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Last Thursday was a beautiful day to compete, and the NRHEG girls’ track and field team made the most of it.

The Panther girls finished first among four squads in the NRHEG Invitational in New Richland, winning with 110 points. Medford was a distant second with 59, Blooming Prairie had 53, Maple River 44.

NRHEG dominated, winning nine events and taking second in eight more.

Firsts: Hailey Schuller, 100 hurdles, 17.2 and 300 hurdles, 53.2; Caitlin Goette, 400, 1:10.5; Kelly Harden, 800, 14:56; Maddie Wagner, long jump, 14-0; Sophia Fischer, shot put, 32-2.75; Emily Eder, discus, 94-1; 4x200 relay, 1:56.3 (Schuller, Goette, Maddie Wagner, Marnie Wagner).

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.

NRHEG baseball team battles Big Nine foe to the wire in 7-6 setback


In less than a week, the NRHEG baseball team made about a month’s worth of improvement.

After a 15-5, five-inning loss at WEM on Monday and getting shut out 6-0 at Maple River Thursday, the Panthers gave a Big Nine foe all it could handle Friday before falling 7-6 on a suicide squeeze in the bottom of the seventh inning at Albert Lea’s Hayek Field.

“I thought we played a lot better baseball tonight as compared to our two earlier games in the week,” said NRHEG coach Drew Paukert, whose team fell to 0-4.

The Panthers took a 2-0 lead in the first when Cole Staloch and John Hubly singled, scoring on a base hit by Trai Wicks and a Dempsey Tucker sacrifice fly.

Albert Lea responded with two in the home half of the first.