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94 °F Forecast | Road Cams Thursday, May 26, 2005 Today's News | Shop Our Valley | Tempo | Health | Community | Home Delivery | Contact Us SECTIONS Home Page Local News Sports Business Obituaries Life Opinion Tempo AP News Weather Classified Archives Site Map SPECIAL SECTIONS Since We Asked Britt Festival Outdoor Journal Menu Guide How To Guide Health Biz Connection Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Real Estate Guide Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Wedding Guide Passport to the Rogue Valley SHOP OUR VALLEY AutoFinder HomeFinder JobFinder Classified Place an ad TOP JOBS EXTRA Ashland News NIE Personals Movie Times TV Times E The People Volunteer Moving here? eSouthernOregon CUSTOMER SERVICE FAQ's Advertise with us Home Delivery Employment Contact Us Media Kit Oregon Road Conditions & Cams Email Story to a Friend May 13, 2005 Ashland�s David Morgan, left, pulls away from Crater�s Isaac Stoutenburgh during the 3,000-meters event. Mail Tribune / Roy Musitelli A race for the ages Ashland’s Morgan outduels Crater’s Stoutenburgh as both runners shatter the district meet record in the boys 3,000-meter run By DON HUNT Mail Tribune The meet record in the boys 3,000-meter run at the Southern Oregon Conference district track meet Thursday had no better chance of standing firm than a rotten oak tree in a ferocious windstorm. If Ashland senior David Morgan couldn’t break it, Crater junior Isaac Stoutenburgh surely would. Both, it turns out, shattered it. The two state-quality runners ran a blistering pace in near-perfect conditions at Bowerman Field on the North Medford High campus. Morgan, leaning on the wiliness that comes with four years of high school experience, built a 12-meter lead with 1½ laps remaining in the 7½ -lap race and then held off a hard-charging Stoutenburgh down the stretch to triumph in 8 minutes, 31.92 seconds. Stoutenburgh finished second in 8:32.85. Advertisement Both times easily broke the old meet record of 8:43.78 set by Klamath Union’s Ian Dobson in 1999. Both runners also broke their own school records. "He (Stoutenburgh) slowed down just a little with about 600 meters to go and I jumped on the opportunity," Morgan said with a grin after the race. "I thought I had him buried, but he came back on me at the end and I had to find an extra gear to hold him off. "It feels great to win a race like this." Thursday’s race was just the second 3,000-meters for Morgan this year — not counting a special two-mile run in Denver. But that’s all part of the plan, Ashland distance coach Bob Julian Jr. said. "We might have overworked him a little last year and we want to make sure we don’t do that again," Julian explained. "We’ve put him in some shorter races and had him work more on his speed. "And I think that paid off today. He’s showing a finishing kick and an overall toughness that he didn’t have last year. Stoutenburgh closed on him those last 150 meters, but David wasn’t going to be denied." Ashland’s Andy Wright led for the first three laps, with Stoutenburgh, Morgan and two other Crater runners — Jake Keyser and Tom McGann — forming a pack of five that quickly separated from the rest of the field as they churned laps in the 66-second range. On the fourth lap, Stoutenburgh shot into the lead but gave it up to Morgan prior to the start of the fifth lap. "Stoutenburgh threw in a surge and then purposely let up," Julian said. "There were some tactics going on out there, which is all part of the game. But then David kind of took charge of the race and got some separation." Stoutenburgh was disappointed he didn’t win, but happy that he re-broke the Crater school record he had set 12 days earlier at the XO meet in Eugene. "I let him (Morgan) get too much separation — I lost contact with two laps to go and I couldn’t make it up," Stoutenburgh said. "But I set another PR (personal record) and I’m going to the state meet and so I’m pretty happy." While the Morgan-Stoutenburgh duel was the talk of the boys meet, a close second was the failure of North Medford’s Steve Johnson to advance to the state meet in the discus. Johnson, the state leader at 167 feet, 5 inches, fouled on all three of his qualifying throws and was ousted from the competition. Eagle Point’s Jake Olson won the event with a toss of 148-6 and Noah Brennan beat out