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Sandy Creek girls track, and field team headed to Henderson for the Heartland track and field invitational, Tuesday, April 9, and would finish fifth with a total of 70 points.

The Cougars ended the meet with three gold medals, one coming from the 4x400 relay team, and two from Emma Fisher.

In the field events Sandy Creek racked up a couple medals. One medal came from Jenae Calderon in the shot put finishing fifth with a throw of 32’01” and winning the shot put was Ryann Sabatka of Hastings St. Cecilia with a throw of 35’06”.

The other medal came from Anna Paus in the pole vault as she cleared 7’11” to place third, winning the event was Mariah Tessman of Heartland clearing 9’05”.

Moving to the track, in the 100-meter dash Claire Williamson finished in fourth place with a time of 14.13 seconds, and winning the 100-meter dash was McKenna Yates of McCool Junction with a time of 13.28 seconds.

Sandy Creek hosted their annual home invite Tuesday, April 2, and would come in fourth place with 54 total team points falling behind third Hastings St. Ceclia with 99 points, second Doniphan-Trumbull with 115 points, and first-place Central City with 132 points.

Sandy Creek earned two gold medals both in the hurdle events by two different Cougars, as in the 110-meter high hurdles, Ethan Shaw took gold with a time of 16.50 seconds, while in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles, Owen Oglesby finished first with a time of 42.46 seconds, with Shaw placing fourth with a time of 45.60 seconds.

Ben Sullivan scored points for the Cougars in the 100-meter dash with a fifth-place finish in a time of 11.39 seconds. Winning the 100 was Jenson Anderson of Hastings St. Cecilia with a time of 10.87 seconds.

Week two award winners for the Sutton Trap team, for the shoot, Saturday, March 30, at the Crooked Creek Gun Club near Stockham included Aniston Jasnoch as the junior girls runner up, hitting on 39 of 50 targets. Jasnoch also joined forces with Gretha Andersen to claim the junior girls runner-up team title, as the two combined to hit on 71 of 100 total targets.

Two senior girls honors were also earned during the March 30 shoot, as the Sutton team, made up of Laurel Moore and Elsa Andersen tied with the Crooked Creek team for the senior girls championship, as both teams hit on 150 of 200 total targets.

Moore and Elsa Andersen also claimed the senior girls runner-up trophy, also hitting on 150 of 200 targets.

Individual leaders for the week two shoot included Nolen Engel and Angus Andersen, as Engel was 86-100 overall, while Andersen was 81-100.

Seniors Jake Dane and Logan Sanders led the Sandy Creek golf team to a first-place finish at the Sandy Creek Pentad five-team meet at the Crooked Creek Country Club, Tuesday April 2.

It proved to be the Cougars first competative action of the 2024 season, as the Superior Invitational, which was to be March 26, was called off due to weather, but when Sandy Creek got into competative mode, they did it right, holding a six-stroke win over Sutton, 175-181 at the end of the ninehole outing.

Dane and Sanders helped the Cougars to tie for the top spot with Sutton’s Jadyn Friesen, as all three carded scores of 41.

Then Keaton Corman and Sutton’s Harrison Herndon both finished with scores of 44 for fourth place finishes overall.

Connor Rempe on the day would shoot a 49 and Mason Hinrich shooting a 55.

TEAM SCORES: Sandy Creek 175, Sutton 181, Fillmore Central 199, Superior 205, Lawrence-Nelson 216.

Sandy Creek headed to Hebron for the Thayer Central Invitational with the boys coming in second place, as a team, behind the victors from Tri County as Tri County scored 148 total points, with the Cougars scoring 96 total points.

Many points for the Cougars came from the short races and relays with Sandy Creek scoring 62 of their 96 points in short races and relays.

Sandy Creek started out with 14 points from Ben Sullivan with a second- place finish in the 100-meter dash at 11.61 seconds, and Oliver Oglesby right behind him in third, with a time of 11.70 seconds. Winning the event was Ben Holsing of Tri County with a time of 11.37 seconds.

In the 200-meters, the Cougars would go first, second, and third with Owen Oglesby in first, with a time of 23.05 seconds, Oliver Oglesby placed second with a time of 23.88 seconds, while Sullivan finished third in 24.21 seconds racking up 24 points in this event.

Week two action for the Sutton Fillies track and field team earned the Sutton girls a total of eight medals and 32 team points as the Fillies wrapped up the Thayer Central Invitational in eighth place.

Fairbury outscored Cross County 102-80 for the team title, with Tri County taking third overall with 73 points.

Junior Madylinn Bautista collected a total of 16 team points with a pair of runner- up finishes in the two hurdle events, leading the Fillies in the meet.

During the 100-meter hurdles, Bautista finished with a time of 17.94 seconds to trail only Josey Welch of Thayer Central, who claimed the event title in 17.50 seconds.

The 300-meter low hurdles placed Bautista second with a time of 52.68 seconds, as Tri County’s Abbie Drewes claimed the win in 52.28 seconds.

Harvard junior Micaiah Niemoth and senior Cody Fishler tallied a total of nine team points in action at the Sutton Invitational, held Tuesday, March 19 on the Sutton oval.

Niemoth came away from the meet with a pair of topsix finishes in the two long distance races.

His best finish was a third place run in the 3,200-meter run, where Niemoth ran the eight-lap race in a time of 13 minutes, 0.68 seconds.

A pair of Doniphan-Trumbull runners, Harrison Sjuts and Rylen Soundy finished in the top two, with Sjuts winning in a time of 12:04.48, while Soundy finished with a time of 12:15.86.

In the four-lap 1,600-meter run, Niemoth placed sixth overall with a time of 5;15.46. Jacob Zakrzewski, also of Doniphan-Trumbull captured gold in the race with a time of 4:54.43.

Fishler picked up two points in the pole vault, as the senior placed fifth overall with a vault of 9’ 6.” Centura’s Calvin Zimmerman gained the win in the event with a vault of 11’ 6.”

The Sandy Creek Cougar boys had a good start to the 2024 track and field season with a third-place finish at the Sutton Invite, Tuesday, March 19.

Owen Oglesby would be part of 23 of Sandy Creek’s 74 points with one firstplace finish and a fifthplace finish in a couple of individual running events then would team up in the 4x100 and get first and 4x400 and get sixth.

Ben Sullivan would place third in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.76 seconds and Owen Oglesby would finish fifth with a time of 11.80 seconds, and winning time from Hastings St. Cecilia, Jenson Anderson in a time of 11.34 seconds.

In the 200-meter dash Owen Oglesby finished first with a time of 23.77, Oliver Oglesby finished third with a time of 24.08 and Sullivan finished fifth with a time of 24.32.

The season-opening Doane University indoor track and field meet earned the Sutton track teams a trio of medals, as the March 15 meet brought home one individual medal, with sophomore Keith Kliewer placing fourth in the 800-meter run, while both the girls and boys 4x400-meter relay teams medaled.

Kliewer’s fourth place finish in the 800-meter run came with a time of two minutes, 17.6 seconds, with the event title going to Thomas Birch of Grand Island Central Catholic with a gold medal time of 2:13.31.

The Fillies team of Reagan Robinson, Madylinn Bautista, Jadlynn Kinney, and Kaci Yost placed fifth overall in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 4:39.74.

Bishop Neumann ran away with the event title with a time of 4;28.72, beating a time of 4:31.67 turned in by Tri County for second place in the event.