Day one of the OSAA track and field state championships at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field is in the books.

The small-school classifications took center stage, with finals in half the field events and the 3,000 meters.

Here are five things you might have missed on the opening day of the boys meet:

Class 3A 3,000 meters

A year ago, Clayton Wilson breezed to his first state 3,000-meter title running for Class 2A Reedsport.

However, as he looked ahead to his senior year, he said he wanted to transition to a school that would prepare him both on the track and in the classroom “so I wouldn’t drown in college.”

So, Wilson transferred 20 miles up the South Coast to Siuslaw, and on Thursday, he toed the line for the 3A 3,000 final alongside defending champion Ronan Gantzos of Oregon Episcopal.

And the duel brought the best out of both runners, who turned the race into a two-man show over the final three laps. However, when Gantzos didn’t try to take control of the race with 800 meters to go, Wilson knew the race was his.

“When he hadn’t moved yet, I knew I could beat him in the last 900,” Wilson said after fending off Gantzos’ backstretch challenge to pull away to win in 8 minutes, 37.42 seconds. “I was just sitting there waiting, and then he didn’t move or make me work for it.”

Not that Wilson was too upset by that, considering he returns Friday to contest the 1,500 — in which Gantzos is also the defending champion.

“I mean, maybe I could have moved faster to get a better time,” the Colorado Mesa commit said. “But I’m looking forward to tomorrow.”

Class 3A shot put

Jake DeVos made his way to the shot put ring in a bit of a foul mood.

The Vale senior had finished his 3A 100-meter prelim earlier in the day and finished a distant seventh in his heat to miss Friday night’s final.

And there he was after three rounds of throws, sitting a distant fourth, having fouled twice and a full four feet off his personal-best.

“I just got mad,” he said about waiting for the finals to begin. “I knew I hadn’t run well in the 100, so I knew I had to make up for it.

“So, I hyped myself up, fixed my technique, and I really focused in. And I just exploded. I just cleared my mind and exploded.”

His first throw in the finals was 54-1.25 to set a personal-best and (more important) take over the lead. The next went even farther — 54-11.5 — and after he fell out of the ring on his final throw, he could only watch as previous state leader Rylan Bryant came up six inches short on his final try.

“I just made sure not to get in my head,” said DeVos, the Eastern Oregon League defensive player of the year in football who’ll play at New Mexico next fall. “I just focused up, and that’s all it took for me.”

Class 3A triple jump

Valley Catholic senior Andrew Klopcic’s quest to win four state titles for a second consecutive season got off on the right foot, with the Marquette University signee successfully defending his 3A crown in the triple jump while easing into Friday’s finals in the 200, 400 (in which he’s also the defending champ) and 300 hurdles.

Fortunately, the triple jump fell into a relative lull in his schedule Thursday, interrupted only early in his series with his 400 prelim.

“I like being able to compete in a bunch of different things, but having to manage all the different things can get stressful,” Klopcic said. “It’s just always saying yes and doing whatever the coaches tell me to do, so, yeah, I like it.”

Klopcic got one jump in before his race, taking the lead with a 43-11.25, and then popped a 44-2.5 to maintain the lead going into the finals.

However, Horizon Christian’s Joseph O’Reilly remained too close for comfort after going 43-11.75 on his third jump, while Klopcic fouled on his first two jumps in the finals.

Finally, when the title was firmly in his grasp, he went 45-0.25 on his final attempt — almost two feet shy of the 3A-record 46-11.5 he jumped at the Lewis & Clark district meet last week but still a good way to go into the rest of his weekend.

“I knew that last one was going to be big,” he said. “I felt like my foul in the fifth round was big, too, so I knew that the more time I got to recover my legs and rest, it was going to get better and better.”

Class 1A triple jump

Another person to successfully defend a state title on the triple jump runway was Adrian senior Colten Bayes, who like Klopcic has a busy second day ahead of him.

Bayes also took the lead on his first jump of the 1A competition, but it wasn’t until Round 4 that he secured his win with a jump of 43-6, besting Antelopes teammate Silvestre Rico by almost 10 inches.

“This is kind of my main event,” said Bayes, who placed sixth as a freshman and runner-up two years ago before winning his first gold medal last spring. “I felt a little bit of pressure. I mean, it’s not like I can just walk into it and earn first place. I knew I had to take my jumps seriously and just finish.”

Bayes, who led Adrian to the 1A eight-man football title as the state’s defensive player of the year, will compete in the 100, 110 hurdles and 4×100 relay Friday, running a personal-best in his 110 hurdles heat.

Class 1A pole vault

Sawyer Dean made a bit of history three years ago when, as a Trout Lake freshman, he became the first Washington prepster to win an OSAA state title in the 1A pole vault.

On Thursday, Dean became just the second boy in OSAA history to win four pole vault titles, clearing a meet-record 15-6.25 on his second attempt.

“It’s awesome,” he said. “I mean, I’ve worked for it. I’ve earned it.”

He did it with his father and coach, Joe (whose school record he broke a couple of years ago), and uncle Jesse (who holds the Washington 1B state record) in the stands across from the pole vault runway.

“They’ve supported me through my whole high school career,” Sawyer said. “They definitely got me to this point. They taught me basically everything I know.”

Dean, who’ll vault at Eastern Oregon next season, didn’t enter the competition until everyone else had already completed their vaults, playing it safe by coming in at 14-1.75 — his typical opening height is 14-6.

He needed one vault to secure the title, joining La Pine’s Justin Petz (2013-16) as the only four-time champions. Then, he needed two tries at 15-0 and 15-6.25 before changing poles to take a run at a personal-best 16-0.75.

“I have tried that pole one time before,” Dean explained. “It’s the biggest pole I’ve ever had in my hands in my life, and the first time I hit it, I was holding the grip down, and I completely crushed the pole. Then, I went up a grip for the next two, but my legs gave out. Too many jumps today. I’m tired but still really happy with the outcome.”