Split personality

Splitting the team between two venues on Friday may have affected team point totals. Still, the Red Raiders boys finished third at Scottsbluff's Twilight Invitational on Friday. Meanwhile the girls managed third place at the George Calvert Invite in Mitchell the same day, while the boys ended up in eighth.

A pair of invaders from out of state were the story in Scottsbluff as Kelly Walsh from Casper, Wyo. and Rapid City (S.D.) Stevens finished ahead of the Sidney boys with 139 and 115 points respectively. The Raiders garnered 102 points.

On the girls side, Stevens took top honors with 195 points while Kelly Walsh's second-place total was 126.5. Host Scottsbluff was close behind in third with 120.5.

The Sidney boys managed strong performances from the usual suspects. Logan Lewis scored a new personal best in the 100 meters (10.78) to win the event by a narrow margin over Kevin Blackett (10.82) of Stevens.

"Working hard in practice is about all I can point to," said Lewis of his improvement in the 100.

Lewis picked up 10 more points for Sidney as he won another shot-put event with a toss of 53-06.75. Once again, the main threat to Lewis in the arena was teammate Jake Heeren, who finished second and also cleared 50 feet.

"It's nice to have someone there with me and be able to go one-two so many times this year," said Lewis. "We like to think we're going to finish first and second in every meet."

Lewis also contributed to the Raiders points total with a third in the 200 and a strong anchor leg in the 4x100-meter relay. The 4x100 team of Lewis, Michael Banaszak, Chance Anglin and Lucas Rosenbaum finished second despite a slight fumble of the baton after one exchange.

Though most of the girls firepower was in Mitchell, Preslie Allen managed to impress in the 800 meters by establishing a new personal best with a fourth-place finish in a deep field. Later in the meet she ran in the 4x400 relay for the first time.

"I had a girl beside me that I knew was faster than me so I just wanted to stick with her," said Allen. "After the first 100 I felt I was going a little too fast so I slowed down a little. But I picked it up again on the second lap and felt strong."

In the boys 800 meters, Allen's teammate Hayden Lienemann used a similar strategy to record his new personal best. Lienemann finished the race in just a shade over two minutes to best his previous record by about three seconds.

Before the gun went off, Lienemann had his eye on a pair of Scottsbluff runners.

"I know those two guys and how good they are," said Lienemann still out of breath from his effort. "My plan from the start was to stick as close to those guys as I could."

It was mission accomplished for the Sidney junior as he finished on the heels of the Bearcat duo Matthew Barraza and Ben Willis-Teff. Lienemann also ran a strong leg in the 4x400 relay in which the Raiders finished second.

Though it wasn't the height he was hoping for, Nick Conger added another win in the high jump to his belt. Though having to run a 110-meter hurdle preliminary race during simultaneous to the high jump, Conger still had enough energy to clear six feet.

"I was hoping I could get 6-04 today but at least I got the ten points for the team," said Conger. "Luckily I had to leave for the hurdles when the bar was only at five-ten or so. It really gets tough when you have to come back and clear something over six feet."

As for his day over the hurdles, Conger finished fourth at 110 meters. Like his longer running teammates, he was motivated by the presence of his fast company.

"I had my eye on the guy from Kelly Walsh who I could see was ahead of me," said Conger. "I just thought of trying to catch up to him in the latter part of the race and at the finish I managed to get close the gap."

In the discus, Tucker Wintholz finished comfortably in second. Wintholz has continued to improve. He hopes to put himself in a position to qualify for state next month. Kyle Krantz, who has been turning heads lately, was the winner of the event with a throw (167-11) that went beyond the 165-foot tape measure being used by the officials.

In the boys pole vault, Rosenbaum turned in a silver-medal performance. He cleared the winning height, but lost out on a tie breaker to event winner Brock Loftus from Stevens.

The Sidney girls sent their vaulters to Mitchell, Jami Flores had a strong performance as she tied a personal and meet record at 8-06. In fact the whole Raiders trio was strong in Mitchell as Jasmine Jallen was just one height behind Flores (8-0) to take third.

Jolene Oliverius also medaled in fifth to give the Raiders 18 points in the event.

Other high finishes for the girls at Mitchell were Sara VonSeggern, who won the 100 meters. Abby Heller was fifth. VonSeggern and Genessa Schilz both medaled at 200 meters by finishing fifth and sixth respectively. Schilz and Flores both scored for Sidney in the 400 as well.

