From the Schoolhouse
UIL Academic Meets
State Meet Results: Garden City High School placed second over-all in state competition.
Team Event Results: Math - 1st Taylor Niehues, Colton Schwartz, Wade Jansa, Michael Clarke; Number Sense - 2nd Taylor Niehues, Colton Schwartz, Wade Jansa, Brooke Halfmann; Calculator - 1st Taylor Niehues, Colton Schwartz, Wade Jansa, Michael Clarke; Computer Science - 1st Taylor Niehues, Colton Schwartz, Wade Jansa; Science - 1st Taylor Niehues, Colton Schwartz, Wade Jansa, Brooke Halfmann.
Individual Honors: Taylor Niehues - 2nd Math, 3rd Number Sense, 1st Calculator, 1st Computer Science, 1st Science, High Point Biology and Physics; Colton Schwartz - 4th Math, 4th Calculator, 6th Science, 5th Computer Science; Wade Jansa - 3rd Math, 2nd Calculator, 2nd Science; Michael Clarke - 6th Calculator; Brooke Halfmann - 4th Computer Applications.
Region II meet: Garden City High School earned the Region II UIL Academic Championship. Teams placing first advance to state competition. Individual state qualifiers are Colton Schwartz, Taylor Niehues, Wade Jansa, Brooke Halfmann and Michael Clark.
Team Results: Number Sense - 1st, Taylor Niehues, Wade Jansa, Colton Schwartz, Brooke Halfmann; Calculator – 1st Taylor Niehues, Wade Jansa, Colton Schwartz, Michael Clarke; Science – 1st Taylor Niehues, Colton Schwartz, Wade Jansa, Brooke Halfmann; Math – 1st Taylor Niehues, Wade Jansa, Colton Schwartz, Michael Clarke; Accounting – 3rd Cade Halfmann, Erin Hirt, Julie Hirt, Amy Multer; Literary Criticism – 6th Mikela Barton, Britton Avery, Laura Halfmann; Computer Science – 1st Taylor Niehues, Colton Schwartz, Wade Jansa.
Individual Awards: Mikela Barton – 4th Literary Criticism; Michael Clarke – 6th Calculator; Brooke Halfmann – 1st Computer Applications; Wade Jansa – 1st Number Sense, 3rd Calculator, 5th Science, 2nd Math, 2nd Computer Science; Kelsey Jones – 5th Feature Writing; Amy Multer – 4th Accounting; K’Lann Niehues – 5th Ready Writing; Taylor Niehues – 2nd Number Sense, 1st Calculator, 1st Science, High Physics, 2nd High Biology, Chemistry, 1st Math, 1st Computer Science; Colton Schwartz – 4th Number Sense, 4th Calculator, 6th Science, 2nd High Physics 4th Math, 3rd Computer Science.
Sports:
Golf:
State Results: The GC boys’ golf team finished in seventh place at the state tournament with a two-day total of 706. Individual scores were: Eric Hirt 172, Sam Long 176, Chase O’Brien 176, Taylor Niehues 182 and Marcus Cook 185.
Regional Results: The GC boys’ team qualified for the state golf tournament finishing second in Regional II competition with a two-day score of 642. Individual scores were: O’Brien 163, Long 164, Hirt 162, Cook 162 and Niehues 169. Koby Abney coaches the team.
In the girls’ regional tourney, GC’s Kate Halfmann finished tied for ninth place in the medalist standings with a 184 total. Brooke Halfmann finished with a 190 score.
District Play: Garden City’s boys’ golf team took second place in the District 11A tournament and qualified for the Regional tournament. Marcus Cook placed second in the individual medalist standings.
The girls’ team, whose members are Erin Hirt, Brittney Chudej, Kate Halfmann, Brooke Halfmann, Laura Halfmann, Mikela Barton and Amy Multer, finished third in District 11A. Kate Halfmann and Brooke Halfmann, who placed third and fifth in the medalist standings respectively, advance to the Regional tournament. Ken Hoskins coaches the girls’ team.
Tennis:
State Results: Alex Halfmann and Taylor Niehues won their second Class A state boys’ doubles tennis championship, defeating the team from Center Point 6-4, 6-4. In the semi-finals, they won the match with Era 6-2, 6-2, and defeated the team from White Deer 6-1, 7-6 in the quarterfinal round.
Garden City’s mixed doubles team of Evan Jansa and Lyza Lopez were defeated 6-1, 7-6 in the quarterfinals by the D’Hanis team.
Region II Competition: Two Garden City doubles teams advance to the state tournament. The boys’ doubles team of Alex Halfmann and Taylor Niehues won their championship match to advance to state for the third consecutive year. The mixed doubles team of Evan Jansa and Liza Lopez won their championship match to advance.
Nick Sanchez was a medalist placing third in boys’ singles.
District 9A tournament: varsity regional qualifiers - Girls Singles – Lauren Wheeler, 2nd; Mixed Doubles – Evan Jansa and Lyza Lopez, 1st, Juan Zuniga and Julie Hirt 2nd; Boys Singles – Nick Sanchez, 2nd; Boys Doubles – Alex Halfmann and Taylor Niehues, 1st, Spencer Plagens and Eric Hirt, 2nd.
