The North Puget Sound League is loaded with top sprinters.<\/p>\n
Kentridge High’s Solomon Hines can attest to that.<\/p>\n
Hines capped a busy couple of days last week, posting the fastest times in the 100-meter (10.87 seconds) and 200 (22.12) finals of the NPSL track and field finals at Kent’s French Field.<\/p>\n
But he has some fast company, notably Auburn Riverside’s Jaden Robinson, and Federal Way’s Marcus Eubanks and Anthony Frazier. All shone in the league heats.<\/p>\n
The quick crew will step into the blocks again this week in the 4A West Central District track championships at French Field.<\/p>\n
The meet opens at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and concludes Saturday, with field events beginning at 10 a.m. The top seven finishers in each event qualify for the state meet May 24-26 at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma.<\/p>\n
Hines likes his chances.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to be a good challenge,” said Hines, a senior, who has the state’s third-fastest time in the 200 (21.76) and fifth best in the 100 (10.79). “It’s going to go down to who wants it more mentally.”<\/p>\n
Hines, whom league coaches selected as the NPSL Cascade Division Boys Track Athlete of the Year, also anchored the 400 relay, joining Nathan Peak, Deontae Roberts and Caleb Barrera to a second-best time of 42.69.<\/p>\n
Tyler Cronk doubled for the Chargers, advancing in the high jump (6 feet, 10 inches) and long jump (personal-best 23-1½).<\/p>\n
For Kentwood, sophomore Daniel Gaik captured the 400 with a personal-best 50.03.<\/p>\n
Kent-Meridian’s Alex McGeachy was solid in the hurdles, delivering a second-best time of 15.35, a personal record in the 110s, and was second in the 300 with another personal best, 39.77.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere <\/strong><\/p>\n Strong in numbers, Tahoma won the boys and girls team titles. … Kentridge’s Lauryn Ford claimed the long jump (18-3). … Kentridge’s Bonet Henderson had the second-best time in the 400 (personal-best 59.46). … K-M’s 400 relays of Sole’ Shelton, Olivia Carter, Jaleesa Taylor and Brittany Tellis had the No. 2 time of 49.18. … The Chargers’ Alexis Mallory was second in the pole vault (personal-best 9-9). … Kentlake’s Julie Fong tripled in the discus (135-10), shot put (40-8) and javelin (120-7). … Cronk (boys field) and Fong (girls field) were chosen NPSL Cascade Division Athletes of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kentridge’s Hines sets pace as field revs up for district meet <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":34563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34562"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}