Weather coats were definitely needed Saturday at the Western Conference Junior High track meet held at Bulldog stadium in Alliance. Ten teams competed in cold and windy conditions. Scottsbluff took the team titles in both division on the boy’s side. The Cats netted 90 points in winning the 8th grade team while Gering was second with 85 points. In the seventh grade boy’s team race, the Bluffs scored 116 points to get the trophy while Gering was second with 85 points. Top team score for St. Agnes came in the 8th grade girl’s race as the Lady Crusaders placed second with 74 points. Gering won the 8th grade girl’s title with133 points. Chadron’s 96 points was the winner in the seventh grade girl’s race with Scottsbluff second with 91.5 points. In the boy’s 8th grade boy’s division, the Crusaders scored 33 points which was good for seventh.
Top finisher for the Crusader boys were: Tripp Johnson 2nd in the mile, 2 mile relay was second, and Paxton Richey who was third in the pole vault. Team members in the second place relay were Braden Myers, Tatum Devlin, Richey and Tripp Johnson. St. Agnes had a school record breaking time in winning the girl’s mile relay. The Lady Crusaders had a time of 4:43 which broke the school record of 4:49 in 2003. Other first place finishers were Alexis Shelmadine who won both the pole vault and 100 hurdles. Shelmadine, Penn Vergil, Reese Armstrong, and Aubrey Dudden were the members of the mile relay.
Girl’s results 7th and 8th grade girls St. Agnes 8th grade 74 points 2nd overall top 6 placers
100 Armstrong 3rd 15.3
400 Vergil 2nd 1:06
100 hurdles Shelmadine 1st 18.5
200 hurdles Shelmadine 2nd 33.6
mile relay St. Agnes 1st 4:43 new school record Armstrong Dudden Vergil Shelmadine
high jump Vergil 2nd 4’8 Dudden 3rd 4’4
pole vault Shelmadine 1st 8’0 Armstrong 2nd 8’0
7th grade shot Delaney Jelinek 6th 21’4
Boy’s results 8th grade St. Agnes 33 points 7th overall top 6 placers
800 Richey 5th 2:38
mile Tripp Johnson 2nd 5:26
400 relay St. Agnes 6th 53.2 Cisco Cody Myers Richey Danny Jelinek
mile relay St. Agnes 6th 4:42 Mason Conyers Declan Kirchner Devlin Tee Johnson
2 mile relay St. Agnes 2nd 10:44 Myers Devlin Richey Tripp Johnson
high jump Danny Jelinek 4th 4’10
pole vault Richey 3rd 6’6 Devlin 5th 6’6 Tee Johnson 6th 6’0
triple jump Cody 6th 33’4
Top qualifiers for the Academy will compete at the best of the west track meet on Tuesday in Scottsbluff. The Crusaders will then finish the week with a conference meet in Morrill on Friday and a meet in Scottsbluff on Saturday.