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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.

Sandy Creek girls track, and field team headed to Henderson for the Heartland track and field invitational, Tuesday, April 9, and would finish fifth with a total of 70 points.

The Cougars ended the meet with three gold medals, one coming from the 4x400 relay team, and two from Emma Fisher.

In the field events Sandy Creek racked up a couple medals. One medal came from Jenae Calderon in the shot put finishing fifth with a throw of 32’01” and winning the shot put was Ryann Sabatka of Hastings St. Cecilia with a throw of 35’06”.

The other medal came from Anna Paus in the pole vault as she cleared 7’11” to place third, winning the event was Mariah Tessman of Heartland clearing 9’05”.

Moving to the track, in the 100-meter dash Claire Williamson finished in fourth place with a time of 14.13 seconds, and winning the 100-meter dash was McKenna Yates of McCool Junction with a time of 13.28 seconds.

Sandy Creek hosted their annual home invite Tuesday, April 2, and would come in fourth place with 54 total team points falling behind third Hastings St. Ceclia with 99 points, second Doniphan-Trumbull with 115 points, and first-place Central City with 132 points.

Sandy Creek earned two gold medals both in the hurdle events by two different Cougars, as in the 110-meter high hurdles, Ethan Shaw took gold with a time of 16.50 seconds, while in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles, Owen Oglesby finished first with a time of 42.46 seconds, with Shaw placing fourth with a time of 45.60 seconds.

Ben Sullivan scored points for the Cougars in the 100-meter dash with a fifth-place finish in a time of 11.39 seconds. Winning the 100 was Jenson Anderson of Hastings St. Cecilia with a time of 10.87 seconds.

Week two award winners for the Sutton Trap team, for the shoot, Saturday, March 30, at the Crooked Creek Gun Club near Stockham included Aniston Jasnoch as the junior girls runner up, hitting on 39 of 50 targets. Jasnoch also joined forces with Gretha Andersen to claim the junior girls runner-up team title, as the two combined to hit on 71 of 100 total targets.

Two senior girls honors were also earned during the March 30 shoot, as the Sutton team, made up of Laurel Moore and Elsa Andersen tied with the Crooked Creek team for the senior girls championship, as both teams hit on 150 of 200 total targets.

Moore and Elsa Andersen also claimed the senior girls runner-up trophy, also hitting on 150 of 200 targets.

Individual leaders for the week two shoot included Nolen Engel and Angus Andersen, as Engel was 86-100 overall, while Andersen was 81-100.

Seniors Jake Dane and Logan Sanders led the Sandy Creek golf team to a first-place finish at the Sandy Creek Pentad five-team meet at the Crooked Creek Country Club, Tuesday April 2.

It proved to be the Cougars first competative action of the 2024 season, as the Superior Invitational, which was to be March 26, was called off due to weather, but when Sandy Creek got into competative mode, they did it right, holding a six-stroke win over Sutton, 175-181 at the end of the ninehole outing.

Dane and Sanders helped the Cougars to tie for the top spot with Sutton’s Jadyn Friesen, as all three carded scores of 41.

Then Keaton Corman and Sutton’s Harrison Herndon both finished with scores of 44 for fourth place finishes overall.

Connor Rempe on the day would shoot a 49 and Mason Hinrich shooting a 55.

TEAM SCORES: Sandy Creek 175, Sutton 181, Fillmore Central 199, Superior 205, Lawrence-Nelson 216.

Sandy Creek headed to Hebron for the Thayer Central Invitational with the boys coming in second place, as a team, behind the victors from Tri County as Tri County scored 148 total points, with the Cougars scoring 96 total points.

Many points for the Cougars came from the short races and relays with Sandy Creek scoring 62 of their 96 points in short races and relays.

Sandy Creek started out with 14 points from Ben Sullivan with a second- place finish in the 100-meter dash at 11.61 seconds, and Oliver Oglesby right behind him in third, with a time of 11.70 seconds. Winning the event was Ben Holsing of Tri County with a time of 11.37 seconds.

In the 200-meters, the Cougars would go first, second, and third with Owen Oglesby in first, with a time of 23.05 seconds, Oliver Oglesby placed second with a time of 23.88 seconds, while Sullivan finished third in 24.21 seconds racking up 24 points in this event.

Week two action for the Sutton Fillies track and field team earned the Sutton girls a total of eight medals and 32 team points as the Fillies wrapped up the Thayer Central Invitational in eighth place.

Fairbury outscored Cross County 102-80 for the team title, with Tri County taking third overall with 73 points.

Junior Madylinn Bautista collected a total of 16 team points with a pair of runner- up finishes in the two hurdle events, leading the Fillies in the meet.

During the 100-meter hurdles, Bautista finished with a time of 17.94 seconds to trail only Josey Welch of Thayer Central, who claimed the event title in 17.50 seconds.

The 300-meter low hurdles placed Bautista second with a time of 52.68 seconds, as Tri County’s Abbie Drewes claimed the win in 52.28 seconds.