Reporter-Herald’s High Fives
Five athletes and five teams who made an impact on the local preps scene this past week:
Five athletes:
Sam Holt, Mountain View baseball: The Mountain Lions sophomore pitcher shut down Rifle in the team’s season-opening victory Monday.
Holt won while pitching five scoreless innings, allowing five hits and no runs while walking three and striking out six. He also scored one of the Mountain Lions’ runs in the 4-0 win.
Trent Jacobs, Berthoud baseball: The Spartans senior had half of his team’s hits while reaching base four times in Berthoud’s loss to Loveland on Saturday at Owens Field.
Jacobs had three hits and was hit by a pitch in the contest. On the mound, he held the Red Wolves at bay for a couple of innings while striking out three in three innings.
Madeline Clark, Mountain View track and field: The Mountain Lions senior finished second in one race and in the top 15 in another at the Texas Distance Festival in Southlake, Texas, over the weekend.
Clark finished second out of 191 runners in the 800 meters in a time of 2 minutes, 9.17 seconds, only .06 behind the winner. She was also 14th out of 471 runners in the mile in 4:56.31.
Alice Lehnherr, Thompson Valley track and field: The Eagles senior was the highest individual finisher for the Thompson Valley girls at the Broomfield Shootout on Saturday.
Lehnherr finished ninth out of 73 runners in the 800 in 2:26.45. She was only one second out of eighth place and two seconds out of sixth.
Anna Bagley, Berthoud track and field: The Spartans sophomore was the highest individual finisher for the Berthoud girls at the Runners Roost of Fort Collins Invitational on Saturday.
Bagley finished fourth out of 53 runners in the mile, crossing the finish line in 5:29.35. She was five seconds behind the third-place finisher and three seconds ahead of the fifth-place finisher, teammate Lydia Cabrera.
Five teams
Loveland boys track and field: The Red Wolves won the 33-team Broomfield Shootout on Saturday with 78 points, 20 more than second-place Eaglecrest (58).
Loveland got a first-place finish from Jackson Conroy in the 100 hurdles. His winning time of 13.98 is the fastest in the state this season. Also for Loveland, Ashton Daly won the shot put (55 feet, 11.75 inches) and was third in the discus (144-0); Preston Evans was second in the 300 hurdles (40.08); and Jaxx Sare was third in the high jump (6-4). The Red Wolves were third in the 4×800 relay and fourth in the 4×400 relay.
Thompson Valley boys track and field: The Eagles finished 12th out of 33 teams at the Broomfield Shootout on Saturday with 35.5 points, just 2.5 points out of 10th place.
The lone event winner for Thompson Valley was Brody Van Essen, who took first in the discus with a heave of 146-3. Zack Bakker was second in the pole vault (15-6). The Eagles went 5-6-7 in the 1,600 — all within half a second — with Antheney Herre taking fifth (4:18.36), Isaac Vasquez sixth (4:18.44) and Trent Gabrielson seventh (4:18.86).
Loveland baseball: The Red Wolves evened their season record at 2-2 with a 13-4 victory over Berthoud on Saturday at Owens Field, coming back from an early 2-0 deficit.
Bennett Gransbery led the Red Wolves with five innings of relief pitching in which he allowed two runs on three hits and struck out six. At the plate, he was 3-for-5 with four RBIs. Gavyn Helm had two hits and two RBIs while Cole Underwood also had a pair of hits and scored two runs.
Berthoud boys track and field: The Spartans finished 10th out of 29 teams at the Runners Roost of Fort Collins Invitational on Saturday, with all but three of their points coming from two individual event winners.
Aidan Malherbe won the 800 in 1:59.53, a half-second ahead of the second-place finisher, while Samuel Whitaker won the discus with a throw of 159-10 — 17 inches farther than the second-place finisher.
Loveland girls track and field: The Red Wolves tied for ninth out of 33 teams at the Broomfield Shootout on Saturday with 36 points, only eight points out of fifth place.
Loveland didn’t have any individual winners, but Brynn Torres was second in the 3,200 (10:65.54) and Ava Wankelman and Adley Knop went 2-3 in the pole vault, with Wankelman clearing 11-6 and Knop clearing 11-0. Sydney Brantley was sixth in the 800 (2:24.41).
