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Lydia Robertson and Bailey Ahlers kicked off the 2024 girls' track campaign with medals at the Dan Lennon Class B Invitational, held March 18, in the Dakota Dome on the University of South Dakota campus in Vermillion. The two Bobcat junior jumpers tied for third place in high jump, clearing 4' 11 inches. Robertson ended in sixth place in triple jump, reaching 30' 11.25 inches. Lenora Kester finished eighth in triple jump, landing at 30' 4.75 inches. She also competed in the 60m hurdles, running...
Ethan Kester, Ryan Rifer, Alec Schindler and Gavin Whiting picked up the first medals of the 2024 Bobcat boys' track season, March 18, at the Dan Lennon Invitational. The annual University of South Dakota indoor meet was held in the Dakota Dome, attracting 45 Class B schools. Kester picked up a bronze medal in pole vault. He cleared 10' 6 inches. Rifer, competing in high jump, ended in third. He cleared 6' 3 inches. Rifer also ran the 800m in 2:37.56, finishing 37th. Schindler placed fourth in...
Seven members of the Bobcat speech team competed Saturday at the West Holt Invitational. Summerland’s lone varsity medal winner was Yuliana Olivan who came in second in entertainment speaking. Also competing at the varsity level were oral interpretation of drama team members Brandon Pruden, Owen Jeffords, Olivan and Addisyn Fletcher, who came in one place out of the medal round. Pruden also competed in humorous prose. Carlee Livingston competed in persuasive speaking, while Raina Krebs competed in entertainment speaking. The team was eighth o...
Six Bobcat wrestlers earned medals, Saturday, at the Summerland Invitational. The team finished third in the 15-team field, scoring 110 points. Ravenna took top honors, with 177 points, while Wisner-Pilger ended second, with 136. Ethan Kester flawlessly worked his way through the 138-pound bracket, pinning WP's Gabe Liemann in :44 and the Bobcat's Connor Thomson in 1:20. In the semifinal, he defeated Trevor Steffen, GACC, 6-3 and in the championship match, claimed an 11-7 decision over Grady...
Summerland girl's wrestling team finished second at the Dec. 18 Summerland Invite. South Sioux City edged the Bobcats, 136-130, in a field of 28 teams. Amor Zermeno finished second in the 105 division. She earned wins by fall over Day Way Paw, Madison, in 3:36 and Sophia Barela, Ansley/Litchfield, in 2:17, before falling to Teegen Hasebroock, Elkhorn Valley, in :53. Savannah Gallaghe claimed the silver medal in the 120-pound class. She pinned Chloe Kokes, Ord, in 3:03; Josie Hemmingsen, Central...
Four and one-half points. That’s the margin that separated first and second places, Friday, at the Elgin Public Pope John Girls’ Wrestling Invitational. Elkhorn Valley landed just ahead of the Bobcats, 123.5 to 119. West Holt finished third, scoring 73; Schuyler junior varsity, fourth, 68; and Neligh-Oakdale, fifth, with 61 points in the 13-team field. Ava Cleveland struck gold in the 110-pound class. She opened with a win by fall, in :45, over Eva Bermel of Randolph and pinned Schuyler’s Gabri...
Summerland wrestlers scored 101 points at Friday's Southern Valley Invitational, finishing sixth overall. Sutherland won the invite, with 169 points, followed by Chase County, 166.5; Sedgwick County/Fleming, Colorado, 139; Loomis, 127; and Arapahoe, 116.5. Five Bobcat wrestlers earned medals at the meet. Ethan Kester ended third in 138. He defeated CC's Alonso Martinez, by fall in :54 and Franklin's Lorance Davis, by fall, in 1:33. In the quarterfinals, Brody Patterson, Wilcox-Hildreth,...
Summerland girls' wrestling team brought home its first-ever championship trophy, Monday, Dec. 4. They scored 134 points to claim the title at the West Holt Girls Invitational. The host team finished second, with 117, in the 13-team event. The Bobcats finished with 10 medal winners, including two first-place finishes from Ava Cleveland and Raina Krebs. Cleveland drew a first-round bye in the 110 class and in round two, pinned Mollie Corkle, O'Neill, in 1:16. She picked up another pin in round...
