Niehaus Wins NIC Two-Mile

Spring Valley junior Kate Niehaus finished first in the Nike Indoor Championships two-mile today. Niehaus crossed the line in 10:31.87 with North Dakota\'s Krista Anderson right behind Niehaus in 10:32.14.

Dorman\'s Stephanie Buffo finished 27th in the two-mile event with an 11:55.01 finishing time.

On Saturday, the Westside Track Club/Quick Striders TC girls shuttle relay team of Jasmine Stowers, Tempest Vance, Tereneisha Jones, and Brandi Myers captured the relay title in 33.51.

On Saturday Vance placed 10th out of 22 athletes in the pentathlon. Vance ran a 60-hurdles time of 9.62, cleared a height of 4-10.5 in the high jump, threw the shot put a distance of 26-09.25, leaped 17-06.25 in the long jump and finished up the event with a 2:38.19 800-meter run, totaling 3053 points.

Westside senior Dennis Martin finished second overall in the boys 60-meter hurdles. Martin crossed the line in 7.83 seconds to Jared Huske of Topeka, KS. Martin finished 11th in the preliminaries and sixth in the semi-finals.

Georgie Fields, a senior at Ridge View HS finished second overall in the boys long jump, with a best leap of 24-01.5, missing the No. 1 meet mark by 6.25 inches.

The Ridge View TC boys 4x200-meter relay team finished second overall in 1:30.38. Fields, John Saffold, Damon Bailey and Rodney Lipscomb made up the Blazers relay team.

The Ridge View TC team of Aubrey Darnell, Cornelius Harvin, Richard Williams and Maurice Palmer placed 14th in the boy\'s 4x800-meter relay. The team finished first in their section of the 3200-relay.

Northwestern senior Brandon Hudgins finished 10th overall in the boys mile in 4:21.40. Hudgins finished first in his section of the mile.

Tiaerra McLaurin, a Northwestern senior headed to LSU in the fall finished third in the 60-meters at the National Scholastic Indoor Championships in New York. McLaurin finished with a 7.48 finals time. McLaurin finished third in the preliminaries in 7.57 and eighth in the semi-finals, the last finals qualifier, in 7.65 seconds.