Aster Jones Wins Girls Sprint Double; Emily Wisniewski Gets Past Chloe Huyler In Close 2-Mile; Josie Donelson Wins 400; Noe Kemper, Victoria Rodriguez Win Steeplechase Races

By Keenan Gray of DyeStat

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EUGENE, Ore. – Jayden Horton-Mims has made the most of his cross-country trip to the Pacific Northwest.

The Pennsylvania native and Nike Indoor Nationals champion in the 400, representing Philadelphia’s Imhotep Charter, made it a clean sweep Friday of the boys 200- and 400-meter races on day one of the Oregon Relays Presented by AthleticNET at Hayward Field.

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Highlighted by a lifetime best in the 400, Horton-Mims broke the meet record in a time of 45.95 seconds to move to US#4 this season while defeating Liberty’s Ronnie Kendrick out of Nevada in 46.85. 

Just an hour and a half before racing the 400, Horton-Mims blew away the field in the 200 in another lifetime-best effort of 21.02, moving up to US#13.

Roosevelt OR sophomore Aster Jones was able to complete a double of her own on the girls side, winning both the 100 and 200 races. The sophomore ran 24.77 earlier in the day to win the 200, followed by a personal-best performance of 11.89 in the 100 final.

Josie Donelson from Lake Oswego OR held off Newberg OR's Sophia Castaneda in the girls 400 by a margin of 54.69 to 55.36.

Emily Wisniewski of Crescent Valley OR ran down Chloe Huyler of Lakeridge OR in the final meters of the girls 2-mile to win in a meet record time of 10:16.24.

Huyler, who ran 10:16.35 for second, finished ahead of Amaya Aramini of Bishop Manogue NV in 10:17.08 for third. All three were under the meet record of 10:19.11. 

Crater OR junior Tayvon Kitchen ran away from Yemane Mulugeta from Canada’s L.A. Matheson over the final lap of the boys 2-mile to win in 8:58.47.

Wyatt Carr and Ruby Ihmels made it an Idaho sweep in the freshman 2-mile races, with Carr of Coeur d'Alene taking the boys race in 9:21.39 and Ihmels of Timberline winning the girls race in 10:42.60.

Lake Oswego OR’s James Bauman cruised to a 10.50 victory in the boys 100 final, the third-fastest time in meet history.

Boise  ID’s Noe Kemper ran a US#3 time of 5:53.08 to triumph in the boys 2,000-meter steeplechase. 

Corbin Randall of Riverton UT and Hyrum Wood of Herriman UT finished second and third, respectively, with Randall running US#4 6:05.81 and Wood running a US#6 in 6:07.94.

Bountiful’s Simon Barlow, another Utah competitor, ran US#10 6:09.61 to place fifth.

Victoria Rodriguez of Washington’s Mercer Island ran away from the girls steeplechase field by 19 seconds in a US#2 and meet record time of 6:42.08.

Boise’s Allie Bruce finished second in 7:01.58 for US#5 in her first try in the event, with Sydney Collier of Skyline High in Washington earning third in 7:10.65 for US#9.

Long Beach Wilson CA completed of the 4x400 relay sweep and broke the Bruins' own meet records, with the boys running 3:15.44 and the girls running 3:48.79.

Wilson collected another win in the boys sprint medley relay, running 3:33.01 to hold off Cuthbertson of North Carolina.

Camas High of Washington used a late comeback over the last 100 meters to take down Long Beach Wilson in the girls SMR by a margin of 4:09.39 to 4:09.89.

Lander Marak of Sandy OR defended his Oregon Relays title in the boys hammer with a throw of 202 feet (61.59m).

Elise Drake from Kelowna, Canada threw a personal best 178-5 (54.40m) to triumph in the girls hammer, with countrywoman Lauren Curtis from Maple Ridge finishing second with a throw of 159-6 (48.62m).

Cassandra Atkins of Federal Way WA, an Oregon commit, jumped 19-3.25 (5.87m) in the fourth round to capture the girls long jump title.

Gabriel Grant from Crater claimed the boys long jump title with a five-inch personal best jump of 23-6.25 (7.17m).

Sherwood OR’s Drew Smith threw 193-7 (59.00m) to win the boys javelin competition.

Hayden Williams-Downing of West Linn OR won the girls javelin with a second-round throw of 148-4 (45.23).

Kai Twaddle-Dunham from Centennial of Idaho, who finished sixth in last year’s shot put competition, took home this year’s title with a personal best throw of 61-3 (18.67m). 

Asha Abubakari of Bonner’s Ferry ID won the girls shot put with a third-round mark of 42-7 (12.98m).

Caroline Mauro of Catlin Gabel OR cleared 5-8.75 (1.75m) to win the girls high jump and had three good looks at 5-10 before bowing out.