PREP TRACK & FIELD: Baisden leads Bonners Ferry girls to Ezra Gordon team title

by MAX OSWALD
Hagadone News Network | April 10, 2025 1:00 AM

COLVILLE — Bonners Ferry High junior Makenna Baisden won the 400-meter dash and was apart of two winning relays as the Lady Badgers beat out 21 other teams to capture the team title at the Ezra Gordon Invitational held Friday at Colville High.

Baisden beat out 25 other runners with her gold medal time of 1:01.15, a new season best. She also anchored the Lady Badgers' winning 4x100 relay (51.89) and 4x400 relay (4:23.97).

Also picking up wins on the day were sophomore Eva Willis, who cleared 5 feet even and beat out 23 other competitors in the high jump, and junior Hana Hartman, who threw to a new personal best mark of 40 feet even and beat out 54 other competitors in the shotput.

Senior Brooke Petesch was second out of 28 in the 800-meter run (2:33.33), sophomore Ireland Grady was second out of 21 in the 100-meter hurdles (17.29), and senior Helene Rae was second in the shotput (39 feet 9.5 inches) and second out of 60 in the discus with a new personal best mark (116 feet 1.5 inches).

Sophomore Taren Bateman was also apart of both winning relays and placed third out of 50 in the long jump with a new personal best leap of 16 feet 6.5 inches for Bonners Ferry, which scored 109 points, 44 more than runner-up Medical Lake.

For the boys, junior Logan Archibald led the Badgers to a tied for third-place team finish out of 23 scoring teams by placing in the top five in three different events. He was second out of 25 in the high jump (5 foot 10 inches), third out of 13 in the triple jump (38 feet 1.75 inches) and fourth out of 28 in the pole vault with a new personal best clear (11 feet even).

Bonners Ferry scored the majority of their points in the field events. Sophomore Jake Solt was second out of 58 in the javelin with a new personal best throw of 143 feet 7 inches, junior James Morgen was third out of 64 in the discus (131 feet 4 inches) and fourth out of 60 in the shotput (40 feet 1.5 inches), and sophomore Riley Beggerly was fifth out of 25 in the long jump with a new personal best mark of 19 feet 1.25 inches.

Junior Devin Sceppe added a fourth-place finish out of 15 in the 300-meter hurdles (44.97) for the Baders, which returned to action yesterday for an Intermountain League dual against Timberlake and will travel to both the Lake Pend Oreille Invite in Sandpoint and the Pasco Invite this Saturday. Additionally, the team will compete this upcoming Tuesday at the Christina Finney Co-ed Relays hosted by Post Falls High. Results and recap of all of these events will be in next week's edition of the Herald.

BOYS

TEAM SCORES — 1, Medical Lake 66. 2, Freeman 64. t-3, Reardan, Bonners Ferry 63. 5, Priest River 54.5. 6, Northwest Christian (Colbert) 54. 7, Chewelah 51. 8, Tonasket 48. 9, Lind-Ritzville 41. 10, Garfield-Palouse 29. 11, Liberty (Spangle) 24. 12, Newport 17.5. 13, Rogers (Spokane) 17. 14, Selkirk 15. 15, Stillwater Christian 13.5. t-16, Davenport, Republic 13. 18, Oakesdale 5. 19, Kootenai Classical Academy 4. 20, Riverside 3. 21, Cusick 2. 22, Northport 1.5. 23, Mary Walker 1.

(Winner, top local)

100 — 1, Kristian Jones, Tonasket, 11.35; 18, Spiro Petras, Bonners Ferry, 12.12. 200 — 1, Kristian Jones, Tonasket, 22.97; 9, Spiro Petras, Bonners Ferry, 24.55. 400 — 1, Jack Johnson, Liberty (Spangle), 51.20; 27, Darian Jacobson, Bonners Ferry, 1:00.70. 800 — 1, Gabriel Branstetter, Reardan, 2:00.22; 10, Micah Thomson, Bonners Ferry, 2:14.99. 1600 — 1, Brayden Lamanna, Priest River, 4:33.43; 28, Colton Cohen, Bonners Ferry, 5:25.90. 3200 — 1, Eli Vlietstra, Northwest Christian (Colbert), 10:09.99; 13, Colton Cohen, Bonners Ferry, 11:59.33.

110 hurdles — 1, Kade Waite, Tonasket, 15.66; 7, Devin Sceppe, Bonners Ferry, 18.09. 300 hurdles — 1, Benjamin Thomason, Chewelah, 41.74; 4, Devin Sceppe, Bonners Ferry, 44.97. 4x100 relay — 1, Freeman (Jared Bazar, Giovanni Sutherland, Tyce Gilbert, Cody Cayce), 44.39. 4x200 relay — No race. 4x400 relay — 1, Reardan (Jakari Singleton, Blake Wynecoop, Evan Krupke, Gabriel Branstetter), 3:33.56; 10, Bonners Ferry (Conrad Hiatt, Spiro Petras, Micah Thomson, Daric Vincent), 3:58.09.

