Heeg Leads Longhorns Track At Morrill

The Kimball boys and girls track teams have a meet under their belts. The Longhorns head into this Saturday’s meet at Bayard following an outing at the Morrill Early Bird 22 meet in which senior Katie Heeg carried on her fine form from last year.

The multi-sport athlete placed second in the triple jump finals (30 feet, 2.75 inches), third in the 100-meter hurdles finals (18.08 seconds) and second in the 100-meter hurdles prelims (18.31).

The Kimball girls finished 11th in the 13-team field with 15 points, while Crawford was first with 84 points.

The Kimball boys finished 13th with 2 points, while Mitchell was first with 95.

Here are the top Longhorn finishers in each event:

Kimball Boys

100 meters prelim: 11, Justin Klosterman, 12.68

200 meters prelim: 13, Wyatt Cords, 25.71

400 meters: 8, Trey Schindler, 59.55

800 meters: 17, Xavier Thomas-Lewis, 2:39.05

1600 meters: 16, Xavier Thomas-Lewis, 6:09.59

110 meter hurdles: 11, Aaron Gillming, 21.83

300 meter hurdles: 16, Aaron Gillming, 1:03.89

4x100 relay: 7 (Justin Klosterman, James McGinnis, Wyatt Cords, Trey Schindler), 49.01.

Discus: 14, Wyatt Cords, 98-2

High jump: Cords, 4-10

Pole vault: 5, James McGinnis, 10-6

Kimball Girls

100 meters prelim: 12, Julie Winstrom, 14.61

200 meters prelim: 17, Rachel Berger, 31.07

400 meters: 12, Tianna Stierwalt, 1:22.62

100 meter hurdles: 3, Katie Heeg, 18.08

100 meter hurdles prelim: Katie Heeg, 18.31

4x100 relay: 7 (Jayden Paxton, Charlotte Hargreaves, Rachel Berger, Julia Winstrom), 56.95.

Shot put: 33, Carlee Murdoch, 18-4

Discuss: 34, Grace Anderson, 51-2

High jump: 6, Jayden Paxton, and 7, Tianna Stierwalt, both 4-6

Pole vault, 7 (tie), Shannen Acheson and Aspyn Kiefer, both 6-0

Long jump: 10, Jayden Paxton, 13-6

Triple jump: 2 Katie Heeg, 30-2.75