Double the Effort, Double the Success: Local athletes shine in dual track meets
Apr. 20—DICKINSON — A difficult facet of the season for track athletes in North Dakota is the truncated space of time available for workouts, competition and repetitions necessary to prepare for the postseason regional and state meets. That is, unless you have a pair of competitions close by and together in a short duration of time like the Baker (Mont.) Invitational on April 15 and the Bowman County Booster Meet three days later.
Numerous area schools traveled to one or both over the last week or so to get ready for the Southwest Region Class B Meet on May 19, the West Dakota Association Regional Class A Meet in Bismarck on May 19 and the North Dakota State Meets for both classes in Bismarck from May 25-27.
For the Baker Invitational, there were abundant top-six finishers throughout the girls' and boys' events, including Killdeer's Dayne Dorval, who placed first in the boys 100m dash with a time of 11.65, and his teammate Cayden Neurohr with a 12.09 that was good for sixth. Bowman County's Adyson Gerbig was third in the girls 100m with a time of 12.99 and Sophia Headley earned a sixth for BCHS in the 200m with a 28.99.
Killdeer's Ethan Hendrickson won the 200m with a 23.86 and Bowman County's Nathan Dix was second with a 24.32, while Dix finished second in the 400m with a 54.44 time and Beach's Adam Trask was sixth with a time of 58.2. For the girls side in the 400m, Bowman County had the second- through fourth-place finishers in Adyson Gerbig, Headley and Landyn Gerbig, respectively.
In the girls 800m, Killdeer's Addie Miller won with a time of 2:29.86 and her teammate Abby Hardersen earned third with a 2:39.71, while Bowman County had a second-place from Jaci Fischer with a 2:36.71 and fourth through sixth went to her teammates Julie Sarsland, Kenley Bowman and Landyn Gerbig, respectively.
Addie Miller was second for Killdeer in the 1600m with a 5:33.5 and Bowman County's Jaci Fischer earned third with a 5:40.74, while Killdeer's Hardersen was fifth in the event.
Beach's Makiah Hartleib was second in the girls 3200m with a 14:41.93 and sixth in the 300m hurdles, and Bowman County's AllieRae Stotts and Emersyn Hlebechuk took second and fifth places in the 100m hurdles, respectively.
Bowman County had the top-two finishers in the 1600m run, meanwhile, with Austin Wanner and Taylor Wanner showing up in 4:35.64 and a photo-finish 4:36.52, respectively, while Killdeer's Isaac Jaggi earned second in the 110m hurdles with a 16.93 and a first-place in the 300m hurdles in 44.49.
Killdeer took home fourth in the 4x100m relay and third in the 4x400m relay, while BCHS was fifth in the 4x100m and the 4x400m relay. For the boys, Killdeer's A team was first in the 4x100 and the Killdeer B team was sixth, while the A and B teams took fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 4x400m relay.
In the field events, Havyn Quintanilla was sixth in the shot-put for Bowman County and teammate Hunter Rasmussen earned first-place for the boys with a 50'11" shot. Grant Kees, Blake Wolbaum and Addam Reisenauer took home third, fifth and sixth, respectively in the event.
Killdeer's Gracie Doe was first in the javelin for the girls with a 96-08, while on the boys side Blake Wolbaum had a 139-05 and second place with Kees throwing a 138-10 for Bowman County for third. Bowman County also took the top-two in the discus with Rasmussen's 144-08 and Kees's 131-04, while Beach's Trey Swanson was fifth with a 125-10. Wolbaum, meanwhile, was second in the javelin with a 139-05 and Kees threw a third-place 138-10.
In the high-jump, Bowman County's Avrie Nohava won with a 5' jump and Killdeer's Madeline Lambert was second with a 4'10" leap, and teammate Brooke Baselt was fifth with a 4'8" jump. For the boys, Hendrickson was tied for second in the high-jump with a 5'8".
Killdeer's Danielle Dobitz was second with a 9' pole-vault for the girls, and Killdeer also took the top three spots on the boys side in Gus Bohmbach, Michael Catoor and Elijah Ramos, respectively, and teammate Jiggi took home first in the long-jump at 18'1" with Beach's Trask finishing third.
