ATHENA — Seniors Wyatt Parsons and Jace Dunlap accounted for nearly half of Weston-McEwen’s points Saturday at the Special  District 4 Championships, helping the TigerScots to the boys’ team title.

Parsons and Dunlap will lead a contingent of nine athletes in multiple events to the 2A state championships, May 28-29 at Hayward Field in Eugene.

The top two finishers in each event automatically qualify for state, though several athletes hit the state qualifying mark or received an at-large berth.

Parsons, who has the fastest 100 and 200 times at the 2A level, won both events Saturday. He won the 100 in a time of 11.04 seconds, and the 200 at 22.29.

He added a long jump title to his day, soaring 20-6 1/2 on his first jump of the day to edge teammate Tristan Weseman, who had a mark of 20-5 1/2.

Wiseman and Parsons joined forces with Logan Ray and Colby Perkins to place second in the 4×100 relay with a time of 43.49, breaking their own school record. Culver won the race in 43.06. The two teams have the fastest 2A times of the spring.

Weseman also will run the 200 at state despite finishing sixth (23.67). He received an at-large berth.

Dunlap has been the driving force behind the TigerScots’ throwing team this season. He won the shot put with a heave of 48-1, was second in the discus with a throw of 129-0 1/2, and he placed third in the javelin with a toss of 150-1 1/2, which met a state qualifying mark. 

W-M’s Cason PettyJohn finished third in the shot put with a PR of 45-4 3/4, which also met the state qualifying mark. 

In the distance races, Arden Shaul won the 1,500 for the TigerScots with a time of 4:17.14 and was second in the 3,000 with a time of 9:36.26.

Ray placed second in the triple jump (38-5 1/4), and will also go to state in the 300 hurdles after finishing fourth (44.40) and receiving an at-large berth. The same goes for Perkins, who placed fourth in the pole vault with a PR of 10-4.

Michael White, Shaul, Dayton Monaco and Ray finished fourth in the 4×400 relay with a time of 3:40.17 and received an at-large berth to state.

Weseman was also fifth in the 100 (11.72), while White was fourth in the 110 hurdles with a PR of 18.17, and sixth in the 300 hurdles with a PR of 44.68. Monaco was seventh in the 300 hurdles (45.36) and fifth in the high jump (5-3 3/4). Damian Gonzalez finished eighth in the shot put (37-9), while Heith Gilman was fourth in the javelin (125-4).

The TigerScots compiled 145 points in the day, followed by Enterprise (130) and Heppner (95-5). Stanfield was sixth with 82.5, while Irrigon was seventh (19).

In the girls’ meet,  Enterprise won the team title with 178 points, with Weston-McEwen a close second with 164.5, and Heppner third (113.5). Stanfield was fifth (58) and Irrigon seventh (11.5).

Addy Hall and Charlotte Hansell led the way for the TigerScots, winning a combined five events between the two.

Hall won the 100 in a time of 13.09, then won the 100 hurdles (16.28) and 300 hurdles (48.70). 

Hansell won titles in the long jump 15-4 1/4) and the triple jump (31-9 1/2), while teammate Bree Perkins was second in the long jump with a PR of 14-6 3/4. Hansell was also second in the 300 hurdles with a PR of 49.22.

Hansell, Perkins, Hall and Brooklyn Parker teamed up to place second in the 4×100 relay with a PR of 51.31, which is third on the school’s leaderboard.

Sydney Carey, Mylie Garrett and Elsie Springer finished first, second and third in the shot put and discus for the TigerScots.

Carey won the shot put (33-8 1/4) and the discus (93-11), while Garrett was second in the shot put (31-8 1/4) and the discus (92-11 3/4), while Springer was third in the shot (29-8 1/4) and discus (91-2 3/4).

All three will go to state in the shot put, while Carey and Garrett will go in the discus.

Perkins also will compete at state in the high jump after finishing second at 4-4 1/4.

Also for W-M, Parker was seventh in the 100 (14.70), Stella Wolf was seventh in the 200 (30.05), Charlie Roggiero was fifth in the 100 hurdles (21.77), Mania Wolf was fifth in the javelin (89-4 3/4), Lola Hastings was eighth in the javelin (76-5), Sprenger was seventh in the high jump (4-0), and Josephine Vorhauer (6-2 1/4) and Roggiero (5-2 1/4) were fourth and fifth in the pole vault.

The TigerScots’ 4×400 relay team of Parker, Vorhauer, Joselyn Flores and Stella Wolfe was third (4:44.44).

Tennis

Pendleton senior Noemi Alvarez-Barroso, who lost her first-round match Thursday, stormed back through the consolation bracket over the next two days to finish sixth at the 4A/3A/2A/1A state championships in Corvallis. Alvarez-Barroso won her consolation semifinal match Saturday with an 8-4 victory over Amelia  Peck of North Bend, then dropped a 6-2, 5-7 (2), 6-2 match to Cypress Roman of Madras in the consolation finals.