TRACK AND FIELD: Pine Eagle senior Ella Randall wins 3rd state title in shot put; Baker’s Rasean Jones, Sammy Gressley each qualify for finals in two events
Published 3:22 pm Friday, May 30, 2025


EUGENE — Pine Eagle senior Ella Randall has won her third Class 1A state title in the shot put.
Randall won the event Friday afternoon, May 30, at Eugene’s Hayward Field.
She won as a freshman in 2022 and as a sophomore in 2023, and finished third in 2024.
Her winning throw Friday was 40 feet, 0.75 inches.
Randall, who plans to compete in track and field for Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, said she was “actually really nervous at first” while competing for the final time as a high school athlete.
Echo’s Jude Royer had a throw of 39 feet, 6 inches in her third of six attempts.
Randall answered with her winning throw on her third try.
She said she relied on her pre-throw routine.
“I knew that if I just did what I need to do it was going to happen, and be good,” Randall said.
She said last year’s third-place finish served as an incentive during her final year of high school competition.
Winning a third title was “bittersweet” since it was her final high school meet, Randall said.
“But it’s pretty cool to say I’m a three-time winner,” she said.
Randal broke her own school record in the event, as well as the Class 1A record, at the Ray Uriarte Invitational meet May 16 at Baker High School with a throw of 41 feet, 4.25 inches.
Powder Valley’s girls 4×100 relay team placed second in a time of 51.81 seconds. Imbler won the relay in 51.17. The Powder Valley relay team consists of Hannah Martin, Lyndi Bingham, Emmie Dickinson and Sky Nesser.
Nesser placed second in the 100-meter dash and fourth in the 200-meter dash. Martin was sixth in the long jump.
Powder’s Caiden Anderson-Ficek was seventh in the boys 110-meter hurdles.
Pine Eagle’s Lindsey Brown, who placed third in the 3,000-meter run on Thursday, finished fourth in the 1,500 on Friday.
Pine Eagle’s Gabriel Brown placed eighth in the boys 800-meter run.
The Class 1A meet finished Friday. The Powder Valley girls finished eighth in the team standings with 32 points. The Pine Eagle girls were 14th with 21 points.
In the Class 4A meet, Baker’s Sammy Gressley finished fourth in the preliminaries for both the 100- and 200-meter dashes, and qualified for the finals in both events on Saturday.
Gressley placed sixth in the 100 meters.
Baker’s Rasean Jones, the two-time defending state champion in both the 110-meter and 300-meter hurdles races, placed first in the preliminaries of the 110-meter hurdles. His teammate, Jack Joseph, placed seventh and also qualified for the finals on Saturday.
Jones was second in the preliminaries of the 300-meter hurdles and will also defend his state championship in that event Saturday.
Baker’s Henry Gaslin finished 16th in the long jump, and teammate Gavin Combs placed 18th.