malik Messiah of Todd Beamer. Herrera now ranks No. 4 in the 300 hurdles and No. 5 in the 110 event among all 2A boys.

Oliver earned his best mark of the season with a 6-foot 4-inch high jump to take second behind Emerald Ridge’s Brandon Swanson. It’s the sixth-best high jump among 2A boys this season.

He added a fifth-place finish in the 800-meter race with a 2:03 finish, a personal best.

Sequim’s 4×400 relay team (Herrera, Habner, Goor and Stoddard) raced to a 3:34.02 finish, good for fourth place and eight-best in the state 2A division.

Looking ahead

Sequim gets its only home meet of the season Wednesday, April 20, when they host Kingston and Klahowya at the Sequim stadium off of Fir Street.

Select Wolves compete at the Terrace Invite/Relays in Edmonds on April 23.