By Cyote Williams | Times Vedette
The Panorama boys track and field team scored 39 points to place 10th at the Merritt-Charger Invitational on Monday, May 11 at ACGC. Treynor won the meet with 126 points. The Panthers did not take home any medals at the meet but came close in several events.
Fourth-place finishes came from Connor Deardorff in the 400-meter hurdles, Cristian Monrroy-Nunez in the discus, the sprint medley relay team of Braden Bahrenfuss, Cruz Crandall, Reed Draper and Syler Shaffer and the 4×200-meter relay team of Hunter Kempf, Crandall, Bahrenfuss and Draper. Fifth-place finishes were earned by Shaffer in the 200-meter dash and the distance medley relay team of Jorge Gimeno-Perez, Court Vogel, Graysen Shaffer and Bladyn Wearmouth.
The boys next competition is the 2A State Qualifying Meet at Treynor on Thursday, May 14. In 2A, the top two place winners in each event, plus the next eight best performances statewide, will advance to the state meet. Panorama will compete against Clarinda, Kuemper Catholic, Missouri Valley, MVAOCOU, Nodaway Valley, Red Oak, Shenandoah, Treynor, Tri-Center, Underwood and West Central Valley.