Wayne Varsity Girls Crowned Invite Champion, Boys Place Third

Wayne Varsity Girls Crowned Invite Champion, Boys Place Third
Courtesy of Wayne Community Schools. Wayne High girls varsity track and field team winning the Wisner-Pilger Invite.

WISNER – In-between a pair of home invites, the Wayne High girls and boys track & field team participated in a road invitational.

From Wisner-Pilger High School, it was a busy Saturday for a total of 42 girls and boys varsity and JV teams during the 37th Wisner Lions Club Invite.

Head Blue Devil track & field coach Dale Hochstein said, “the Wayne athletes again had strong performances and showed solid improvement with 34 Personal Bests on the season.”

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The Wayne High girls finished as team champs with 92 points while the Blue Devil boys took third with 64 points (one point away from second). In the combined team scores, Wayne’s Varsity finished in first, 5.5 points ahead of Stanton while the JV teams were fifth.

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Wayne won the girls division with 92 points, followed by Aquinas Catholic in runner-up (87); the host Wisner-Pilger took third (85); Guardian Angels Central Catholic placed fourth (64) and Stanton rounded out the top five teams (48.5).

The Wayne High girls track & field team were led by top two placings in the distance events from Kyla Krusemark winning the 1600-meter run (5:52.79) and the 3200-meter run (12:55.46). Jala Krusemark placed second in the 1600-meter run (5:54.09) and finished runner-up in the 3200-meter run (12:57.36).

The top field event champion was Brooklyn Kruse winning the discus (118’ 9”) and shot put (36’ 6 ½”).

The 4×800-meter relay team of Kiara Krusemark, Jala Krusemark, Laura Hasemann and Kyla Krusemark finished first in a time of 10:26.70.

 

Stanton ran away with the boys division title with 102 points, followed by North Bend Central in runner-up (65); Wayne took third (64) while the host Wisner-Pilger and Aquinas Catholic both tied for fourth with 60 points.

The Wayne High boys track & field team was led by Jesus Zavala III who won the 3200-meter run (10:45.92) and placed third in both the 800-meter run (2:15.29) and 1600-meter run (5:02.91).

The top field event finishes came in third from Carter Junck in the high jump (5’ 2”) and Eli Barner in the pole vault (10’ 6”).

The 4×800-meter relay team of Zavala III, Colson Nelson, Mason Ley and Ethan Wibben finished first in a time of 9:17.23.

 

The Wayne High girls and boys track & field team will next host another invite on Tuesday, April 12 with field events starting at 2 p.m. from Kern Track and running events at 3:45 p.m. Other members of the Blue Devil track & field team will also participate in the Kruger/May Invitational Tack Meet hosted by Elkhorn on Thursday, April 14 with field events starting at 1:30 p.m. and running events at 3 p.m.

 

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