The spring sports season is winding down with post-season play now up next on the schedule. Star Valley’s soccer and track teams ended their schedule on some big-time high notes. The soccer teams have both qualified for the state tournament in Jackson and will have this next weekend off. The track & field team will be traveling to the 3A West Regionals in Powell.

Lady Braves Soccer

Powell: 0 Star Valley: 1
The Lady Braves controlled the action against the visiting Panthers but goals were still hard to come by. The game-winner came in the 46th minute as Liz Smith pushed one past the keeper. Star Valley outshot Powell 13-4 in the match.

Cody: 0 Star Valley: 1
The last match of the regular season pitted two of the top-ranked 3A teams against each other in Afton. The top-ranked Fillies had not lost to a 3A team this season but that changed on Saturday. Cody outshot Star Valley 12-8 but the Lady Braves got six saves from Josie Currie in goal. The game-winning goal came in the 29th minute as Taya Merrell’s corner kick caromed off of a Cody player and was expertly put into the upper right hand corner of the net by Riley Merritt.

Braves Soccer

Powell: 4 Star Valley: 9
The Braves put together the most prolific back-to-back matches in program history. Noah Hutchinson notched a school-record five goals in the match. Tanner Thompson scored twice and Gerson Lozano and Jantzen Isaacson each picked up a pair of assists. Lozano and Robert Choma each also scored goals. The defense gave way in the final 15 minutes of a 6-0 match as the Panthers got a pair of goals from Rob Sessions and a goal from Cameron Went.

Cody: 1 Star Valley: 9
Noah Hutchinson was unstoppable in this match as he scored a hat trick in the first ten minutes of action. He finished with another five-goal match before sitting for most of the second half. Gerson Lozano picked up a hat trick of his own and Brenden Buehler scored his first goal of the season on a mortar shot from 40 yards out. Robert Choma had two assists in the match.

Star Valley Track & Field

The two-time defending 3A champs may be missing some big pieces from the last two title runs, but that hasn’t stopped the program from putting up some intriguing and record-breaking performances. A few SVHS runners were in Provo at the BYU Invite where Wes Kallgren broke the school’s 3200 meter record with a time of 9:21.55. It broke Nic Demler’s previous mark of 9:23.66 set in 2015 and is only three-tenths of a second off the Wyoming record.

It was a good day for the locals as Shaelee Angell, Brooke Kallgren, Emmy Heywood and Jacie Angell all ran under six minutes in the 1600 meter. Jesse Loveland, Trevor Clark, Peter Visser and Kallgren all went under five minutes in the same event.

Wyatt Peck broke his own 800 meter mark with a 1:51.27, one of the fastest in the nation the year. Peck also broke one of the oldest records at SVHS as he took down the 400 meter dash with a time of 48.91 seconds. The previous record of 49.70 was set in 1987 by Matt Hansen.

Bryant Erickson won the pole vault event in Jackson with a height of 12’ 7” and teammate Haydn Neilsen also cleared 12 feet and prequalified for state.