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Area athletes participate in meets at Tea, Vermillion, Yankton, Centerville and Pierre.

roger merriam, watertown public opinion
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TEA — Watertown High School's track and field teams competed outside for the first time this spring and won six events in the Tea Area Titan Relays on Tuesday.

Ten schools competed. Sioux Falls Christian won team titles in each division. Watertown's girls took second with 80.25 points and the boys took third with 88. Some of the meet's field events were held in Vermillion.

"I certainly don't want to complain about the weather, but it was hot," said Watertown head coach Chad Rohde. "It's tough when you have to deal with snowbanks, cold weather and no track in Watertown and all of a sudden you go south and it's 85 degrees and your SPF 30 doesn't work as well as it should."

Maddy Rohde (javelin, 114-10) and Hayden Thomas (triple jump, 32-11.5) each won individual events for the Arrow girls, which also won the 1,600 relay in a time of 4:19. Runners included Andi Olson, Emery Thury, Victoria Smith and Eve Hauger.

Titan Relays Results: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23773457-titan-relays?responsive=1&title=1

Juven Hudson (long jump, 22-1), Jaxson Fiechtner (800 run, 2:01.75) and Boaz Raderschadt (shot put, 53-11 each won events for the Arrow boys.

"It was good to get out and compete. It was little windy in some races for our first time trying to qualify," said Rohde. "The kids still did some good things. We can just hope that the weather keeps heading in this direction."

Watertown is scheduled to compete Tuesday in another outdoor meet at Sioux Falls.

Yankton Meet

YANKTON — Aberdeen Central athletes produced 10 first-place finishes Tuesday in the a high school track and field meet hosted by Yankton.

Brandon Valley, Mitchell and Yankton also competed in the meet.

Aiden Heimann (110-meter hurdles, 15.43), Tyler Bain (high jump, 6-0) and David VanVeen (3,200 run, 11:03.61) each won individual events for the Golden Eagles in the boys division.

Aberdeen Central's boys also won the 800 relay in 1:31.79 (Heimann, Avery Ligon, Carter Dingman and Drew Salfrank), medley in 4:03.02 (Kalen Larson, Levi Hoffman, Eli Biegler and Joe Perkins) and 1,600 relay in 3:28.03 (Heimann, Gabe Johnson, Dingman and Salfrank).

Yankton Meet Results: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23773456-yankton-meet?responsive=1&title=1

Aberdeen Central's girls won four individual events, including two by Ciara Frank (high jump at 5-4 and long jump at 17-6). Kiana Joerger cleared 9-6 to win the pole vault and Taryn Hermansen won the shot put with a throw of 38 feet, 10 inches.

The Golden Eagles are slated to compete Saturday in the Corn Palace Relays.

Centerville Invite

CENTERVILLE — Athletes from Hamlin and Deubrook Area won 12 events Tuesday in the Centerville Invitational.

Deubrook Area finished second in the boys division (72.5 points) and third in the girls division (65). Hamlin took third (boys, 67) and fifth (girls, 44). Seventeen schools competed.

Gracelyn Leiseth of Hamlin won the girls shot put (49-2) and discus (163-0) and teammate Kami Wadsworth the javelin (110-11).

Deubrook Area won the girls 1,600 relay in 4:12.66 (Brooke Koppatschek, Kadence Bowne, Kylee Johnson and Ellie Olsen), 3,200 relay in 10:19.5 (Delaney Pedersen, Nora Olsen, Johnson and Olsen) and medley relay 4:33.3 (Koppatschek, Bowne, Miranda Moravetz and Johnson).

Centerville Invite Results: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23773455-centerville-invite-results?responsive=1&title=1

Treven Grimsrud of Deubrook Area (400 dash, 51.0), Cristhian Rodriguez of Hamlin (shot put, 44-11) and Kaden St.Pierre of Hamlin (discus, 140-8) won individual events in the boys divison.

Deubrook Area won the medley relay in 3:51.8 (Nolan Peterson, J.P. Rogness, Landon Johnson and Jaxon Quail) and 3,200 relay in 9:06.6 (Gavin Landmark, Johnson, Rogness and Quail). Hamlin won the 400 relay in 45 seconds with runners Luke Fraser, Ryan Thue, Gavin Prouty and Zac VanMeeteren.

Bob Judson Invite

PIERRE — Area athletes recorded 11 first-place finishes in the Bob Judson Invitational track and field meet on Monday.

Aberdeen Roncalli, Frederick Area, Sunshine Bible Academy and Potter County were among the teams entered in the meet.

Roncalli's Jayden Munroe won the boys' long (22-5) and triple (44-3) jumps and also anchored the winning 800 relay team that included Kaden Larson, Caden Shelton and Parker Grieben. The Cavs won in a time of 1:37.39.

Bob Judson Invite Results: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23773465-bob-judson-invitational?responsive=1&title=1

Jonathan Bretsch of Frederick Area won the 400 dash (53.45) and ran on the winning 3,200 relay along with Winston Clark, Brayden Sumption and Stephen Achen. Their time was 8:53.87.

Carter Luikens of Potter County won the boys' 800 run in 2:12.17.

Emma Schlachter of Potter County won the girls' 800 (2:30.21) and anchored the winning 3,200 relay (10:27.3) and 1,600 relay (4:31.41). Rayel Persoon, Jadyn Ahlemeier and Dannika Kaup also ran on both winning relays.

Abby Hinman won the 400 dash (1:04.44) for Sunshine Bible, which also won the medley relay in 5:04.16 with runners Natasha Appel, Daroby and Dakota Boersma and Tessa Hinman.

Complete results of all four meets can be found online at www.thepublicopinion.com.

Follow Watertown Public Opinion sports reporter Roger Merriam on Twitter @PO_Sports.

This article originally appeared on Watertown Public Opinion: Highlights from Tuesday's track and field meets involving area athletes