Marshfield senior Will Messerle sets a meet record in the javelin.

The 100th Coos County Meet was marked by outstanding individual performances and another sweep of the trophies for the home team.

Marshfield’s boys and girls easily took the team titles in the centennial meet Friday night, while individuals from all six county schools stood out.

“It’s a fun meet,” said North Bend coach Steve Greif as he watched from near the finish line. “Good things are happening.”

Three meet records had fallen before the opening ceremonies. By the end of the night, the crowd had been thrilled by a number of close finishes and strong performances.

The pomp and circumstance that was featured in the opening ceremony included a few of the former greats speaking about their experiences in the meet and past athletes from all the schools taking part in a parade. The end featured Linda Prefontaine, the sister of the county’s best-known runner, Steve Prefontaine, presenting the outstanding athlete awards.

The record setters took three of those honors — Marshfield’s Will Messerle was outstanding thrower, while teammate Caleb Kruse was outstanding jumper and fellow Pirate Moriah Roberge was outstanding jumper for girls. The other honors went to Marshfield’s multitalented Ali Worthen (outstanding runner), Coquille’s Frauke Fuchs (outstanding thrower) and Myrtle Point’s Claude Wilson (outstanding runner).

Messerle won his only event, the javelin, with a new best of 182 feet, 9 inches.

“It felt good,” Messerle said of his winning throw, which was about 8 feet better than runner-up Cole Scherer of Bandon. “It felt effortless. It all clicked together.”

Winning the county title was special, Messerle said. Winning with a new personal best throw made it even better.

“I’m stoked,” he said. “It was my first throw over 180 feet.”

Across the field at Pete Susick Stadium, teammate Caleb Kruse beat North Bend’s Lane Seals in a crowd-thrilling battle in the triple jump (see related story on Page B6), with both topping the old meet record. Kruse’s winning jump was 46-51⁄2.

Roberge, meanwhile, will share her record with North Bend’s Sammie Clark after both cleared 11 feet, 6 inches.

“It was good,” Roberge said. “It was nice to have somebody push you.”

Marshfield’s Amber Wiley set the old mark of 11-5 last year, when she later won the state title.

Even though she lost based on more misses, Clark was thrilled with her performance.

“I was very excited,” she said. “That was fun.”

Worthen didn’t set any new records Friday, but she did as well as an athlete can, winning four individual events, and she did match one mark.

In the long jump, her first event, Worthen soared 17-10 to match Jo Boatright’s record. Worthen also became a four-time champion in the high jump, clearing 5-3, and won the 300-meter hurdles in 45.55 seconds, just missing another county record. In her other event, Worthen kept the 400-meter title in the family for the seventh straight year. Leah Worthen, her older sister, won four straight before Ali won the last three.

Though she was disappointed that her marks weren’t better, Worthen was happy with her final county meet — she’ll compete in the heptathlon for Seattle Pacific University next year.

“You can’t be too displeased with four first places,” she said. “It’s been great to compete today no matter what.”

Worthen said she especially enjoyed the parade of champions, and meeting former runners who competed decades ago, and other people who have followed her career, and those of her sister and mother, current Marshfield head coach Fran Worthen.

While Worthen was in her fourth county meet, Fuchs was in her first. The German exchange student won the javelin with a throw of 125-3 and also finished second in the long jump and fourth in the 300 hurdles.

Fuchs, who has competed in the sport for five years, enjoyed Friday’s meet.

“I always have fun at track meets,” she said.

Wilson, the other award winner, swept the 100 and 200 meters for Myrtle Point, winning the shorter race in 11.86 seconds and the longer one in 24.03.

“It’s the first day I’ve ever won a high school race and now I’ve won two of them,” Wilson said. “Winning during the 100th meet is awesome.”

Wilson and Kruse were the only boys to win two individual events. Kruse came back to win both hurdles races.

Seals followed his narrow loss in the triple jump by winning the long jump with a leap of 20 feet.

North Bend teammate Elliot Adams had a winning throw of 50 feet, 4 inches in the shot put, but Marshfield’s Kris Muse beat Adams in the discus with a throw of 141-10.

“That’s what I wanted the entire season,” said Muse. “To win this and throw 140 feet. Two years in a row, I got third behind Elliot. I finally beat him.”

In the pole vault, North Bend’s Lane Davison and Marshfield’s Greg Eckes both cleared 14-6, with Davison winning based on fewer misses.

In the other field event, Marshfield’s Levi Meline cleared 6 feet to win the high jump, a good accomplishment considering he spends most of his afternoons playing baseball for the Pirates.

“It’s kind of hard,” he said of being a two-sport athlete. “I don’t get much track practice.”

On the track, Scherer won the 400 meters for Bandon with a time of 53.64, which took away some of the sting from losing the javelin after coming in with the top mark. He also anchored the winning 4x400-meter relay for the Tigers.

North Bend’s Trevor Berrian won the 800 in 2:02.99, while Marshfield’s Jared Bassett took the 1,500 in 4:08.75 and North Bend’s Spenser Lynass won the 3,000 in 8:55.52 (see related story).

Marshfield won the 4x100-meter relay.

In addition to Worthen, two other girls won multiple events.

Marshfield’s MaKenzie Scott took the triple jump with a leap of 31-31⁄4 and won the high hurdles for the third straight year, clocking 16.36. She also finished second to Worthen in the low hurdles.

Scott enjoyed the centennial experience as much as her success.

“It’s been a blast,” she said. It’s so exciting.”

Coquille’s Katlyn Shaw, a senior competing in track for the first time, swept the 100 (13.35) and 200 (28.02) and was second to Worthen in the 400.

“This is one of the best days I’ve had,” Shaw said.

Other winners were Coquille’s Allison Cook in the shot put (32-11), Marshfield’s Hannah Francis in the discus (110-11), North Bend’s Jessianne Heley in the 800 (2:28.87), Bulldog Rachel Scavera in the 1,500 (5:16.37) and Marshfield’s Jana Sadler in the 3,000 (11:38.95).

Scavera’s 1,500 win was impressive as she surged in front of Sadler with two laps to go and pulled away on the final lap to set a personal best by seven seconds.

“My times have not been good so far,” she said. “That was a huge PR.”

Scavera and Heley also teamed with Sara Doty and Amanda McMillan to win the 4x400-meter relay and the Bulldogs also won the short relay.

Marshfield’s girls scored 196 points, to 149 for North Bend and 83 for Coquille. The Pirate boys had 192 points, to 129.5 for North Bend and 79.5 for Myrtle Point.