Summer Sports Recap

If you blinked then you might’ve missed an interesting summer of sports. Fairbury Journal News was kept busy since May with many athletes and teams having some incredible seasons and moments throughout the summer.There’s no better place to start than what was going on early on as the summer began to heat up. In the baseball world at the end of May the Fairbury Landsharks had won their Wooden Bat invitational progressing to 4-0 at that point in the season. The Landsharks would end up with a winning season at (13-11) ending at the semi-final round in Districts. For other notable teams, this time in the Juniors league, Tri County had a remarkable season going on to win 26 games with only five losses, dipping out in the first round of State, but was able to claim the Class C District Area 4 Championship.Though for most competitors, the wrestling season ended in February, there were some who kept active in the summer. So active that near the end of June it was Fairbury’s own Makenna Schramm, who was invited again to be a representative on the Nebraska wrestling team down in the AAU Disney Duals in Orlando, Florida. This time around, with more experience, and ability to execute the new teachings that had come Schramm’s way had paid dividend as she went on to go undefeated (12-0) to become a National Champion in the 185 division. Makenna was not the lone Jeff to make that trip as she was joined by fellow Jeffs, Drake Richtarik and Noah Hyson, both of whom came away with winning records as Richtarik would finish with a record 7-5, and Hyson was able to go 8-4 (one win away from All-American). Later in the summer in the last week of July, Kazz Hyson was invited to wrestle at the Mid-Summer Mat Bash in Dallas, Texas which would be the last of high school competition for Hyson ending on a high note going undefeated at (10-0) as good send off as Hyson will be wrestling for Morningside University this upcoming season.

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