Weather dampens Kimball Junior High track invite

A late afternoon lightning storm cancelled out the final events of the day at the Kimball Junior High Track and Field Invite this past week, but most of the events went off as scheduled with good weather conditions. Those events not held were the boys 200 meter dash, the 800 meter run for all divisions, and all of the relays.

A solid all around performance by the Kimball 8th grade boys as they won their school division with 68 points with Perkins County runnerup with 45. The balance of the division saw Mitchell with 33, Pine Bluffs 32, Bayard 25, Burns 17, Bridgeport 17, Prairie 14, Alliance St. Agnes 12, Hemingford 10 and Morrill 6.

Brady Kilgore won the 75 meter hurdles with a time of 11.50.

Izaac Reuter was 2nd in the pole vault at 8’6” with Colton Mielke 6th at 7’0.” Ethan Culek-Schaeffer was 2nd in the discus at 103’0” and Aroon Flores 4th at 96’0.” Flores was also 3rd in the shotput at 39’9.75” and Corey Travis 6th at 32’9.50.” Zane Anthony was 3rd in the 400 with a time of 58.83 and Culek-Schaeffer was 5th in 1:00.32. Zachery Wagner ran 3rd in the 1600 in 5:36.43 and was 3rd in the triple jump at 33’10.75” with Reuter 5th at 32’05.” Without a doubt the events that were cancelled would have added more points to Kimball’s scoring as they are strong in all of those events.

Kimball finished 5th in the boys 7th grade division with 26 points with Mitchell an easy winner with 95. Perkins County was runnerup with 50 followed by Burns with 32, Morrill 29, Kimball 26, Pine Bluffs 24, Hemingford 18, Bayard 11, Bridgeport 10, Prarie 8, and Alliance St. Agnes 7. Scoring for Kimball were Todd Hunsaker 2nd in the 75 meter hurdles with a time of 14.03, and Jacob Withrow 2nd in the triple jump at 32’1” as he carries on the family tradition in the event. Brayden Tyan was 4th at 30’3.5.” Brendan Walker was 4th in the discus at 84’8” and Beau Hanks 5th at’78’5.”

Prarie edged out Kimball by 4 points to win the girls 7th grade team division. Prarie had 58 points, Kimball 54, Bayard 51, Mitchell 28, Perkins County 28, Alliance St Agnes 23, Hemingford 21, Pine Bluffs 18, Bridgeport 10, Morrill 9, Burns 9.

Jenna Greenwood was an individual standout for Kimball winning three events and placing in yet another. Jenna won the 100 meter dash in 14.00, won the long jump at 14’2,” won the triple jump at 29’ 5.5”, and ran 5th in the 200 meter dash in 31.42.

Carli Wurdeman also had a good day finishing 2nd in the shotput at 23’6.5” and 2nd in the discus at 66’3.5.” Bailie Brower was 5th in the shot at 22’11” and 6th in the discus at 59’1.25.” Sierra Rutledge was 6th in the shot at 22’1.” Kara Cole was 5th in the triple jump at 24’3.”

Bayard won the girls 8th grade division with 70 points followed by Mitchell with 54, Bridgeport 51, Alliance St Agnes 36, Perkins County 28, Pine Bluffs 27, Kimball 19, Morrill 9, Prarie 8, Hemingford 7, Burns 1.

Kate Reader was 2nd in the triple jump at 30’7” and 4th in the long jump at 13’11.” Lexi Hoppes was 3rd in the shotput at 26’9” and Madison Wynne was 6th in the 200 meter dash in 32.03.

The Kimball Junior High track team will be at Pine Bluffs today (Thursday-April 30) with a 9 a.m. start time.