Manhattan Christian's Shaphan Hubner shatters meet record while running a state Q time and wins 800 meters.

Shields Valley Gaige Taylor wins Girls 400 meter race, Jace Page takes third in High Jump and Christian Triemstra impresses in his first track meet in three years at the Gallatin Valley Invite.

Christian Triemstra takes off for his first attempt in the Triple Jump on Saturday at the Gallatin Valley Invite track meet at Belgrade High School in Belgrade. Triemstra went on to place 4th in the Triple Jump, 1st in the 400 meters, and 1st in the Long Jump. Not too shabby for his first track meet in three years.

By: Jeff Schlapp

Under normal circumstances, Shields Valley Gaige Taylor and Manhattan Christian’s Shaphan Hubner would have earned a Klondike bar for their victories in the girls’ 400-meter and boys 800 meter races, but these weren’t normal circumstances on Saturday at Belgrade High School in Belgrade. They probably would have welcomed a warm cup of soup and an electric blanket.

Hail welcomed 25 teams to the Gallatin Valley Invite track meet. Then the sun peeked out for a moment, went back inside, and made room for clouds, wind, rain, and cold.

Welcome to Spring in Montana.

Hubner blazed his way to victory with a record time of 1:57.90, shattering the old meet record held since 2016 (Jacob Grinwis of Belgrade 1:59.18) and qualifying for state (2:02.79 is the state qualifying time) in his first track meet of the season.

Hubner also qualified for state in the 400 meter race (52.14) and finished seventh in the High Jump.

Lyle Weese, are you paying attention?