Sports

Following a 16-1 route over Friend to start last week’s action for the Sutton Junior Legion baseball team, Sutton hit the road, Wednesday, May 29 for doubleheader action at Duncan Field in Hastings, where Sutton earned a pair of wins over the Hastings Runza Juniors, taking the first game 11-7, and the nightcap 17-6, starting the year with a 4-0 record.

Sandy Creek boys, girls compete in 5 events during 2024 state track and field meet

When organizers of the newly formed Sutton Boosters Club set out to form the organization prior to the start of the 2023-24 school year, the ultimate goal, according to club president, Jeremy Robinson, “this is all an effort to work with the school district to enhance the culture for our students across the board.”

Baby steps could very well be the way Sutton golf coach Randy Ahrens looks at the past three seasons for the Sutton Mustang’s program, as in each of the past two seasons Ahrens has taken one of his players to the Class C state golf championships, Jadyn Friesen as a freshman in 2022, and Harrison Hernson, last season, as a sophomore.

STATE CHAMPS

The Harvard girls track team tallied a total of eight points in action at the Russ Snyder meet, hosted by Lawrence-Nelson at Sandy Creek High School.

The Sutton Fillies used their final regular season track and field meet as a tune-up event as the Fillies enter into the C-7 District meet at Sandy Creek, Thursday, May 9.

A total of five members of the two Sutton trap shooting teams wrapped up the Central Nebraska Trapshooting Conference as all-conference selections, as teams closed out the regular season at the Crooked Creek Gun Club near Stockham, Saturday, April 27.

Sutton junior Jadyn Friesen, the lone golfer for the Sutton squad in action at Lincoln Lutheran earned his third straight medal at the annual tournament, as Friesen placed 11th overall in action that had to deal with rough weather conditions.

Senior Logan Sanders and junior Connor Rempe paced the Sandy Creek boys golf team in action on their home course, the Crooked Creek Country Club in Clay Center, as the Cougars finished third overall in the 14-team tournament, Tuesday, April 16.

Sutton golf team edges Doniphan-Trumbull by 2 strokes for team title, Friesen is individual champion