Wildcats expect to leave their mark at state track

By Diane Stamm

Grant Tribune-Sentinel

The Wallace track teams will be taking six individual entries and two relays to this week’s state track meet in Omaha.

Trey Robertson is the only Wildcat boy who qualified, but he has high expectations at state.

Robertson’s D7 district winning times are the best qualifying times in both the 1600 meter runs. He will try to repeat his gold medal performance in the 2021 3200 meter run and improve on his third place finish in the 2021 1600 meter run.

Robertson set a pace at districts that helped three runners qualify in the 1600 and four qualify in the 3200.

The Wallace girls will be led by individuals Kendyl Flaming, 100 meter hurdles and 300 meter hurdles; Dajana Garrison, 3200 meter run; Ashley Robertson, 3200 meter run; and Kaley Sauser, 1600 meter run.

The girls 1600 meter relay and 3200 meter relay ran times good enough to be additional qualifiers.

The 3200 meter relay was second behind Maywood/Hayes Center, while the 1600 meter relay cut seven seconds off their season best and was third behind MHC and Cambridge.

Running the 4x400 will be Mariana Aceves-Lopez, Garrison, Ryleigh Hanson and Flaming.

Sauser, A. Robertson, Reagan Pelster and Hanson will run the 4x800. Last year’s 3200 meter relay made the trip to Omaha, as well. Sauser replaced Mariah Gardner on this year’s team.

Garrison and A. Robertson ran together for much of the 3200 meter run before Garrison pulled away on the last lap. Coming in third place was Elliana Robertson.

Head Coach Danielle Snider said E. Robertson ran a huge personal best in the race, knocking off 30 seconds.

Flaming won both hurdle races to secure a repeat trip to state. Flaming placed sixth in the 100 meter hurdles last year.

Sauser, a freshman, placed second in the 1600 with a personal best to lock up an automatic berth. Sauser was one of three from the district that qualified.

The day did have disappointments.

Junior Brooke Bryant missed out on a return trip to state in the triple jump and senior Kyler Flaming wasn’t able to qualify in the 300 meter hurdles. 

Snider said there is always room to improve so her Wildcats will continue to work hard until state rolls around

Classes A and B will compete Wednesday and Thursday before Classes C and D take to the track Friday and Saturday.

Friday’s Class D events will begin at 9 a.m. with girls pole vault and discus. Starting at 9:30 a.m. will be boys triple jump and at 11:30 a.m. will be boys high jump, girls long jump and boys shot put.

Friday running events will begin at 1:30 p.m. and include the 3200 meter relay, 100 meter hurdles, 110 meter hurdles, 100 meter dash prelims, 400 meter dash prelims, 3200 meter run, 300 meter hurdles and the prelims of the 200 meter dash.

Starting Saturday at 9:30 a.m. will be girls high jump, boys long jump and girls shot put. At 11:30 a.m. girls triple jump will begin, followed at noon by boys pole vault and boys discus.

Running events begin at 1:30 p.m., including the 800 meter run, 400 meter relay, 100 meter hurdle finals, 110 meter hurdle finals, 400 meter dash finals, 1600 meter run, 300 meter hurdle finals, 200 meter dash finals and 1600 meter dash finals.

District D7 meet

Boys team results—1. Hitchcock County, 90; 2. Bertrand, 84; 3. Dundy County Stratton, 66; 4. Loomis, 65; 5. Cambridge, 64; 6. Arapahoe, 45; 7. Southwest, 44; 8. Wallace, 27; 9. Wauneta-Palisade, 17; 10. Medicine Valley, 14; 11. Maywood-Hayes Center, 8.

Individual results

100 Meters—1. Grayson Koller, 11.77, Arapahoe; 6. Jorge Valadez, 12.28, Wallace; 8. Masen Messersmith, 12.83, Wallace.

200 Meters—1. Will Cacy, 23.65, Arapahoe; 8. Masen Messersmith, 26.56, Wallace.

1600 Meters—1. Trey Robertson, 4:42.90, Wallace.

3200 Meters—1. Robertson, 10:01.23, Wallace.

110m Hurdles—1. Gunnar Hadley, 15.84, Loomis; 5. Kyler Flaming, 17.12, Wallace.

300m Hurdles—1. Coleman Langford, 42.98, Bertrand; 5. Flaming, 46.34, Wallace.

High Jump—1. Ethan Latta, 6-02.00, DCS; 5. Flaming, 5-08.00, Wallace.

Girls team results—1. Cambridge, 119; 2. Maywood-Hayes Center, 78; 3. Wallace, 76; 4. Loomis, 62; 5. Dundy County Stratton, 37; 6. Medicine Valley, 34; 7. Bertrand, 33; 8. Southwest Public, 26; 9. Wauneta-Palisade, 23; 10. Arapahoe, 22; 11. Hitchcock County, 16.

Individual results

400 Meters—1. Kiley Hejtmanek, 1:01.31, MHC; 7. Mariana Aceves-Lopez, 1:07.63, Wallace.

800 Meters—1. Rachel Harris, 2:29.94, Cambridge; 4. Ryleigh Hanson, 2:37.05, Wallace

1600 Meters—1. Ashlin Broz, 5:41.00, MHC; 2. Kaley Sauser, 5:53.86, Wallace; 6. Ashley Robertson, 6:23.65, Wallace.

3200 Meters—1. Dajana Garrison, 13:03.39, Wallace; 2. A. Robertson, 13:25.06, Wallace; 3. Elliana Robertson, 13:53.07, Wallace.

100m Hurdles—1. Kendyl Flaming, 16.22, Wallace

300m Hurdles—1. Flaming, 48.56, 6. Aceves-Lopez, 53.73, Wallace.

4x400 Relay—1.MHC, 4:16.81; 2. Wallace (Aceves-Lopez, Garrison, Hanson,Flaming), 4:25.51.

4x800 Relay—1. MHS, 10:20.29; 3. Wallace (Sauser, A.  Robertson, Reagan Pelster,  Hanson), 10:45.62.

High Jump—1. Zeigh Booe, 5-01.00, Loomis; 6. Mallory McConnell, 4-07.00, Wallace.

Long Jump—1. Jalen Kent, 15-05.75, Cambridge; 6. Karlie Finley, 14-03.00, Wallace.

Triple Jump—1. Jacey Kent, 33-06.00, Cambridge; 5. Brooke Bryant, 31-05.00, Wallace.