Younger Track/Field Athletes Earn Their Moments To Shine
The younger varsity lassies and lads of the Scobey Spartans and Lustre Christian Lions track and field teams, along with many other eastern Montana teams, made their way to Sidney on Thursday, May 7, for a special get-together meet.
It was the Sidney Junior Varsity Invitational, where mostly juniors, sophomores and freshmen were doing the competing, but with plenty of eighth graders and about 35 seniors competing as well.
The team winner for the girls were the Garfield County Mustangs based in Jordan, whose 98 points were 9.75 better than Class A Custer County out of Miles City On the boys side it was the other way around than the girls: Custer County edged Garfield County by a very slim 102-to-100 count.
As for the Scobey teams, the boys placed third of the 14 squads (Lustre Christian in 6th with 26 points) while the Lady Spartans were sixth out of 15 squads.
First-place winners for the Spartans were sophomore Ava Stentoft (javelin), freshman Reid Cromwell (1600), freshman Curtis Leibrand (javelin), Opheim sophomore John Yeska (300 hurdles) and the 4x400 relay team (in order ran Quinn Axtman, Tate Johnsrud, Reid Cromwell and Sebastian McGowan).
Other top five performers for Scobey and Lustre Christian were: Opheim’s Lana Mason (300 hurdles, 2nd), Hadden Olfert (shot put, 2nd), Tate Johnsrud, (triple jump, 3rd) Sebastian McGowan (800, 3rd; high jump, 3-way tie for 3rd), Stentoft (discus, 3rd), Cromwell (800, 4th), Hadden Olfert (100, 4th).
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