Sports

In yet another strong day for the Sandy Creek girls track team, the Cougars racked up 57 total points to place fifth as a team at the Superior Invitational April 16.

Hastings St. Cecilia rolled up 124 points to beat second place Thayer Central by 21 points for the girls team title.

A crew of freshmen for the Cougars continued their strong performances at Superior, as Leah Hatch and Jenna Heinz combined for 46 of Sandy Creek’s team points.

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This Saturday, April 27, marks the point of the track and field season in which area teams will begin their trek to the post-season district meets, as all three Clay County Schools enter into their respective conference track and field meets.

SNC MEET

Sutton and Sandy Creek will both head to Milford this Saturday for action in the Southern Nebraska Conference meet. Field events will kick off the meet, beginning at 10 a.m.

The first round of field events will include: Girls shot put, girls high jump, girls and boys long jump, boys discus and boys pole vault.

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Mother Nature finally provided shooters at the Crooked Creek Gun Club to shoot in warm and dry conditions. For the Sutton trap team, the weather proved to aid in a strong outing as the team heads into their final week of conference shooting this coming weekend.

A total of seven seniors hit on 80 or more targets during the April 20 shoot, with Colby Peterson and Andrew Wochner leading the way for Sutton.

Peterson was 91-100 overall, hitting on 46 of 50 targets from the 16-yard mark and 45 of 50 from his 23-yard handicap mark.

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Strong efforts by the Sutton Mustangs on the track, where a total of 14 medals would be earned, propelled the Mustangs to their second straight meet title, as the Mustangs outscored second place Hastings St. Cecilia 125-81 to win the Heartland Invite, one week after winning the Sandy Creek meet.

All three relays for Sutton would earn gold, starting off with a dominating win in the 3,200-meter relay, finishing the event in 9:09.27. Team members included Wyatt Bergen, Quenton Jones, Nate Andres and Colton Haight.

To end the day, both the 400 and 1,600-meter relay teams cashed in for gold. The 400 meter relay, made up by James Griess, Kyle Baumert, Maury Bautista and Jacob Rogers, earned gold by nearly one full second, with a winning time of 46.4 seconds. Second place St. Cecilia finished in a time of 47.2 seconds.

Another strong performance, both on and off the track, would gain the Sandy Creek girls a sixthplace team finish with 53 total points, as the Cougars gained seven medals on the day, four of which came on the track and another three in field events.

Hastings St. Cecilia outscored second place Sutton by 47 points, 116-69, with the Cougars trailing the Fillies by just 16 points.

Freshman Leah Hatch accounted for 18 individual points, winning the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.17 seconds, while in the 200, Hatch placed second with a time of 28.17 seconds. Event winner Jenna Esch of St. Cecilia finished in a winning time of 27.58 seconds.

Hatch aided the Cougars’ 400-meter relay team in placing third in the event with a time of 54.59 seconds. St. Cecilia and Blue Hill finished ahead of the Cougars, as the Hawkettes gained gold in 54.16 seconds, while Blue Hill edged Sandy Creek with a time of 54.28 seconds.

Sutton senior Jordan Davis signed a letter of intent on Wednesday, April 3, to play basketball with Midland University in Fremont. Pictured, in front, is his mother Stephanie Davis, Davis is pictured in the center, while his father, Derrick, is at the left. In the back is Matthew Davis and Sutton’s head basketball coach Jon Ladehoff.

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Sutton’s annual men’s basketball and women’s volleyball tournaments are slated to be played May 3-4, at Sutton Public Schools and in the Sutton Community Center.

Action will begin Friday, May 3 with basketball and volleyball being played at the school and additional vollyeball at the community center that evening.

All tournament action for both will be played at SPS on Saturday, May 4..

Both tournaments will guarantee at least three games or matches per team.

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