Arlington High School claimed first place, while Gretna and Osmond took home second and third, respectively, in Wayne State College’s annual Wildcat Business Invitational held Oct. 18 on campus. Approximately 200 students from 14 Nebraska high schools, including Summerland Public School, competed in several events in different areas of business. Competitions included accounting, business calculations, business communication, economics, introduction to business, introduction to financial math, introduction to Future Business Leaders of A...
Summerland junior high and high school cross country athletes showed improvement, despite not bringing home any medals from the Neligh-Oakdale Cross Country Invitational, held at Antelope Country Club. The girls' division included 36 participants. Delani Runnels, Niobrara/Verdigre, set the place, winning in 20:02. For the Bobcats, Carlee Livingston placed 22nd, with a time of 26:54. Savannah Gallagher completed the course in 30:16, finishing in 34th place. Zander Cepel placed 32nd in the boys'...
While Summerland cross country runners failed to make the medalist stand at the Burwell Invite, held Aug. 24, at the Calamus Golf Course, the runners' performances show the potential for a positive season. Carlee Livingston and Savannah Gallagher ran in the senior girls' division. Livingston completed the course in 21:47.25, finishing in 18th place. Gallagher ended 21st, running 23:36.40. Zander Cepel finished 25th in the senior boys' division. He ran 18:41.91, slightly four minutes off the...
The Summerland junior high golf team wrapped up its season at the Ainsworth Middle School Golf Invitational, held May 9. “We had four medal and the team came in second,” said coach Kris Tabbert. In team standings, the Bobcats earned the runner-up trophy, shooting 171. North Central took top team honors, shooting 153. Earning individual medals were Landon Nelson, fifth, 41; Zander Tabbert, sixth, 42; Adyen Bazelman, ninth, 43 and Ayden Hartigan, 15th, 45. Also competing were Jacob Pierzina, 20th, 47; Braelyn Bergman, 38th, 53; Abbi Miller, 45t...
The Bobcat boys' track team scored 163 points en route to winning the team title at its April 25 home meet. North Central finished second, with 95 points and Boyd County finished third with 91. Trevor Thomson struck gold in the 100m dash, running 11.15. Kendrick Schroeder finished fifth, with a 11.80 time. Shayne Jenkins placed 12th, with a 12.50 race. Alec Schindler and Michael Koenig finished second and third, respectively, in the 110m hurdles. Schindler ran 16.90, with Koenig crossing in 17.1...
Summerland golf team members rebounded from the conference meet by earning the second-place trophy at the 2023 Osmond Invitational, held April 26 at Rolling Hills Golf Course....
The Summerland junior high golf team participated in the 2023 West Holt Junior High Invitational, April 27. More than 100 golfers competed in the tournament. Summerland 1 finished eighth in team standings, shooting 214. Summerland 2 ended in 17th place, carding 251. Zander Tabbert led Summerland 1, shooting 51. Jacob Pierzina ended 34th, with 52. Ayden Bazelman shot a 55 to finish 38th. Ayden Hartigan placed 45th, carding a 56. Landon Nelson finished with a 60 and placed 60th. Omari Martin led Summerland 2, with a 55. Braelyn Bergman shot 57...
The Summerland boys’ golf team tied for fourth place at its home invitational, held April 13 at Summerland Golf Course. The varisty squad shot 367 to tie Elgin Public/Pope John. Norfolk Catholic won the team title, shooting 350 and O’Neill finished second, with 360. Stuart ended in third place, with 363. Dylan Rotherham carded an 82 to place fifth in individual competition. Kellen Mlnarik ended in ninth place, with an 87 and Dane Miller tied for 13th place, shooting 90. Will Jesse, of CWC, won the individual title. He shot 76. Karter Otte, of...
Two Lady Bobcats returned to Summerland with two medals from the 2023 Dan Lennon Track Invitational, held at the University of South Dakota, in Vermillion, March 28. Senior standout Hadley Cheatum, a USD track commit for next season, earned bronze in the 60m hurdles, finishing in 9.88. She placed fifth in the 400m, running 1:02.86. Bailey Ahlers finished fourth in high jump, clearing five feet. In the majority of events, more than 100 athletes participated in the Class B division, featuring schools from Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa. Raina...
