Dale Miller

Sports editor for Norfolk Daily News, Tim Miles' fired doppelganger, Pearl Jam-ologist.

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SELECT: Hadley Walsh earned Light Team most valuable player honors with 17 points in an 85-55 win over the Dark Team in the 43rd annual Northeast Nebraska all-star game at Norfolk Catholic.

But there was also a new finality.

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SELECT: Gavin Schutt put up a game-high 33 points on 14-for-20 shooting to lead the Dark Team to a 97-86 win over the Light Team in the 43rd annual Northeast Nebraska all-star boys basketball game.

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SELECT: State records seem to begin dropping from the earliest outdoor meets of the season. It seems rare to go more than 30 minutes at the state championships without the public address announcer declaring the latest new state and/or state meet record.

The rash of records has hit the all-time Northeast Nebraska chart, too.

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SELECT: But the Knights also know that they will have to be at the top of their games to finish near the top of the leaderboard at Grand Island’s Indianhead Golf Club against a loaded field.

"It’s a matter of going there and playing well. Conditions will dictate scores to a certain extent, but I know we’re going to have to play well. There’s a lot of good teams out there.” @NorfolkCatholic

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SELECT: “My mom was like, ‘Anisten, you have such an opportunity to win some of these events. I just want you to compete and do your best.’ That’s what I did,” Wortmann said.

And her best was some of the best this state has ever seen.

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SELECT: “We’ve been super disciplined with eating and cutting out a lot of sugar because it’s not good for us,” said Hollynn Konrad, who ran a 57.72 third leg for the fastest split in the team’s 3:55.68 record time. “So just to celebrate, we’re getting an ice cream cake and celebrating together.”

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SELECT: It was one person who wasn’t there who helped Arens keep pushing through as she took gold in the 1,600-meter run on Saturday to add to her win in the 3,200 on Friday.

“I’m really focused on my grandpa, especially since he passed away last week,” Arens said. “I focused on him and how he wanted me to be out here.”

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SELECT: “I didn’t think Wausa has ever done that before in the 4x1,” Kennedy Gillilan said of the state gold medal. “I was scared to start out because in the 4x1 you never know what can happen. Anything can go wrong in the blocks or handoffs. It just feels amazing. We did not think this could happen at all this year.”
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SELECT: On Friday, Stoklasa came up short of a gold medal in the long jump despite being the No. 1 seed for the second straight year at Burke Stadium.

On Saturday, she responded in the strongest way possible with what she considered a surprising win in the triple jump.

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SELECT: Not only did the North Central senior and Wayne State recruit claim an elusive gold medal at Burke Stadium, she simply dominated in the shot put.

Kepler produced the winning throw of 45 feet, 6.75 inches, but she also had the five next farthest heaves, too.

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SELECT: Anisten Wortmann’s successful first day of the Class C state track and field meet probably left her with a difficult choice of what was her favorite moment.

“My legs are really tired,” Wortmann said. “I’ve never ran that fast before. So it was nice to know that I can reach that speed in competition.”

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SELECT: “I felt good,” Gillilan said. “I PRed again and it was a good race, so what more could I ask for? It was a great race between the both of us. She just happened to fall over and get it, but that’s OK.”

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SELECT: Anchor Pavan Larson made up five positions on the final leg to help the Huskies finish off a gold medal-winning performance in the 4x800-meter relay at Burke Stadium.

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SELECT: “If there’s anybody I’m willing to lose to, it’s Kennedy,” Kepler said. “We’ve been competing against each other since seventh grade, and it’s been really good. We’ve always been back-and-forth.”

Kepler didn’t leave her final high school discus event disappointed in anything except that it was her last time for the Knights.

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SELECT: Crofton freshman Avery Arens could be caught smiling on occasion as she worked her way to a gold medal in the Class C 3,200-meter run.

Arens finished eight soggy laps in 11:12.26 to win by almost nine seconds.

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SELECT: The senior finished 5-for-5 in earning medals in the throws at the Class A state championships by finishing fifth in the shot put at Burke Stadium, one day after taking sixth in the discus. #npspanthers

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SELECT: On Wednesday at Burke Stadium in Omaha, Evan Svoboda leaned into his faith ahead of running a 47.29-second 400 and setting a new state meet record en route to a first-place finish. #npspanthers

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SELECT: Wayne freshman Tayla Hurner had a strategy for the Class B girls 3,200-meter race: Stay with the front person for as long as she could. It worked out.

Hurner entered the race as the No. 14 seed based on district times, but she stayed in the top four during all eight laps to finish fourth in 11:11.19, just 0.43 seconds behind the runner-up.

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SELECT: A throw of 147 feet, 1 inch on Columbus Lakeview’s Erinn Briggs' first attempt quickly calmed any nerves. She bettered that with a throw of 149-10 in the finals to successfully defend her title.

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SELECT: Norfolk High senior Aubrey Russell placed eighth with a throw of 124 feet, 5 inches at Burke Stadium.

That came after she wasn’t cleared to throw the discus as a junior while recovering from a torn ACL after placing fourth as a sophomore. #npspanthers

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