Area Athletes Compete at D-8 Track Championships

The D-8 district track and field championships took place Thursday at Mark Russell Field in Broken Bow. North Platte St. Pat’s was the girls team champion with 123 points, Overton was 2nd and Sandhills/Thedford was third. North Platte St. Pat’s was the boys team champion with 95 points, Brady was second and Sandhills Valley was third.

The top two places in the individual running events and field events automatically qualified for the state championships next week in Omaha.  The winning teams in all relays automatically qualified for state. Here is a list of the automatic qualifiers from the KCNI/KBBN coverage area

Boys
Ansley/Litchfield
Calvin Finley – 400 – 1st place (52.21), 800 – 1st place (2:04.59)
Dillon Haines – 400 – 2nd place (52.96)
4×800 meter relay – 1st place (Dillon Haines, Ryan Bailey, Calvin Finley, Luke Bailey) 1st place (3:42.03)

Twin Loup
Archer Grint – pole vault – 1st place (12′)
Quincy Ryker – pole vault – tied for 2nd (10’6″)

Anselmo-Merna
Wyat Lambertson – 300 meter hurdles – 2nd place (41.89)

Mullen
Trevor Kuncl – 3200 – 1st place (10:11.11), 1600 – 2nd place (4:51.79)
Clayton Moore – 110 meter hurdles – 1st place (15.42), 300 meter hurdles – 1st place (41.48)

SEM
Noah Eggleston – long jump – 2nd place (20’6″)

Sandhills/Thedford
Seth Scranton – triple jump – 1st place (42′ .5″)

Sandhills Valley
Tad Dimmitt – shot put – 1st place (56’10.5″), discus – 1st place – (158′)

Girls
Ansley/Litchfield
Carli Bailey – 400 – 1st place (59.34), 100 meter hurdles – 2nd place (16.4), 300 meter hurdles – 1st place (47.81)

Twin Loup
Alexis Mauler – pole vault – 2nd place (10′)
Elsie Ottun – 200 – 2nd place (27.38)

Sandhills/Thedford
Brea Branic – high jump – 1st place (4’11”)
Anna Clark – long jump – 2nd place (16’1″)
Dayle Haake – 100 meter hurdles – 1st place (16.26), 300 meter hurdles – 2nd place (50.24)

Mullen
4×800 relay team (Peyton Paxton, Medora DeNaeyer, Alli Loughran, Taylor Svoboda) – 1st (10:40.96)
Peyton Paxton – 3200 – 1st place (12:11.49), 1600 – 1st place (5:52.71)
Taylor Svoboda – 800 – 2nd place (2:34.24)

Sandhills Valley
Jaylen Fowler – shot put – 1st place (34’9.25″)

For full results click here

Photos by Dean Ringlein

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