{"id":12967,"date":"2016-05-20T00:12:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T07:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/weekend-preview-track-and-field-regionals-at-tmhs\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T00:12:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T07:12:13","slug":"weekend-preview-track-and-field-regionals-at-tmhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/weekend-preview-track-and-field-regionals-at-tmhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend preview: track and field regionals at TMHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thunder Mountain High School hosts the Southeast Regional track meet this weekend which will decide which of Southeast\u2019s athletes will go to the state meet in Anchorage May 27-28. <\/p>\n

TMHS has had a great year in short, middle and long distance events as well as field events, and looks to lead qualification numbers with a nine-time state title winner, senior Naomi Welling, leading the way.<\/p>\n

JDHS, with a group half the size of TMHS\u2019 team, has some great middle and distance running relay teams which they hope to qualify.<\/p>\n

Friday starts with field events including preliminaries and finals at 11 a.m., while running prelims will take place at 3 p.m. Saturday will start with field preliminary and final events at 9:30 a.m., with running finals will take place at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

In addition to the girls soccer senior nights, the track regionals are this weekend\u2019s only home prep sporting events.<\/p>\n

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Away games<\/strong><\/p>\n

TMHS softball plays at Sitka for two games Friday and Saturday. If the Falcons girls win both they can catch JDHS, which leads the Region V conference standings by two games. The JDHS girls are idle this weekend with a record of 7-3, and the TMHS girls have the two Sitka games in hand at 5-3.<\/p>\n

JDHS baseball travels to Ketchikan for three games. If the JD boys win two of their three they can qualify for state in the second spot of the Region V standings.<\/p>\n

TMHS boys soccer travels to Ketchikan for games Friday and Saturday to end their season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thunder Mountain High School hosts the Southeast Regional track meet this weekend which will decide which of Southeast\u2019s athletes will go to the state meet in Anchorage May 27-28. TMHS has had a great year in short, middle and long distance events as well as field events, and looks to lead qualification numbers with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12967"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}