Great Bend Post Sports
A third Great Bend High School track and field record fell just five days after the Lady Panthers set a pair of records Monday in Topeka. Friday in Salina, freshman Cooper Ohnmacht became just the second Kansas triple jumper to surpass 46 feet this year in Kansas. His winning mark of 46-5-5 broke a 31-year-old GBHS record by 2.5 inches.
Manhattan put together another dominating performance to win the invite with 150 points. Hays scored 100 points for second, and Great Bend finished ninth with 37 points.
Ohnmacht reached 21-1.5 for third place in the long jump, less than five inches from the top-two performers from Hutchinson and Hays. Sophomore Kellen Brown finished 15th in the triple jump at 38-3, and junior Ben Nicholson placed 17th at 37-1.5. Brown placed 21st in the long jump at 17-5, and senior Ethan Elsen made his varsity debut at 13-1.
Senior Ramiro Rocho, ranked in the 5A top-20 in the 400m dash, just missed his best time in that event to place third in 51.75, half a second behind the silver. The event also featured one of 4A’s top sprinters.
Sophomore Ismael Ramirez posted his best time of the season in the 800m run for third in 2:03.14, just 0.05s behind the silver. Senior Braylon Moore ran fifth in 2:03.61, also a best time of the season.
Ramirez finished fifth in the 1600m run in 4:38.93, nearly two seconds behind the bronze. Senior Tavon Stroup placed eighth in 4:47.14. Junior Luis Gonzalez finished 12th in the 300m hurdles in 46.65, followed by sophomores Victor Reyes and Oscar Caning in 16th and 17, respectively, in 51.02 and 52.17.
The Panther 4x8 team of Moore, Rocho, Diego Pasos, and Alex Galindo placed sixth in a tough field in 8:37.86, the 15th-best time in 5A this year. The 4x4 team of Rocho, Moore, Pasos, and Pedro Enriquez finished seventh in 3:35.11 to miss the bronze by less than three seconds.
Freshman Dustin Fugitt placed 14th in the high jump at 5-2. That event featured Manhattan senior Vincent Malone, ranked No. five all-class, and Hays junior Kamani Jones, who both cleared 6-6 to beat the field by eight inches.
Jorge Pena finished 16th in the discus at 119-11, followed by Conner Holliday in 20th at 116-5. Pena placed 18th in the shot at 39-4.75, followed by Holliday in 22nd at 36-8.5.