McCook boys blaze to over 100 and Dutch Zorn team title

McCook senior Kaden Jernigan starts the 400 meters as a warm-up to igniting the 1600-meter relay championship at Thursday’s Dutch Zorn Invitaitonal.

R.B. Headley/McCook Gazette

GOTHENBURG, Neb. — No drama was needed as McCook High’s boys won six events and ran away with the Dutch Zorn Invitational team title on Thursday.

Senior Lucas Gomez-Wilson continued setting tracks on fire with two more championship featuring career-best times.

Senior Kaden Jernigan returned from injuries to help lead a 1600-meter victory.

Plus senior Evan Mai added another jumping title to his season while classmate Alex Messinger also delivered a big win.

However, here are better insights from coach Tom Sughroue.

“We as a coaching staff were very pleased with the performance of our guys yesterday. We had some very nice marks all the way through the meet.

We scored points in 12 of the 17 events and in some events we scored more than one athlete!

That’s really good considering the competition level that was present at the Gothenburg invitational. We had many highlights on the day but none were better than Lucas Gomez-Wilson winning 4 gold medals on the day.

Lucas won the 100, 200, ran a leg on our 4x1 and 4x400 meter relays! It has been many years since we had an individual win 4 golds at an invitational!

So having Lucas do so was a very special day for him and the team!”

Team scores, all Bison top eight placers and PRs during Thursday’s Dutch Zorn Invitational.

Teams: 1. McCook 109.5, 2. Gothenburg 92.5, 3. Scottsbluff 64, 4. Lexington 56, 5. Cozad 52, 6. Sidney 46, 6. Broken Bow 46, 8. Holdrege 30, 9. Aurora 28, 10. Ogallala 23, 11. Kearney Catholic 22.

CHAMPIONS

100 meters: 1. Lucas Gomez-Wilson, MC, 11.09 (PR); 2. I. Doty, SID, 11.15; 21. Adyn Meyer, MC, 12.1 (PR).

200 meters: 1. Lucas Gomez-Wilson, 22.72; 2. K. Allen, SCOT, 23.21; 4. Alex Messinger, MC, 23.66; 15. Alex Landry, MC, 24.4 (PR).

400-relay: 1. McCook 43.85 (Kaden Jernigan-Adam Dugger-Lucas Gomez-Wilson-Weston Walgren); 2. Gothenburg 44.83.

1600-relay: 1. McCook 3:32.38 (Alex Messinger-Patrick Gross-Lucas Gomez-Wilson-Josiah Wilkinson); 2. Scottsbluff 3:32.41.

Long jump: 1. Evan Mai, MC, 21’10 1/4”; 2. C. Leeling, SID, 21’8 1/2”; 3. Adam Dugger, MC, 21’8”.

Triple jump: 1. Alex Messinger, MC, 43’8 1/2”; 2. Mai, MC, 43’6 1/2” (PR).

Other Bison bests

110-hurdles: 1. J. Curtis, OGA, 15.44; 2. Osney Barber, MC, 15.67 (PR); 6. Davien Hanson, MC, 17.78; also ran a 17.42 (PR) in prelims; 9. Mykuh Hanson, MC, 17.73 (PR).

300-hurdles: 1. Z. Eggleston, Bow, 42.06; 8. Barber, MC, 45.37; 10. D. Hanson, MC, 45.73 (PR); 18. M. Hanson, MC, 48.17 (PR).

800 meters: 1. L. Gautier, AUR, 2:04.79; 5. Grant Cappel, MC, 2:11.41 (PR).

1600 meters: 1. P. Graves, GOTH, 4:43.9; 17. Josh Wilkinson, MC, 5:31.79 (PR).

3200-relay: 1. Gothenburg 8:30.96; 2. McCook 8:32.2 (Walgren-Gross-Cappel-Josiah Wilkinson).

Split medley relay: 1. Gothenburg 3:52.84; 3. McCook 4:01.26 (Meyer-Landry-Schmidt-Blake Rodewald).

Discus:1. M. Denson, Bow, 149’10”; 5. Mitchel Cole, MC, 133’6 1/2” (PR).

High jump: 1. J. Dowse, SID, 6’3”; 6. Beau Bieker, MC, 5’11”.

Pole vault: 1. J. Burge, GOTH, 14’2”; 5. Hayden Norgaard, MC, 13’; 8. Garrett Kaps, MC, 12’6” (PR); 15. Bryson Gullion, MC, 11’6” (PR). Watch for more details all season.