Shelby Miller goes airborne en route to a second-place finish in the women’s 400-meter hurdles event at Tabor on Wednesday. Miller snapped a 30-year-old school record in the 400-meter dash. Andrew Ottoson / Free Press. Click photo to enlarge.
Ashley Malcom clears 6-1 in the high jump Wedneday. She won this event and added a second-place finish in in the long jump to go with a third-place finish in the triple jump. Andrew Ottoson / Free Press. Click photo to enlarge.
The Bluejays hosted teams from 12 other colleges at the annual Tabor College Invitational on Wednesday.
“We had a great day for a track meet,” coach Dave Kroeker said. “We had a lot of good competition and a number of fine performances.”
Jacob Yoder hands the relay baton to Michael Suderman after completing the first leg of the 4x100. The Trojan team of Yoder, Suderman, Michael Tisdale and Ishmael Morris finished second in the race, but their time of 43.19 set a new HHS record. Don Ratzlaff / Free Press. Click photo to enlarge.
Kimber Hardey winds up to throw the shot Friday at Halstead. Marion sent most of its girls’ squad to Lawrence for the KU relays. Don Ratzlaff / Free Press. Click Photo to enlarge.
Led by three meet-record performances by JuliAnne Chisholm, the Hillsboro girls’ ran away from a 16-team field at the Conrad Nightingale Invitational track and field meet Friday in Halstead.
Hillsboro got a school-record performance from its 4x100 team to place second in the boys’ division.
Aaron Stepanek flares a ray of sunshine out to second base in the third inning of the first game of a double-header against Sedgwick. Stepanek pitched four innings of an 18-3 win in the second game. Andrew Ottoson / Free Press. Click photo to enlarge.
Hillsboro’s Travis Riesen fires to third during Game 1 of Friday’s doubleheader with Sedgwick. Riesen pitched a three-hit shutout. Andrew Ottoson / Free Press. Click photo to enlarge.
The two games were very different, but the outcome was the same as Hillsboro swept a pair of non-league games from Sedgwick Friday at Memorial Field, 3-0 and 18-3.
Trojan ace Travis Riesen scattered three hits for a seven-inning shutout in a tight Game 1. But in Game 2 the Trojans combined 18 hits with nine Cardinal errors in a five-inning route.
Hillsboro pitcher Jenesa Klose pre-prepares to deliver to the plate during Friday’s doubleheader with Marion. Andrew Ottoson / Free Press
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The Hillsboro High softball ended a busy but otherwise disappointing week with a doubleheader sweep of Marion Friday at the Sports Complex, 11-7 and 4-2.
The Trojans’ victory in Game 1 snapped a four-game losing streak after doubleheader losses to Hoisington and Smoky Valley earlier in the week.
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.