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By Ben McCarty
News staff writer
May 28, 2008
At the pace she is going, Lauren Lloyd will not have to wait
long for the day when she wins state championship.
But Friday was not that day, as the HRV sophomore came up just
short of a state title at the 6A state track and field
championships finishing second in the 800 meters to Alexandra
Jones of St. Mary’s.
Lloyd posted a time of 2 minutes 15.02 seconds, over two seconds
faster than her time in the preliminaries, but it was not enough
to beat Jones for the second time in as many weeks.
Lloyd caught Jones around the final turn in the Mount Hood
Conference district championships and nearly did it again on
Friday, before Jones pulled away in the final 20 meters.
Jones ran ahead of the pack for almost the entire race, with
Lloyd hot on her heels. In the final lap they were both
challenged by Bianca Martin of Westview, but Martin fell back to
seventh by the time the race was done.
In the final stretch Lloyd and Jones ran virtually step-for-step
before Jones finally pulled away to win with a time of 2:14.78.
Lloyd’s second place finish was the top result for the Eagles
over the weekend and helped the HRV girls to a 17th place team
finish. The HRV boys finished 28th overall.
Fellow HRV sophomore Rachel Perry also showed she may have a
state title in her future by finishing third in the shot put.
Perry qualified in the shot, after being unable to make a return
to state competition in the javelin, the event she qualified in
last year.
Perry finished with a top throw of 40-9.75, which is a career
best.
In the girls long jump, HRV’s Kari Hidle finished 11th overall
with a jump of 16-03.
Hidle’s jump was just enough to edge out Tegan Clark of Jesuit
who finished with a best jump of 16-2.75.
David Warren, the lone HRV qualifier to compete on Saturday,
finished 16th after clearing a height of 13-0.
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