Panthers, Lady Panthers fourth at Cody Invite

Posted 3/27/18

Both teams finished fourth overall at the 10-team event, which featured a solid mix of class 4A, 3A and 2A competition. Sheridan finished in the top spot for both boys and girls.

“It was a really good meet, with high-quality teams,” said PHS …

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Panthers, Lady Panthers fourth at Cody Invite

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The sun was shining, but Mother Nature made up for it with the wind, as the Powell High School boys and girls track teams opened their season at the Yellowstone Sports Medicine Invitational in Cody on Saturday.

Both teams finished fourth overall at the 10-team event, which featured a solid mix of class 4A, 3A and 2A competition. Sheridan finished in the top spot for both boys and girls.

“It was a really good meet, with high-quality teams,” said PHS track coach Scott Smith. “Sheridan has one of the top 4A teams in the state. Cody, Riverton, Lander and Worland are all good teams, and Lovell is one of the top 2A teams, so it was great competition.”

Smith added that, “I thought our kids did real well — there’s a lot of potential out there.”

Lady Panthers

On the girls’ side, JuliaKay O’Neill took the top spot in the 800 meters and ran anchor on the 1600 sprint medley, a new event this season. Along with her teammates in that event — Tamoka Hasegawa, Jala Satterwhite and Gracen Curtis — the Lady Panthers finished first.

Sabrina Shoopman finished first in the 300 hurdles.

“Those two girls [O’Neill and Shoopman] coming back with some state experience did well for us,” Smith said. “Sabrina had a really good 100 meter hurdles going, but got too close to one and hit it. That knocked her back quite a bit. It probably would have been an automatic qualifying time for her. She came back in the 300 hurdles and ran really, really well. Last year she was a little afraid of it, a little tentative. But she got right after it Saturday.”

Despite the wind, Smith said all of his runners ran aggressively, and he was pleased with the effort, especially considering it was the first meet of the season.

“Some found out they need to be in a little better condition to finish strong, but other than that, I like the aggression of this team,” Smith said. “They get after it, and they’re doing their best, that’s all we can ask for.”

In the field events, freshman Cassidy Miner impressed with a second-place finish in the shot put and a fourth-place showing in the discus. Rachel Bonander took fifth in the discus.

“In the girls’ discus, [Cassidy Miner] did really well,” Smith said. “Rachel Bonander came in, just barely got in to the finals and had a great couple of throws in the finals and moved herself up quite a bit.”

Emma Karhu finished sixth in the pole vault, McKenna Hanson finished fifth in the triple jump and Satterwhite took ninth in the long jump.

Panthers

For the boys, the 4x800 meter relay team of Brody Karhu, Tyler Pfeifer, Joey Hernandez and Alan Merritt took first, while the Panthers took the top two spots in the triple jump; Dalton Woodward finished at 41 feet, 1 inch, and Kanyon Gann second at 39 feet, 7.5 inches. Colby Warner finished second in the high jump with a state-qualifying height of six feet, and eighth in the triple jump, while two pole vaulters, Brody Karhu and Kaelan Groves qualified for state. Karhu finished fourth with a vault of 12 feet, 7 inches, and Groves placed seventh with a vault of 12 feet, 1 inch.

Smith said it was good to see two state qualifications and “a couple of others were a foot over their personal bests from the year before, so pole vault was a good event for us.”

The pole vaulters are coached by Dan Hunter.

In discus, Ryan Good finished fourth with a throw of 124 feet, 6 inches, while Cayden Lynn finished 10th with a throw of 113 feet.

On the track, Landon Lengfelder and Groves were the top finishers for the Panthers in the 100 meters, placing 10th and 11th, respectively. Groves finished 12th in the 200 meters, while Dylan Cordes finished ninth in the 400 meters.

In the 800 meters, Jayden Yates placed sixth, while teammate Merritt finished eighth. Merritt and Yates finished seventh and eighth in the 1600 meters, respectively. Jesse Erickson was ninth in the 3200 meters, with Dylan McEvoy finishing 12th.

Senior Kacey Creed finished fifth in the 110 meter hurdles and 10th in the 300 hurdles.

The track teams will be in Cody again on Thursday, and Smith said the team will take the week to work on technique and conditioning. The meet will be a “double dual,” with Powell and Cody’s middle school teams competing.

