The NRHEG boys’ track and field team finished second among four squads in the NRHEG Invitational in New Richland Thursday, April 14.
Maple River took first with 103 points, followed by the Panthers with 77, Blooming Prairie 53 and Medford 39.
The Panther boys captured five firsts: Josh Fleming, 400, 55.9; Brady Agrimson, 300 hurdles, 44.1; Agro Gushwa, high jump, 5-8; 4x400 relay, 3:47.6 (Tyler Schlak, John Cole, Gushwa, Fleming); 4x800, 8:56.8 (Schlaak, Cole, Nate Krause, Fleming).
Seconds were by Schlaak, 800, 2:15.7; Cole, 3200, 11:19.2; Agrimson, 110 hurdles, 17.4 and high jump, 5-6; Zeke Erickson, shot put, 41-1 and discus, 117-11; 4x200, 1:47.0 (Aaron Seath, Gushwa, Jarret Utpadel, Lucas Hermann.
Other Panther places: Fleming, third, long jump, 15-8; Jacob Schuller, third, 1600, 5:29.7; Utpadel, fourth, 400, 59.1; Mason Ferber, fourth, high jump, 4-8, fifth, 200, 26.9 and fifth, 110 hurdles, 22.4; 4x100, fourth, 50.6 (Seath, Hermann, Utpadel, Krause); Alex Buckmeier, fourth, shot put, 38-5; Gushwa, fifth, triple jump, 33-7.“The boys looked good tonight despite the wind,” said Ferber. “Five first places and eight seconds shows some nice scoring. Nice weather will allow our times to go down and our distances to go up.”