Sports

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.

Senior Taylor Braun, and freshman Allee Jarzynka both earned four points each while in action, with Braun placing fourth overall in the long jump, while Jarzynka was fourth in the 3200-meter run.

Braun sailed 14’ 7.5” in the long jump, and the even winner was BDS jumper, Maia Oltmans with a 15’ 4” leap.

Jarzynka’s finish in the eight-lap distance race came with her time of 15 minutes, 23.14 seconds. Winning the long distance event was Jessica Sole of Lawrence-Nelson, with her time of 14:13.64.

GIRLS TEAM SCORES: Silver Lake 105, Meridian 91, BDS 84, Shelton 74, Lawrence-Nelson 57, Blue Hill 49, Kenesaw 48, Harvard 8.

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.

Sutton scored a total of 169 team points and gained 25 top-six performances both in field events and on the track.

The Fillies outscored second-place Heartland by 21 points to win the team title, 169-148, while High Plains placed third with 129 points, and the Aurora junior varsity squad fourth with 43 points.

Sutton earned a total of nine field event top-six finishes, with the two throwing events, the discus and shot put gaining three medals.

In the discus, Angelina Cloet claimed gold with a 95’ 7” throw, while Miranda Nuss placed fifth with a 77’ 2” throw. In the shot put placed Nuss third overall with a 28’ 4.5” toss.

Just two days removed from hosting the Sutton Invitational, where the Sutton boys golf team place third as a team, the Mustangs brewed up a big storm, while battling through cool morning temperatures, and strong winds while hosting the 2024 Southern Nebraska Conference championships on their home course, the Fox Hollow Country Club, Thursday, May 2.

Sutton, who shot a 325 as a team during the Sutton Invite, Tuesday, April 30, shaved three strokes off of their Tuesday performance to win the SNC team title by 22 strokes over second place David City, as the Mustangs fired a 322, while the Scouts shot a 354 to place second.

A trio of Mustang juniors finished in the top 15 of the tournament, with Harrison Herndon claiming the individual SNC tournament title, shooting a 78 during the 18hole outing.

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.

For the junior squad, Aniston Jasnoch was a first-team selection for the girls squad, while on the boys side, Cord Pope earned second-team honors.

On the seniors’ side of the final shoot of the season, Leah Cool was selected to the girls first-team, while Nolen Engel was a second-team selection for the boys, Gavin Vander-Ley captured third-team honors.

On the weekly side of the final standings, Jasnoch was the girls runner-up from the 16-yard mark, as she was 41-50 overall, while Cord Pope led the Sutton juniors overall, hitting on 44 of 50 targets.

The always challenging Southern Nebraska Conference meet proved, yet again, to be a big challenge for the Sandy Creek boys track and field team, as the Cougars, in action at Sutton High School, Saturday, April 27, placed fifth, scoring 44 team points at meet’s end.

A pair of gold medal performances set the tone for the Cougars, as on the track, senior Owen Oglesby topped the 400-meter dash, while in the field, freshman Wes Biltoft claimed the high jump win.

Oglesby’s win came with a time of 50.38 seconds to hold off second-place finisher, Isaac Roth of Milford, who finished with a time of 51.21 seconds.

Biltoft’s gold medal performance came with a 5’ 10” effort to claim the win over three other jumpers who also cleared the same height, including Colby Rautenberg of Milford, Carter Siebert of Heartland, and Brayden Johnson of David City.

Sutton’s 2024 boys golf team found themselves in a big situation following the completion of the Sandy Creek Invitational, Tuesday, April 16, as the Mustangs held off two other strong teams in Doniphan-Trumbull and Sandy Creek to claim their first team title of the season.

The tournament, held at the Crooked Creek Country Club’s nine-hole course in Clay Center, earned Sutton the team title by two strokes over second-place Doniphan Trumbull, and by eight strokes over the host Cougars.

Sutton, behind the impressive play of their two medalists, Jadyn Friesen and Harrison Herndon outshot the Cardinals 333-335, while Sandy Creek ended the 18hole tournament with a 341.

Friesen claimed the individual championship behind a stellar score of 74 to win by four strokes over second-place medalist, Lukas Armstrong of Red Cloud, as Armstrong fired a 78, as did third-place medalist, Hayden Dzingle of D-T.

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.

Sanders fired an 18-hole 81, to place fifth overall, while Rempe’s 84 placed him eighth to help the Cougars to the third-place team finish behind Sutton and Doniphan- Trumbull.

The Mustangs outshot the Cardinals 333-335, while the Cougars followed with a 341 in the final standings.

Sanders’ day opened with a front nine 39, before closing out the day with a 42 on the back nine to card his 81.

Rempe began the day with a 43 during the first round, while wrapping up the day with a 40 to finish with an 83.

Rounding out the field for the Cougars was senior Jake Dane with an 86 to finish 14th overall. Dane carded a front nine 42, and finished off the day with a 44.

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.

The rest of Sutton’s golf team was involved with district music competition, leaving Friesen the lone golfer in the meet for coach Randy Ahrens Friesen’s 11th place medal came on the heels of shooting scores of 47 on the front nine and 42 on the back nine to total 89 strokes throughout the 18--hole tournament at the Crooked Creek Golf Course east of Lincoln.

Lincoln Christian golfer, David Watson won the individual title by five strokes over a trio of Lincoln Pius X junior varsity golfers that carded scores of 82. Watson shot a 77 for the win.

After an incredibly successful year of shooting, the Hillsdale College Shotgun Team finished the season with the biggest possible win: the ACUI/SCTP Division II High Overall Team National Championship. Taking place at the National Shooting Complex in San Antonio from March 19-23, the competition featured 1,150 athletes from 107 different schools, 20 of which were teams competing in Division II.

This is the Chargers’ first victory in Division II (teams with 11-20 athletes competing) following a total of seven wins in Division III since the program’s inception.

All but eight of the Sutton Mustangs 40 points in action at the Heartland Invitational, April 9 in Henderson, came on the track, as Sutton finished sixth as a team, while McCool Junction outscored second place Hastings St. Cecilia for the team title, 163-118.

Senior Cole Baumert was the lone gold medalist on the track for Sutton, winning the 400-meter dash with a time of 52.26 seconds to outrun second-place medalist Nick Thieszen of Heartland by over one second, as Thieszen finished in 53.82 seconds.

Keith Kliewer added two more points in the 400, as the sophomore finished fifth with his time of 56.18 seconds.

Baumert added a third-place finish to his credit in the 800-meter run with a time of two minutes, 10.29 seconds. Winning the two-lap event was McCool Junction’s Trenton Orlando with a time of 2;07.29.