O-C, EPPJ, EV Track Teams Compete In O'Neill Invitational

The Cyclone, Falcon and Wolfpack track teams competed in one of the biggest meets of the year on Thursday -- the O’Neill Invite.

Twenty-two teams participated in the meet.

Clearwater-Orchard:
Kylie Thiele = 1st – 400m – 61.30, 1st – 800m – 2:27.28
Kinzly Macke  = 1st – 200m – 27.78, 2nd – 100m – 13.60
Alexis Pokorny = 2nd – HJ – 5’0
Sierra Schroeder = 4th – TJ – 31’9”
4x400 = 6th – 57.97 – (Adrian Love, Alyx Siems, Skye Schroeder, Allee Snider)
4x800 = 2nd – 10:34.16 (Kinzly Macke, Mallory Cooper, Kylie Thiele, Alexis Pokorny)
4x100 = 1st – 4x400 – (Kinzly Macke, Mallory Cooper, Kylie Thiele, Alexis Pokorny)
Jagger Smith = 1st – HJ – 5’8”
Blake Kester = 5th – PV – 8’6”

EPPJ:
Austin Meis- 6th in both the 100 and 200m dash
Ryan Pelster- 2nd in the 1600 and 3rd in the 3200m run
4x1 placed 6th (Andrew Fangman, Kyle Kallhoff, Dylan Behnk, Austin Meis)
Jill Schindler- 4th in the 100m dash
Lydia Behnk- 6th in the 400m dash
Jenna Parks- 5th in the 1600m run
Sydney Kerkman- 6th in the 3200m run
4x4 placed 6th (Lydia Behnk, Liz Selting, Baylee Wemhoff, Jenna Parks)
4x8 relay placed 5h (Jenna Parks, Baylee Wemhoff, Liz Selting, Taylor Schumacher)
Taylor Schumacher- 3rd in pole vault
Jordan Mescher- 5th in pole vault
Liz Selting- 3rd in triple jump

Elkhorn Valley:
Ranee Keehn - 1st - triple jump, 34'0"
Michael Knievel - 2nd - 100m dash - 11.65, 2nd - 200m dash - 23.83
Kendall Albin - 5th - 400m - 56.2
Tyler Rautenberg - 6th - 400 m - 56.84
Jayson Larson - 6th - 800m - 2:18.75, 3rd - 110m hurdles - 17.84
Brayden Effle - 3rd - 300m hurdles, 46.70 
4x100 relay (Rautenberg, Knievel, Noah Rutjens and Chris Petersen) - 1st - 46.89
4x400 (Rautenberg, Knievel, Albin and Tucker Hecht) - 2nd - 3:45.74
4x800 (Larson, Effle, Hecht and Austin Miller) - 4th - 9:20.08
Tyler Miller - 4th - pole vault - 8'6"
Noah Rutjens - 4th - long jump - 18'6", 4th - triple jump - 40'1.5"
Chris Petersen - 3rd - shot put - 41'9"

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