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Carey takes first, second at state |
The senior wins the shot-put and is second in the
discus Friday and Saturday |
By B. Scott Anderson, Newberg
Graphic sports editor
E-mail Scott at banderson@eaglenewspapers.com
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EUGENE — Sean Carey patrols the area behind
the shot-put circle Saturday at Hayward Field on the campus of the
University of Oregon.
Carey eyes the competitors as they throw. He turns. He sprints 40
feet. He turns. He sprints back again. Others start to watch him.
After one of his many mini-sprints, he looks over to the shot-put
circle periodically to hear a random competitor’s mark from the meet
official.
Suddenly it’s Carey’s turn — his final turn. With a win already
wrapped up with his last throw of 56-7.75 — a personal best — Carey
selects the shot, steps into the circle calmly and proceeds to
launch the steel sphere.
As the shot is in the air, a Newberg contingent of fans cheers.
They know it’s a good throw. The shot makes a “thud” sound as it
lands. Now Carey knows it’s a good throw.
While meet officials measure, he smiles for one of the first times
in the competition. He has reason to smile. He set a another
personal best of 57-10.25. Gresham’s Jacobson Valentine finishes a
distant second at 54-4.75.
For Carey, it’s just handshakes and smiles now. There are no more
sprints.
“I don’t know,” he says to explain why he runs. “To keep warm, to
keep my mind straight. I’ve got to stay focused.”
The win comes a day after Carey placed second in the discus
competition with a throw of 161-11. He entered the meet with the
competition’s top mark of 157-0, just an inch ahead of Ashland’s
Jaxon Williams. But it was Williams who unleashed a throw of 166-0
to win the meet.
Carey wouldn’t say he was disappointed with the second-place
finish.
“Whatever happens, happens,” he says.
Still, runner-up honors were a dream when Carey entered high
school. Even though he threw the shot-put and discus all four years,
he concentrated on the shot. The last two years, Carey started
to focus more effort and time on the discus.
“My junior and senior year I just kind of buckled down on it,” he
says.
Carey’s two finishes propelled Newberg to a tie for 15th place with
West Salem with 18 points.
“I was happy with what I did,” he says. “It was a good weekend.”
The Newberg boys team had two other competitors at the meet —
seniors Mark Greene and Kaleb Eilert. Greene had finished second in
the javelin at the Pac-9 Conference district meet a week earlier
with a throw of 177-11 and entered the competition as the No. 7
seed. Greene was unable to duplicate his district meet mark and
finished 13th (157-1).
Eilert, who finished second at the district meet in the long jump
(20-11.75), placed 15th (20-0.5) at the state meet.
Even though the Newberg girls team had more competitors than the
boys team, the squad finished in a tie for 32nd with Glencoe and
North Eugene with five points. Freshman Sarah Boyd, with her
eighth-place finish in the 3,000 (10:30.95) Friday, followed up her
performance Saturday with a fifth-place finish in the 1,500
(4:45.94). Boyd scored all five of Newberg’s points.
Kirstin Lee took 11th in the shot-put (36-7.75) Friday and ninth in
the discus Saturday (116-0). Sarah Wolfer recorded a time of 27.52
in the 200, but failed to qualify for the finals; Amber Rozcicha ran
2:21.86 in the 800, but failed to make the finals; Alysha Beck ran a
time of 16.18 in the 100 hurdles and 47.46 in the 300 hurdles, but
failed to qualify for the finals in both events; the 4 x 100 relay
team of Beck, Melinda Lee, Wolfer and Elise Larrett recorded a time
of 51.17, but failed to qualify for the finals; the 4 x 400 team of
Rozcicha, Sara Zahler, Larrett and Boyd recorded a time of 4:07.76,
but failed to make the finals. |
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From
May 31, 2006, Newberg Graphic
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