Competing in only his third official triple jump, South Whidbey senior Kale Reichersamer claimed first place at the Cashmere Invitational on Saturday, April 12.

The Falcon senior out-jumped the other two dozen athletes with a mark of 39 feet, 11 inches, which was 2.5 inches shorter than his career-best leap.

Teammate Nick French, also a senior, won the javelin event with a throw of 171 feet, 5 inches. The mark was more than three feet farther than the second-place finisher from LaSalle, Matt Wellner.

South Whidbey’s girls team had four first-place finishers on the 1,600-meter relay. Jaime Rodden, Anna Leski, Megan Drake and Mackenzie Hezel finished in 4:19.39, the fastest mile-relay race run by a South Whidbey team in the past four seasons. They needed almost every second as a team from Lynden was close on their heels with a 4:20.43 finish.

South Whidbey girls: 200 — 5, Leski, 27.94; 400 — 10, Drake, 1:07.41; 800 — 4, Rodden, 2:28.02; 3,000 — 7, Mallorie Mitchem, 12:15.30; 100-meter hurdles — 11, Allie Vanbenschoten, 19.47; 300-meter hurdles — 6, Vanbenschoten, 51.68; 800-meter relay — 3, Bailey Forsyth, Hezel, Leski, Maia Sparkman, 1:52.10; shot put — 18, Morgan Davis, 25-5.75, 28, Sanna Bjork, 20-5; discus — 25, Bjork, 62-11, 28, Samantha Arrants, 54-6; javelin — 8, Hezel, 95-7; high jump — 7, Zoe Tapert, 4-8; long jump — 3, Sparkman, 15-7.75.

South Whidbey boys: 100 — 14, Reichersamer, 12.25, 19, French, 12.29; 400 — 25, Zach Spross-Ramsey, 1:01.24; 800 — 4, Cole Zink, 2:04.80, 16, Truman Hood, 2:14.87; 1,500 — 16, Evan Mellish, 4:40.71; 3,000 — 14, Cory Ackerman, 11:04.23; 1,600-meter relay — 5, Zink, Mellish, Reichersamer, French, 3:42.64; shot put — 35, Alex Leski, 24-10.75; discus — 36, Leski, 58-3; javelin — 11, Andy Madsen, 133-3; pole vault — 5, Madsen, 11; long jump — 7, Reichersamer, 18-10.75.