Shotput — 1, Brody Boness, Lind-Ritzville, 45-8; 4, James Morgen, Bonners Ferry, 40-1.5. Discus — 1, Niki Porinchok, Priest River, 148-3.5; 3, James Morgen, Bonners Ferry, 131-4. Javelin — 1, Jameson Davis, Selkirk, 160-8; 2, Jake Solt, Bonners Ferry, 143-7. Pole vault — 1, Dakotah Phillips, Medical Lake, 12-6; 4, Logan Archibald, Bonners Ferry, 11-0. High jump — 1, Jalan Clark, Northwest Christian (Colbert), 6-4; 2, Logan Archibald, Bonners Ferry, 5-10. Long jump — 1, Jalan Clark, Northwest Christian (Colbert), 20-5.25; 5, Riley Beggerly, Bonners Ferry, 19-1.25. Triple jump — 1, Evan Krupke, Reardan, 42-7.75; 3, Logan Archibald, Bonners Ferry, 38-1.75.

GIRLS

TEAM SCORES — 1, Bonners Ferry 109. 2, Medical Lake 65. 3, Northwest Christian (Colbert) 62. 4, Davenport 59. 5, Garfield-Palouse 54. 6, Freeman 53. 7, Riverside 49. t-8, Tonasket, Oakesdale 45. 10, Newport 39. 11, East Valley (Spokane) 18.5. 12. Liberty (Spangle) 17. 13, Priest River 16.5. 14, Chewelah 16. 15, Rogers (Spokane) 14. 16, Lind-Ritzville 11. 17, Reardan 8. t-18, Deer Park, Republic, Stillwater Christian 5. t-21, Mary Walker, Kootenai Classical Academy 3.

(Winner, top local)

100 — 1, Kyra Brantner, Garfield-Palouse, 12.60; 24, Avah Archibald, Bonners Ferry, 14.54. 200 — 1, Kyra Brantner, Garfield-Palouse, 26.89; 14, Samantha Cummings, Bonners Ferry, 30.58. 400 — 1, Makenna Baisden, Bonners Ferry, 1:01.15; 9, Kylie Calderone, Bonners Ferry, 1:09.08. 800 — 1, Josie Wynecoop, Davenport, 2:32.76; 2, Brooke Petesch, Bonners Ferry, 2:33.33. 1600 — 1, Allie Robertson, Northwest Christian (Colbert), 5:25.64; 6, Sydney Beckle, Bonners Ferry, 5:48.10. 3200 — 1, Kaylee Dennler, Medical Lake, 11:35.06; 8, Emile Bourassa, Bonners Ferry, 15:34.00.

100 hurdles — 1, Glenna Soliday, Davenport, 15.76; 2, Ireland Grady, Bonners Ferry, 17.29. 300 hurdles — 1, Glenna Soliday, Davenport, 49.26; 14, Halory Stanley, Bonners Ferry, 58.39. 4x100 relay — 1, Bonners Ferry (Eva Willis, Taren Bateman, Ireland Grady, Makenna Baisden), 51.89. 4x200 relay — 1, Freeman (Nicole DuPont, Anneke Haskins, Rylee Russell, Dakota Daines), 1:49.66; t-5, Bonners Ferry (Kendall Thorne, Samantha Cummings, Rylie Kimball, Brooke Petesch), 2:00.43. 4x400 relay — 1, Bonners Ferry (Brooke Petesch, Rylie Kimball, Taren Bateman, Makenna Baisden), 4:23.97.

Shotput — 1, Hana Hartman, Bonners Ferry, 40-0; 2, Helene Rae, Bonners Ferry, 39-9.5 Discus — 1, Tristan Parks, Tonasket, 119-10.5; 2, Helene Rae, Bonners Ferry, 116-1.5. Javelin — 1, Evelyn Sheller, Tonasket, 108-1.5; 19, Aspen Graham, Bonners Ferry, 72-5. Pole vault — 1, Faith Hamilton, Northwest Christian (Colbert), 9-0; t-4, Natalia Tuma, Bonners Ferry, 8-0. High jump — t-1, Eva Willis, Bonners Ferry, 5-0; t-13, 13, Avah Archibald, Bonners Ferry, 4-4. Long jump — 1, Kyra Brantner, Garfield-Palouse, 17-3; 3, Taren Bateman, Bonners Ferry, 16-6.5. Triple jump — 1, Kyra Brantner, Garfield-Palouse, 36-5; 6, Rylie Kimball, Bonners Ferry, 29-2.5.