Khalil Gilbert had a big meet at the Northwest Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships.<\/p>\n
The Everett Community College sophomore finished in the top three in four events, including a championship in the men’s long jump at the meet, which took place Monday and Tuesday in Gresham, Oregon.<\/p>\n
Gilbert, who hails from Alamogordo, New Mexico, won the long jump with a leap of 22 feet, 6 1\/4 inches. Gilbert placed third in the 400 meters with a time of 48.92 seconds. He also took third in both the 400 relay (43.68) alongside freshmen Jack Mehl, Joshua Hodges and Liam Naicker, and third in the 1,600 relay (3:25.17) alongside Mehl, Naicker and freshman Vitalii Shvets.<\/p>\n
Everett had one other individual champion in Denna Gibb. The sophomore from Chauvin, Alberta, won the women’s javelin with a throw of 137-3.<\/p>\n
Men’s tennis<\/strong><\/p>\n Glacier Peak High School graduate Jackson Stumpf, now a sophomore at Bellevue College, won the men’s No. 1 singles bracket at the NWAC Tennis Championships, which took place May 11-12 in Wenatchee. Stumpf won both his matches in straight sets.<\/p>\n Kamiak High School graduate Anthony Madson, a freshman at Bellevue, won the No. 5 singles bracket, also taking both his matches in straight sets. He and Stumpf helped the Bulldog men win their sixth straight NWAC title.<\/p>\n Softball<\/strong><\/p>\n The Edmonds College softball team went 2-2 at the NWAC Softball Championship, which took place last Thursday through Sunday in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n The ninth-seeded Tritons (28-14), behind the hitting and pitching of North Region MVP Jordyn Relethford, lost their opener to No. 8 Clackamas 9-3, then beat No. 16 Grays Harbor 7-6 and No. 10 Columbia Basin 5-3 in loser-out games before bowing out with a 2-1 loss to Southwestern Oregon.<\/p>\n Twelfth-seeded Everett (24-12) went two and out, losing 4-3 to No. 5 Spokane and 9-8 to No. 13 Douglas.<\/p>\n Baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n Both Everett and Edmonds are among the eight teams that advanced to the NWAC Baseball Championship, which begins Thursday and runs through Monday in Longview.<\/p>\n Everett (30-14) advanced straight to the final eight as the North Region No. 1. The Trojans, who were ranked No. 3 in the final NWAC coaches poll, open the tournament against East No. 2 Blue Mountain (27-21) at 4:35 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n Edmonds (25-18), the North No. 2, advanced by winning its super regional. The Tritons, No. 7 in the final coaches poll, open against East No. 1 Spokane (28-17) at 9:35 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plus how locals fared in tennis and softball. Baseball begins Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1077,4,1024],"tags":[477],"class_list":["post-824209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-sports","category-sports","category-top-news","tag-local-sports"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/heraldnet.com\/2024\/05\/22\/nwac-notebook-evccs-gilbert-excels-at-track-championships\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"NWAC notebook: EvCC’s Gilbert excels at track championships","url":"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2024\/05\/22\/nwac-notebook-evccs-gilbert-excels-at-track-championships\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.heraldnet.com\/2024\/05\/22\/nwac-notebook-evccs-gilbert-excels-at-track-championships\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Sports","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nick Patterson"}],"creator":["Nick Patterson"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"HeraldNet.com","logo":""},"keywords":["local sports"],"dateCreated":"2024-05-22T16:54:00Z","datePublished":"2024-05-22T16:54:00Z","dateModified":"2026-03-25T18:18:04Z"},"rendered":"