Hillsboro finished fifth at the Mid-Central Activities Association league tournament Monday at the Sports Complex in Hillsboro.
Wichita Collegiate won the title with 77 points, followed by Smoky Valley with 69, Hesston 61, Sterling 44, Hillsboro 32, Ellinwood 30, Hoisington 29, Nickerson 13 and Haven 5.
Hillsboro’s two-man team of Daniel Kunantaev and Justin Kent won their division title at the Sacred Heart Invitational golf tournament Friday at Salina.
Hillsboro overcame an early 6-2 deficit Friday at Lyons to beat the home team 8-6 and claim a sweep of their doubleheader.
The Trojans won the first game 4-2 behind the complete-game pitchng of Isaac Leihy.
The sweep capped a 4-0 week and boosted the surprising Trojans to a 9-5 record.
In Game 2 against the Lions, Trojan starter Jacob Edwards struggled on the mound. He gave up a run in the opening inning, thanks to a couple of Trojan errors, and shut out the home team in the second inning.
Scoring 38 points in the final three events, the surprising Hillsboro boys captured first place at the 14-team Conrad Nightingale Invitational in Halstead on Friday.
Hillsboro finished with 85 points to outpace runners-up Cheney with 73 and Halstead with 68.
The Trojans clinched the title with a first-place finish in the 4x400 in a time of 3 minutes, 36.59 seconds. Grant Schneider, Cody McMillen, Ishmael Morris and Nathan Vogel ran for HHS.
Justin Heidebrecht and Nathan Vogel coast a few strides beyond the finish of the 4x800 relay at the Conrad Nightingale Invitational in Halstead Friday. Heidebrecht edged Vogel at the line, but the HHS boys outpaced all comers in six events to claim the team title.
Fine running is often described as poetry in motion, and both Marion High School track teams ended up in the middle of the sonnet at Halstead Friday.
Led by Julia Zeiner, the girls scored 46 points, finishing just behind Remington (fourth, 491⁄2) and Conway Springs (fifth, 49) but just ahead of Hoisington (seventh, 41) among the 14 present teams.
