Local NMB-Area Kids Shine at Shelby Invite

The Chinook track and field teams participated in Shelby on Saturday. They were joined by future Class ‘B’ team Fort Benton and a few other NMB-area listening schools. The Beeter boys’ ended up winning the team competition with 100 points, while Fort Benton’s girls were on top at 124 points.

Once again, the boys’ 100-meter dash was competitive. Once again, it was Chinook’s Carson Nissen who took it, crossing at 11.63. Fort Benton’s Truman Giese was second at 11.86. The girls’ 100 saw a 2-3 finish for the Longhorns as Etta Wicks and Lily Ferris were neck and neck at 13.17 and 13.44, respectively. Chinook’s Charley Nissen ran a PR 13.57 to make the podium in fourth.

Fort Benton won the 200 with Giese (24.20) on top for the boys’ and Wicks (27.68) in front for the girls’. Brooklyn Olson finished second for the Longhorn girls at 28.37, while Nissen ran another PR for Chinook’s girls at 28.99 to take third. Landon Good had a 25.47 for a personal time in the boys’ 200 for Fort Benton.

Nissen finished as a runner up in the girls’ 400 meters, achieving another personal best of 1:03.59. Olson finished third at 1:04.15. Another Sugarbeeter, Ashlyn Ford, took second in the 800 meters, crossing the line at 2:34.13. She also ran a personal best 5:29.54 in the 1600 to become runner-up yet again. Neva Lowe won the 3200 for Chinook, placing at 12:29.07. Her Sugarbeeter teammate, Alexus Seymour, completed the course in 12:45.12, her best time ever.

The boys’ 800 meters was a crowded field with five of the six runner getting a personal time. Chinook’s Owen Davies came in at 2:10.51 for second and Fort Benton’s Isaiah Smith was third at 2:12.12.

Moving to the hurdles, Ang Riener again won the girls’ 100 for Fort Benton, doing it in 16.74. RJ Engstrom took second in the boys’ 300-meter hurdles at 47.48 for Chinook.

In the 4-by-100 girls’ relay race, Melodie Starman joined Riener, Ferris, and Wicks to give the Longhorns another first place at 52.34. The Chinook boys’ tandem of Nissen, Oliver Standiford, Patrick McKenzie, and Landen Beck won the 4-by-100 with a time of 46.74. In the 4-by-400, Olson ran for Starman to guide Fort Benton to the win again for the girls’, this time at 4:24.58. The Longhorns swept that event as the boys’ won with Giese, Good, Yuma Vaughn, and Isaac Arganbright, taking it at 3:43.77.

Chinook’s Hannah Schoen did some field work on Saturday, picking up a second-place finish in the shot put (34 feet and 10.75 inches) and top spot in the javelin (104 feet). Riener cleared five feet and 4.5 inches in her high jump to win and also set a new personal best. Wicks took first in the long jump at 15 feet and 10 inches.

Standiford and McKenzie finished second and third in the javelin with throws of 129 feet and 122 feet, seven inches, respectively. Jameson Nordboe from Chinook tied for first in the high jump, clearing six feet. Nissen had two more wins: in the long jump with his distance of 20 feet and two inches. He also won the triple jump, setting the mark at 39 feet and two inches.