PASCO, Washington — Baker junior Rasean Jones won the 300-meter hurdles at Pasco Invite track and field meet on Saturday, April 12.

Jones placed third in the 110-meter hurdles.

Jones is the two-time defending Oregon Class 4A state champion in both events.

In the girls meet, Baker freshman Kate Norton was fifth in the shot put.

Baker finished 16th in the boys team standings, and the Baker girls were 32nd.

Boys individual results

Finals

110 meter hurdles

Rasean Jones, 3rd, 14.24

300 hurdles

Rasean Jones, 1st, 38.01

4×400 relay

Baker, 19th, 3:39.38 (Henry Kamerdula, Lance Downing, Henry Gaslin, Rasean Jones)

High jump

Henry Gaslin, 14th, 5-10

Long jump

Kane Hellberg, 28th, 19-3.5

Triple jump

Kane Hellberg, 10th, 40-11.75

Preliminaries

200 meters

Henry Kamerdula, 40th, 24.50

Girls individual results

Finals

300 hurdles

Meren Jesenko, 28th, 52.39

Shot put

Kate Norton, 5th, 37-0.5

Discus

Kate Norton, 18th, 101-7

Javelin

Kate Norton, 21st, 93-3

Preliminaries

100 meters

Sammy Gressley, 19th, 13.18

200 meters

Sammy Gressley, 18th, 27.36

100 hurdles

Meren Jesenko, 43rd, 24.31

 

Baker coach Suzy Cole said the Pasco meet, one of the region’s biggest with more than 70 teams, was an “amazing competition.”

It was the Bulldogs’ first time competing in the event for many years, she said.

Cole said Gressley ran a personal best in the 200 meters and was close to a season best in the 100 meters.

Jesenko is “getting stronge rand faster and learning to adapt on starts” in the hurdles races, Cole said.

Norton, competing for the first time with the “blunt tip” javelins used in Washington, handled the adjustment well, Cole said.

Hellberg had a personal record in the triple jump, and Cole said she expects Gaslin, who cleared 5 feet, 10 inches in the high jump, will get past the 6-foot mark, which is a “normal mental barrier for so many jumpers.”

Jones is still working into shape after basketball season, but nonetheless won the 300 hurdles and was third in the 110.

Cole said she’s happy with the boys 4×400 relay team, “especially given that we are experimenting with the order of the four legs of the race.”