Track team faces competition in Wray
May 3, the Holyoke Dragons bused to Wray to compete at the LPAA/YWKC League Track Meet. Girls and boys team placements are to be determined.
Sports
Holyoke track breaks 20 personal records in Haxtun twilight meet
Holyoke hosted Haxtun’s Relay Meet on Friday, April 28, at Max Bernard’s Field. Overall, Holyoke broke 20 personal records; some students even broke records at a state level.
Jimena Nuñez, left, and Emma Henry placed third and second, respectively, at the Yuma JV Invite. — photo courtesy of Nick Flaa
Dragons win 3rd tournament, finish 4th at Patriot League
The Holyoke girls golf team won its third tournament in four tries last week, claiming top honors at the Yuma Invite last Monday.
The sound of engines roared across Holyoke on Friday and Saturday evening, and into the night, to mark the opening two days of car racing at Phillips County Raceway. — Photo courtesy of Joe Starr
Brady Bencken topped the IMCA Hobby stock feature at the raceway on Friday. Pictured above, Hunter Smith (No. 1) used lapped traffic to make a last-lap pass of race leader Joseph Cooper (No. 11) to take the win in the IMCA Sport Mod feature event, also on Friday.— Photo courtesy of Joe Starr
Cars tear the track at Phillips County Raceway
Phillips County Raceway held its season opener last weekend, April 28-29.
Kailar Hayes, pictured at right, represents University of Denver while competing as a white belt in the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association’s 2023 National Collegiate Taekwondo Championships at CU Boulder on Saturday, April 15. He placed third in his belt class at the national competition in his first year of taekwondo, after training with club DU Taekwondo throughout the school year. Hayes is a 2022 Holyoke High School grad. — Courtesy Photo