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The Sutton Senior Legion baseball team gained a pair of big wins, as the Post #61 seniors finally were able to appear in front of the home crowd at DLD Park in Sutton.

The Sutton crew claimed a big double header win over the York-Cornerstone senior June 5, taking the opening game 10-2, before claiming game two, 6-2.

Garrett Bonnell, by way of a complete game effort on the mound, would allow five York hits and two walks, while gaining five strikeouts in the two-run shut down of the visitors. Bonnell threw 88 pitches to get the win.

Sutton and York faced a 1-1 tie after the first inning, before Sutton came to life in the second frame to plate five runs and gain a 6-1 edge.

York cut the lead to 6-2 in the third, before a three-run fourth pushed the locals to a 9-2 lead before finishing off York with one run in the sixth inning to post the eight-run win.

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This group of Sutton junior high tracksters garnered a fifth-place medal in the 3,200-meter relay, during action at the 2019 junior high state track and field meet in Gothenburg May 11.

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Harvard junior Noah Okraska, one of two state qualifiers for the Cardinals, earned a pair of state track and field medals this past weekend in Omaha, as Okraska placed fourth in the pole vault and garnered sixth place honors in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles to account for eight team points. The Cardinals placed in a four-way tie for 31st in the Class D final team standings with Parkview Christian of Lincoln, Brady and Creek Valley High School from Chappell.

Okraska sailed over the 13’ 6” barrier in the pole vault to gain his second straight state track medal in the event, after placing third in 2018 with a 13’ 0” vault a year ago.

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Freshman Kate Griess would be the lone state track meet medalist for the Sutton Fillies, as Griess, following a third-place finish in the preliminary round of the 300-meter low hurdles, would qualify for the finals of the Class C girls event and wrap up her first year of varsity track with a seventh-place finish overall.

Griess’ time of 48.07 seconds in the prelims placed her third behind Lincoln Lutheran’s Josie Puelz, who finished in 46.0 seconds, while Ainsworth’s Rylee Rice finished in 47.8 seconds.

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A year after finishing in eighth place in the Class D state track and field meet, Harvard senior Breonna Julich raised her game and cashed in for a state runner-up finish in the 2019 state meet, improving on her 2018 throw of 35’ 8” by nearly four feet, as the Harvard graduate hit the 39’ 3.5” mark for the silver medal.

Mary Nibbe of Red Cloud, who just a week ago edged Julich in the D-6 District meet at Sandy Creek, would hold the upper hand at state as well, as Nibbe hit the 39’ 7” mark for the Class D gold medal.

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Garrett Nuss, a 2019 graduate of Sutton High School, will be the ninth Sutton football player to take part in the prestigious Nebraska Shrine Bowl, which is set for Saturday, June 1, in Kearney.

Nuss is part of a string of five players under head coach Steve Ramer that have represented the Mustangs program over the course of the past six years.

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