Northeast Nebraska Sports

OMAHA — The Laurel-Concord/Coleridge track team sent seven athletes to Omaha last week to compete in the Class C State Track Meet at Burke Stadium. Brett Haisch was the lone Bear qualifying, while the Lady Bears were represented by five competitors and one relay alternate.

LCC sophomore Ellie Arduser turned in the most impressive weekend of all the local athletes, competing in four events and picking up three medals at the elite state meet.

The LCC speedster earned a trip to the 200-meter finals with a time of 26.46 and a second-place finish in her Friday heat. She then ran the 200 finals on Saturday, earning a fifth-place medal.

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HARTINGTON—The Laurel-Concord/Coleridge girls’ track team has competed short-handed all season long, and still managed to finish in the top half of the team standings in almost every meet this year.

The Lady Bears did just that at the District C-6 Track Meet in Hartington Thursday, finishing third out of eight teams competing, with a combined team score of 98.

The district championship, which was decided in the last event, went to Cedar Catholic, finishing with 121.5, edging out Crofton by 1.5 points.

In total, LCC came away from the meet with four individual athletes and two relay teams that qualified for the 2013 NSAA State Track Meet.

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BEEMER — The Laurel-Concord/Coleridge golf team earned the District golf title Monday.

The Bears had to battle some windy conditions to earn the title but they got it done.

The Bear golfers fired a 338 to defeat Cedar Catholic and earn the berth to next week’s Class C State Golf Tournament in Lincoln.

The Bears will now be in search of their very first state golf championship.

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RANDOLPH — The local golf team is on a roll.

Laurel-Concord/Coleridge took home first place from the Hartington Invitational last Tuesday in Hartington. The Bear golfers then earend top honors Monday at Randolph.

The Bears’ combined team score of 310 at Hartington was the best of the nine varsity teams competing and five strokes ahead of second-place Cedar Catholic.

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LAUREL — The Laurel-Concord/Coleridge boys’ track team came in fourth out of seven teams in their final appearance in the NENAC Conference track meet with a combined team score of 62. West Holt won the conference with a score of 180.

The Bears had one individual conference champion as Dillan Wolfgram had his best mark of the season in the triple jump, finishing at 40’1/2” to take first place. LCC also won the 4×100-meter relay with a season-best time of 45.8 seconds.

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PIERCE—The Laurel-Concord/Coleridge golf team took home the title Saturday at the Pierce Invite.

Junior Mitchell Klooz led the way for the Bears with an 18-hole score of 69 on the par 72 course,

Jamy McCoy was next for the Bears’ individual scoring on a day when all of LCC competitors finished in the meet’s upper echelon. McCoy’s 76 was a career best.

Head Coach Scott Petersen was pleased with his team’s output and emphasized that were it not for a few self-imposed errors, this really could have been one for the books.

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NORFOLK—The Laurel-Concord/Coleridge Bears sent athletes from both the boys’ and girls’ teams to Norfolk Thursday to compete in the elite Northeast Nebraska Track Classic at Norfolk High School.

For the girls’ team, sophomore Ellie Arduser was the top individual performer as she placed second in the 100-meter dash with a season-best time of 12.4 seconds. Arduser also placed third in the 200-meter dash with a time of 26.1 seconds.

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PLAINVIEW — The Laurel-Concord/Coleridge varsity golf team finished third out of 11 varsity teams competing at the Plainview Invite last week.

In a meet that ended up being a three-horse race, the Bears finished with a combined team score of 169, just one stroke behind second-place Plainview and two strokes behind winner Elgin/Pope John. Stanton finished fourth, 19  strokes behind L-C/C at 188.

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LAUREL —  The Laurel-Concord/Coleridge girls took home the team title at last Tuesday’s Laurel Invite.

On the girls’ side, LCC finished with a combined team score of 108 to edge Pender by just eight points for first place overall.

Sophomore Ellie Arduser won the triple jump with a mark of 33’6” and the 100-meter dash with a season-best time of 13.0 seconds. She was also part of two gold medal winning relays.

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LAUREL — The Laurel-Concord/Coleridge golf team is two for two.

The local team competed last Monday in a triangular meet with Randolph and Creighton.

The Bears took first place by 30 strokes with a team score of 169, Randolph and Creighton tied with 199 apiece.

Competing for the LCC junior varsity squad, Brendan Groene tied Randolph’s Nathan Tunink with an individual score of 40 for the afternoon’s best individual score.

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