With the B-5 District Meet right around the corner, the Wildcat track teams hoped to fine-tune their best events at the Ord Invitational last Thursday. With temperatures in the mid-eighties and relatively no wind, it was a perfect day for a track meet.

ST. PAUL ELEMENTARY students Lilly Miller, Sophie Hoppes, Claire Rose, and Kendall Koperski battled in the girls’ seventy-five-meter dash during St. Paul Elementary School’s Field Day, which was held on Monday morning. (Michael Happ)

The field at last week’s LouPlatte Conference track meet was brimming with talent, meaning that local competitors, including the Centura Centurions, were forced to battle for every point. Last Friday, on the oval at St.

PPicked to finish third, the defending LouPlatte Conference champion St. Paul boys’ track and field team gave the favored Ord Chanticleers all they could handle on Thursday, when the Wildcats hosted the conference track meet. In the end, the Wildcats surpassed Central City, but had to settle for second, as the Chanticleers won the conference meet with 124 points to St. Paul’s 109.33 and Central City’s eighty-two.

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