Longhorns sweep through district, send 20 to state

SUTHERLAND, Neb. — Chase County made a clean swep of the C-9 team titles while qualifying 20 athletes into Class C state championship starting Wednesday at Omaha Burke Stadium.

The Chase girls dominated in every event, even placing among triple jumpers with freshman Katelyn Stamm’s top four finish.

They literally won every race on the track with senior Kamrie Dillan, juniors Lucy Spady,Jerzee Milner and sophomore Bryn McNair all winning multiple titles.

Chase County’s boys conquered a tighter team race though not too close, as the Longhorns were about 38 points ahead of top challenger Gordon-Rushville.

They showed remarkable balance while placing high in most events. Dawson Mollendor won multiple titles in the 100-meter dash and running on Chase’s 400-meter relay.

Kade Anderson hit a carer best as did Clay Meeske while winning two more races.

Team scores and all top five Chase County placers.

All state qualifiers can be seen on mccookgazette.com and Page 18 today.

GIRLS

Teams: 1. Chase County 186, 2. Bayard 72, 3. Sutherland 48, 4. Gordon-Rushville 46, 5. Hershey 40, 6. Bridgeport 31, 7. Perkins County 30, 8. Hemingford 29, 9. Kimball 26, 10. Morrill 19.

100 meters: 1. Kamrie Dillan, CC, 12.93; 2. Chloe Dillan, CC, 13.12. 100-hurdles: 1. Jerzee Milner, CC, 15.95; 4. Joee Clevenger, CC, 16.96 (PR). 200 meters: 1. Kamrie Dillan, CC, 26.38 (PR); 2. C. Dillan, CC, 27.02 (PR). 300-hurdles: 1. Jerzee Milner, CC, 48.55; 3. Clevenger, CC, 49.8 (PR). 400 meters: 1. Bryn McNair, CC, 57.69. 800: 1. Bryn McNair, CC, 2:23.92; 3. Kora Weiss, CC, 2:35.67. 1600: 1. Lucy Spady, CC, 5:51.46. 3200: 1. Lucy Spady, CC, 12:33.45.

400-relay: 1. CC 50.84 (Jerzee Milner-Kamrie DIllan-Chloe Dillan-Jordan Jablonski). 1600-relay: 1. CC 4:14.43 (Kamrie Dillan-Jordan Jablonski-Ali McNair-Bryn McNair). 3200-relay: 1. CC 10:25.67 (Lucy Spady-Kora Weiss-Ali McNair-Jordan Jablonski).

Shot put: 1. Kaylie Lotspeich, CC, 34’8 1/2”. High jump: 1. Bryn McNair, CC, 5’2”. Pole vault: 1. Jordan Jablonski, CC, 9’7”; 3. A. McNair, CC, 8’10” (PR). Triple jump: 1. K. Heeg, KIM, 33’6 1/2”; 4. Katelyn Stamm, CC, 31’7” (PR).

BOYS

Teams: 1. Chase County 108.5, 2. Gordon-Rushville 71, 3. Hershey 66, 4. Perkins County 61, 5. Sutherland 57.5, 6. Morrill 51, 7. Bridgeport 41, 8. Bayard 34, 9. Kimball 22, 10. Hemingford 15.

100 meters: 1. Dawson Mollendor, CC, 11.39. 110-hurdles: 1. Kade Anderson, CC, 16.46 (PR); 3. Easton Fries, CC, 16.59 (PR). 300-hurdles: 1. A. McDonald, G-R, 42.69; 2. Fries, CC, 43.08 (PR); 5. Anderson, CC, 45.6. 400 meters: 1. C. Hanson, PC, 52.51; 2. Cedric Maxwell, CC, 52.56 (PR). 800: 1. Clay Meeske, CC, 2:05.67 (PR); 3. Zach Herbert, CC, 2:09.33 (PR).

400-relay: 1. CC 45.08 (Brandon Mintling-Ryan Bernhardt-Chase Rowley-Dawson Mollendor). 1600-relay: 1. G-R 3:35.96; 2. CC 3:37.77 (Rowley-Bernhardt-Meeske-Maxwell). 3200-relay: 1. G-R 8:52.91; 3. CC 9:21.39 (Herbert-Jose Ayala-Mason Tyerman-Colin O’Neil).

Shot put: 1. I. Guerue, MORR, 44’6”; 5. Jaret Peterson, CC, 38’7”. High jump: 1. S. Frame, HERS, 5’11”; 5. (tie) Tyerman, CC, 5’3”. Pole vault: 1. J. Peterka, SUTH, 13’6”; 2. Brit Gockley, CC, 12’5”; 3. Carter Leibbrant, CC, 13’5”; 5. (tie) Mason Wallin,CC, 10’11” (PR). Long jump: 1. C. Allen-Van Pelt, KIM, 20’6 1/2”; 4. Bernhardt, CC, 19’7 1/4”.