Lady Trojans earn runner-up honors at Mid State meet

ALBION - The Cedar Catholic Lady Trojan track team ran, jumped and threw well enough to finish second in the Mid State Conference Track and Field Meet here April 27.

Boone Central won the girls’ points of the meet with 118 points while the Lady Trojans posted 80.

The Trojans had a rough day and stumbled to seventh in the boys’ team race with 25 points. Battle Creek took the conference title with 138 points while the Cardinals were runner-up with 118.

Anisten Wortmann, Lauren Bernecker, Kally Becker, Claire Rolfes and Lexi Eickhoff paced the Lady Trojans with Cedar Catholic winning the 4X400 and 4X800 relays.

Wortmann, Brynn Bernecker, Becker and Lauren Bernecker circled the track four times in 4-minutes-16.16-seconds to grab the gold and the 4X800 squad of Brynn Bernecker, Rolfes, Lauren Bernecker and Becker took first in that event.

Individually, Wortmann was second in the long jump by .75 inches and took third in the 100 and 200 meters.

Lauren Bernecker was third in the 400 and 800, Becker finished fourth behind Bernecker in the 800.

Rolfes grabbed a couple of bronze medals in the 1,600 and 3,200. Eickhoff placed second in the shot with a toss of 37-feet-6-inches and missed a medal in the discus by one spot winding up seventh. Teammate Addison Walter was fourth in the shot put.

Braeden Reifenrath had a good day for the Trojans taking third in the 100 with a time of 11.23 and fifth in the 200 in 22.95.

He joined Breiton Whitmire, Booker Hochstein and Mason Baller to take fourth in the 4X100 relay.

The Cedar Catholic 4X800 relay of Matthew Loecker, Alex Elks, Kighter Wortmann and Nolan Becker placed third and the 4X400 squad of Whitmire, Hunter Kuchta, Becker and Loecker placed fifth.

Jared Rutar had a good day in the ring taking fifth in the discus and sixth in the shot put, teammate Graham Potts placed sixth behind Rutar in the discus.

Both teams will head to Battle Creek on May 2 before hosting the C-4 District Meet on May 9 at the Hartington Community Athletic Complex.