Sutherland High School hosted the Sutherland Invitational track and field meet on Thursday and the Chase County Longhorns were dominant in both the boys and girls divisions.
The Chase County girls won by 110 points over second place North Platte St. Patrick’s. The Lady Longhorns from Imperial scored 176.5 points compared to St. Pat’s 66.5. The Sutherland Lady Sailors finished in third with 64 points. Three other area schools competed in the meet, Brady placed fourth, Hershey took seventh and Wallace finished eighth out of the 11 teams.
Chase County also won the boys meet, though not by nearly as much. The Longhorns scored 115 points, which is 22.5 more than St. Patrick’s 92.5. Paxton rounded out the top three with 87 points. Brady came in fifth, Wallace took sixth, Hershey finished seventh and the host school Sutherland placed 10th out of the 11 teams.
Athletes from the local schools that won their events include Sutherland’s Jalyne Schuster in the 100 meter dash, Shaylin McClellen from Brady in the 200 meter dash and long jump, St. Pat’s won the 4×800 meter relay with Ellie Buhrman, Riley Nitsch, Peyton Irish and Anna O’Malley. Brady’s Josie Palmer won the high jump, Kaley Stokey of Sutherland won the pole vault, and Erin Nozicka from St. Pat’s won the triple jump.
From the boys events Eric Roe from Brady won the 110 meter hurdles, Wallace won the 4×800 meter relay with Andrew Gardner, Landon Swedberg, Dillon Kopp and Hayden Woodcox. Drew McClellen won the pole vault for St. Pat’s and also from the Irish, Alex Harms won the discus.