Prep Track & Field Roundup: Area athletes bend over backward to secure State bids

Medal Detectors – WIAA, OSAA State Championships will feature plenty of Blast Zone talent

Clatskanie’s Braydon Top sends himself hurtling over the bar in the high jump competition at the Twilight Invitational at Kalama High School earlier this season. The OSAA Championships will be held at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field starting on Thursday. / Photo by Candy Durgeloh for Blast Zone Media

By Drew Lawson for Blast Zone Media / blastzonenews@gmail.com

High School Track and Field

THE BLAST ZONE— It’s State or nothing now. Only the strongest remain in local track and field, where the top athletes punched their ticket to state meets at District competition last week.

Qualifying athletes from Castle Rock, Kalama, Toledo, Toutle Lake, Winlock, Ilwaco, Naselle and Wahkiakum are heading to the WIAA 1B/2B/1A State Championship Meet at Eisenhower High School in Yakima Thursday, May 29-31.

Meanwhile, the best from Kelso, Mark Morris, R.A. Long and Woodland will be at the WIAA 2A/3A/4A State Championship meet at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma the same dates.

And over in Oregon Country, the athletes from Clatskanie and Rainier’s peak will be at the OSAA State Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene

Here’s who is left standing heading into state competition this weekend.

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