The throwing squad from the Barton Community College track and field program competed Saturday at the Tabor College Invite in Hillsboro, Kansas.
The Cougars combined won three of the seven events entered with Ana da Silva winning both the hammer throw and shot put with Fabio Hessling taking the hammer throw on the men's side with a 65.34 toss.
Silva didn't need her personal best efforts in winning the pair of events, marking a 55.76m for the hammer title and 14.43m for the shot put. Jada Sewell did achieve a personal best on the day in the hammer with a 39.20 to place 13th, to go along with a third place in the shot put at 12.79. The duo also competed in the discus with Silva placing 3rd at 37.07m as Sewell finished 11th overall with a 32.56m mark.
Four Cougars entered the men's discus with Giovanni Gutierrez leading the entries with a 3rd place personal best throw of 47.94m. Tyler Nelson place 7th at 44.00m, Hessling in 10th at 42.20, and Fred Moudani's 39.54m throw placing 14th.
Gutierrez also placed 4th in shot put at 15.64m with Nelson grabbing 4th in the javelin on a 44.81m throw.
The Ravens had been expected to trade Brown since late January, when he took to social media to emphatically state that he was a left tackle rather than right tackle, where Baltimore wanted him to play going forward. And while the trade gives the Ravens two first-round picks, they likely will need to use one of them on a replacement on the right side.
The biggest surprise, though, may have been the trade partner. Baltimore essentially sent one of the league’s best players at one of the game’s premier positions to their biggest barricade toward making it back to the Super Bowl.
“There’s been certainly dialogue with various teams and we have a couple things on our radar,” Veach said about four hours before the trade, “but nothing there we’re ready to move on in any direction. But we’re always going to continue to have dialogue with teams and make sure we have all the information, and we can assess whether this move would be a better alternative than staying put and either moving up or moving down.”
The Chiefs have spent the offseason rebuilding an offensive line that was decimated by opt-outs and injuries by the end of last season, when they were dominated up front by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a Super Bowl rout. But most of the work in free agency had been along the interior of the line, leaving both offensive tackle jobs up for grabs.
The Chiefs released left tackle Eric Fisher and right tackle Mitchell Schwartz, both of whom had surgery for season-ending injuries, to save space under the salary cap. And that left many to assume they would draft an offensive tackle at No. 31.
Despite a draft deep at the position, the Chiefs decided to trade that selection among others for a sure thing.
The 24-year-old Brown, a third-round pick of the Ravens in 2018, has started 42 games and appeared in all 16 each of the past three seasons. He played on the right side his first two seasons but moved to the left following an injury to Ronnie Stanley midway through last season, and did not allow a sack in about 700 snaps at that position.
The acquisition turned out to be an aggressive backup plan after the Chiefs made a strong offer to Trent Williams in free agency. Williams chose to return to the San Francisco 49ers instead of signing with Kansas City.
Either way, the Chiefs were poised to enter the season with an entirely new offensive line protecting Patrick Mahomes.
They signed standout Patriots guard Joe Thuney in free agency, lured former All-Pro Kyle Long — who could play offensive guard or tackle —out of an injury-induced retirement and signed Austin Blythe to take over at center.
They also plan to have third-round