By James Day
Nearly 700 runners and walkers participated in Saturday’s Silverton Health Fun Run.
Dan Gallogly, 45, was the top men’s finisher in the 5K event in 17:57. Silverton’s Heather Bashor, 38, was the top female finisher and 15th overall in 21:41.
A pair of Silverton 10-year-olds took the top spot in the one-mile race for kids. Charles Petrik finished first in 8:14, while Truitt Reilly was the top girl (and third overall) in 9:09.
For complete results, including all age groups, here are the 5K Fun Run Results and the Kids 1 Mile Run Results (PDF format).
Silverton boys basketball: Foxes two-time all-Mid-Willamette Conference guard Toby Roth signed May 2 to compete in college at Corban University. Roth averaged 11.9 points, 3.9 assists and 3.0 rebounds this season to help lead the Foxes to a 23-5 record and third place in the OSAA Class 5A tournament. Roth is the all-time assist leader in school history with 365.
Teammate Trevor Bledsoe, meanwhile, plans to attend Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, and walk on in basketball. Mid-Willamatte Conference player of the year Zach Gengler still has not signed with a college.
Meanwhile, the Silverton Rotary Club is hosting its annual May Madness alumni basketball event at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 18 at the Pine Street campus. There will be a half-court shoot for a $500 prize, a 3-point shooting contest and a parade of former Foxes going back to Doug Roth (Class of 1985) and Mary Purdy (1989). Tickets cost $5 and all proceeds benefit Rotary scholarships at the high school and the club’s youth exchange program.
Silverton track and field: Annaleise Kuenzi ran a school-record 15.95 in the 100 hurdles while finishing eighth in the Jesuit Twilight Relays on May 3. As of May 13 on athletic.net, Kuenzi is ranked fifth in the event in 5A. Teammate Josie Eisenbaumer leads 5A girls in the javelin at 138-2 while teammate junior Dani Schaecher is ranked 10th with a throw of 121-3.
Freshman Maddie Fuhrman is fifth for 5A girls in the 1500-meters with a time of 4:49.17a, and the 10th fastest time in the 3,000 meters with a time of 10:55.90. She is tied for the sixth in the 800 meters with a time of 2:20.30. Senior Erinn Sinn is ranked 9th in the long jump, 16-10 and junior Taylor Dettwyler is second in triple jump, 36.7.5
The women’s 4×400 team is ranked eigth for 5A girls with a time of 4:10.79a. The members are Maddie Fuhrman, Baylie Cameron, Sequoia Rysdam and Lilly Paradis.
On the boys’ side, senior Andrew Rogers is second for the 5A boys in the javelin at 187-5 and junior J’Rrett Baker is ninth in discus at 144’ 5 and seventh in javelin, 171-5. Senior Preston Kirk is sixth in pole vault at 14-2. The Foxes will compete in the Mid-Willamette Conference district meet May 15-16 at McCulloch Stadium in Salem.
Kennedy track and field: Trojans sophomore Loghan Sprauer broke her own school record in the 400 meters by running 58.83 at the Regis Twilight Meet on May 10. Sprauer, who now has the leading time in Class 2A, previously set the record of 59.57 at the 2012 OSAA state meet, where she placed third. Sprauer also took over the state lead in the 200 at the Regis meet. Her time of 26.61 missed the Kennedy school record by just 0.05 seconds. She is also tied for the state lead in the high jump at 5-4.25.
Kennedy freshman Adrian Parra set two freshman school records at the Regis meet, running the 3,000 in 9:46.5 and the 1,500 in 4:31.86. Parra has the top Class 2A time for a freshman in the 1,500 and is second-best in the 3,000. Kennedy next competes in the Tri-River Conference district meet at Stayton High on May 17-18.
Former Silverton High athlete Stephanie Wells threw a personal best 155-6 to finish third in the javelin for Montana at the Big Sky Conference championships in Forest Grove. Wells, a freshman, already has qualified for the NCAA West Regional in the event.
Four members of the Future Foxes Pop Warner football program received scholastic awards recently at a banquet in Reno, Nev. Earning honors were eighth-graders Koby Howell, Connor Jensen and Dustin Gubbels and fifth-grader Caide Schneider.
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