“We’ll work on the things individually that we saw that we need to work on,” he said. “We’ll focus on one or two things, a little bit of conditioning, obviously. It will be kind of a short meet, so we may not be able to load up as many kids for the events as we did last week. With the middle school kids there, it’s kind of nice for us to get a chance to see the kids coming up.”

Although the Powell team brought a slew of athletes to Cody on Saturday, about 30 competitors on the massive 110-plus member squad didn’t make the trip.

Boys 100 Meter Dash

10. Landon Lengfelder 12.39, 11. Kaelan Groves 12.52, 13. Jacob Harrison 12.44, 13. AJ Lewis 12.44, 32. Kanyon Gann 12.91, 44. Kalen Sapp 13.12, 45. Canyon Gonzales 13.19, 59. Kaden Salas 13.66, 70. Christian Bitzas 14.59, 80. Tarren Blackmore 15.34

Boys 200 Meter Dash

12. Kaelan Groves 25.97, 15. Jacob Harrison 26.24, 31. Charlie Hall 28.11, 33. Kalen Sapp 28.30, 48. Christian Bitzas 31.18, 53. Jeremy Estes 32.40

Boys 400 Meter Dash

9. Dylan Cordes 58.48

Boys 800 Meter Run

6. Jayden Yates 2:16.98, 8. Alan Merritt 2:19.83, 10. Tyler Pfeifer 2:24.91, 11. Joe Rogers 2:27.89, 12. Eyob Robirds 2:33.32, 18. Isaac Summers 2:41.80, 21. Jaxton Braten 2:50.66, 23. Tarren Blackmore 2:57.23, 24. Riley McKeen 2:57.96

Boys 1600 Meter Run

 7. Alan Merritt 5:02.01, 8. Jayden Yates 5:04.81, 12. Tyler Pfeifer 9 5:17.26, 13. Joey Hernandez 9 5:20.41, 22. Isaac Summers 5:42.91, 26. Dylan McEvoy 6:04.54, 27. Riley McKeen 6:10.07

Boys 3200 Meter Run

9. Jesse Erickson 12:32.45, 12. Dylan McEvoy 13:56.92

Boys 110 Meter Hurdles

5. Kacey Creed 19.30

Boys 300 Meter Hurdles

10. Kacey Creed 49.09, 16. Jaxton Braten 1:00.88

Boys 4X100 Meter Relay

 2. Jon Morrow, Jacob Harrison, Landon Lengfelder, Aj Lewis 46.52

Boys 4X800 Meter Relay

1. Brody Karhu, Tyler Pfeifer, Joey Hernandez, Alan Merritt 8:54

Boys 1600 Sprint Medley

5. Landon Lengfelder, Kanyon Gann, Joey Hernandez, Jesse Erickson 4:09.40

Boys High Jump

2. Colby Warner 6-00.00, 9. Charlie Hall 5-06.00, 13. Braily Gann 5-04.00

Boys Long Jump

6. Aj Lewis 19-07.50, 14. Dalton Woodward 18-00.00, 18. Jon Morrow 17-02.00,  23. Tyler Lynn 16-07.00, 24. Bryce Hogan 16-06.50, 35. Kalen Sapp 13-11.50

Boys Triple Jump

1. Dalton Woodward 41-01.00, 2. Kanyon Gann 39-07.50,  8. Colby Warner 38-00.25, 16. Tyler Lynn 35-01.00, 19. Bryce Hogan 33-08.25 

Boys Pole Vault

4. Brody Karhu 12-07.00, 7. Kaelan Groves 12-01.00, 10. Riley Bennett 11-00.00, 11. Kacey Creed 10-06.00, 14. Reece Hackenberg 9-00.00

Boys Discus

4. Ryan Good 124-06.00, 10. Cayden Lynn 113-00.00, 13. Shay Dillon 111-06.00, 21. Zeke Frankenberry 102-00.00, 29. Canyon Gonzales 96-02.00, 30. Carter Olsen 95-01.00, 31. Geordan Weimer 94-07.00, 37. Andy Beavers 88-03.00, 43. Issac Gutierrez 83-00.00, 45. Weston Moore 82-03.00, 48. Nate Belmont 80-02.00, 49. Zach Griffin 79-07.00, 56. Brooks Asher 76-11.00, 69. Kaden Salas 65-09.00

