Islander girls win invite title

PAPILLION Suzanne Higgins and Allison Jorgensen both had a hand in winning three events to lead Grand Island Senior High to the team title Monday at the Papillion-LaVista South championship.

Grand Island totaled 125 points to outdistance second-place Papillion-LaVista South with 106.

Jorgensen won both the 100 (12.27) and the 200 (25.97). Higgins won the 400 (1:00.06) and the 300 hurdles (47.73).

Jorgensen and Higgins also teamed with Michaela Knuth and Alecia McMahon to win the 400 relay in 50.05.

McMahon also won the pole vault (9-feet) while Tana O'Boyle won the triple jump (35- 1/4).

The Grand Island boys finished third with 72.25 points behind Lincoln Northeast with 103.25 and Omaha Westside with 99.25.

Cody Friedrichsen had the G.I. boys only win of the meet with a 13-6 performance in the pole vault. The Islanders did pile up some points in the 110 hurdles with Brandon Grotzky second, Robbie Osberg third and Elijah Mason fourth.

Red Hornets fourth at invite

SHELTON Both the Heartland Lutheran boys and girls finished fourth Monday at the Shelton Invitational.

The boys scored 78 points behind Elm Creek with 211.5, Shelton 120.5 and Kenesaw 90.

Heartland Lutheran freshman Dylan Paustian won the 400 in 55.7.

The Heartland Lutheran girls were fourth with 75 points behind Elm Creek with 146, Shelton 135 and Kenesaw 131.

Senior Ezarah Williams won the long jump with a leap of 15-11 1/2.

* BASEBALL

Islanders fall in tournament

LINCOLN Lincoln High scored twice in the seventh inning to take a 4-3 victory over Grand Island in the first round of the Heartland Athletic Conference Tournament at Sherman Field in Lincoln.

"We just didn't get some defensive execution we needed," Grand Island coach Rick Kissack said. "There were some plays we just didn't quite finish that unfortunately came back to haunt us."

Senior Eric Schwieger, who will sign to play baseball at Wayne State on Wednesday, got his first start of the season after returning from shoulder surgery.

Schwieger pitched five innings and gave up no earned runs with five strikeouts and just one walk.

Kissack was glad to see Schwieger pitch well.

"We had some bright spots," Kissack said. "I've been very impressed with Max Ayoub (at catcher) who has stepped in for Slade Bolles and done a great job. He has a bright future in our program."

The Islanders will play at Lincoln Pius X today.

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* SOCCER

GINW boys shut out Seward

SEWARD Four different players scored goals as Grand Island Northwest downed Seward 4-0 Monday.

Michael Marian scored off an assist from Jason Ogden, then Ogden scored on a Marian assist as the Vikings took a 2-0 lead at the half.

Brian Doud scored off a Brad Rauert assist and Chris Morriss added an unassisted goal in the second half.

"The boys played well," Northwest coach Roger Doud said. "We came off a couple of tough losses on shootouts. We tried to get some offensive push. We felt better about that. We hadn't been scoring a lot of goals lately."

Roger Doud said defenders Nathan Peters, Freddy Bautista, Edu Flores and Fredrick Johansson all played well for the Vikings (6-5).

"We were putting a little more pressure on the defense to come through," Roger Doud said. "Peters, Flores, Bautista and Fredrik Johansson did a nice job there.

"Adam Wemhoff did another stellar job (in goal). That was his fifth shutout of the season."

GINW girls down Seward

SEWARD Tara New scored the lone goal of the game off an assist from Brittany Howell to give Grand Island Northwest a 1-0 victory over Seward Monday.

New had missed about two weeks with an injury. She scored the goal in the 66th minute of play.

"The kids played pretty well," Northwest coach Craig Charron said. "We had the wind in the second half. We pretty much controlled the second half. We kept the ball on their side of the field and finally pushed it in."

The Vikings improved to 4-7 with the win while Seward fell to fell to 1-9.

* GOLF

GINW boys second in scramble

CENTRAL CITY Grand Island Northwest was second in Division I at the Central City Scramble on Monday.

Max Luber, Nate Cox and Kurt Bills combined to shoot 68. Aurora took first at 63.

Northwest's Greg Saunders, Mike Winder and Jake McMahon shot 69 to take first in Division II.

Team Scoring

Division I

Aurora 63, Grand Island NW 68, Central City 72, Ord 72, Fullerton 72, Gibbon 79.

Division II

Grand Island NW 69, Aurora 70, Fullerton 76, Central City B 77, Ord 82, Central City A 83, Gibbon 89, Lakeview B 93, Lakeview A 94, Cental City C 96.