CWA claimed the state boys tennis team championship this weekend, the school’s third title in four years.  CWA also won the state title in the 4×100 meter girls relay for a second consecutive year and won the boys doubles tennis championship.

Tennis
CWA won the state boys tennis championship in Yakima this weekend and came very close to claiming the girls title too.  Stanley Peterson and Chris Gugliuzza won the state doubles championship title and Daniel Ham took third in the singles bracket.  The girls team came in second at state where Sara Finkleman and Megan Kelley came in second in the girls doubles competition while Sarah Johnson and Sarika Halarnakar took third.

In the first round, juniors Peterson and Gugliuzza defeated a tough team from Cascade 6-3, 3-6, 6-0.  Next they faced a team from Connell and won with scores of 6-1, 6-3.  In the semifinal match they faced a team from University Prep they again won with scores of 6-1, 6-3.  Their final match came against a team from Bear Creek.  The Tarriers lost the first set 5-7 but came back to win the next two, 6-3, 6-2.

Sophomore Ham dominated his opponents in his first two matches at the state tournament.  He beat an opponent from Goldendale 6-1, 6-2, and beat a Tonasket player 6-1, 6-3.  He faced a Cascade Christian player in the semifinal round and lost 6-1, 6-1.  That player went on to win the state singles title.  In the consolation bracket he faced an Omak player and won 6-0, 7-5.

Senior Kelley and junior Finkleman faced a team from Sprague-Harrington in the first round of the tournament and beat that team 6-2, 6-0.  They moved on to play Tenino and won 6-0, 6-4.  In the semifinal round they faced a team from Chelan and defeated them 6-2, 6-3.  In the championship round they faced a pair of sisters from Overlake and lost that match 6-4, 6-2.

Juniors Johnson and Halanakar beat a Tenino team 6-1, 6-3, in the first round.  In the second they faced Omake and won 6-2, 6-3.  They battled against the sister from Overlake in the semifinals winning the first set 4-6 but dropping the next two 6-4, 6-3.  In the consolation bracket they faced the Chelan team Kelley and Finkleman had defeated and beat them 7-6, 6-2, securing their third place finish.

Overlake won the girls title and came in second to CWA in the boys team competition.  CWA also won the boys title in 2007 and 2008.

Track & Field
The girls track and field team finished 13th at state this year and the boys finished in 15th place.

Junior Rachael Williams, freshman Katie Mayer, sophomore Janay Davis and senior Diane Lawrence successfully defended their state champion in the 4×100 meter girls relay with a time of 50:68.  The same four girls came in second in the 4×200 meter relay with a time of 1:47.07.

Mayer also finished sixth in the 400 meter run with a time of 1:02.15 and Williams finished eighth in the 200 meter dash with a time of 27.83.

Senior Max LaBerge tripped and took a big tumble in the 1600 meter race.  He was flat on his back on the first lap, got up and finished in sixth place with a time of 4:40.33.  He took third in the 3200 meter run with a time of 9:55.57.  Freshman David Goldstone took sixth place in the same event with a time of 10:07.70.  Tommy Wyatt ’04 held onto his state 1A meet records in both of these distance events.

Junior Josh Naon, running with a pulled hamstring, took eighth place in both the 110 meter hurdles with a time of 17.15 and the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 51.27.  Jim Richard ’87 held onto his state record in the 110 meter record.

Golf
CWA sent four golfers to the state tournament.  All three boys – senior Kirby Milgard, senior Chris Panagiotu and junior Nathan Fisher – scored an 84 on the first day of competition and missed the cut to play the second day.  Senior Georgia Wade was the only Tarrier to compete in the final round and she finished in 12th place with a two-day total of 182, 28 strokes behind the state champion from Chelan.