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ECS athletes come home with two gold medals

Two Estevan athletes came away from provincials with gold medals as the best in Saskatchewan. Mogan Fichter won gold in senior girls triple jump with a jump of 11.51 metres and a silver in the 100 metre run with a time of 12.74 seconds.
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Estevan Comprehensive School’s Hunter Wallster performs in shot put at districts in Estevan a few weeks ago. File photo

Two Estevan athletes came away from provincials with gold medals as the best in Saskatchewan.

Mogan Fichter won gold in senior girls triple jump with a jump of 11.51 metres and a silver in the 100 metre run with a time of 12.74 seconds.

Hunter Wallster won gold in the junior boys’ discus throw with a throw of 40.48 metres – 6.32 metres over second place Tanner Soles of Prince Albert Carlton – and a silver in the shot put with a throw of 12.39 metres.

Fichter placed seventh in the senior girls long jump at 4.81 metres.

Fichter also won the aggregate score for senior girls with 53 points, one point each ahead of Skylar Smith of North Battleford and Kaitlyn Harrison of Lumsden.

Meanwhile over at the quadathlon, an event with 100 metre and 800 metre running events and shot put and long jump, Tatiana Dutka won a silver medal with her performance out of 19 athletes. She had the top shot put at 9.95 metres, the second best long jump at 4.76 metres and the second best 800 metre run at two minutes, 37.36 seconds.

Nikki Kistanov won bronze in the junior girls triple jump at 10.23 metres, just ahead of foruth place teammate Sarah Dacuycuy (10.14 metres). Kistanov was fourth in the long jump (4.68 metres) and Dacuycuy was seventh (4.52 metres). Dacuycuy and Kistanov each made the finals for the 100-metre dash but were unable to medal at 12th and 14th overall.

Maddie Zandee was 15th overall in the senior girls quad.  

Erik Guskikoski was just shy of a medal in the senior boys discus with a fourth place throw of 35.74 metres, and John Sasi was 15th in the senior boys high jump with a leap of 1.60 metres.

In the senior boys 1500 metre run, Carter Davenport placed tenth with a time of 4:43.60 and he was 14th in the 800 metre run at 2:15.78. Cazlynn Barnstable finished 17th in the senior girls triple jump. Sammy Wade was 22nd overall in senior girls’ 1500 metres with a time of 6:01.47.

Parker Lavoie was 12th in the junior boys’ shot put at 10.80 metres. Zach Ashworth’s 10.76 metre triple jump was good for 19th in the junior boys and his 11.83 metres was ninth in the 100 metre final, while Kylan Fichter was 20th in the junior boys long jump at 5.10 metres and 16th in the high jump at 1.60 metres. 

Taylor Haux was 16th in the junior girls’ javelin with a throw of 23.79 metres and 18th in the discus (20.91 metres).

Madison Folkerts was 18th in the junior girls’ 800 metre run (2:52.77) and Taylor Geisel was 19th (2:54.26). Marlie Weinrauch was 25th in the junior girls’ 1500 metre run (7:04.19).

Kaleb Poole was 15th in midget boys high jump at 1.55 metres.

The senior girls from the South East district won bronze in the 4X100 relay with a time of 51.18 metres.

The 215 points total places ECS eighth overall among the 4A schools, just 10.5 points behind Weyburn Comp for seventh. The Southeast district as a whole placed seventh out of 14 in the province.

Karli Colpitts of Carlyle won a silver medal in the senior girls shot put with a toss of 11.07 metres and a silver in the discus at 34.54 metres.