In the distance events at Mitchell, Erin Lindeman was fourth in the two mile.

The Raiders best finish in the relays was its second in the 4x100 which included VonSeggern, Heller, Gabbie Addleman and Emily Mika.

Sidney will send their qualifiers to the Best of the West meet in Scottsbluff on Tuesday. The whole team will finally be united again at Chadron on Saturday.

Team Results

Boys Team Scores

Twilight Invitational

1. Kelly Walsh 139

2. Stevens 115

3. Sidney 102

4. Alliance 94

5. Scottsbluff 87

6. Gering 76

7. Chadron 28

Boys Team Scores

George Calvert Invite

1. Mitchell 188

2. Bridgeport 71

3. Kimball 65

4. Minatare 37

5. Bayard 35

6. Southeast 28

7. Banner County 26

8. Sidney 22

8. Hay Springs 22

10. Morrill 17

11. Leyton 6

12. Sioux County 5

13. Hyannis 4

14. Gering 1

Girls Team Scores

Twilight Invitational

1. Stevens 195

2. Kelly Walsh 126

3. Scottsbluff 120

4. Gering 66

5. Alliance 48

6. Bayard 44

7. Chadron 30

8. Sidney 9

Girls Team Scores

George Calvert Invite

1. Mitchell 117

2. Kimball 99

3. Sidney 67

4. Bridgeport 54

5. Leyton 51

6. Morrill 43

7. Banner County 33

8. Southeast 25

9. Hyannis 19

10. Minatare 6

10. Sioux County 6

12. Bayard 4

13. Gering 2

Friday Track & Field

Girls Results @ Scottsbluff

100 Meters

1. Emily Deltzer, Stevens 12.41

200 Meters

1. Jerayah Davis, Kelly Walsh 24.95

8. Kate Brosnan, Sidney 28.77

400 Meters

1. Jessi Smith, Bayard 59.82

800 Meters

1. Jessi Smith, Bayard 2:21.86

4. Preslie Allen, Sidney 2:26.05

1,600 Meters

1. Emily Person, Stevens 5:17.52

3,200 Meters

1. Taylor Muncie, Scottsbluff 12:12.17

100-Meter Hurdles

1. Chesney Walker, Scottsbluff 14.68

300-Meter Hurdles

1. Chesney Walker, Scottsbluff 15.82

4x100 Relay

1. Stevens 50.57

4x400 Relay

1. Stevens 4:07.66

6. Sidney 4:18.10

4x800 Relay

1. Stevens 9:39.70

Shot Put

1. SteaVen Becker, Scottsbluff 38-03.50

Discus

1. SteaVen Becker, Scottsbluff 121-08

High Jump

1. Miah Vera, Bayard 4-10

Pole Vault

1. Vanessa Rickertsen, Stevens 9-06

Long Jump

1. Nicki Quinn, Stevens 15-04.75

Triple Jump

1. Molly Fretland, Kelly Walsh 33-07.75

Boys Results @ Scottsbluff

100 Meters

1. Logan Lewis, Sidney 10.78

10. Michael Banaszak, Sidney 11.45

200 Meters

1. Kevin Blackett, Stevens 22.20

2. Logan Lewis, Sidney 22.31

9. Michael Banaszak, Sidney 23.18

400 Meters

1. Ryan Schwartzkopf, Gering 49.46

800 Meters

1. Mathew Barraza, Scottsbluff 1:58.25

3. Hayden Lienemann, Sidney 2:00.52

8. Logan Uhlir, Sidney 2:14.25

9. Brody McKnight, Sidney 2:15.61

1,600 Meters

1. Connor Haaland, Stevens 4:40.99

12. Brenner Keane, Sidney 5:02.74

3,200 Meters

1. Hunter Davila, Kelly Walsh 10:03.66

7. Jachob Wiedeburg, Sidney 11:03.87

110-Meter Hurdles

1. Trevor Kamerzell, Alliance 14.75

4. Nick Conger, Sidney 15.47

300-Meter Hurdles

1. Trevor Kamerzell, Alliance 41.02

11. Nick Conger, Sidney 45.13

4x100 Relay

1. Kelly Walsh 44.43

2. Sidney 44.52

(Michael Banaszak, Lucas Rosenbaum, Chance Anglin, Logan Lewis)

