Haines senior Emma Dohrn wins the girls

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“Speechless,” a breathless Iverson managed to say after the 800. Of the mile, he noted it was something new. “Something I am not used to,” he said. “Honestly, it was sort of a spur-of-the-moment thing. My coach had been kind of trying to get me in over the past week. And I was like, yeah, I don’t know. I think I kind of just wanted to stay fresh for the 800. But as we got closer to the meet, I was, like, ‘you know, why not?’ So for that first lap, I just thought, have fun with this. I’m nervous, but I’m not the most nervous I’ve ever been. I was mostly excited because I was running with a lot of people I knew. It was fun and after the first lap I was getting into it…and after that I just focused on the 800 and it was fun.”

“I am pretty surprised we won the four-by,” he said. “We’ve always lost to JD and TM last year to them. But it’s been pretty good that we finally beat them this Capital City Invite. We’ve had two new people join our team on our four-by-one team, James Connelly (Sr.) and Henry Vale (So.). And I think they’ve really added a lot more speed to that.”

Kayhi ran a 45.33 to nip JDHS (Jr. Isaac Phelps, Sr. Gavin Gerrin, Kestel, Sr. Carter Harralston), which had 46.18.

Lorig had to pick up the pace as the anchor leg and hit country wise email marketing list a time similar to his 100 to outkick JDHS senior anchor Carter Harralston and Sitka anchor Prussian.

“I just knew I just had to beat them for my teammates,” he said. “I just ran, I ran even faster than the one I did in my 100. I felt faster than what I did.”

Lorig is targeting a 10.5 in the 100 and will be competing in the Philippines next week to qualify for the under-20 nationals. He will need to hit a 10.6 to qualify, a time he has done before and one he nearly hit in prelims Friday (10.7).

discus with a throw of 106’6” during Saturday’s Capital City Invitational Track and Field meet at Juneau’s Thunder Mountain Middle School field. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Haines senior Emma Dohrn wins the girls discus with a throw of 106’6” during Saturday’s Capital City Invitational Track and Field meet at Juneau’s Thunder Mountain Middle School field. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

“It is kind of hard to mentally focus on the enormity of the event,” Lorig said. “But I usually try to just like stay calm and not think about it too much, just try to like, I don’t know, enjoy it.”

The Petersburg boys 4×200 (Jr. Noah Pawuk, So. Ben Kandoll, So. Nolan Lutomski, Jr. Brayden Tucker) won the event in a school record 1:39.52 over Kayhi’s 1:39.56 (Jr. Edward Dela Cruz, Jr. Jozaiah Dela Cruz, Connelly, Jr. Liam Woodward).