Scobey, Lustre Track And Fielders Show Well At Fairview Invitational

The Scobey Spartans and Lustre Christian Lions track and field teams made the trek down to Fairview Monday, April 20, a meet featuring 21 teams from 25 schools.

The vast amount of teams were from Montana but neighboring North Dakota was represented by Grenora, which co-ops with Westby, Montana, Trenton, Trinity-Christian of Williston and the co-op duo of Richardton-Taylor.

Winning the girls’ team title was the Richey-Lambert Fusion with 96 points followed by the Circle Wildcats in second with 65 and Richardton-Taylor third at 47.

For the boys, Richardton- Taylor (101) won by a 12.5-point margin over the Lustre Christian Lions (88.5 points) while the Culbertson Cowboys rode into third place with 75 points.

In individual events, Lustre Christian’s Johnslee Pierre had a big day by winning the 300-meter hurdles, long jump and triple jump, which surely helped the Lions capturing the runnersup spot.

Pierre’s teammate, junior Prestyn Klatt, took the 800-meter run by nearly a 6-second margin (2:09.75) over Scobey freshman Reid Cromwell (2:15.66) and Scobey sophomore Sebastian McGowan (2:15.88), while sophomore teammate Jaycee Hilkemann won the 3200 by just over 5 seconds. The Lions (Chris Traeholt, Klatt, Hilkemann and Pierre) also feasted on the opposition in the 4x400 relay, defeating Richardton-Taylor by just over seven seconds.

Winning for the Scobey girls was junior Kayla Carney in 1600-meter run while Lustre Christian’s Kencia Brown captured the javelin title. Lustre Christian’s 4x400 relay team of, in order ran, Lauryn Holzrichter, Justice Byers, Samantha Neufeld and Brown won the event in 4:27.11.

For the Scobey boys, the aforementioned Cromwell and senior Konner Oller (2nd in 100-meter dash) were the highest finishers.