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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. Page 18 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, May 2, 1974 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 (Continued on next page.) ...... , 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.