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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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A pair of senior throwers and sophomore Ashley Nierman will represent the Harvard girls track team this year at the 2019 Nebraska Track and Field championships, as Breonna Julich, Jayleesa Wilkerson and Nierman punched their tickets for Omaha in action at the D-6 District track meet, May 10.

Harvard finished sixth as a team, scoring 38 team points. Giltner, who will be going for their fifth straight Class D state track title this weekend in Omaha, outscored second place Axtell 119-98.5 for the team title.

Julich, who leads all of Class D in the shot put, will take to the field in Omaha after a second-place finish in the D-6 meet Friday with a 38’ 6.5” throw, trailing only Mary Nibbe of Red Cloud, who hit the 39’ 8” mark to win the district title.

Julich heads to Omaha with a Class D best throw of 41’ 10”. She will compete in Omaha on Saturday, May 18, beginning at 3 p.m.

A pair of seniors will represent the Sutton Mustangs at this year’s state track meet in Omaha, as Kyle Baumert will enter the state meet in two events, the 110-meter high hurdles and the 200-meter dash, while Rogers will head to Omaha Burke High School in the shot put.

Sutton would finish the cold and blustery C-7 District meet at Sandy Creek in third place, scoring 62 points, while Thayer Central led all teams with 100 points and Doniphan-Trumbull tallied 74 points for the runner-up finish.

Baumert’s day was a big one in the C-7 meet, but didn’t come without some disappointment. The senior qualified for the finals in the hurdles, the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter event, but after crusing to the win in the 110-meter hurdles, with a time of 15.2 seconds, a false start in the finals of the 100-meter sprint disqualified the speedster from the event, leaving him short of a possible third event in Omaha.

The Harvard girls track and field team wrapped up their regular season this past Thursday, May 2, with action at the Russ Snyder Invite, hosted by Lawrence-Nelson on the Sandy Creek High School oval.

The Cardinals tallied 47 team points to place sixth, while Blue Hill claimed team gold, outscoring second place Lawrence-Nelson 114-96.

The throwing events would see Breonna Julich gain a win in the shot put with a 40’ 6” throw, while tying for second in the discus with a 93’ 7” throw. She was deadlocked with Kenesaw’s Haley Schukei for second place. Blue Hill’s Olivia Buschow earned gold with a 117’ 4” throw.

Adding to the scoring in the discus was Jayleesa Wilkerson who placed sixth with a 92’ 10” throw.

Ashley Nierman and Mackenzie Wagner both medaled in the pole vault, as Nierman was second with an 8’ 2” vault, while Wagner cleared 5’ 6” to place sixth.

Led by a big day of shooting the Sutton juniors trap team would gain a big honor Thursday, May 2, during action at the 50th annual Cornhusker junior and senior high school shoot in Doniphan May 2-4.

The team of Vance Smith, Stevie Wiseman, Ethan Drudik, Cason Peterson and Ingelise Andersen combined to hit on 448 of 500 total targets to win the junior division state championships.

In the process, Smith and Wiseman both finished in the top 10 of the meet, as Smith was 97-100 to finish seventh overall, while Wiseman was 96-100 placing him 10th.

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