Last Regular Track Meet for LDNE

By Clare Wiltse, Sports Contributor

Joey O’Connor in 3200 run. Photo Credit/Clare Wiltse Sports Contributor.

Northeast’s tracksters took advantage of their last regular season meet to tune up for Districts to be held on May 14 in Lyons.  The O-C invite on May 8 started out with temperatures in the eighties giving the field events some great weather, but a cold front made for  the track events being contested in a chillier environment.

The girls took ninth in the twelve team with ten points.  The boys  finished with nineteen point and took eighth place.

The horizontal jumps gave the boys twelve of their points.  Taylor Fuston set a personal record with a leap of 21 feet 0.5 inches in the long jump.  He finished in second place.  Jon Christiansen leaped 41 feet in the triple jump and took fourth place.

Coach Hosch had his relay team rested with limited competition in the open events.  
The 1600 relay came through with the season’s best time of 3:45.5.  They came in fourth.  The 400 relay took fifth in 46.4.

Freshman Joey O’Connor broke through the twelve minute barrier in the 3200M run.  His time of 11:59.70 placed him in sixth place.

Madie Ronnfeldt scored in two event.  She had a season best 13.3 in the 100M dash and took sixth.  Her 54.3 in the 300M hurdles took third.

In the field Kelly Wakeley had a measurement of 33 feet 1.25 inches in the triple jump and placed fifth.  Darcey Simonsen came threw with a toss of 113 feet on her last attempt to take sixth in the discus.