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SHELTON'S TONY MOLINERO skims over the high hurdles on the way to
a first-place finish in Saturday's Shelton Invitational with the best time in
the state this year.
BY RANDY LEWIS
On the first event of the
night, Shelton's determined Tony
Molinero captured the heart of a
capacity crowd, and then turned
the spotlight over to Lincoln's
Keith Tinner, who captured its
imagination, at the fimrteenth
TOM COPLAND of Aberdeen lets fly with the winning discus
throw of 169'5" during Saturday's Invitational.
annual Shelton Invitational Track
Meet Saturday.
"fony had qualified for both
hurdles' finals Saturday morning
with the bcsl limes of the day of
14.9 and 20.2. The high hurdles
was the lirs! tinal lobc run and
.when the gun went up the crowd
hushed and the ten,ion was so
thick you could cut il with a
knife.
It wasn't abated any at the
gun . a false starl. The runners
seUled into their blocks a second
time, Ihc gun went up a second
time, the crowd hushed a second
time, and Ibis time the start was
good. The crowd was anything
but hushed now and was on its
feet by the time the runners had
reached the first hurdle. Tony
pulled away from the field and
ran Ihc race of his life.
lte concenlrated,on the tape
all the way and when he snapped
il Io become Shelton's first
winner at the Invitational in nine
years, the crowd went nuts. Tony
had just run lhe highs in 14.6 -
by far the best in the state this
ycar and only a tenth of a second
off the meet record of 14.5.
The time also broke Tony's
own school record of 14.8 Almost
folgolten now is the old record of
15~(.~ set by the legendary Des
Koch. Tony was a good Ihree yards
ahead of the second place finisher,
fellow Black ttills runner Rob
Smith of ltoquiam at 14.9.
Later in the meet, what was
expected to be a tight race turned
into a rtmaway in the lowsby John
Arnold of Washington, who ran the
race of his life with the best time in
Ihe state this year, a meet record
19.9.
This great performance was
anything but expected since he had
run a 20.4 in the prelims, second to
Tony's 20.2.
Again, the crowd was
extremely silent at the gun, and
came to its feet as lhe runners
rounded the curve. The race may
have been won for Arnold when
Iony came off an early hurdle
awkwardly and fell back to the
middle of the field.
"Tony was in fourth place
coming by here," said high jump
official Rocky Nutt, who was
watching the race with more than
passing interest. He held the school
record of 20.9 until Tony broke it
last year. The high jump is about
70 yards from the finish and Tony
pulled away from the pack to
finish two yards behind Arnold at
20.2.
Arnold had already run a 10.0
hundred to finish second in that
event to Keith Tinner -- the winner
with a meet record 9.8.
It turned out Keith was just
warming up for what was probably
the greatest performance in
Invitational history. The 440 was
run in three heats, but everyone
knew that the first heat - Tinner's
- was the one to watch.
Keith's best before the race
had been a state-leading 49.1 and it
was questionable whether he could
break his own year-old Invitational
record of 48.3.
Keith, in lane one, got offto an
incredible start. He passed
teammate Steve Kiesel, the
eventual second place winner in
lane two, after only 70 yards.
Keith had started behind everyone
in the staggered Start, but had
passed them all on the back stretch
after 200 yards.
As Keith hit the home stretch
he was warmly applauded by the
fans who had stopped screaming
when the race had been virtually
won some 300 yards before.
Keith snapped the tape with a
meet record 47.2 - well under his
record 48.3. His teammate, Steve
Kiesel, ran a 49.3, the best time in
the state this year not run by
Tinner, and yet finished a full 20
yards behind Tinner.
Keith's 47.2 was the best time
ever run in the state by a high
school runner and the best time in
the state this year by anyone -
college runners included.
Tinner's 47.2 was also the
second best high school quarter
mile run this year in the entire
country only two-tenths off the
47.0 run by Mark Collins of
Burleson, Texas.
Don Hartman of Tumwater ran
the best AA quarter mile in the
state this year with a 50.0, but
finished fourth.
In the second heat, Shelton's
Brad Wilson tied George Lemagie's
THE SPEAR i5 on its way 187'3" to give Delbert Miller ofRICK GEHRTS of Kentridge finishes out front in the 880
Shelton third place in the Invitational javelin throw, with a time of 1:55.2.
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school record of 51.0, but it wasn't
fast enough to place.
During the third heat, most of
the crowd went for coffee and
donuts, but returned to give Tinner
the only standing ovation in
Invitational history as he was
receiving his first place trophy.
After his amazing performance
in the quarter, Tinner was
somewhat disappointing in the
220. He had run a 21.7 in the
prelims while just floating, and
seemed to be capable of at least a .2
second improvement. In the finals,
however, Keith ran a 21.6, merely
tyinghis own meet record.
He probably wanted to give
later 220 men something to shoot
at. He left the rest of the field in
the dust - second place was a full
second behind him.
Tinner's 21.6 is the best in the
state this year.
Tinner was involved in a fourth
record, joining teammates to run a
3:22.4 mile relay - the best in the
state this year -- as the first four
teams, including Shelton, broke
the old meet record of 3:28.1.
On the first leg of the relay,
Lincoln's Kiesel, second in the
open quarter, put Lincoln in the
lead, while Tony Molinero had
Shelton in fourth, behind Franklin
Pierce and Tyee. The second leg
saw Franklin Pierce gain ground on
Lincoln and Paul Mortensen move
into third place with 110 yards to
go.
Franklin Pierce caught up to
Lincoln on the third leg but the
race was all but over because
Tinner was running the anchor leg
for Lincoln.
Brad Wilson brought Shelton
to within ten yards, and as he
handed off to Marty Settle, the
crowd began to respond. Tinner
simply pulled away from Pierce's
Dave McDuffe, who began to fade
on the back stretch.
As the three runners rounded
the curve, Marty started to gain on
McDuffe and the crowd went to its
feet. Marty fell short by five yards
but Shelton ran its best time of the
year at 3:26.4, only a half second
off the 'school record.
Franklin Pierce ran the state's
best AA time this year with a
3:25.0, and placed second to
Lincoln's 3:22.1 -a meet record
and the best AAA in the state this
year.
Lincoln has the state's best 440
relay time of 43.5 but did not
qualify for the finals due to bad
hand-offs.
Wilson set the record in this
new event, winning by a yard over
Tyee with a 43.6 - only a tenth off
Lincoln's state best.
The distance events produced
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KEITH TINNER of Lincoln, superstar of Saturday's Invitational, c
finish line in the 440 twenty yards ahead of the second-place
also won the 100 and 220 and anchored the winning mile relay tear
DAVE McDU FFY of Franklin Pierce floats to a win in the triple
Invitational.
LINCOLN'S SCOTT MARSHALL flips over the bar to win the
high jump crown at 6'4".
JEFF PILL, Shelton sophomore, accepts a fifth-place trophy
for his shotput heave of 52'V2".
CLIMBER MARTY SETTLE drives oat of the
a 22,0 heat. He did not ice.