Large cadre of boys and girls advance individually, as well as relay teams
Both the Mountain Lake Area (MLA) girls and boys teams finished second in the Sub-Section 9A track-and-field meet held last Thursday, May 22, on the Windom Area Public High School track. Jackson County Central was the top team in both girls and boys. In the girls team competition, JCC won the title with 182 points, with MLA collecting 170.5. Only three points separated the winning JCC boys (189) from the MLA boys (186).
Teams do not advance, however, individual berths to compete in this Thursday’s (May 29) Section 3A Meet, to be held at the Redwood Valley Public High School track in Redwood Falls, were on the line. The top three finishers in each individual event and relay automatically move on to the section. The remaining four sections spots are determined on an “at large” basis using the four best non-qualifying times from the section’s four sub-section meets combined.
MLA Girls Advancing to Section
Lydia Hildebrandt – first in the 400-meter dash at 62.16, third in the pole vault with 7’8″ and as the anchor leg for the first-place 4 x 200 (Mikayla Falk, Emily Jahnke, Brianna Soutthivong and Hildebrandt) (1:51.56) and 4 x 400 (Mikayla Falk, Whitney Klassen, Brianna Soutthivong and Hildebrandt) (4:14.86) relay races.
Brianna Soutthivong – first in the 200-meter dash with a time of 27.01.
Whitney Klassen – first in the 800-meter run with 2:30.43 and third in the 1600-meter run with a time of 5:51.82.
Mikayla Falk – second in the pole vault at 8’2″ and third in the 100-meter dash with 13.69.
Hannah Stoesz – second in the shot put with 32′
Carly Paulson – third in the triple jump with 31’6″.
Brook Sunderman – third in the 300-meter hurdles with 52.87.
MLA girls also had a second-place finish in the 4 x 800 (Carmen Syverson, Jordan Syverson, Liana Blomgren and Brooke Fast) with a time of 10:54.60 and a third in the 4 x 100 (Carly Paulson, Marta Stoesz, Brook Sunderman and Jeneel Rodney) with 55.25.
MLA Boys Advancing to Section
Jose Gonzalez – first-place in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:02.54 and first in the long jump with a jump of 19’5 1/2″. He also anchored the champion 4 x 400 (Jared Saunders, Cody Klassen, Caleb Bargen and Gonzalez) relay with a time of 3:33.98 as well as the second-place 4 x 100 (Ian Glassic, Zach Dickens, Reynaldo Capetillo and Gonzalez) relay with 45.21.
Hunter Quiring – first in the pole vault with 11’1″.
Slade Harder – first in the 3200-meter run with a time of 10:43.07.
Cody Klassen – second in the 300-meter hurdles with 41.85 and third in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.57.
Viljar Ness – third-place in the 1600-meter run with 5:18.20.
Josh Fast – third in the discuss with a toss of 109′.
Hamlet Tanyavong – third in the triple jump with a jump of 40’2″.
Ryan McCue – third in the 3200-meter run with a time of 11:41.03.
Reynaldo Capetillo – third-place in the 100-meter run with 23.72.
MLA boys were second in the 4 x 800 (Slade Harder, Ryan McCue, Tommy Kraemer and Jared Willaby) relay with 9:06.02 and third in the 4 x 200 (Demar Rodney, Jared Saunders, Ian Glassic and Reynaldo Capetillo) relay with a time of 1:37.68.
