Competing in one of its toughest tournaments of the season, the Hillsboro High golf team finished eighth at the Wichita Collegiate Invitational on Friday.
Played on the challenging Hidden Lakes course in Wichita, the tournament field included some of the top teams in class 3A, 4A and 5A.
The Free Press<p>The Marion High girls’ track squad made the most of favorable weather this weekend by sending a cadre of its top performers to the KU Relays.<p>“Our girls really performed well,” coach Grant Thierolf said.<p>“All of our girls looked like they really belonged at this caliber of meet and really represented Marion High School quite well.”
Hillsboro’s Max Thiel returns volley during his opening match in No. 2 singles. Thiel went on to win the flite championship with a 3-0 mark for the day. Don Ratzlaff / Free Press. Click photo to enlarge.
The Hillsboro Gold tennis team finished third at the Trojan Invitational at the Sports Complex on Friday.
The HHS White team placed eighth in the eight-team field.
The tournament had been originally scheduled for April 5, but was postponed until Friday because of weather.
Centre and Canton-Galva competed at the Fairfield Quint track meet Tuesday, April 17.
The Centre boys (81) finished second to Fairfield (96), while Moundridge (63) edged Canton-Galva (62) for third and Inman (44) placed fifth.
Winning gold for Centre were N. Cole in the long jump (18-51⁄4), Seth Jirak in the shot put (45-9) and discus (138-2),
Alex Klenda in the javelin (149-3), J. Weber in the high jump (5-51⁄2) and K. Mueller in the 1,600 (5:24).
Stephen Jowers of Canton-Galva won four events: the 100 meters (11.76), 200 meters (24.44), 110-meter hurdles (16.84) and 300-meter hurdles (43.35). Also winning gold for the Eagles was R. Shannon in the 3,200 (11:25).
In the girls’ division, Canton-Galva (42), Centre (33) and Inman (42) were distant finishers behind Moundridge (137) and Fairfield (90).
Brittany Owens won Centre’s only gold medal, winning the javelin (108-1), while A. Enns was the only gold-medal winner for Canton-Galva, placing first in the 300-meter hurdles (55.88).
