Five Panthers qualify for state track

The Saratoga Middle High School Track team had two track meets last week. The Rawlins Invite was postponed April 17 because of a major snowstorm. The Saratoga team traveled to Rawlins to compete on April 22.

In Rawlins the girls track team place fifth, with the boys placing third.

On Friday, the SMHS Track team traveled to Douglas to compete.

The girls team placed 15th and the boys placed ninth.

Considering the fact that at both meets, the team was competing against 3A schools in many events, they did well.

Head Coach Rex Hohnholt said is was good to get two meets under their belts last week as it gave him a good opportunity to see how the team was doing – especially with the team hosting their own meet this weekend.

Saratoga is hosting the Burt Willford Invite on Saturday beginning at 9:30 a.m. The meet was named in honor of Willford, long-time physical education teacher and coach at Saratoga Middle/ High School.

Willford passed away in 2014.

Hohnholt was quite impressed with Andrew Oiler’s performance in the pole vault this week. In Rawlins he vaulted 12 feet and in Douglas he vaulted 11’ 9”. Hohnholt was happy with the consistency in Oiler’s pole vault, especially considering the weather on Friday. Oiler qualified for state in Rawlins and Douglas in the pole vault event.

Hohnholt said the pole vault event was delayed because of high winds and when Oiler competed it was still difficult. “He did a really nice job,” Hohnholt said of Oiler. “He didn’t let the wind affect him.”

Oiler took third place in Douglas and second place in Rawlins.

Hohnholt was also impressed with the 4x100 meter relay team of Marshal Hill, Alex Zeigler, Riley Sandilands and Jaxon King.

“It was the first time they competed and they qualified for state,” Hohnholt said. The team only had a week to prepare for the Douglas meet in the 4x100 meter relay.

Most of Hohnholt’s team saw improvement of their performances over the last two weeks, according to the statistics.

