ESTEVAN - Two students from the Gordon F. Kells High School in Carlyle brought home medals from the recent Saskatchewan High School Athletics Association's provincial meet in Saskatoon.
Dane Peterson won gold in the junior boys' shot put with a toss of 13.65 metres, finishing .43 metres ahead of runner-up Jace Egland of Eastend. Peterson and Egland were the only athletes to eclipse 12 metres.
Meanwhile, Chase Himmelspach won the silver medal in the junior boys' javelin throw with a distance of 47.6 metres, and was part of the Team 小蓝视频 East entry that won bronze in the 4x100-metre relay with a time of 46.75 seconds.
Himmelspach also competed in the individual 100-metre dash, finishing with a time of 12.49 seconds in his final heat.
Meanwhile, Karsyn Gervais was sixth in the junior girls' triple jump with a distance of 10.06 metres, seventh in the junior girls' long jump with a leap of 4.89 metres, and also competed in the junior girls 100 metres (13.89 seconds). Zadie Gervais was 10th in the senior girls' shot put with a toss of 8.85 metres, and also competed in the senior girls' discus (22.03 metres).
Sawyer Tomaszewski finished ninth in the junior boys' 100-metre hurdles with a time of 15.93 seconds, and also competed in the long jump, finishing with a leap of 4.97 metres, and the triple jump with a distance of 10.95 metres.
Also competing were David Kostal in the intermediate boys' 400 metres (1:02.17), Hayden Miller in the junior boys' discus (28.38 metres) and Kirsten East in the senior girls' shot put with a distance of 7.35 metres.
Stoughton Central School had a provincial medal winner as well, as Bailey Baumgartner won the silver medal in the intermediate girls' shot put with a distance of 10.71 metres.
Carson Baumgartner was ninth in the senior boys' shot put with a distance of 12.34 metres.
The Oxbow Prairie Horizons School also sent a healthy contingent of athletes to provincials.
Grayson Brock brought home a fifth-place finish in the junior boys' tetrathlon, highlighted by a third-place finish in the long jump with a leap of 5.44 metres and a fourth in the shot put with a distance of 9.97 metres.
Other top-10 finishes were: Khalifa Elshein (eighth, 54.94 seconds) and Aldwin Casi (ninth, 55.40 seconds) in the boys' 400 metres, while Elshein was eighth in the senior boys' 800 metres (2:06.18).
Reese Karlunchuck from Arcola sSchool was 10th in the junior boys' 1,500 metres with a time of 4:44.82 seconds. Kobe Wotta, competing in the senior boys' tetrathlon, had a second-place finish in the shot put component with a toss of 11.81 metres.
The Carnduff Education Complex had several athletes competing. Nathan Gardiner was the top finisher with a ninth-place result in the intermediate boys' 400 metres (47.70 seconds).
Bria Wallace was the top finisher for Alameda School with a 12th-place finish in the intermediate girls' high jump with a leap of 1.3 metres.
École de Bellegard's top finisher was Morgan Nixon in the intermediate boys' shot put with a toss of 11.13 metres.
