Oakland-Craig Hosts East Husker Track Meet

May 5, 2014 Leave a comment


Alec Anderson Wins his heat of the 1600 run in a personal best of 5:30. Photo Credit/Clare Wiltse, Sports Contributor.

Alec Anderson Wins his heat of the 1600 run in a personal best of 5:30. Photo Credit/Clare Wiltse, Sports Contributor.

The 2014 East Husker Track Meet was held at Oakland-Craig on Saturday.  This is the first time that the enlarged membership of sixteen teams have competed for the championship.  It made for a ten hour meet in which the competition was fierce. Two new records were established and two others tied.  Thirty-six of the placing marks rank in the top eight from class competition from across the State of Nebraska.

 

Host Oakland-Craig won both boys and girls title.  Northeast High is the smallest school in the EHC, but represented itself well as the boys took twelve place with 25 points while the girls finished in fourteenth place with 8 points.

 

Senior Taylor Fuston got a personal record on his first attempt in the long jump.  He had a measurement of 20 feet 2 inches which tied for first place.  He lost the gold medal as the second best jump was the tied breaker to decide winner.

 

In the triple jump, freshman Jon Christiansen showed the upper classmen that he was up to the challenge.  Jon did the hop, step, and jump to a distance of 40 feet 6.4inches.  He placed sixth.

 

Chevy Henneman had a pair of fifth place finishes in the sprints.  He ran 11.7 in the 100M dash and 23.9 in the 200M dash.

 

The girls scored their points in the field events.  Freshman Kelly Wakeley returned to form and posted a career best of 33 feet 5.5 inches in the triple jump.  She placed sixth.  Also getting sixth was Darcey Simonsen in  the discus.  Her best throw was 110 feet 2 inches.

 

The boys relays did well.  The 400 relay was a tick of the clock from third place.  Jon Christiansen closed hard on Madison, but ended up  0.1 of the Dragon’s anchor.  Their time of 46.3 was a new season best.  Taylor Fuston, Chevy Henneman, and Benny Estrada  are the other team members.

 

The 1600 relay had a time of 3:48.7.   Dylan Hardeman, Chevy Henneman, Benny Estrada , and Taylor Fuston are team members.

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Cougar Track Teams Post Person Bests

April 29, 2014 Leave a comment


By Clare Wiltse, Sports Contributor

The Tiger Invite was held during one of the best weather days of the spring season and the Cougar track teams took advantage of it to post several personal bests.  The boys and girls both placed seventh with 26 points by the girls and 30 by the boys.

 

After a disastrous Cougar Invite, Darcey Simonsen threw a career best at Tekamah.  At the home meet last week,  the junior had no measurable throws in the prelims with a foul and two out of bounds tosses.  Darcey was the class of the field last Tuesday with a winning toss of 118 feet 4 inches.  The mark is among the top distances in Class D.

 

Freshman Jon Christiansen was the winner in the boy’s triple jump.  He broke through the forty foot barrier at the meet.  He got a leap of 40 feet 8 inches in the early jumps.  In the finals he followed that with the winning distance of 41 feet even.

 

Taylor Fuston ran his first open 400 meter dash of the year.  Fuston picked up a second place with as time of 54.6.  The senior also placed fourth in the long jump with a leap of 19 feet 9.25 inches.

 

Chevy Henneman earned two medals in the sprints.  He placed fourth in the 100 M in 11.6  and sixth in the 200 M in 24.6.

 

Joey O’Connor had an improvement of over twenty seconds in the 3200 M run.  The freshman took fifth in 12:07.5.  David Bishop added a sixth in the 800 M with a time of 2:19.4.

 

Libby Henneman followed up her big throw at the Cougar Invite with another solid effort.  She heaved the shot put 33feet 11.24 inches.  Libby placed third.

 

Kelly Wakeley added a fourth place in the girl’s triple jump.  She had a best jump of 31 feet 7 inches.

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