Bison boys track team dominates at North Platte

Shary Skiles/McCook Daily Gazette McCook High School's Chance Unger passes the baton to Jacob Forbes in the 4x800-meter relay at the McCook-North Platte track dual at North Platte Monday. The McCook boys track team scored 91 points and finished first.

McCook girls

place second

NORTH PLATTE -- The McCook High School boys and girls track teams competed at the North Platte Dual meet Monday afternoon.

The meet was rescheduled from Thursday because of the weather.

The McCook boys won 10 individual events and the 4x100- and 4x400-meter relays and scored 91 points. North Platte scored 50 points.

Two McCook boys captured two first-place individual medals.

Tony Purvis won the 100-meter dash in 11.3 seconds and the 200 in 23.7.

John Swanhorst won the 110-meter hurdles in 15.6 and the 300 hurdles in 42.9.

Other first-place efforts belonged to Jon Bryant, 400, 54.8; Josh Cherry, 800, 2:06.4; Ryan Ankersen, 3200, 11:13.9; Micah Kamla, triple jump, 40 feet, 5 inches; Mason Pohl, pole vault, 13-6; and Sam Frazier, discus, 138-10.

The 4x100 relay placed first with a time of 45.3 seconds and the 4x400 relay won in 3:36.1.

The Bison placed second in the 4x800 relay and also 2-3 in the 4x400.

The Bison boys squad was bolstered by the efforts of seniors Brendan Liess and Jeff Klug, who are both returning to form after recovering from knee surgery. Both tore their ACLs in the first football game last fall.

Liess ran on the first-place 4x400-meter relay team with Purvis, Swanhorst and Cherry.

Klug ran on the 4x100 relay with Austin Barenberg, Purvis and Nate Berry.

Bison boys track coach John Gumb said Liess' split in the 4x400 relay was comparable to the split he ran in the first track meet of the 2005 season.

"Brendan and Jeff are making a lot of progress," Gumb said.

Gumb added that he was pleased with the way the squad performed considering the lack of practice time due to weather and other factors.

"We had a lot of good, young athletes show a lot of progress," he said.

The North Platte girls edged out McCook 72-69 for first place.

The Bison girls claimed five individual titles as well as the 4x100 and 4x800 relays.

Event winners for the McCook girls were Kayla Wilson, shot put, 119-4; Allison Smith, shot put, personal record 38 feet; Sarah Craw, pole vault, 9 feet; Erica Clapp, long jump, 15-8 1/4; and Danae McCorkle, 100-meter hurdles, 17.5.

The 4x100 relay of Clapp, Austin Wilson, Brianna Ward and Amy Beckenhauer finished first with a time of 53.7 seconds.

The 4x800 relay of Rebecca Rawlings, Joanna Bryant, Kala Smalley and Meghan Ecker placed first with a time of 11:27.4.

"In the field events, we were above average as we scored 40 of our 69 points," said McCook girls track coach Steve Clapp. "On the track, our lack of quality practice time due to the weather was very evident. In the next couple weeks, this should improve and our times will hopefully improve also.

"This is a meet that would have been nice to win, but it was a chance to see all of our athletes in competition and to evaluate them against each other."

The Bison boys and girls varsity and junior varsity track athletes will be in action Saturday as the hosts of the LeRoy Hoehner Invitational at the MHS track.

Other schools competing are Lexington, Colby, Southern Valley, Cambridge, Dundy County and Hastings-St. Cecilia.

Boys team standings

1.McCook 91, 2.North Platte 50.

McCook boys results

100 -- 1.Tony Purvis 11.3, 2.Nate Berry 11.4, 4.Austin Barenberg 11.6, 6.Matt Berry 11.9, 11.Alex Hanchera 12.3, 12.Brian Weir 12.4, 13.Derek Lake 12.7, 17.Paul Douglas 13.1, 18.Colton Cochran 13.2.

200 -- 1.Purvis 23.7, 3.Barenberg 24.7, 5.Weir 25.7, 7.Lake 26.2.

400 -- 1.Jon Bryant 54.8, 2.Darren Berry 55.6, 3.Michael Jordan 60.8.

800 -- 1.Josh Cherry 2:06.4, 4.Chance Unger 2:19.7, 7.Jacob Forbes 2:36.8.

1600 -- 3.Cody Martin 5:17.5.

3200 -- 1.Ryan Ankersen 11:13.9.

110 hurdles -- 1.John Swanhorst 15.6, 2.Brandon Kotschwar 15.9, 6.Cory Gaston 20.6, 7.Ryan Hardin 21.3.

300 hurdles -- 1.Swanhorst 42.9, 2.Kotshwar 43.8, 4.Gaston 46.3, 7. Hardin 50.4.

