The high school track teams went south today to catch some beautiful weather at the 20-team Greenville Invitational! Both teams earned a large supply of medals and ended the day with the girls' team placing 5th and the guys placing 6th. On the guys' side top performers were:
Nolen Yeary-2nd place in the shot put(46' 8").
Keagan Uphoff- 2nd place in the 110 hurdles(17.09) and 1st place in the 300 hurdles(41.02).
Logan Demling, Cooper Phillips, Jacob Lawless, and CJ Moore- season PR and 3rd in the 4x800 relay.
Other season best times included:
Cooper Phillips (2:15.2) and CJ Moore (2:13.9) in their 4x800 split times.
Chase Ragar, TJ Gellner, Kaleb Jacobs, and Kadyn Wilcox in the 4x200 relay (1:39.82).
Caden Clark in the 3200 run (11:18.96) and the 1600 run (5:14.38).
Cohen Maness in the shot put (38' 2")
Kadyn Wilcox (53.6), CJ Moore (57.7), Kaleb Jacobs (56.4), and TJ Gellner (57.6) in their 4x400 relay splits.
Great job everyone! The Spartans are scheduled to be back in action next Tuesday at DeeMack High School.
Today's Scheduled Activities
Today's Scheduled Activities
Varsity baseball falls at Tolono Unity tonight 8-5. Kindred and Kleinschmidt with two hits apiece. Spartans have their conference opener at Pleasant Plains next Tuesday.
Today's Scheduled Activities
Varsity baseball picks up a 6-0 home win vs Tri Valley tonight. Hohulin with 3 hits. Kindred, Alford, Olson, Brammeier and Elgin with a hit apiece. Kindred with a complete game shutout on the mound scattering 5 hits and striking out 10. Spartans are on the road tomorrow vs Tolono
SPARTANS STAY HOT!! Girls varsity soccer hits 3 in row with 2-0 win tonight vs Riverton! Goals off the foot of Raquel Birky and Kensie Kleinschmidt both in the 2nd half to seal the 1st conference win of the year. Girls back in action Friday as they travel to Canton, kick set for 4:30!
Today's Scheduled Activities
Today's Scheduled Activities
Varsity baseball game at Tremont has been canceled for today. Game will be rescheduled for a later date.
Today's Scheduled Activities
Illinois TopTimes meet @ IWU
Olympia track
Today's Scheduled Activities
Today at Olympia
Nolan Yeary broke the school record this morning by Cleaning 325 for 1 rep. This is a huge amount of weight in 20 years of training athletes the 2nd most I have ever seen a high school age athlete do.
Today at Olympia
Today at Olympia
The Freshman Baseball game scheduled for today 3/18 has been cancelled. The JV & Varsity softball games vs. Clinton have been postponed until tomorrow 3/19 @ 4:30
The high school boys track team competed at the Gene Armer Invitational at U of I yesterday, where 50+ teams came from all over the state to form one of the most competitive indoor high school meets of the year. Top performers were:
Keagan Uphoff placed 5th in the 60 m hurdles at 8.81.
Season PRs:
Cooper Phillips (2:17.0), Jacob Lawless (2:19.0), and Logan Demling (2:14.9) in the 4x800 m relay.
Chase Ragar had a leap of 39' 4" in the triple jump.
All-time PRs:
Dylan Nowaskie cleared the high jump bar at 5' 6.5".
CJ Moore ran 2:13.51 in the 800 m run.
Nolen Yeary launched the shot put 49' 1", beating his previous best by nearly 2.5 feet!
This meet concluded our regular indoor season, and now we wait to find out if any of our athletes qualify for the Illinois Top Times meet at IWU’s Shirk Center next Saturday.
