Great Bend Post Sports
Many of the state's best high school track and field athletes were in Topeka Monday to compete in the Bob Camien/Claudia Welch meet originally scheduled for Friday. The Panther boys finished 16th overall.
Freshman Cooper Ohnmacht joined the 22-foot club in the long jump with a seventh-place finish at 22-0.5. Just seven Class 5A jumpers have reached that mark this spring. Lyndon's Tanner Heckel won with the spring's best jump of 23-8.5. Ohnmacht just missed a season best in the triple jump, placing fourth at 43-8.5 to miss the bronze by two inches. Ohnmacht also head to contend with the state's best 100m dasher this year in Seaman senior Aaron Merritt, who won in 10.48. Ohnmacht placed 21st in 11.50.
Senior Braylon Moore placed fifth in the 800m run in 2:04.30 to miss the bronze by five seconds. Junior Diego Pasos finished 11th in 2:09.06, and freshman Omar Razo ran 34th in 2:21.49. Sophomore Ismael Ramirez placed ninth in the 1600m run in 4:39.24 to miss the bronze by six seconds. Sophomore Tavon Stroup ran 16th in the 3200m run in 10:17.70. Blue Valley West senior Brock Olsen ran a top-15 time in Kansas this spring for the win by seven seconds in 9:22.53.
Senior Ramiro Rocho finished 12th in the 400m dash in 52.02. That event featured the No. 2 runner in Kansas this spring in Wamego's Harrison Cutting.
Sophomore Conner Holliday led the Panther throwers with an eighth-place finish in the discus at 135-0 to miss the bronze by nearly 12 feet. Senior Jorge Pena placed 19th at 124-3.