The Plainview Pirate boys’ track team made a run the second day of the State invite in Omaha last Saturday, and capped off their individual medalist total with Plainview’s first-ever State Track Championship title.
The Pirate boys had 53 team points at the end of the last race, putting them an even 20 points ahead of the competition. Axtell was second with 33 team points, in a three-way tie with Riverside and Mullen. Sterling was fifth with 32 and the remaining field of 46 scoring teams trailed down from there.
Point-scoring performances from junior Spencer Hille, who returned home with four state medals and two first-place finishes; and three medals between seniors, Kyler and Jordan Mosel bolstered the Pirate team score, and was topped off by a fifth-place medalist finish by the 4x800 team – giving the boys the points needed to win.
Individually, the Pirates scored with medalists:
Spencer Hille – 1, 300m Hurdles, 39.83s; 1, Long Jump, 21’9.75”; 3, High Jump, 6’4”; 3, Triple Jump, 43’3.5
Jordan Mosel – 3, 1600m run, 4:36.79; 6, 3200m run, 10:35.66
Kyler Mosel – 2, 1600m run, 4:32.53
4x800m relay – 5, Plainview (Jordan Mosel, Karter Lingenfelter, Tanner Frahm, Kyler Mosel), 8:36.56
The Lady Pirates qualified, and placed, with the 4x100m relay team on a sixth-place finish by Peighton Arlt, Keanu Johnson, Madelynn Dougherty and Teya Boyer on a 51.89s run.
Abbie Kromarek also placed in her Triple Jump attempt – coming in seventh with a jump of 34’1.25”.
Complete results from the 2023 State Track Invite were (* Indicates Medalists):
100m dash: 22, Teya Boyer, 13.39s (prelims)
100m hurdles: 16, Abbie Kromarek, 16.96 (prelims)
200m dash: 22, Teya Boyer, 28.38 (prelims)
300m hurdles: 10, Teya Boyer, 49.02s (prelims); 15, Abbie Kromarek, 49.96 (prelims)
300m hurdles: 1*, Spencer Hille, 39.83s (5, 41.94 prelims)
800m run: 16, Kyler Mosel, 2:06.39
1600m run: 2*, Kyler Mosel, 4:32.53 (school record); 3*, Jordan Mosel, 4:36.79
3200m run: 6*, Jordan Mosel, 10:35.66
High Jump: 3*, Spencer Hille, 6’4”; 14, Lenyn Ickler, 5’8”
High Jump: 9, Claire Rasmussen, 4’8”
Long Jump: 1*, Spencer Hille, 21’9.75”
Long Jump: 12, Abbie Kromarek, 15’10.75”
Pole Vault: 12, Peighton Arlt, 8’
Triple Jump: 3*, Spencer Hille, 43’3.5”
Triple Jump: 7*, Abbie Kromarek, 34’1.25”; 19, Madelynn Dougherty, 32’3”
4x100m relay: 6*, Plainview (Peighton Arlt, Keanu Johnson, Madelynn Dougherty, Teya Boyer), 51.89s
4x800m relay: 5*, Plainview (Jordan Mosel, Karter Lingenfelter, Tanner Frahm, Kyler Mosel), 8:36.56
Kyler Mosel broke a 51-year old Plainview Pirate school record with his 1600m run at the 2023 State Track Invite last weekend. Mosel ran the mile in 4:32.53, finishing two seconds ahead of his predecessor in the record, Lyle Lingenfelter, who held the record since 1971 at 4:34.2. Lingenfelter still holds the 3200m run record at 9:52.1. Fans, family and friends gathered for a special "welcome home" event on Saturday evening between the schools.
Spencer Hille at the high jump at the State Invite.
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