Questions remain for Scappoose track teams

Indians have holes to fill but still have repeat shot at league title

By John Brewington

The South County Spotlight, Mar 16, 2010

John Brewington / The Spotlight

DEFENDING CHAMPS—The Scappoose boys’ track team won the district championship last season and has a chance to repeat. The boys and girls did a little warm-up during practice recently. They host the Anderson Relay with Seaside and Astoria on Thursday this week.

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The Scappoose High boys track team may have some difficulty repeating as league champions this year–they’ve got some serious holes to fill.

Scappoose coach David Harley, now in his 15th season with Scappoose, says the Tribe has a good turnout this year–around 100–but there are some gaps they’ll have to fill.

Graduation cost Scappoose some of its high-scoring athletes from district, and another has transferred to a different school. Apostolis Bakouros won the high hurdles at district and state plus placed in the intermediates, and ran on both relay teams. He’s now attending Lincoln High School in Portland.

“That’s our biggest loss,” Harley said.

The good news is that the Tribe boys do have a district champ and others who placed returning.

Adonis Siscoe, a junior, won the 100 meter sprint and was second in the 200. He took fifth at state. Parker Elder, the district cross country champion, was second in the 3,000 at district last year and fourth in the 1,500. He was eighth at state. Also back Erik Calhoon, a senior. He won the district discus title and was third in the shot. He was seventh in the state in the discus.

Some other athletes expected to help, Harley said, are Steve Bowe, a sophomore, and Aaron Jaeger, a senior, in the short relay, Jonny Clark, a senior, in the high jump and pole vault, and Andrew Jones, a senior, and Chad Hollingsworth, a sophomore, in the shot and discus.

Harley doesn’t think the Indians are out of the running for a district title just yet, though.

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