Summerland "speechsters" earned four medals at the Creighton Speech Invite, held Friday, Feb. 17. Champs finals medal winners included Faith King, third, informative speaking and poetry interpretation; Olga Mendoza, third, serious prose and Yuliana Olivan, fourth, entertainment speaking. Award winners in the next-in division included Brandon Pruden, fourth, humorous prose; Carlee Livingston, fourth, entertainment speaking and Adrienne Parker, Audrey Parker, Talya Nilson and Olivan, fourth, oral...
Fourteen members of the Summerland speech team competed at the West Holt Invitational on Saturday, coming in seventh of 18 teams. Earning top honors in entertainment speaking was Yulianna (Julie) Olivan, who earned a first-place rating from both judges in preliminary rounds and also from both judges in the final round. She earned 197 of a possible 200 rating points. Other medal winners were as follows: Faith King, fourth, poetry interpretation; Olga Mendoza, fourth, serious prose and sixth,...
Summerland wrestlers finished 19th in Friday's Central Valley Invitational. The Bobcats scored 42 points, powered by top performances by Alex Thiele and Ethan Kester. Neligh-Oakdale claimed the team title with 160 points. Perennial powerhouse, Anselmo-Merna, took home the runner-up trophy with 142.5. Thiele finished fourth in the 120-pound division. After pinning Ky Cargill, CV, in 1:51, Thiele won by fall, in 3:26, over Bo Brenna, South Loup. Thiele met Elgin Public/Pope John's Carter Beckman...
SUBMITTED ARTICLE Summerland hosted its own speech invitational, Saturday. A dozen teams competed in the meet. Summerland placed fourth behind West Holt, 318 points; Stuart, 258 points; and Elgin Pope John, 214 points. Summerland earned 158 points and O'Neill St. Mary's was fifth with 152. Other schools competing were Stanton, Neligh-Oakdale, Creighton, Verdigre, Wheeler Central, Boyd County and Rock County. Olga Mendoza earned the gold medal in serious prose. Two Bobcat speakers placed second,...
Ten members of the Summerland speech team competed at the Practice Makes "Perfekt" Invitational at Wisner-Pilger High School, Jan. 14. The Bobcats earned sixth place as a team behind Twin River, Wisner-Pilger, Homer, Laurel-Concord-Coleridge and Archbishop Bergan. Scribner-Snyder was seventh, followed by West Point-Beemer, North Bend, Stanton, Pender, South Sioux City, Wakefield and Allen Consolidated. Senior speaker Olga Mendoza took top honors in serious prose while Yulianna Olivan and Alanna...
The Summerland wrestling team placed 13th at Saturday's Battle Creek Invitational. Nineteen teams competed and, at the end of the day, the host team secured the team title, surpassing Crofton/Bloomfield by eight points, 184.5 to 176.5. The Bobcats ended with 42 points and all eight competitors earned medals. Ethan Kester won bronze in the 126-pound class. He pinned Ponca's Thomas Beavers, in 1:18, and won an 8-4 decision over BC's Jaxon Hassler to advance to the championship bracket. Trev Arlt,...
Raina Krebs brought home a second-place medal, Saturday, from the Battle at the Point girls' wrestling invitational, held in West Point. Summerland finished 19th in the 30-team field, scoring 36 points. South Sioux City topped the field, with 192 points and Grand Island, Pierce, Crofton-Bloomfield and Omaha North rounded out the top five. Krebs opened competition in the 235-pound division by pinning Alexis Anderson, Battle Creek, in :34. In the quarter final, Krebs battled Allee Jo Inzauro, of...
Four high school and four junior high participants earned medals for the Bobcat squads at the Boyd County Cross Country Invitational. The meet, held Sept. 8, at the Butte Golf Course, was originally slated to start at 4 p.m., but due to impending high temperatures nearing the century mark, officials bumped the start time to 10 a.m. Yet, temperatures neared the mid-80s when races started and reached above 90 during the awards ceremony. In the high school girls' division, Aislynn Kester led the...