Cambridge Spring Sports

Cambridge’s Kaden Huxoll took fourth in the 100-meter dash, the first of his three medals won on Saturday at the Class C State Track and Field Meet in Omaha.

Cambridge boys take fifth at State, Shoff wins gold twice

OMAHA - With six total medals won, including a pair of gold medals for Michael Shoff, the Cambridge Trojans enjoyed great success at the Class C State Track and Field Meet in Omaha last weekend.

Cambridge scored 33 points, which stood fifth in the team race, just nine points behind State Champion Hastings St. Cecilia.

Oakland-Craig and Tri County tied for second with 37 team points and Lincoln Christian was fourth with 36 points.

Gordon-Rushville, Elmwood- Murdock, Gibbon, Ord and Hartington rounded out the top ten teams.

Shoff led the Trojans, providing 20 of those points with first-place finishes in the shot put and the discus. He won each event with relative ease.

His throw of 56-1 was nearly four feet better than Levi Hillman’s (Palmyra) second-place throw of 52-2 and his toss of 159-2 in the discus - a career-best in competition - was more than seven feet better than the 152-1 of Austin Schmidt of Archbishop Bergan, who finished second.

In the shot, Shoff finished third in the All-Class Standings and was just .5 inches behind Class B Champion Brady Rutt of Hastings, who was second in the All-Class.

Kaden Huxoll and Brian Custer provided the rest of the points.

Huxoll took fourth in both the 100-meter and 200- meter dash races with times of 11.276 and 22.907. He also took seventh in the 400- meter dash with a mark of 52.285. Huxoll also held the honor of winning his preliminary heat in each event.

Custer won his heat in the 800-meter run by more than a second, turning in a time of 2:03.118, which stood eighth.

There were also a couple near misses from Cambridge’s other State qualifiers.

Gus Petersen finished ninth in the triple jump. His best jump of 40-7.5 was just one inch behind the eighthplace mark of Brady Renter of North Bend Central.

The final boys qualifier - the 400-meter relay of Huxoll, Isaac Johnson, Ethan Long and Zane Petersen - took tenth after finishing fourth in the first heat. Cambridge’s time of 45.096 was just .038 seconds out of seventh place.

Cambridge’s fifth-place finish in the boys team standings was it’s best team finish since claiming the 2005 Class D State Title.

The lone girls qualifier - Emily Whipple - finished 18th in the discus with a toss of 100-1.

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