By MIKE COURSON
Great Bend Post
The late addition of Class 3A Lakin to Friday’s Jack Bowman Invitational at Great Bend High School proved to be a good one for track and field fans. Junior Colter Oldham stole some of the show by bouncing the shot put out over the wall with the state’s best throw this spring. The Broncs finished third against mostly larger schools with 90 points. Andale took the win over Bishop Carroll 123.75-100. Great Bend scored 41 points for ninth place.
Panther freshman Cooper Ohnmacht had some highlights of his own in the jumping events. In just his second varsity meet, he added to one of the state’s best triple jumps this spring for the gold by eight inches at 44-5. Ben Nicholson finished eighth at 39-4, and Kellen Brown placed 10th at 38-3.5.
Ohnmacht made his long jump debut against tough competition, taking the bronze at 21-8.5, and missing the silver medal by just an inch.
Oldham’s sweep in the throws included a javelin win by more than two feet at 166-8. Panther senior Matthew Johnson placed sixth at 143-1.
The sprints featured some of the best in Kansas this spring. Ramiro Rocho made the finals where he placed fifth in 23.99 to miss the bronze by a quarter of a second. Rocho was a silver medalist in the 400m dash in 53.24, 1.2 seconds behind the winner from Campus. Braylon Moore finished eighth in 55.32.
Ismael Ramirez placed fifth in the 1600m run in 4:44.59 to miss the bronze by six seconds. Tavon Stroup ran eighth in 4:50.50. Stroup also ran 13th in the 3200m run in 10:58.03. That event featured four runners under 10 minutes despite the wind.
The Panther 4x4 team of Rocho, Moore, Ohnmacht, and Pedro Enriquez placed sixth in 3:38.04 to miss the bronze by three seconds.
Other notable
finishes:
100: 16. Cooper
Ohnmacht 11.61.
800: 16. Diego
Pasos 2:17.62, 19. Omar Razos 2:22.97, 20. Alex Galindo 2:23.10.
110m hurdles: 15.
Luis Gonzalez 19.00, 16. Victor Reyes 19.04.
300m hurdles: 14.
Luis Gonzalez 47.65.
Discus: 14. Conner Holliday 116-8.5, 19. Jorge Pena 113-3.5.