Astoria, Warrenton and Knappa high schools continued their early season with participation in Saturday’s Neah-Kah-Nie Invitational.
The track meet was successful for Astoria as the boys team finished second and the girls team edged out Taft for the victory.
Astoria boys finished 11 points behind meet winner Tillamook with 85.5 points. The girls scored 107, and second place Taft came home with 103.
Knappa girls also had a good showing as they finished fourth with a total of 69 points, while the Warrenton girls came home seventh, with a total of 57. Knappa boys finished 10th with a total of 32.5 points, while Warrenton boys scored 28 to finish 11th.

Multiple event winners for Astoria
Kiefer Higginbotham in the boys pole vault, Sophie Saarheim in the girls 400 meters, Elizabeth Joli in the girls 3000 meters and Maevri Bergerson in the girls triple jump were winners for the Fishermen on Saturday afternoon.
Higginbotham set a new personal best in the pole vault with a jump of 11-00.00. The performance sent him to number one in the Cowapa League for the early season.
Saarheim set a season best in the 400 meters with a time of 1:02.30. She was joined in the top five by freshman Sophie Nygaard, at 1:08.77. Saarheim is also ranked first in the Cowapa League after the competition.
Joli cruised in the girls 3000 meters in a time of 12:16.65, and Bergerson had a career best in the triple jump with a 35-08.00. This jump pushed her to the top spot in the Cowapa League ahead of her two teammates.
Other standouts included Quin Gohr in the boys 200 meters, 400 meters and long jump. Gohr set season best times in the 200 and 400, while posting a personal best in the long jump.
Madeline Williams set a personal best in the 300 meter hurdles while finishing second place.
Finally, William Laman smashed his previous personal best in the 3000 meters, as he finished second to training partner Jayden Warner, of Warrenton, in a time of 9:01.80. This puts Laman on top in the early Cowapa League rankings and third overall in 4A.

Warrenton led by standout trio
OIivia Lyons, Brenna Qualm and Warner continue to lead Warrenton track. The trio won their respective events and set personal records in the process.
Lyons continued her dominance in the pole vault, taking first place. She also set a personal best time in the 400 meters and was a part of the winning 4×400 meter relay team.
Qualm finished first in the 100 meters, third in the 200 meters and was another participant on the 4×400 meter relay team.
Warner blazed the course in the 3000 meters with a time of 8:55.74. This destroyed his previous personal best of 9:19.50 and put him third in the event for the entire 3A behind only Ronan Gantzos of Oregon Episcopal and Clayton Wilson of Siuslaw.

Knappa well rounded performance
The Loggers had strong performances all across the board. Distance, sprints and throws all made an impression on Saturday.
Soren Brown finished fourth in the 100 meters and then set a personal best of 24.11 in the 200 meters during his third-place performance. Distance trio Wyatt Jacobson, Joshua Peterson and Oskar Peitsch finished fifth, sixth and seventh in the 3000-meter race, with Peterson and Peitsch running season best times in the process.
Brown, Peterson, Peitsch and Jacobson also made up the Loggers distance medley team which finished third behind Yamhill-Carlton and Neah-Kah-Nie.
On the girls side, Aemilia Graham set a personal best in the 400 meters and ran a season best in the 300-meter hurdles.
Faith Pedersen ran a personal best in the 100-meter hurdles and set a season best in the 300 hurdles while placing fourth in each.
Freshman Lucy Oien continued her stellar start with a pair of personal best throws and competed head to head with last year’s 4A state qualifier Rylee Huerta of Tillamook. Oien finished second in the shot put and won the discus. Teammate Annabelle McDorman joined her on the podium with a third place in discus.