The 3A State Baseball Tournament will be in Emporia May 23 and 24. Hugoton will open play against Minneapolis at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. The Hugoton High School baseball team competed in the Regional tournament in Scott City last week. The Eagles were able to win three games and advanced to the State tournament for the first time in school history.
The Class 3A State Track and Field meet will be at Wichita Friday and Saturday, May 24 and 25. Hugoton has seven athletes that qualified for the State meet. In the 4 x 800m Relay there will be Jacob Eckert, JC Blakeley, Issac Valles, Bryan Gonzalez with alternates: Rafael Guereque and Luis Guerrero going. The relay team placed second at Regionals. Ashton Burrows qualified for State in the 300m hurdles placing fourth at Regionals. In the 800m run Jacob Eckert placed fourth at Regionals qualifing for State.
Local State bound athletes compete this weekend for medals and honors in 1A Track. Rolla athletes Alexandra Hart and Alec Langley will compete. Alexandra qualified for the high jump, triple jump, long jump and 100 meter hurdles. She is the number one seed in high jump. Alec will compete in the 100 meter run.
Congratulations to these athletes for placing at the Regional meet at Greensburg! Axel Granillo – first – discus; Adan Granillo – second – triple jump, and fourth – long jump; and Trenton Kennedy – fifth – triple jump.
Axel and Adan will compete at the State meet in Wichita . Friday, 9:45 a.m.-Axel will throw the discus. Adan will do the triple jump. Saturday, 1:15 p.m.-Adan will do the long jump.
