Thursday was a great day for Lucas Hidalgo.
Wednesday? Not so much.
“He was home with the flu,” Banks coach Rob Frank said. “He’d actually been sick all week. He was throwing up Wednesday.
“But I don’t think you could have kept him off that runway, no matter how sick he was.”
Flu and all, Hidalgo showed up for the Cowapa League district meet in Yamhill and recorded a 14-0 in the boys pole vault, easily surpassing the second-place mark of 11-0 turned in by Yamhill-Carlton’s Zachary Perkins. The top finish earned the Banks junior a trip to next week’s state championships in Eugene.
Frank hopes Hidalgo will be feeling a little better for that one.
“It’s impressive the fact that he can not only run down that runway but vault as well as he did,” Frank said. “He didn’t really look too spry (Thursday), but good enough to vault 14 feet.
“You kind of worried how much energy he was going to have and how focused he could be feeling under the weather like that, but boy, he came through like gangbusters.”
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