Tracksters earn medals during busy week of meets

LUANN SCHINDLER

lschindler@

summerlandadvocate.com

Summerland track and field teams competed in two meets last week, bringing home hardware in multiple events.

At the April 13 North Central Invite, in Bassett, the boys' team scored 24 points, finishing in seventh place, while the girls' squad ended in fifth, with 37 points.

Coach Shannon Schumacher credited the teams on a "great job" at what turned into one of the longer meets of the year.

"They competed against some strong competition and improved on a lot of their times and marks, their hard work is starting to show," he said.

Girls' medal winners included Hadley Cheatum, who finished first in the 400m, in 64.64; first in the 800m, running 2:39.64 and fourth in the 200m, with a time of 29.95.

Kylie Hewett earned two medals. She placed third in the 100m, running 13.71 and ended sixth in the 200m, in 30.19.

Kaci Wickersham secured a fifth-place medal in the 1600m, clocking in at 6:41.85.

In the boys' division, Eli Thiele earned gold in the 3200m, running 11:09.12 and finished fourth in the 1600m, crossing the line in 5:15.24.

Joe Ahlers picked up a sixth-place medal in shot put. He threw 35' 2.25".

Trevor Thomson received two medals. He finished fourth in the 100m and 200m, with times of 11.80 and 24.79, respectively.

O'Neill Invite

The girls' team finished in seventh place in division one at Thursday's O'Neill Invite. The Lady Bobcats scored 21 points.

O'Neill claimed the top team award, scoring 125.33 points. Norfolk Catholic took home the runner-up trophy, with 92 points. Other teams competing included Ord, 83; Ainsworth, 78.33; Valentine, 62.33; North Central, 44; Elkhorn Valley, 20 and Pierce, 1.

Hadley Cheatum earned another gold medal in the 400m and a silver in the 800m, while senior Kylie Hewett broke finals in the 100m and 200m.

Results for the Lady Bobcats include:

100m: Hewett, sixth, 13.99

200m: Hewett, seventh, 29.54

400m: Cheatum, first, 1:03.01; Olga Mendoza, 19th, 1:18; Emma Hoffman, 21st, 1:20

800m: Cheatum, second, 2:34.03; Ellie Dougherty, 13th, 3:07.47

1600m: Kaci Wickersham, 14th, 6:51; Aislynn Kester, 16th, 7:10; Maryssa Long, 21st, 7:20

4x100m: Melany Mendoza, Emily Nordby, Adyson Mlnarik, Hewett, eighth, 58.02

4x400: Kester, Mlnarik, Dougherty, Long, seventh, 5:30

4x800: Wickersham, Mlnarik, Brenna Wagner, Cheatum, sixth, 11:30

Pole vault: Morgan Erhardt, 12th, 6' 2"

Triple jump: Nordby, sixth, 31'

Shot put: Natalie Stallbaum, 13th, 28'; Harper Klabenes, 28th, 27'; Lena Bolling, 35th, 26'

Discus: Klabenes, eighth, 85'; Stallbaum, 14th, 80'; Mendoza, 27th, 65'.

Summerland boys scored 24 points and finished ninth in division one.

Norfolk Catholic claimed the team trophy, with 116 points. Ord scored 110.5 to finish second. Other teams competing included O'Neill, 81; Ainsworth, 63; Pierce, 44; North Central and Valentine, 31; Elkhorn Valley, 24.5 and Norfolk Catholic junior varsity, 2.

Thomson earned silver in the 100m, running 11.87 and picked up a second silver in the 200m, finishing in 23.99.

Other Bobcats results include:

100m: Kendrick Schroeder, 12.70; Luis Mendoza, 15.58

400m: David Arroyo, 15th, 1:01.87; Gunnar Shabram, 21st, 1:12.35

800m: Alex Thiele, 15th, 2:28; Logan Eacker, 25th, 2:35.81; Cody Wickersham, 26th, 2:38.71

1600m: Eli Thiele, seventh, 5:12.45; A. Thiele, 16th, 5:50; Jesse Thiele, 17th, 5:47.92

3200m: E. Thiele, sixth, 11:09

4x100m: Thomson, Dalton Rotherham, Schroeder, Keegan Smith, fourth, 47.58

4x400m: Thomson, Rotherham, Schroeder, Arroyo, fifth, 3:55.78

4x800m: Wickersham, A. Thiele, J. Thiele, Smith, ninth, 10:10.78

Long jump: Rotherham, eighth, 18'; Smith, 12th, 17'4"; Eacker, 27th, 15' 9"

Triple jump: Rotherham, sixth, 38'1"

Shot put: Mendoza: 16th, 32' 9.5"; Gabriel Gamez, 17th, 32' 9.5"; Shabram, 23rd, 30' 11"

Discus: Mendoza, 19th, 99' 6"; Shabram, 20th, 95' 11"; Gamez, 32nd, 73' 11".