Belleville Loin's Club Invitational Track Results--April 17th
04/18/2012

Nine area schools compete in the Belleville-Republic County Loin's Club Invitational track meet, which was split into upper division and lower division, having the bigger sized schools compete against each other and the small schools do the same.

In the upper division three of area schools competed those being Washington County, Marysville and Nemaha Valley. They would finish third, fourth and fifth, respectively in the boys side of the events with only four events won between the three schools. Washington Counties, Allen sprinted his way to the 200 meter dash title, while Kongs ran his way to the 800 meter crown. Marysville won the 400 meter relay, while the lone first place for the Raiders of Nemaha Valley went to Todd who won the shot put crown.

On the girls side in the upper division the team finishes were more spread around with Nemaha Valley finishing the highest between the three, taking home fourth place. Washington County tallied enough points to take seventh and Marysville finished ninth as a team. The girls individual event winners did see a few more first place finishes than their counterpart the boys, as six first place finishes were had by the girls. Marysville's, Russell won the 200 meter dash for the only first place for Marysville on the girls side. Jordan Alexander won both the shot put and discus throw for the Tigers of Washington County. The lady Raiders of Nemaha Valley took home three first place finishers with Rottinghaus winning the 1600 meter run, Brezina winning the 300 meter hurdles and McGhee taking home the title in the javelin throw.

The other six schools from the area competed with two more schools in the lower division at the Loin's Club Invitational. It was Clifton-Clyde taking home the team title on the boys side with Valley Heights coming second. The other area teams in Axtell, Linn, Blue Valley and Hanover finished fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively.

Clifton-Clyde who's boys team won the team title took home three first place finishes winning the 1600 meter Relay and having Long win the 100 meter dash and Ohlde win the 300 meter hurdles. Valley Heights who took second as a team had the most first place finishes as they won the 400 meter relay and five other individual events. Oldehoeft won the 200 meter dash and the long jump, Smith won the 110 meter hurdles, Trimble won the triple jump and Tryon won the shot put for the Mustangs. The Eagles of Axtell took two first place finishes home having their relay team win the 3200 meter relay and Torrey was won the 1600 meter run. Linn would also take two event titles in the javelin throw and high jump, as May and Gross, won those respectively. Blue Valley's, O'Neill won the discus throw and Hanover's Zarybnicky notched the win in the 200 meter dash.

Linn would win the girls lower division team crown in the Loin's Club Invitational. The other area teams in Axtell, Valley Heights, Hanover, Blue Valley and Clifton-Clyde finished third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh, respectively.

Axtell and Clifton-Clyde each took home two first place finishes on the day. It was Schmitz for Axtell winning two events as she won the 1600 and 3200 meter runs. While George and Feight won the two events for Clifton-Clyde, earning wins in the 100 meter hurdles and pole vault, respectively. For the Hanover Wildcats it was three event crowns: Pralle took home the title in the triple jump, Jueneman won the 800 meter run and the Hanover relay team won the 3200 meter relay.

Wilgers won the discus throw for Linn, Coggins took first in the long jump for Valley Heights and Shaheen notched first for Blue Valley in the shot put.

Full results can be seen below:


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