4x400 Relay

1. Gering 3:24.59

2. Sidney 3:29.31

(Lucas Rosenbaum, Hayden Lienemann, Hunter Secrest, Michael Banaszak)

4x800 Relay

1. Kelly Walsh 8:12.42

4. Sidney 8:43.89

(Logan Uhlir, Brenner Keane, Brody McKnight, Jachob Wiedeburg)

Shot Put

1. Logan Lewis, Sidney 53-06.75

2. Jake Heeren, Sidney 50-00.50

Discus

1. Kyle Krantz, Alliance 167-11

2. Tucker Wintholz, Sidney 144-07

High Jump

1. Nick Conger, Sidney 6-00

4. Brendan Holly, Sidney 5-08

Pole Vault

1. Brock Loftus, Stevens 12-09

2. Lucas Rosenbaum, Sidney 12-09

Long Jump

1. Alex Lewis, Stevens 21-00.00

10. Chance Anglin, Sidney 18-01.00

14. Hunter Secrest, Sidney 17-00.50

Triple Jump

1. Jason Berglund, Alliance 41-01.50

9. Brendan Holly, Sidney 37-05.50

Girls Results @ Mitchell

100 Meters

1. Sara VonSeggern, Sidney 13.53

5. Abby Heller, Sidney 14.04

7. Gabbie Addleman, Sidney 14.13

14. Jessica Houk, Leyton 14.81

25. Taylor Berner, Leyton 15.42

200 Meters

1. Aspen Reifschneider, Mitchell 27.60

4. Gabbie Addleman, Sidney 28.70

5. Sara VonSeggern, Sidney 28.80

6. Genessa Schilz, Sidney 28.90

9. Cheyenne Nickel, Leyton 30.97

400 Meters

1. Kiley Guerue, Morrill 1:02.72

5. Genessa Schilz, Sidney 1:06.53

6. Jami Flores, Sidney 1:06.80

9. Cheyenne Nickel, Leyton 1:09.65

10. Kristine Barnett, Leyton 1:10.18

11. Abbey Mills, Sidney 1:10.26

800 Meters

1. Taylor Peters, Mitchell 2:27.50

3. Kaitlyn Berner, Leyton 2:34.10

6. Alli Ehler, Sidney 2:49.20

1,600 Meters

1. Celeste Cardona, Mitchell 5:46.98

3,200 Meters

1. Celeste Cardona, Mitchell 12:19.40

4. Erin Lindeman, Sidney 13:35.10

110-Meter Hurdles

1. Mikayla Fiehtner, Kimball 18.36

4. Abbe Draper, Leyton 18.97

8. Taylor Berner, Leyton 19.83

300-Meter Hurdles

1. Madison Biesecker, Kimball 49.54

5. Abbe Draper, Leyton 54.71

6. Taylor Berner, Leyton 58.05

4x100 Relay

1. Morrill 52.68

2. Sidney 52.83

(Abby Heller, Emily Mika, Sara VonSeggern, Gabbie Addleman)

5. Leyton 55.04

(Kaitlyn Berner, Jessica Houk, Taylor Berner, Abbe Draper)

4x400 Relay

1. Mitchell 4:19.28

4. Sidney 4:29.49

(Alli Ehler, Abby Heller, Genessa Schilz, Sara VonSeggern)