South Medford teammate Todd Clement for second with a mark of 139-0. "This is one of those things that will never be explained," North Medford throwing coach Chris Kribs said. "Steve had a great season until today. He’s competed well in all the big meets and he’s consistently thrown over 160 feet for the past month. "He was over-rotating out of the back of the ring and his throws were going to the right of the sector. I told him to just relax and put one in on his last (qualifying) throw but it went out again. "Now he’s just going to have to re-double his efforts in the shot put Saturday. But this is tough to swallow." In other boys finals, Roseburg’s James Snyder claimed top honors in the long jump at 21-5, the Indians’ Adam Brink cleared 14-6 to win the long jump and Klamath Union’s Joe Hill upset the field in the high jump with a leap of 6-2. Hill, a basketball and soccer player who is out for track for the first time since middle school, had never been higher than 5-10 prior to Thursday. "I’ve been over 6-2 in practice but not in a meet until today," Hill said. "I’ve had a habit of catching the bar with the back of my lead leg, but I got rid of that problem today." Roseburg and Crater, who are expected to duke it out Saturday for the team title, got off to good starts. The Indians lead the meet with 38½ points, while Crater and Ashland are tied for second with 35½ . The Comets failed to win an event Thursday, but with Stoutenburgh taking second, Keyser third and McGann fifth in the 3,000, they scored 18 points in that event alone. They also got eight valuable points from Adam Goff, who reached a lifetime best of 13-8 in the pole vault to finish second behind Brink. Goff nearly went out at 13 feet, which would have knocked him down to seventh place, but cleared that height on his third attempt after going to a bigger pole for the first time. "That was scary," Goff said. "I was leery of going to a new pole but after missing twice my coach talked me into it. And it worked; the new pole shot me over the bar." Goff also advanced to Saturday’s finals in both hurdles races. Crater’s other big guns — Greg Dallaire (400, 800) and Geoff Donaldson (800) — also cruised through the preliminary rounds. "We could have gotten a few more breaks but we still had a good day," said Crater coach Hans Smith, whose Comets are the defending champions. "We picked up a few more points than we thought we’d get in the 3,000 and Nick Nutting snuck into the finals of the 100. "We’re OK, but there’s still a lot of track meet left Saturday." Saturday’s field events kick off at 11:30 a.m., with the first running event — the 4x100 relay — set for 1 p.m. Thursday’s Results TEAM SCORES — 1, Roseburg, 38.5; 2, (tie) Ashland, 35.5; 2, (tie) Crater, 35.5; 4, South Medford, 28; 5, Eagle Point, 17.5; 6, Klamath Union, 15; 7, North Medford, 14; 8, Grants Pass, 11. DISCUS — 1, Jake Olson, EP, 148-06; 2, Noah Brennan, SM, 139; 3, Todd Clement, SM, 135-06; 4, Jaxon Williams, A, 133; 5, Jason Slowey, NM, 131-01; 6, Kyle Lacefield, R, 126-03; 7, Steven Theel, NM, 122; 8, Brenton Morrow, C, 120-03. HIGH JUMP — 1, Joe Hill, KU, 6-02; 2, Kenney Lathen, GP, 6-01; 3, (tie) Kyle Loomis, R, 6-01; 3, (tie) Jake Colley, EP, 6-01; 5, Ryan Pittman, A, 6-01; 6, Geoffery Donaldson, C, 6; 7, (tie) Josh Houghton, A, 5-10; 7, (tie) Joseph LeBel, C, 5-10. LONG JUMP — 1, James Snyder, R, 21-05; 2, Josh Casebere, NM, 21¼ ; 3, Bret Hamilton, SM, 20-10½ ; 4, Isaiah Smith, R, 20-09; 5, Nick Nutting, C, 20-08; 6, Phillip Duarte, SM, 20-07½ ; 7, Terry Hodder, GP, 20-05; 8, Nelson Kling, A, 20. POLE VAULT — 1, Adam Brink, R, 14-06; 2, Adam Goff, C, 13-08; 3, Matthew Gilmore, A, 13-04; 4, Eli Hanna, R, 13-04; 5, Jon Saxton, KU, 13-04; 6, Travis Pattan, SM, 13; 7, Brandt Nevin, EP, 12-06; 8, Kevin Hopper, GP, 12-06. 3,000 METERS — 1, David Morgan, A, 8:31.92; 2, Isaac Stoutenburgh, C, 8:32.85; 3, Jakob Keyser, C, 8:54.17; 4, Andrew Wright, A, 9:06.72; 5, Tom McGann, C, 9:15.56; 6, Spencer Bonney, A, 9:28.47; 7, Zach Harris, SM, 9:31.71; 8, Matt Swisher, KU, 9:31.98. Reach reporter Don Hunt at 776-4469, or e-mail [email protected] Mail Tribune Home | Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life | Opinion AP News | Archives | Site Map | Community | Classified Copyright © 1997-2005 Mail Tribune, Inc. All rights reserved. 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