Raiders lead area teams at D-9 track and field

Medicine Valley junior Landon Lenz clears one of the last obstacles to winning his 300-meter hurdles championship at Wednesday’s D-9 district track-field meet in Bertrand. Hitchcock County freshman Chase Matson (left) took second place and also qualified for next week’s Nebraska State Meet at Omaha Burke Stadium.

Diane Stamm

BERTRAND, Neb. — Medicine Valley, Arapahoe and Wauneta-Palisade were all top four team placers at Wednesday’s D-9 district track-field meet.

All three schools will be sending athletes with junior Landon Lenz and distance runner Nathan Nicklas leading the Raiders.

Both won D-9 championships on Wednesday: Lenz in the always grueling 300-meter hurdles and Nicklas during that never-easy 3200 meters.

Logan Burke gave the Broncos a sweep of hurdling events as he won Wednesday’s 100-meter highs.

Wauneta-Palisade senior Greg Gaston won the high jump at 6’1” and will be back in Omaha to defend last year’s state title.

The Broncos delivered other district titles in distance running events.

Cash Yearous won the 1600-meter run. He joined Ben Anderjaska, Joel Maris and senior Brody Nordhausen for the 3200-meter relay title.

Arapahoe captured one D-9 title when Mykyta Sadok, Yordi Gutierrez, Noah Koller and Gentry Anderson raced to a 1600-meter relay title.

More results:

Team scores and all Gazette-area state qualifiers from the D-9 district championship meet at Bertrand on Wednesday.

Information was found on nsaahome.org and not official this morning.

Teams: 1. Bertrand 122, 2. Medicine Valley 80, 3. Arapahoe 71, 4. Wauneta-Palisade 59, 5. Wallace 49, 6. Elwood 45, 7. Hitchcock County 38, 8. Maywood-Hayes Center 36, 9. Eustis-Farnam 26.

Top placers

High jump: 1. Greg Gaston, W-P, 6’1”.

Long jump: 2. Landon Lenz, MV, 18’8”.

100-dash: 3. Gentry Anderson, ARAP, 11.8.

110-hurdles: 1. Logan Burke, MV, 15.9; 3. Chase Matson, HC, 18.4.

200-dash: 2. Wyatt Standiford, HC, 24.3; 3. Noah Koller, ARAP, 24.7.

300-hurdles: 1. Landon Lenz, MV, 43.2; 2. Chase Matson, HC, 43.7.

400-run: 2. Chase Newcomb, MV, 53.1; 3. Noah Koller, ARAP, 54.3.

800-run: 2. Yordi Gutierrez, ARAP, 2:07.3; 3. Benjamin Anderjaska, W-P, 2:08.6.

1600-run: 1. Cash Yearous, W-P, 5:03.7; 3. Nathan Nicklas, MV, 5:10.5.

3200-run: 1. Nathan Nicklas, MV, 10:39.4; 3. Bryar Gerlach, MHC-10:48.4.

400-relay: 2. Arapahoe, 46.5 (Gentry Anderson-Colton Hearn-Noah Koller-Jacob Pruitt); 3. Wauneta-Palisade 47.5 (Austen Rozelle-Greg Gaston-Dalton Harchelroad-Brody Nordhausen); 4. Hitchcock County, 46.9 (Karl Herold-Wyatt Standiford-Wesley Merrill-Matt Rippen).

1600-relay: 1. Arapahoe, 3:40.2 (Mykyta Sadok-Yordi Gutierrez-Noah Koller-Gentry Anderson); 3. Medicine Valley, 3:42.2 (Samuel Heapy-Landon Lenz-Zach Bailey-Chase Newcomb); 4. Hitchcock County, 3:55.1 (Wyatt Standiford-Wesley Merrill-Will Kisker-Chase Matson); 5. Wauneta-Palisade, 3:55.4 (Brody Nordhausen-Austen Rozelle-Dalton Harchelroad-Greg Gaston).

3200-relay: 1. Wauneta-Palisade, 8:47.2 (Ben Anderjaska-Joel Maris-Brody Nordhausen-Cash Yearous); 2. Medicine Valley, 8:58.5 (Chase Newcomb-Nathan Nicklas-Ryan Klintworth-Sam Heapy); 4. Arapahoe, 9:46.1 (Jackson Koller-Parker Ehrke-Mykyta Sadok-Yordi Gutierrez); 5. Maywood-Hayes Center, 10:06.6 (Elisa Handsacker-Abraham Diaz-Luis Fuentes-Devon Johnson).