Dickinson girls finish seventh in track meet, boys end up ninth
Apr. 28—BISMARCK — Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night shall stay these track teams from their appointed postseason preparations, especially when the meets are just down the road. Dickinson High School's teams slogged it out through the rain on Thursday for the BPS Girls Invite in Bismarck and the MAB Club Boys Meet in Mandan, with decent results.
DHS ended up seventh with 45 points in the girls meet and ninth in the boys meet with only 20, but the all-important reps needed to get ready for the Regional and State meets are what matter most.
Among area athletes placing in the girls meet at Bismarck Community Bowl included third-place senior Emily Ash in the 200m dash with a 27.31, and she was followed by teammate Jayden Atkins in fourth with a 27.87. Meanwhile, in the 400m dash, DHS earned fourth and fifth with Arabella Privratsky at 1:04.21 and Sadie Stevenson with a 1:05.5 and Dickinson's Hannah Geisel finished in third in the 800m run at 2:29.63.
In the distance events, Leila Gregoire finished eighth with a 5:46.19 in the 1600m run.
For field events, Midget shot-putter Jecelyn Arends was fifth with a mark of 35'1" and Kendra King leaped a fifth-place 4'9" in the high-jump, while Ash was the top pole-vaulter with a 10'9" mark and first-place.
In the boys meet at Starion Sports Complex, Ethan Luna finished eighth in the 200m dash with a 24.74 and Blake Weller also was eighth in the 400m dash with a 53.39 for DHS. The 4x400m relay team of Camden Hjellming, Thomas Freer, Kaleb Pullins and Luna was sixth with a 4:03.98.
In the field events, Dickinson's Ethan Halverson was fifth with a 50'3" shot-put mark and Bennet Carlson was second in the pole vault at 13'6", while Cole Skabo earned sixth in the long-jump with a mark of 20'5".
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