Emma Epley competes in the 100 meter hurdles at the Sutton Meet. She had the fastest time of those on the Raider team, but did not place. At the Doane Invitational she won the gold medal in the 60 meter hurdles.
Relays . . . always interesting races at any Track Meet. Above, Nolan Ostdiek is handing off the baton to Cole Troudt for the final part of the 3200 meter relay at the Sutton Invitational right in the middle of hand-offs by three other teams. The boys' team placed second at Doane and fifth at Sutton in spite of lowering their times by more than 20 seconds at Sutton. Gabe Zikmund and Logan Menke make up the other half of the 3200 meter relay team.
The Nebraska High School Spring Sports activities are underway across the state. Different schools began with an indoor meet, some waited for the outdoor meets to begin.
The L-N Raiders took part in the Doane University Invitational Meet to open the season and then were in action at the Sutton Invitational last week Tuesday as the students got acclimated to the sport again.
An interesting part of the track season is that results can vary greatly depending on who is at the Meet. For example: a lot of performances for the Raiders were better at the Sutton Meet than at the Doane Meet, but, individuals were not placing in events because they were not among the highest.
Coach Preston Hild was optimistic after the two meets, noting a lot of improvement. He noted the year is way too early to form many opinions on how the year will turn out.
The results of the two meets was as follows:
DOANE: Because of the indoor setting not all events happen, or were modified. The girls brought home one gold medal with Emma Epley winning the 60 M. Hurdles. The girls finished 5th out of 11 teams. Individual Results: (listed in order of finish time or distance.)
GIRLS: 60 Dash: McKenzie Ostdiek, Katelyn Mazour, Emily Troudt.
200 M. Dash: McKenzie Ostdiek, Jessica Sole, Tori Miller.
400 M. Dash: Jessica Sole, Emily Miller.
800 M. Run: Claire Himmelberg, 3rd, 2:53.63; Aleah Heikkinen.
60 M. Hurdles: Emma Epley, 1st, 10.74; Sydney Biltoft, 3rd, 11.16.
1600 M. Relay, 2nd, 4:49.78: Elsa Jorgensen, Aleah Heikkinen, Sydney Biltoft, Emma Epley.
High Jump: Sydney Biltoft, 6th, 4'4".
Long Jump: Elsa Jorgensen, 3rd, 14'10.5"; Emma Epley.
Triple Jump Emily Miller.
Shot Put: Kylie Beard, 3rd, 30'9"; Emily Troudt
BOYS: The boys also finished 5th out of 11 teams at Doane. The boys brought home two silver medals for the day.
60 M. Dash: Devyn Zikmund, Trevor Biltoft, Rocky Miller.
200 M. Dash: Gabe Zikmund, Tyson Kotinek, Erik Wheeland.
400 M. Dash: Jacob Swift.
800 R. Run: Nolan Ostdiek, 2nd, 2:22.81.
1600 M. Run: Logan Menke, 5th, 5:23.06; Ayden West.
3200 M. Run: Cole Troudt, 5th, 11:42.00; Ayden West.
1600 M. Relay, 4th, 4:07.76: Erik Wheeland, Tyson Kotinek, Devyn Zikmund, Cole Troudt.
3200 M. Relay, 2nd, 9:41.51: Cole Troudt, Nolan Ostdiek, Gabe Zikmund, Logan Menke.
High Jump: Tevor Biltoft.
Long Jump: Logan Menke, Devyn Zikmund, Trevor Biltoft.
Triple Jump: Tyson Kotinek, T-4th, 35'8.5".
Shot Put: Keaton Mazour, Chad Holcomb, Rocky Miller.
SUTTON: Team scores were not kept at the Sutton Invitational this year and this reporter has not been able to ascertain which schools were all there. However, it appeared the Raiders were competing against mostly larger schools.
One gold medal was brought home from the meet as Cole Troudt won the 3200 Meter Run. If a "PR" follows a name, that indicated a Personal Record for the individual.
BOYS: 100 M. Dash: Erik Wheeland PR; Trevor Biltoft, Keaton Mazour, Rocky Miller.
200 M. Dash: Devyn Zikmund PR, Erik Wheeland PR, Trevor Biltoft, Tyson Kotinek, Jacob Swift.
400 M. Dash: Gabe Zikmund PR, Jacob Swift PR.
800 M. Run: Nolan Ostdiek PR, Evan Jacobitz PR.
1600 M. Run: Logan Menke, 4th, 5:17.67; Ayden West PR, Evan Jacobitz PR.
32100 M. Run: Cole Troudt, 1st, 11:33.12; Ayden West, A J Koehler.
400 M. Relay: Gabe Zikmund, Trevor Biltoft, Tyson Kotinek, Devyn Zikmund.
1600 M. Relay: PR: Logan Menke, Nolan Ostdiek, Tyson Kotinek, Devyn Zikmund.
3200 M. Relay: 5th, 9:20.55 PR: Logan Menke, Gabe Zikmund, Nolan Ostdiek, Cole Troudt.
Long Jump: Devyn Zikmund, Gabe Zikmund PR.
Triple Jump: Tyson Kotinek PR.
Shot Put: Keaton Mazour PR, Rocky Miller, Chad Holcomb.
Discus: Keaton Mazour, Rocky Miller, Chad Holcomb, Erik Wheeland.
GIRLS: Again, no team records kept for this meet.
100 M. Dash: Katelyn Mazour, McKenzie Ostdiek, Emily Miller, Emily Troudt, Tori Miller.
200 M. Dash: Katelyn Mazour PR, Emily Troudt, Emily Miller, Tori Miller.
800 M. Run: Claire Himmelberg 5th, 2:49.66.
1600 M. Run: Alex Miller.
100 M. Hurdles: Emma Epley, Sydney Biltoft, Claire Himmelberg.
300 M. Hurdles: Jessica Sole.
400 M. Relay: Emma Epley, Emily Miller, McKenzie Ostdiek, Elsa Jorgensen.
1600 M. Relay, 5th, 4:49.18 PR: Emma Epley, Aleah Heikkinen, Claire Himmelberg, Elsa Jorgensen.
High Jump: Sydney Biltoft.
Long Jump: Elsa Jorgensen, 4th, 14'9.25"; Emma Epley.
Shot Put: Kylie Beard, 5th, 33'2.25" PR; Emily Troudt.
Discus: Kylie Beard, 3rd, 98'1" PR; Aleah Heikkinen, Katelyn Mazour.
Both track teams traveled to Kenesaw on Tuesday for this week's competition.
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