Boys Shot Put

14. Ryan Good 36-05.00, 15. Cayden Lynn 10 36-03.50, 20. Zeke Frankenberry 35-01.50, 29. Weston Moore 32-08.00,  33. Shay Dillon 32-00.50, 34. Carter Olsen 31-11.00, 35. Geordan Weimer 31-09, 42. Zach Griffin 30-03.00, 51. Canyon Gonzales 29-04.00, 54. Nate Belmont 29-03.00, 59. Andy Beavers 28-11.00,  64. Issac Gutierrez 27-06.50, 68. Kaden Salas 25-07.50

Girls 100 Meter Dash

6. Tamoka Hasegawa 13.97, 14. Karlie McKenzie 14.69, 18. Gracen Curtis 14.94, 20. Elsie Spomer 15.02, 23. McKenna Hanson 15.12

Girls 200 Meter Dash

3. Emma Karhu 29.06, 7. Tamoka Hasegawa 29.60, 18. Gracen Curtis 31.09, 19. Jala Satterwhite 31.21, 21. Kady Wells 31.35, 27. Gabi Metzler 32.10, 36. Gabby Harshman 32.75

Girls 400 Meter Dash

13. Hailee Hyde 1:12.17, 15. Elisa Polson 1:13.44, 20. Jozi Simpson 1:21.29

Girls 800 Meter Run

1. JuliaKay O’Neill 2:28.45, 22. Hailee Paul 3:04.38

Girls 1600 Meter Run

19. Jenna Merritt 7:14.40, 20. Maggie Cappiello 7:14.49

Girls 3200 Meter Run

5. Madelyn Horton 15:35.00

Girls 100 Meter Hurdles

5. Caitlyn Miner 17.76, 6. Sabrina Shoopman 17.82, 12. Sidney O’Brien 19.21

Girls 300 Meter Hurdles 

1. Sabrina Shoopman 50.44, 4. Emma Karhu 51.97, 13. Sidney O’Brien 56.75

Girls 4X400 Meter Relay

6. Emma Karhu, Natalie Dillivan, Sabrina Shoopman, JuliaKay O’Neill 4:51.76

Girls 4X800 Meter Relay

3. Hailee Paul, Jenna Merritt, Natalie Dillivan, Jozi Simpson 12:22.79

Girls 1600 Sprint Medley

1. Tamoka Hasegawa, Jala Satterwhite, Gracen Curtis, JuliaKay O’Neill 4:30.58

Girls High Jump

15. Gabri Lundberg 4-02.00, 17. Hailee Hyde 4-00.00

Girls Long Jump

9. Jala Satterwhite 14-06.50, 10. Mattie Larsen 14-04.00, 12. Jaz Haney 13-11.50, 15. Maddie Hackenberg 13-09.00, 16. McKenna Hanson 13-08.75, 18. Elsie Spomer 13-05.00, 24. Kortny Feller 12-07.00, 31. Whitney Hull 9-10.00

Girls Triple Jump

5. McKenna Hanson 31-07.25, 7. Jaz Haney 30-04.75

Girls Pole Vault

6. Emma Karhu 8-06.00, 10. Jala Satterwhite 8-00.00, 11. Caitlyn Miner 8-00.00, 14. Maddie Hackenberg 7-00.00

Girls Shot Put 

2. Cassidy Miner 34-00.50, 7. Coby Calcotte 29-10.00, 12. Rachel Bonander 28-07.00, 19. Isabella Wambeke 26-02.00,  20. Kortny Feller 25-10.50, 24. Mattie Larsen 24-08.00, 26. Jasmyne Lensegrav 24-06.00, 28. Marie Ramier 23-06.00, 34. Kaylee Stewart 22-06.50, 36. Katie McKenzie 22-02.00, 39. Alissa Staidle 20-00.00, 41. Mina Schuler 19-08.00

Girls Discus

4. Cassidy Miner 96-00.00, 5. Rachel Bonander 95-07.00, 9. Coby Calcotte 85-06.00, 14. Jasmyne Lensegrav 76-10.00,  17. Mattie Larsen 66-08.00, 19. Katie McKenzie 60-10.00, 22. Kortny Feller 59-09.00, 25. Alissa Staidle 57-05.00, 32. Kaylee Stewart 50-08.00, 34. Isabella Wambeke 49-00.00, 36. Marie Ramier 46-00.00, 38. Mina Schuler 43-09.00

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