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Page 10 Colby Free Press Wednesday, March 25, 2009 SSpp o o r r t t ss Trojans track and field team Getting ready for a smash finishes third at invitational By Andy Heintz John Zamora grabbed two gold and placed fifth in 400-meter hur- Colby Free Press medals, finishing first in the finals dles with 1:16.86. [email protected] of the 100-meter dash with a time Alicia Cooksey finished third in of 11.18 and first in the 200-meter the 100-meter dash with a time of The Colby Community Col- dash with 23.11. 13 minutes, 82 seconds. lege’s women’s track and field For the women, Tonya Nero The Colby women took second team finished third at the McPher- placed first in the 1,500-meter in the 4 x 100 relay with a time of son Invitational last weekend with 2:23.16. Maria Rodriguez 53.61. at McPheson College with 120 was fourth with 2:34.72 and Scar- On the men’s side, Joel Scott points while the men’s team la Nero sixth with 2:39.04. took third in pole vault with a placed fourth with 98. Rodriguez ran first in the 5,000 leap of 3.65 meters and fourth in For the women, Tonya and Scar- meters with 5:22.86 and Tatian the high jump with a 1.73-meter la Nero finished first and second in Bartruff finished fifth in 5:39.54. jump. Scott also placed fourth the women’s 10,000-meter run on Lisa Faimon finished second in the triple jump with a leap of Saturday, on March 14, with times in the women’s high jump with a 12.46 meters. of 37 minutes, 56 seconds and 1.53-meter jump and second in the Samuel Mwago placed fourth in 39:14.50 respectively. Their times women’s triple jump with 10.57 the 100-meter dash with a time of were good enough to qualify them meters. Danae Rice took third in 12.17 . Stevorn Richards finished for the junior college nationals the women’s pole vault with vault fourth in the 400-meter dash with from Thursday to Saturday, May of 2.59-meters. a time of 51.69. 21 to 23, in Hutchinson. Riley Sickels placed fourth in Charmant Ollivierr placed For the men, Darren Sporing the women’s long jump with 4.56 second in the 800-meter dash at finished first in the 3,000-meter meters. Angela Schulte was sec- 2.00.97 and Albert Mong’ony fin- Steeplechase with a time of 10 ond in the hammer throw with ished fifth with 2:01.77. minutes, 52.73 secons. It was the 38.99 meters. She barely missed Mon’gony was second in the first time Sporing has ever ran the qualifying for nationals, said 1,500-meter run with 4:12.06. ANDY HEINTZ/Colby Free Press steeplechase, said coachCrystal Berndt. Anthony Whiteman took sixth in Colby High junior Gray Henry got ready to smash the tennis ball on a windy Tuesday after- Berndt. Courtney LeClair finished first the 1500 meters run with 4:31.08. noon at the college tennis courts. The team’s first match will be at 3 p.m. on Thursday, April “He ran very well,” she said. in the 100-meter hurdles at 18:04 defeat Athletics Good Luck Wrestlers at SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Mike After the game, Kansas City it was bad in 2007, but it’s a lot Aviles a grand slam in the third Trey Hillman made it of- different now. I can’t complain. and drove in five runs and ficial — Gil Meche would start the I worked really, really hard to be the Kansas City Royals defeated April 6 opener at Chicago, while where I’m at right now. I’m going the 8-3 on Greinke would start the second to work harder to stay where I’m STATE!! Tuesday night. game. at and get better. Royals right-hander Zack Aviles, who started last season Braiden Lynn, Sean Rall, Tucker Branum, Ethan Rum- Greinke, who had given up 11 at Triple-A, was promoted on May runs in eight in his pre- 29 last season and became the mel, Zach Hart, Tate Carney, Travis Finley, Brennan vious two starts, struck eight Kansas City regular shortstop on :SXI in five innings and allowed three June 6, hitting .325 with 10 home Ziegelmeier, Bryce Arnberger, Austin Hart, Brady runs, two earned, on four hits and runs and 51 RBIs in 102 games. &SF6IRRIV Holzmeister, Andrew Taylor, Dustin Reed, Konnor two walks. He finished tied for fourth in the All three Oakland runs off rookie of the Kriss, Dalton Snyder, Chase Harlow, Michael Tubbs, Greinke came in the third. Nomar year balloting. Garciaparra and Bobby Crosby “It’s a complete 180, definitely Ethan Stickel, Torey Taylor, Andrew Flanagin, Nathan had RBIs, while the other run for the better,” Aviles said of the Quagliano, Drew White, Cameron Crocker scored on an Alberto Callaspo turnaround of his fortunes from throwing error. the 2008 camp. “I’m not saying WIN STATE! Colby Swim Club JSV''' Sign Ups are April 5th @ 4:00 p.m. &SEVH in the Health and Science Building at the Colby Wrestling Club Colby Community College. Watch for signs. SJ8VYWXIIW All Ages Welcome. SR Call Lindsay or Grady Garrett at 785-460-1919 or 785-462-0113 %TVMP 19th Annual or Shana Carman at 785-460-9882. TEMHJSVF]&SF6IRRIV FREE Business Seminar

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