Gressley ties Baker High 100-meter record, Bulldogs take second at Umatilla
Sammy Gressley tied Baker High’s 100-meter record in 12.30 seconds at Umatilla, and Baker’s boys and girls both finished second in the team standings.
Sammy Gressley kept Baker High’s record chase moving Friday at Umatilla, tying Lynn Edmonson’s 53-year-old school mark in the 100 meters with a 12.30-second victory at the River’s Edge meet at Umatilla High School.
The run was the latest entry in a spring that has already pushed Gressley to multiple Baker marks. She set the school record in the 200 meters on March 20 with a 25.44, breaking Tish Henes’ 1995 mark, then added the Baker long-jump record on April 1 at Vale with a leap of 17 feet, 1 inch, surpassing Jill Wood’s 1991 standard of 17 feet, 0.5 inch. Her 12.30 in the 100 was also close to a state-level benchmark, just 0.16 seconds behind the 12.14 winning time from the 2025 Class 4A state meet.
Gressley’s performance helped anchor another strong day for Baker, which placed second in both the boys and girls team standings. The Baker boys scored 122.5 points and finished second among 18 schools behind La Grande’s 156.33, while the Baker girls scored 110 points and were second among 16 schools behind La Grande’s 178.5.
Baker had winners scattered across the program. Kate Norton took the shot put with a mark of 41 feet, 0.75 inches, continuing a record-setting stretch of her own after breaking the Baker High shot put record Tuesday in Ontario with 41 feet, 10 inches. That throw broke Sarah Cotton’s 29-year-old school record of 41 feet, 3 inches. Also winning for Baker at Umatilla were Remy Damschen in the pole vault, Henry Gaslin in the high jump, Jack Joseph in the 300 hurdles, Wayland Thomas in the 200, and Kane Hellberg in both the long jump and triple jump.
Baker’s 4x400 relay team also won in 3:33.43, rounding out a meet that showed more than one standout performance. For a program that has spent the first part of the season rewriting its record book, the bigger question now is how many more marks can fall before spring ends.
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