High school track heads to regionals in Juneau

Petersburg High School track team athletes performed well in a meet last weekend and several are on the right track to qualify for state.

Petersburg athletes competed against Ketchikan and Thorn Bay in Ketchikan.

Andrew Mathisen ranked first place in the long and triple jump events and he also performed well in the 400-meter dash and 200-meter dash finals.

Alan Jensen threw the discus 130 feet for first place and Ben Zarlengo threw 121 feet, finishing in second.

Zarlengo also finished second in the 110-meter hurdle and second in the 300-meter hurdles.

"That puts both of them in the top five at...