Track and Field
State Results: K’Lann Niehues finished tied for fourth place in the girls’ triple jump at 36-00.50.
Regional Results: K’Lann Niehues advanced to state in the girls’ triple jump with a second place leap of 35.00’. Placing third, Paige Niehues medaled in the 400 M Dash; the girls’ 4 x 400 (1600 M) relay team also medaled with a third place finish, but third place does not advance.
Area Round: With 23 schools participating in the Track and Field Area Round, Garden City boys finished 4th overall with 49 points and the girls finished 2nd with 65 points. Teams and individuals finishing in the top 4 in each event advance to the regional meet. Results of those qualifying for the regional meet:
Boys’ events: 800 M Run - 3rd Jason Flores 2:09.13; 4 x 100 (400 M) Relay - 3rd Kevin Hillger, Jake Schwartz, Bo Eggemeyer, Jared Bradford 45.45; 4 x 400 (1600 M) Relay - 3rd Jake Schwartz, Jason Flores, Luis Zuniga, Colton Schwartz, 3:42.32; High Jump - 1st Jake Schwartz, 5'-10".
Girls’ events: 400 M Dash - 2nd Paige Niehues, 1:02.91; 800 M Run - 4th Morgan Schwartz, 2:37.38; 1600 M Run - 3rd Vikki Garza, 6:07.77; 3200 M Run - 2nd Vikki Garza, 13:24.51; 4 x 400 (1600 M) Relay - 2nd Lauren Wheeler, Paige Niehues, K’Lann Niehues, Morgan Schwartz, 4:25.45; Triple Jump - 1st K'Lann Niehues, 35'; High Jump - 1st K'Lann Niehues, 5'-0".
Band News:
The Bearkat Band received a trophy for First Division, Superior Rating at the Wink Band Festival.
The following students received band awards: 5th grade – outstanding boy, Brandon Gartman, outstanding girl, Kamie Halfmann; 6th grade – outstanding boy, Craig Wheeler, outstanding girl, Sarah Hoelscher; Katy Multer, outstanding 7th grade student; Brittany Schniers, outstanding 8th grade band student; Luis Zuniga, outstanding high school band student; Shyla Curry, John Phillips Sousa Award winner.
Garden City bands from grades 5, 6 and 7 competed at the Greenwood Music Festival recently. Each of the bands received a 1st Division Superior rating for their performance and won a trophy. Soloists from 5th and 6th grades, whose performance received 1st Division Superior ratings, were awarded individual medals.
4-H News
District 6 4-H Livestock Judging Contest results:
Junior Division Team: Bryson Batla Brooklyn Batla Rafe Royall Kadden Kothman; Individual: Carlie Hollingsworth. Sheep - Bryson Batla - 2nd, Team - 3rd; Beef - Rafe Royall - 1st, Kadden Kothman - 3rd, Team - 1st; Swine - Carlie Hollingsworth - 4th, Brooklyn Batla - 5th, Team - 2nd; Reasons - Carlie Hollingsworth - 2nd, Brooklyn Batla - 3rd, Rafe Royall - 4th, Team - 2nd; Overall - Bryson Batla - 3rd, Kadden Kothman - 4th, Team - 2nd.
Intermediate Division Team: 1: Ian Schaefer Brody Halfmann Peyton Schaefer; Team 2: Chapman Royall Blayne Batla Colton Belew. Sheep - Ian Schaefer - 2nd, Peyton Schaefer - 5th, Team - 1st; Beef - Brody Halfmann - 2nd, Team- 2nd; Swine - Brody Halfmann - 1st. Team - 1st; Reasons- Ian Schaefer - 1st, Brody Halfmann - 2nd, Team - 1st; Overall - Brody Halfmann - 1st, Ian Schaefer - 2nd, Team 1 - 1st, Team 2 - 6th.
Senior Division Team 1: Cade Halfmann Levi Schaefer Cole Schwartz Lane Halfmann; Team 2: Amber Halfmann Kelsey Jones Blaine Walker Lauren Schwartz. Sheep - Cade Halfmann – 1st, Cole Schwartz - 2nd, Levi Schaefer – 3rd, Blaine Walker – 5th, Team 1 - 1st, Team 2 - 2nd; Swine - Cade Halfmann - 2nd, Blaine Walker – 3rd, Team 1- 2nd, Team 2- 3rd; Beef - Cade Halfmann – 1st, Levi Schaefer – 2nd, Cole Schwartz – 3rd, Team 1 - 1st, Team 2 – 3rd; Reasons - Cade Halfmann – 1st, Levi Schaefer – 4th, Cole Schwartz – 6th, Blaine Walker – 8th, Team 1 - 1st, Team 2 - 3rd; Overall - Cade Halfmann – 1st, Levi Schaefer – 3rd, Blaine Walker – 4th, Cole Schwartz – 8th, Lauren Schwartz – 9th, Team 1- 1st, Team 2 - 3rd.
Both Teams qualified and will represent District 6 at State Roundup in June.