Long jump -- 2.Gaston 19-5 1/2, 3.Brett Burton 19-1 3/4, 4.Tyrone Sellers 19-1, 5.Mitch Green 18-8 1/2, 7.Dillon Goltl 18-6 1/2, 12.Colton Cochran 15-10 1/4.

Triple jump -- 1.Micah Kamla 40-5, 2.Mitch Green 38-7 1/4, 4.Gaston 36-10, 9.Sellers 33-5. 10.Goltl 33-1 1/2.

High jump -- 2.Sellers 5-6, 2.Jordan 5-6, 4.Hardin 5-4.

Pole vault -- 1.Mason Pohl 13-6, 2.David Swisher 12-0, 2.Ryan Bedore 12-0, 4.Andrew Reitz 11-6.

Shot put -- 3.JD Stone 44-0, 5.Paul Farrell 41-3, 6.Lucas Kotschwar 39-3, 9.Brady Hess 36-8 1/2, 10.Kendell Foster 36-3, 11.Eric Ramsay 35-5, 12.Taylor Garcia 35-2, 15.Seth Schaeffer 33-1.

Discus -- Sam Frazier 138-10, 5.Farrell 124-9, 7.Brock Hubert 118-0, 9.Sam Sis 11-4, 10.Ramsay 109-4, 11.Hess 99-5, 12.Foster 98-1, 13.Schaeffer 94-2, 14.Garcia 90-5.

4x100 relay -- 1.McCook A 45.3.

4x400 relay -- 1.McCook A 3:36.1, 2.McCook B 3:41.3, 3.McCook C 3:45.9.

4x800 relay -- 2.McCook A 9:38.

Girls team standings

1.North Platte 72, 2.McCook 69.

McCook girls results

100 -- 2.Austin Wilson 13.1, 3.Kali Lyons 13.3, 4.Michelle Slater 13.4, 5.Erica Clapp 13.6, 7.Amy Beckenhauer, 13.7, 10.Audrey Hagan 13.9, 12.Brianna Ward 14.2, 13.Megan Skiles 14.3, 15.Samantha Post 14.9, 15.Katie Kilgore 14.9.

200 -- 3.Lyons 28.7, 4.A.Wilson 28.8, 5.Hagan 29.0, 6.Slater 29.1, 7.Beckenhauer 29.2, 8.Ward 30.5, 9.Skiles 30.6, 10.Post 31.5, 12.Kilgore 32.1.

400 -- 3.Katie Kilpatrick 73.9, 4.Jillian Bryant 1:24.4; 5.Hannah Vontz 1:28.7.

800 -- 3.Paige Johnson 3:12.1, 4.Jennifer Herron 4:04.7.

1600 -- 3.Kelsey Schoup 7:27.

3200 -- 2.Rebecca Rawlings 14:13.3; 3.Emily Geschwentner 15:18.

100 hurdles -- 1.Danae McCorkle 17.5, 5.Julia Polly 19.2, 6.Molly Peck 19.4, 6.Shelby Woitaszewski 19.4, 8.Amber Hoffmaster 19.8, 10.Shaylynn Holliday 22.8.

195 hurdles -- 2.Molly Peck 33.1, 4.Woitaszewski 33.5, 4.Ashley Palic 33.5, 8.Hoffmaster 34.9, 10.Polly 35.9, 11.Holliday 36.7.

Long jump -- 1.Clapp 15-8 1/4, 3.Lyons 14-10 3/4, 5.Holliday 13-103/4.

Triple jump -- 2.Clapp 32-4 1/4, 4.Holliday 28-8 1/2, 5.Palic 28-8 1/4.

High jump -- 2.Allison Smith 4-10, 3.Woitaszewski 4-8, 4.Powell 4-6, 5.Hoffmaster 4-2, 5.Palic 4-2.

Pole vault -- 1.Sarah Craw 9-0, 2.McCorkle 8-6, 3.Jessica Harris 7-0.

Shot put -- 1.Smith 38-0, 2.Kim Miller 35-10, 3.Kayla Wilson 34-3, 4.Hagan 33-7, 5.Kelsee Meissner 32-6, 6.Sydney Jumps 30-0, 10.Emily Slattery 24-8.

Discus -- 1.K.Wilson 119-4, 2.Ashlee Huffman 115-5, 3.Miller 111-10, 4.Marissa Wallace 110-3, 5.Hagan 97-8, 9.Jumps 77-2, 10.Kelsey Berry 69-5, 12.Slattery 61-10.

4x100 relay -- 1.McCook A 45.3, 2.McCook B 56.3; 4.McCook C 60.1.

4x400 relay -- 3.McCook A 4:36.4, 4.McCook B 4:45.2, 6.McCook C 5:21.3.

4x800 relay -- 1.McCook A 11:27.4, 3.Mccook C 12:17.1.