4x800 Relay

1. Mitchell 10:04.38

Shot Put

1. Olga Aguilar, Bridgeport 36-06.50

4. Katy Ernest, Leyton 32-03.50

6. Chaona Radtke, Sidney 30-09.00

11. Annaliese Lecher, Sidney 29-04.00

15. BreaHanna Harlow, Leyton 27-02.50

19. Dani McKay, Leyton 26-07.25

22. Taylor Parsons, Sidney 23-09.50

Discus

1. Kassandra Harris, Leyton 108-06

5. Katy Ernest, Leyton 89-07

6. Annalise Lecher, Sidney 86-09

9. Dani McKay, Leyton 83-04

25. Samantha Kaus, Sidney 60-06

High Jump

1. Taylor Evans, Banner County 4-09

2. Abby Heller, Sidney 4-06

4. Abbe Draper, Leyton 4-06

7. Megan Rapp, Sidney 4-02

Pole Vault

1. Jami Flores, Sidney 8-06

3. Jasmine Jallen, Sidney 8-00

5. Jolene Oliverius, Sidney 6-06

Long Jump

1. Taylor Evans, Banner County 15-07.50

4. Kaitlyn Berner, Leyton 15-02.75

5. Jessica Houk, Leyton 14-10.25

22. Hope Dykman, Leyton 12-08.75

29. Michaela Flick, Sidney 10-11.50

32. Jessica Webb, Sidney 8-03.50

Triple Jump

1. Kaitlyn Berner, Leyton 34-09.00

9. Kristine Barnett, Leyton 28-10.50

18. Hope Dykman, Leyton 26-07.50

Boys Results @ Mitchell

100 Meters

1. Christian Perez, Mitchell 11.83

14. Michael Muggli, Sidney 12.51

25. Austin Jacobsen, Sidney 13.11

28. Spencer Rolls, Sidney 13.30

30. Jared Westman, Leyton 13.85

200 Meters

1. Christian Perez, Mitchell 23.71

4. Michael Muggli, Sidney 25.06

16. Keaton Wakefield, Sidney 26.58

20. Alex C. Frerichs, Leyton 27.12

22. Brennen Cruise, Leyton 27.35

27. Colden Harrison, Sidney 28.65

400 Meters

1. Christian Perez, Mitchell 52.92

7. Jarod Luptak, Sidney 57.71

11. Cody McKay, Leyton 58.45

17. Jo Jo Medina, Sidney 1:02.21

19. Zach Hellie, Leyton 1:06.70

800 Meters

1. Levi Avila, Mitchell 2:05.30

9. Blake Draper, Leyton 2:34.90

11. Thanaphat Sinthuwnichsaid, Sidney 2:40.20

1,600 Meters

1. Levi Avila, Mitchell 4:53.05

6. Seth Schuessler, Leyton 5:18.80

3,200 Meters

1. Edward Grentz, Mitchell 11:05.90

5. Ryan Aurich, Sidney 11:43.10

6. Rhett Dye, Leyton 11:51.00

110-Meter Hurdles

1. Drew Gilliland, Mitchell 16.48

300-Meter Hurdles

1. Juan Garfio, Minatare 42.79

18. Kenny Ernest, Leyton 52.32

20. Spencer Rolls, Sidney 53.84

4x100 Relay

1. Mitchell 46.12

5. Sidney 47.88

(Michael Muggli, Austin Jacobsen, Keaton Wakefield, Michael Deaver)

11. Leyton 50.78

(Lane Rathman, Jared Westman, Brennen Cruise, Alex C. Frerichs)

4x400 Relay

1. Kimball 3:43.58

3. Sidney 3:46.92

(Michael Muggli, Jarod Luptak, Austin Jacobsen, Michael Deaver)

5. Leyton 3:55.72

(Cody McKay, Brennen Cruise, Alex C. Frerichs, Seth Schuessler)

4x800 Relay

1. Mitchell 8:37.61

Shot Put

1. Travis Albertz, Bridgeport 48-10.00

10. Lane Rathman, Leyton 39-08.00

11. Jacob Ernest, Leyton 38-04.50

18. Kevin Jurgensen, Leyton 34-01.50

27. Thomas Kokjer, Sidney 29-10.50

Discus

1. Zach Pieper, Mitchell 133-11

3. Brian Rolls, Sidney 127-06

12. Zach Hellie, Leyton 108-04

13. Lane Rathman, Leyton 105-07

17. Jacob Ernest, Leyton 100-06

24. Thomas Kokjer, Sidney 96-07

High Jump

1. Garret Braman, Mitchell 6-00

9. Zach Hellie, Leyton 5-02

Pole Vault

1. Jorge Lara, Morrill 11-06

5. Michael Deaver, Sidney 10-06

Long Jump

1. Logan Linch, Bridgeport 18-10.50

12. Cody McKay, Leyton 17-02.25

14. Jo Jo Medina, Sidney 16-10.50

23. Yaeger Price, Sidney 14-07.75

27. Ryan Stettner, Sidney 13-09.00

Triple Jump

1. Adam Schlotthauer, Mitchell 39-10.50

5. Cody McKay, Leyton 37-00.75

13. Jarod Luptak, Sidney 33-03.50