Rawlins Meet – April 22

Girls 100-meter dash

Shaelee Hamann – 15.39 seconds - 12th place

Alicia Zaragosa, 15.65 , - 14th place

Girls 200-meter dash

Allison Falk, 31.26, 10th place

Veronica Lincoln, 31.30, 12th place

Shaelee Hamann, 31.99, 14th place

Meredith Lincon, 32.58, 17th place

Sarah Burton, 33.40, 20th place

Girls 800-meter run

Kelsie Samson, 2 minutes 50.45 seconds, 1st place

Katie Loose, 2:54.72, 3rd place

Alicia Zaragosa, 2:59.22, 5th place

Girls 1600-meter run

Katie Loose, 6:32.19, 3rd place

Kelsie Samson, 6:35.04, 4th place

Girls 100-meter hurdles

Veronica Lincoln, 20.64, 7th place

Girls Long Jump

Meredith Lincoln, 14 feet 3.5 inches, 3rd place

Veronica Lincoln, 13’3.0”, 9th place

Alicia Zaragosa, 11’6.75”, 17th place

Girls Triple Jump

Allison Falk, 27’9.0”, 8th place

Girls Shot Put

Sarah Burton, 24’4.5”, 12 place

Shaelee Hamann, 22’6.5”, 16th place

Allison Falk, 21’4.0”, 20th place

Girls Discus Throw

Shaelee Hamann, 62’2”, 15th place

Sarah Burton, 58’10”, 21st place

Allison Falk, 56.1”, 23rd place

Boys 100-meter dash

Marshal Hill, 12.16, 5th place

Riley Sandilands, 12.25, 7th place

Jaxon King, 12.28, 8th place

Matthew Lincoln, 12.92, 16th place

Morgan Rempel, 13.48, 22nd place

Max Schneider, 14.8, 28th place

Boys 200-meter dash

Alex Ziegler, 25.30, 8th place

Riley Sandilands, 25.72, 9th place

Andrew Oiler, 25.78, 10th place

Marshal Hill, 24.90, 12th place

Bradley Bifano, 26.03, 13th place

Morgan Rempel, 27.40, 18th place

Boys 400-meter run

Alex Zeigler, 56.98, 5th place

Boys 800-meter run

Benjamin Fairbanks, 2:16.81, 2nd place

Jeremy Detterer, 2:25.26, 4th place

Aaron Kerbs, 2:32.32, 6th place

Boys 1600-meter run

Benjamin Fairbanks, 5:11.36, 3rd place

Jeremy Detterer, 5:21.12, 6th place

Aaron Kerbs, 5:29.32, 7th place

Boys 110-meter hurdles

Andrew Oiler, 19.02, 3rd place

Boys High Jump

Bradley Bifano, 5’ 4”, 3rd place

Matthew Lincoln, 5’ 2”, 5th place

Boys Pole Vault

Andrew Oiler, 12’, 2nd place

Bradley Bifano, 9’ 6”, 4th place

Marshal Hill, 9’, 7th place

Morgan Rempel, 8’ 6” 8th place

Boys Long Jump

Jaxon King, 18’3.5”, 8th place

Jeremy Detterer, 17’ 9”, 12th place

Colton Jones, 15’ 11”, 17th place

Boys Shot Put

Riley Sandilands, 35’ 8.25”, 3rd place

Max Schnedier, 32’ 1.25”, 5th place

Matthew Lincoln, 30’ 5.5”, 11th place

Colton Jones, 25’, 20th place

Boys Discus Throw

Riley Sandilands, 92’ 10”, , 7th place

Max Schneider, 83’9”, 9th place

Matthew Lincoln, 79’ 10”, 10th place

Colton Jones, 58’ 10”, 19th place

Douglas Meet - April 24

Girls 100-meter dash

Veronica Lincoln, 14.99, 29th place

Allison Falk, 14.99, 29th place (tie)

Shaelee Hamann, 15.02, 32nd place

Meredith Lincoln, 15.25, 35th place

Sarah Burton, 15.76, 45th place

Girls 400-meter run

Alicia Zaragoza, 1:28.96, 20th place

Girls 800-meter run

Kelsie Samson, 2:47.60, 12th place

Girls 1600-meter run

Kelsie Samson, 6:31.42, 14th place

Girls 3200-meter run

Katie Loose, 14:14.42, 4th place

Meredith Lincoln, 18.72, 16th place

Veronica Lincoln, 19.82, 21st place

Girls 300-meter hurdles

Veronica Lincoln, 58.36, 17th place

Girls Long Jump

Meredith Lincoln, 13’ 4”, 29th place

Girls Triple Jump

Allison Falk, 28’ 2.25” 19th place

Boys 100-meter dash

Riley Sandilands, 12.23, 34th place

Marshal Hill, 12.24, 35th place

Bradley Bifano, 13.2, 83rd place

Morgan Rempel, 13.24, 85th place

Boys 200-meter dash

Morgan Rempel, 27.78, 58th place

Boys 400-meter dash

Alex Ziegler, 54.99, 11th place

Boys 3200-meter run

Jeremy Detterer, 11:16.61, 4th place

Benjamin Fairbanks, 11:17.80, 5th place

Aaron Kerbs, 11:50.88, 11th place

Boys 4-by-100 meter relay

Marshal Hill; Alex Zeigler’ Riley Sandilands; Jaxon King, 46.7, 5th place (Qualified for state)

Boys High Jump

Bradley Bifano, 5’ 4”, 11th place

Matthew Lincoln, 5’ 2”, 29th place

Boys Pole Vault,

Andrew Oiler 11’ 9”, 3rd place, (Qualified for state)

Bradley Bifano, 10’ 9”, 10th place

Marshal Hill, 9’ 9”, 19th place

Boys Long Jump

Jaxon King, 17’ 4”, 27th place

Jeremy Detterer, 16’ 6.75”, 38th place

Alex Ziegler, 16’6”, 39th place

Colton Jones, 15’ 1”, 54th place