Sports

Senior Rodney McDonald paced the Sandy Creek boys golf team to the top of the hill during the Cougars’ home tournament on Friday, April 23, as McDonald’s 18-hole 77 placed him third overall and atop the final team score, as Sandy Creek outlasted second-place Fillmore Central by seven strokes, 247-354.

McDonald was one of five total medalists for the Cougars.

McDonald, who opened play with a 37 on the front nine, wrapped up his day with a 40 on the back nine to finish the day with a 77.

Tobey Turman placed in a two-way tie for fifth with an 83, along with McLayne Seeman of Blue Hill. Turman opened his day with a 40, while rounding out the day with a 43 on the back nine to card the 83.

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KEARNEY—Nebraska-Kearney’s Carrie Eighmey has been selected as the 2020-21 NCAA Division-II World Exposure Women’s College Basketball Head Coach of the Year.

Finalists for the honor, with Eighmey included Amy Eagan (Drury), Tianni Kelly (Charleston, WV) and Steve Gomez (Lubbock Christian).

Over the last six years Eighmey and her staff have guided a rebuild of the Loper program. Finishing 23-4 (19-3 MIAA) in 2020-21, UNK won a conference tournament championship and had its third-ever NCAA “Sweet Sixteen” appearance. Prior to the arrival of Eighmey, the Lopers had a total of 58 wins over six years.

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Gusty winds and temperatures in the mid 40’s greeted a group of Southern Nebraska Conference schools in action at the Fillmore Central golf invite, held at the Hidden Hills Country Club in Geneva.

Sandy Creek and Sutton both challenged the field of nine teams, with the Cougars wrapping up the 18-hole tournament in second-place with 388 strokes, which placed them 11 strokes behind the host Panthers in th tournament.

Sutton finished the day in fifth-place, finishing with a total of 456 strokes.

Sandy Creek ended the day with three top 15 medalists, as Rodney McDonald led the Cougars with a fourth-place finish, ending play with an 89. Tobey Turman and Derek Story followed McDonald in the fifth and sixth place spots, respectively, as Turman shot a 93, while Story finished the day with a 95.

A trip to Henderson last week proved to gain the Sandy Creek boys track team a sixth-place finish at the Heartland Invite, scoring 45 points, with 28 points coming on the track and another 17 from the field events.

Senior Brayton Jarosik had a total of 16 individual points in the two long distance races, while helping to guide the Cougars’ 4x400-meter relay team to a fourth place finish in the event.

Jarosik grabbed second-place in both the 1,600-meter and 3,200-meter runs, trailing McCool Junction’s Tyler Neville in both events.

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Senior Ashley Nierman continued to show her strong leadership for the Harvard girls track team, as Nierman scored 18 of the Cardinals’ 20 points in action at the Heartland Invite, Tuesday, April 13, in Henderson.

Nierman began with a gold medal win in the pole vault, clearing the 9’ 4” mark to edge out second-place Mariah Tessman of Heartland by four-inches in the event.

On the track, Nierman finished second in the 300-meter low hurdles, trailing event winner Kate Griess of Sutton by just a half-second, as Griess captured the win with a time o 49.67 seconds, while Nierman finished in a time of 50.16 seconds.

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The Sutton Fillies continued their strong efforts on the track during action at the Heartland Invitational in Henderson April 13, as the Fillies charted a second-place finish as a team, scoring 85 points to trail team champion Hastings St. Cecilia, who claimed team gold with 130 points.

As has been the case for much of the season, Sutton relied heavily on track events to gain the runner-up trophy, as the Fillies scored 73 of their 85 points on the track.

Three events on the track would account for 37 points, as the Fillies would cash in for a pair of medals in each hurdle event and in the 400-meter dash.

With 26 of their 33 team points coming from field event action, the Harvard boys track team, taking part in a new meet to the school, placed seventh as a team in action at the Fullerton Invitational Tuesday, April 6.

Riverside and Twin River finished in a tie for the top team spot in the meet, with both scoring 113 points. Third place in the final standings went to Humphrey St. Francis with 62 points.

Senior Ben Okraska continued his winning ways in the pole vault, winning the event by three feet over second place Kyle Oakley of Central Valley.

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The Sutton Fillies, coming off a third-place team finish at the Thayer Central Invite on April 1, headed south to the Sandy Creek Invite on Tuesday, April 6, and walked away with a fifthplace team finish, scoring all but three of their 68 team points on the track.

Doniphan-Trumbull outscored second place Hastings St. Cecilia 113.5-106 to win the Cougar meet.

Sutton gained 22 of their 65 points on the track from their three relay teams, with both the 4x800 and 4x400-meter relay teams placing second, while the Fillies’ 4x100-meter relay team placed third.

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With a strong 32-point effort in field events this past Tuesday, April 6, the Sandy Creek girls track team wrapped up action at their home invitational with a total of 55 points, to place sixth overall in the nineteam field.

Junior’s Caitlin Rempe and Jenna Heinz combined to claim 18 of the 32 points in the field, placing first and second in the triple jump.

Rempe hit the 32’ 11.25” mark for the win, while Heinz finished second with a 32’ 3” leap.

Leah Hatch and Ella Martin combined to score eight points in the long jump, as Hatch finished third with a 15’ 1” jump, while Martin placed fifth with a 14’ 9” leap. The event was led by Superior’s Ella Gardner with a 17’ 4” jump, while Doniphan-Trumbull’s Hannah Dunning placed second with a 15’ 10.5” effort.

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As has been the case for the young track and field season, the Sutton boys did much of their scoring on the track. Sophomore Nathan Baldwin and senior Cade Wiseman started the Mustangs day at the Sandy Creek Invite by giving Sutton a 22-point lift, en route to totaling 77 team points to place third in the final team standings.

Superior finished as the Sandy Creek Invite team champion with 89 points, while Doniphan-Trumbull finished with 85 for second place.

Baldwin gained 16 of the 22 field event points, winning his fourth straight discus title this season, while placing third in the shot put.

Baldwin hit the 154’ 4” mark for the discus title, out throwing two others in the field that also broke the 150-foot barrier. Eric Lenz of Central City finished second with a 153’ 10” throw, while BDS thrower, Kyle Ardissono hit the 150’ 10” mark.