Prep Track & Field Roundup: Throwers see their turn in the sun on Day 2 at State

Run for Your Life – Blast Zone area athletes keep putting their schools on the map

Kelso’s Eleanor Treadway watches her tool sail through the air during the 3A girls javelin on Friday, May 30, at the 2A/3A/4A State Track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. /Joshua Hart for Blast Zone Media

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

High School Track and Field

YAKIMA—Many athletes around the Pacific Northwest no doubt entered team dinner restaurants a few shades pinker in the skin Friday after the blazing sun bore down with a season-best showing on the thermometer during the second day of State Track and Field Championship meets in Tacoma, The Palm Springs of Washington (see: Yakima), and Eugene way on down in Oregon Country.

Peeking through the sunglass-tinted lens which area athletes got medals and which racers advanced to final competition tomorrow. Squint a little harder, and some fascinating storylines begin to emerge.

For updates on all of the athletes from The Blast Zone who found themselves in the throes of competition, Friday, keep reading below the paywall.

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