East Mills’ Schraft headed to state in four events

East Mills Janette Schraft and Fremont-Mills’ Clara Schaaf both punched their tickets to state in four events each at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet in Tabor Thursday.

Schraft, a junior, won the 800-meters, 1,500-meters and the 400-meter hurdles but had to wait until Friday to learn her time of 11:05.58 in the 3,000-meters was good enough among those not securing automatic bids. Bedford’s Emma Lucas won the automatic berth with a time of 10:44.78.

In Class 1A, the district event winners earn automatic tickets to state with the remaining 14 bids coming from at-large spots among the top times and distances in the state not winning their district.

Schaaf took a similar route in all three of her individual state bids. The Fremont-Mills’ senior qualified in the long jump, 100-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles after not winning any event at the district meet. Schaaf did help lead the Knight shuttle hurdle relay team, along with Lydia Alley, McKayla Gartner  and Bailey Hauschild to a gold medal at districts.

Hauschild also picked up a top finish in the high jump and teammate Sophie Phillips won both the shot and the discus.
Kendra Fichter added to the Knights’ haul with at-large bids in both the shot and discus.

The Fremont-Mills girls won the district title with a score of 125 points. Southwest Valley was second with 69 points.

On the boys side, Fremont-Mils finished fifth with 62 points while East Mills was seventh with 46.

The Knights had two state qualifiers in James Switzer (400-meters) and Connor Alley (shot put).

    East Mills’ Dylan Schroeder punched his ticket to state in the long jump with a top leap of 20 feet, 1.75 inches.

East Mills coach Claude Lang was confident with a top three finish and being over 20 feet, his senior long jumper would get in.

“We limited the amount of jumping he would do at the end of the season to avoid injuries,” Lang said.

Knights sweep own ‘Last Chance’ invite
    In a final tune up for Thursday’s state qualifying meets, the Fremont-Mills girls and boys swept the team titles at the Last Chance Invitational Track Meet in Tabor last Monday.
    The Knight boys out-paced runner up Sidney 119 to 98 in the team standings while the girls ran away from Southwest Valley by a final tally of 135 to 91.
    The East Mills boys and girls both placed fourth at the meet.
    Fremont-Mills got top performances from Mason Vanatta (100-meter dash), Tristan Vanatta (200-meter dash), Colton Hauschild (800-meter run) and from its 4x400, shuttle hurdle and sprint medley relays.
    The Wolverine boys did not win an event but got runner up finishes from Nic Duysen (200-meter dash), Dylan Schroeder (110-meter hurdles), Michael Schafer (3,200-meters) and its 4x800 and shuttle hurdle relay teams.
    On the girls side, the Knights won five events led by gold place finishes from Kendra Fichter in both the discus and shot put and Bailey Hauschild in the high jump. They added top times in the 4x100 and shuttle hurdle relays.
    Janette Schraft paced East Mills with golds in the 400-meter dash, 1,500-meters, 3,200-meters and the 400-meter hurdles. The Wolverines distance medley relay also took home top honors.

Last Chance Invite
Boys Team Results

1. Fremont-Mills, 119. 2. Sidney, 98. 3. Southwest Valley, 96. 4. East Mills, 87. 5. Stanton, 73. 6. Essex, 56. 7. Heartland Christian, 17. 8. South Page, 11.

Fremont-Mills Boys Medal Winners
   

100m dash – first place, Mason Vanatta, 11.85.
200m dash – first place, Tristan Vanatta, 24.78.
400m dash – third place, Connor Alley, 58.18.
800m run – first place, Colton Hauschild, 2:13.84.
400m hurdles – second place, James Switzer, 58.31.
Discus – fourth place, Alley, 123’ 7”.
Long jump – third place, Jaeger Powers, 19’ 10.5”.
Shot put – second place, Alley, 41’ 10.25”.
4x100m relay – second place, Fremont-Mills, 47.98.
4x200m relay – second place, Fremont-Mills, 1:38.50.
4x400m relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 3:40.26.
Shuttle hurdle relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 1:03.10.
Sprint Medley Relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 1:42.88.

East Mills Boys Medal Winners
200m dash – second place, Nic Duysen, 24.8.
400m dash – sixth place, Luke Moore, 1:01.88.
800m run – fourth place, Justin Wells, 2:27.39.
110m hurdles – second place, Dylan Schroeder, 16.22.
1600m run – second place, Michael Schafer, 5:22.85.
3200m run – second place,  Schafer, 11:21.90.
400m hurdles – third place, Schroeder, 1:01.81.
Long jump – fourth place, Schroeder, 19’ 6”.
4x100m relay – fifth place, East Mills, 49.32.
4x200m relay – fourth place, East Mills, 1:44.47.
4x400m relay – fifth place, East Mills, 4:12.72.
4x800m relay – second place, East Mills, 11:18.74.
Shuttle hurdle relay – second place, East Mills, 1:07.69.
    Distance medley relay – fourth place, East Mills, 4:43.86.

Girls Team Results

1. Fremont-Mills, 135. 2. Southwest Valley, 91. 3. Sidney, 84. 4. East Mills, 77. 5. Essex, 58. 6. Stanton, 57. 7. Griswold, 50. 8. Heartland Christian, 27. 9. South Page, 6.

Fremont-Mills Girls Medal Winners

200m dash – fourth place, McKayla Gartner, 29.94.
400m dash – sixth place, Taylor Morgan, 1:12.97.
800m run – sixth place, Rachel Wietzki, 3:00.93.
100m hurdles – second place, Clara Schaaf, 16.93.
1500m run – fifth place, Ellie Crom, 6:43.90.
Discus – first place, Kendra Fichter, 114’ 11”.
High jump – first place, Bailey Hauschild, 4’ 10”.
Long jump – third place, Wietzki, 15’ 1.75”.
Shot put – first place, Fichter, 36’ .5”.
4x100m relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 55.10.
4x200m relay – fourth place, Fremont-Mills, 2:01.53.
4x400m relay – fourth place, Fremont-Mills, 4:50.51.
4x800m relay – third place, Fremont-Mills, 11:57.29.
Shuttle hurdle relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 1:09.98.
Sprint medley relay – second place, Fremont-Mills, 2:06.65.
Distance medley relay – third place, Fremont-Mills, 5:12.65.

East Mills Girls Medal Winners

100m dash – third place, Madison Williams, 13.99.
400m dash – first place, Janette Schraft, 58.95.
800m run – fifth place, Jami Oyster, 3:00.48.
1500m run – first place, Schraft, 5:11.00.
3000m run – second place, Oyster, 14:07.20.
400m hurdles – first place, Schraft, 1:05.77.
Shot put – fourth place, Rachel Drake, 34’.
4x100m relay – third place, East Mills, 56.67.
4x200m relay – sixth place, East Mills, 2:14.02.
4x400m relay – fifth place, East Mills, 5:18.61.
Shuttle hurdle relay – fourth place, East Mills, 1:18.89.
Sprint medley relay – fourth place, East Mills, 2:08.72.
Distance medley relay – first place, East Mills, 4:55.20.