GHJS track ends season at Moundridge
By DELBERT PETERS
Contributing writer
The Goessel seventh and eighth graders finished their track season Friday at Moundridge in the Heart of America League meet. This season saw a lot of effort for each of the grades with success evident in many events. Individual results were not available from the league meet.
The seventh grade girls finished the HOA league meet in seventh place out of the 12 schools in the league. This season scoring came from the following individuals: Brianna Graber in the 100 and 200 meter dashes; Olivia Regier in the 100 and 200 meter dashes; Rinda Duerksen in the 400 meter and high jump; Chrystiana Voth in discus; Hanna Thompson in Shot Put; Kaitlin Dailey in discus; and Amy Brubaker in triple jump and long jump. Laura Unruh, Kristin Unruh and Jennifer Tucker also participated on the track team and Phatima Hassan helped as manager.
The seventh grade boys only had six students out for track, and they held their own in many meets and finished in third place out of 12 schools at the league meet. Scoring came from the following individuals during the season: Craig Banman in 75 m hurdles, 200m hurdles, pole vault and the 800m run; Anthony Esau in long jump and 200m dash; Travis Fensky in long jump and triple jump; Ben VanHorn in 100m dash and 75m hurdles; Austin Unruh in triple jump and 200m dash and Kendall Voth in 100, 200 and 400m dashes. The 4X100 relay finished first in each of their first four meets of this year.
The eighth grade girls have a very small class of girls, and four of them participated in track with all of them scoring points in at least one meet. Robin Wilcox served as a manager for the team. Scoring came from the following individuals: Katie Flaming in the shot put and 100m dash; Jennifer Raymond in the 200m dash; Aleesha Hines in discus and Sara Sebring in discus. In spite of having only four on the team and a seventh grader stepping in to help, the 4X100 relay gathered in several first place finishes during the year.
The eighth grade boys finished fifth out of 12 teams at the league meet and the scoring during the season came from the following individuals: Bryce Reed in the 400 and 800m runs; Kurtis Duerksen in the 100, 200m dashes and long jump; Dustin Peterson in the 100, 200 and 400m dashes; Cameron Voth in discus; Grady Stultz in the long jump, triple jump and 800 run; Derek Brown in discus and shot put; and Nathan Ensz in high jump and triple jump. Ryan Goertzen was also a team member and Jake Schrag served as manager.
The junior high teams were coached by Curtis Guhr.
