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HNS wins its fourth straight District speech title
CREIGHTON — The Hartington- Newcastle speech team is on a mission.
The HNS Wildcat Speech team qualified 17 entries Friday en route to its NSAA C2-3 District championship at Creighton High School.
The Wildcats claimed the title in dominating fashion, medaling in 19 of 20 entries and scoring 332 team points to win its fourth straight district title.
Cedar Catholic finished as the District runner-up with 10 state qualifying entries and 272 team points.
“I can’t express enough how proud the coaches are of the students who competed on Friday,” HNS speech coach Kyle Stevens said. “We faced some really tough competition throughout the day, and our kids really stepped up to that challenge.'
Now the Wildcats are on a mission to keep another streak going — state championships. HNS has won two straight state titles and three in the past five years.
Stevens' team wasn't the only local winner.
'It was a good day for our team, and it was a good day for Speech in the Hartington community,' Stevens said, as he commended the Cedar Catholic speech program.
'This kind of result is a product of the dedication and commitment they show all season to each other, their coaches, and this activity,” he said.
The local speech team members are next in action at the state meet in Kearney at Kearney High School on Friday, March 27.
“We have some work to do to prepare for a great day of competition at state,” Stevens said. “We are all really excited for the opportunity to compete and are ready to put our best performances out there and see what happens.”
District C2-3 HNS results
(Medalists in top 3 qualify for state)
State Qualifiers
Lainey Morten–1st Place–-Program of Oral Interp. Hazel Hochstein–1st Place—Persuasive Issac Santiago—1st Place—Serious Prose Emily Climer–-1st Place—Entertainment Alyk Zach—1st Place—Poetry Dane Gotch, Issac Santiago, Carter Kelly, Trevon Hopping and Austin Sudbeck–2nd Place–OID Trynity Zach–-2nd Place—Poetry Hazel Hochstein–2nd Place–Informative Trynity Zach–-2nd Place—Persuasive Dane Gotch–2nd Place–Serious Prose Trevon Hopping–2nd Place–Program of Oral Interp. Issac Santiago and Dane Gotch—2nd Place–-Duet Gabe Reyes–3rd Place–Extemporaneous Emily Climer—3rd Place—Informative Lainey Morten—3rd Place—Humorous Trevon Hopping and Austin Sudbeck– 3rd Place–Duet Lainey Morten, Jason Heimes, Gabe Reyes, Alyk Zach and Vayda Lippert– 3rd Place–OID
District Medalists
Alyk Zach–-4th Place—Humorous Carter Kelly–5th Place—Entertainment
District C2-3 Cedar results
OID: 1st place- Landry Heimes, Adelyn Reifenrath, Sophia Kleinschmit, Calley Stewart, Kendra Schmit Duet Acting: 1st Place -Langston Christensen & Landon Rutar; 4th, Dawson Dresden & Sawyer Nieman Humorous - 1st place Landon Rutar; Braeden Gubbels: 6th Informative: 1st place - Ava Stewart; 4th Breah Steffen. Serious, 3rd place - Langston Christensen; 6th, Dawson Dresden. Extemp: 1st place - Donnie Schulte Poetry — 3rd place - Kyson Lammers; 6th Evie Freeman POI - 3rd place - Landon Rutar; 5th Calley Stewart Entertainment: 3rd place - Adelyn Reifenrath; 6th, Cecilia Zimmerman Persuasive: 3rd, Breah Steffen; 5th, Isabel Rolfes
