A Caledonia/Spring Grove foursome won two boys relays and was runner-up in a third, while Tysen Grinde won the high jump, was runner-up in long jump and triple jump plus a third place in the 400-meter dash. And the Warrior girls won the 4×100-meter relay at an April 25 track & field meet at Rushford. As a team, the Warrior boys placed second among five teams; the girls were fifth.
Photo by Paul Trende
Eli Staggemeyer, Fischer Wait, Owen Staggemeyer and Josh Beardmore won both the 4 x100 (44.04 seconds) and the 4 x200 relays (1:33.85) before closing the evening with a second-place finish in the 4 x400 event (3:46.65). Winning the girls 4 x100 were Kloe Jore, Charlese Walk, Nicole Banse and Ayshia Gay (54.19).
The boys earned the most team points in the discus throw where Jordan Tornstrom was first (136-feet, 11 inches) and Mason Banse third (108-02). In shot put, Ethan Crouch was third (36-09.5) and Tyler Stendel fifth. Team points were awarded for the first five places in each event.
Gabe Curley ran second and Eric Mauss fourth among 22 boys in the 200-meter dash and were third and fourth, respectively, among 24 sprinters at 100 meters.
In his third-ever track meet, Grinde cleared 6-00 to win the high jump, had a second-place long jump of 19-10.5 and another runner-up in triple jump at 39-00.5. In his first 400-meter competition, Grinde was third, followed by teammates Lyle Myhre (fourth) and Ryley Sanders (fifth). Beardmore was third in long jump.
For the girls, Nicole Banse was third in long jump (15-01) and fifth in the 100-meter dash. Sienna Augedahl ran third at 400 meters and Campbell Cognac fourth at 800 meters. Jesse Stendel had a fifth-place shot put.
In the relays, each school may enter two teams, but only one can earn team points. In both the boys 4×100 and 4×200 events, both the winning times and the second-best times were run by Warrior quartets. Comprising the 4×100 B-team were JT Hammel, Owen King, Sylas Flatin and Eric Mauss. The B-boys in the 4 x200 were Mason Foellmi, Owen King, Lyle Myhre and Gabe Curley.
BOYS: Rush-Pete/Hou 140, Cal/SG 82, Lake City 871, La Crescent-Hokah 37, Dover-Eyota 24
GIRLS: Rush-Pete/Hou 129, La Crescent-Hokah 104, Lake City 82, Dover-Eyota 26, Cal/SG 20
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