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Written by Gene Morris
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 08:00 |
WICHITA — Jami Hodge left her first Class 4A state track meet with a medal for the Spring Hill High School Broncos. 
Hodge, a sophomore, headed into league and regionals as one of the top long jumpers in the area.
She had a disappointing regional in the event, scratching twice and failing to make the finals in arguably her best event.
Hodge shook off the frustration with a personal record mark in the triple jump, placing her second in the regional and punching her ticket for state.
With a leap of 34 feet, 11 inches in her first attempt, Hodge secured a medal.
She was sitting in third heading into the finals and placed fourth overall, earning her a trip to the podium to receive her medal with thousands looking on from Cessna Stadium on the campus of Wichita State University.
“Not qualifying for state in the long (jump) was really upsetting and I knew I had to regain focus to make it in the triple which was kind of scary,” Hodge said. “Because it wasn’t my strongest event, but I made it with a personal record, the next week in practice, I only focused on state and proving myself.”
The two-day state track and field meet is one of the largest high school track meets in the nation. Hodge won her medal in the meet’s 100th anniversary.
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Written by Gene Morris
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 08:00 |
SALINA — Spring Hill High School had its baseball season ended by Bishop Ward for the third consecutive season. 
This time, however, instead of ending its run in what the Broncos called a state-tournament regional two years in a row, Spring Hill didn’t cross paths with Bishop Ward until the Class 4A state championship game Saturday evening at Dean Evans Stadium.
Bishop Ward used four base hits in the top of the third inning to take advantage of two Spring Hill errors, scoring four runs to blow the game open at 5-1.
Spring Hill answered with one run in the home half of the third, two runs in the fifth and one in the seventh, before falling 6-4.
Bishop Ward (16-6) captured its seventh state baseball title in eight years.
The Spring Hill Broncos (19-7) were making the program’s sixth trip to the state championship game. Spring Hill won titles in 1972, 1987 and 1993. The Broncos added the team’s third runner-up trophy to the baseball collection, placing second in 1995, 1998 and 2010.
Nathan Keegan hit a clutch two-out RBI single to center, scoring the game-winning run in a 2-1 comeback victory against Scott City as Spring Hill registered its third one-run win of the postseason in the opening round of the state tournament Friday.
“It was amazing,” Keegan said. “I had been struggling all week in practice, so to be able to come through when the team needed me was the best feeling in the world.”
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Written by Gene Morris
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 08:00 |
IOLA — Nine members of the Spring Hill High School track and field team qualified for the Class 4A state meet in Wichita with their performances in regionals at Iola on Friday. 
The Spring Hill Lady Broncos won the 4x800-meter relay, claiming the regional event title with a time of 10 minutes, 8.07 seconds. Relay team members were Macy Carbajo, Kelsey Carbajo, Layne Gilliland, Ashley Schoenhofer, Kayla Stewart and Makaela Willis.
“I have been in Spring Hill since 1991 and this is the most athletes we have sent in one year,” Spring Hill girls’ coach Brad Reinking said. “This is by far the most girls. The state track meet is the biggest spectacle in high school sports for the state of Kansas. It is fun to take athletes there and let them see what it is all about. The more the merrier.”
Top four placers in each event qualify for the state meet.
Sisters Macy and Kelsey Carbajo placed second and third in the 3,200-meter run. Macy was second, crossing the finish line in 12:28.28. Kelsey ran a time of 12:36.07 for third place.
Jami Hodge had a tough day in the long jump, scratching in the preliminaries and failed to qualify what was one of her stronger events.
Hodge used the frustration from the long jump to the triple jump and had a season-best in the event, leaping 34 feet, 9 inches to place second.
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Written by David Wolman
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010 08:00 |
IOLA — Even with a couple of outs to be recorded in the Class 4A regional baseball championships Friday, players in the Spring Hill dugout were making plans to mob starting pitcher Jordan Miller.
A few minutes later, they executed their plan. 
Miller was working on a complete game for the second-seeded Broncos. He had been strong up to that point, allowing just two runs and four hits to top seed Osawatomie.
Needing just one more out to put the capper on the crown for Spring Hill, Miller induced a high fly ball to the right side of the infield. Bronco first baseman Derrick Koehn, underneath the lights at Allen County Community College, squeezed the ball to secure a 5-2 victory, clinching the first state berth for Spring Hill since 2000.
Earlier in the day, it appeared as if the Broncos were going to have a short stay in Iola. Spring Hill trailed the hometown Mustangs by two runs early, but, thanks to a big two-run, two-out double by Koehn in the bottom of the sixth, Spring Hill made sure its season wouldn’t come to an abrupt end, rallying for a 4-3 victory in the semifinals.
Fast forward to the championship, Osawatomie had several fielders in positions they were not accustomed to and that inexperience showed. Spring Hill took advantage of four errors as well as a few passed balls and wild pitches.
Spring Hill and Osawatomie traded runs over the first four innings.
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Written by Gene Morris
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010 08:00 |
GARDNER — The Spring Hill girls’ track and field team has been in much larger meets than the eight-team Frontier League meet Thursday.
The Broncos, however, would be hard pressed to come up with a meet where the competition was any tougher.
Jami Hodge has captured titles in the triple and long jump this season, coming into her own during her sophomore campaign. 
She delivered at league, winning the long jump with a leap of 16 feet, 8 inches and adding bronze in the triple jump with a season-best distance of 34-7.
“This was a small meet as far as number of track teams, but the quality was huge,” Spring Hill girls’ coach Bran Reinking said.
Hodge’s personal record leap was one of seven personal bests the Spring Hill girls had in the league competition.
“Jami Hodge had a personal record in the triple jump, but still placed third,” Reinking said. “That tells you how good the quality was.”
The Spring Hill girls scored 43 points for sixth in the team standings. Gardner won the girls’ team title with 180 points. Baldwin was second (128 points), Paola third (73 points) and Louisburg fourth (72 points).
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