Bowman County Booster
Bowman County's boys team finished first , while the girls team finished second in their home-standing Bowman County Booster on April 18.
In the 100m dash, Dickinson Trinity earned second- through fourth-place with Izaak Kudma, Luke Shobe and Jake Shobe all placing, respectively, while Hendrickson finished fifth for Killdeer in the event and Helena Pavek was fourth for the girls.
Jake Shobe won the 200m with a 23.28 and Kudma was third, while Tallen Binstock took sixth for Hettinger County on the boys side of the event. Quin Andrews was third in the 200m with a 27.13 and Pavek was fifth in the event for Dickinson Trinity. Also in the sprints was Kudma finishing fifth in the 400m for Trinity and Adyson Gerbig earning second in the girls 400m for Bowman County with a 1:02 time, while Abby Hardersen was fifth for Killdeer in the event at 1:03.42.
In the 800m run, which these days is becoming a sprint, Taylor Wanner earned second-place with a 2:01.24 and Austin Wanner was fifth for Bowman County, and Addie Miller was second with a 2:27.38 for Killdeer on the girls side. Hettinger County's Sophie Olsonawski was third in the 800m with a 2:29.8.
In the 1600m run, Bowman County's Kenley Bowman was fifth with a 5:52.05 and Ruby Nasset took home a sixth-place, while on the boys side Bowman County took second with Caleb Sarsland's 4:40.23, and he was followed by fourth- and fifth-place finishes from teammates Austin and Taylor Wanner, respectively.
Hettinger County's Ruby Nassett was third in the 3200m with a 12:21.9 and Killdeer's Miller finished fifth in the event, while on the boys side Dickinson Trinity's Jace Cofer earned third-place with a 10:30.49.
In the 110m hurdles, Killdeer's Isaac Jiggi was third with a 17.34 and AllieRae Stotts was fourth with a 17.55 for Bowman County's girls team. In the 300m hurdles, Bowman County's Headley and Andrews were fourth and fifth, respectively, while Bennett Jorgenson took second with a 43.58 for Hettinger-Scranton.
Bowman County's girls 4x100 relay team took second with a 52.52 and Dickinson Trinity was fourth with a 53.34, while the Killdeer boys team was third with a 46.06 in the same event and Bowman County was fourth-place on the day.
In the 4x200m girls relay, Dickinson Trinity was third with a 1:52.64 and Hettinger-Scranton was sixth, while on the boys side the Dickinson Trinity team of Gage Glaser, Kudma and the Shobes earned first-place with a 1:33.59. Bowman County took home third in the event with a 1:36.55 and Killdeer was fourth.
In the 4x400m relays, the Bowman County girls team was third with a 4:21.98 and the Killdeer team was fifth-place, while Bowman County finished third on the boys side with a 3:41.57 and Hettinger County was fourth with a 3:44.05.
In the 4x800m relay, Bowman County's boys team of Gavin Lambourn, Caleb Sarsland and the Wanners took home a blue ribbon with a time of 8:14.86 while Dickinson Trinity was third in the event and Beach and Killdeer were fifth and sixth, respectively. Bowman County's girls were third with a 10:38.92 in their event.
For the field events, Richardton-Taylor's Eastyn Gebhardt took fourth in the girls shot-put with a 32'10" and Bowman County's Rasmussen was first for the boys with a 50'2" throw. Richardton-Taylor's Kane Rivinius ended up fourth with a 43'10" shot.
Melissa Zach took fifth in the discus for Dickinson Trinity, while Rasmussen was a winner for Bowman County with a 144' throw and Kees ended up third with a 135'11" and Beach's Trey Swandon was sixth.
The javelin-throw saw Evelyn Kuntz earn third with a 104' mark and Hettinger County's Samantha Greff was fourth with a 101'3", while Bowman County's Wolbaum was fourth-place with a throw of 135'5" and Kees was sixth in the event.
Dickinson Trinity's Anna Clifton was second in the pole-vault with a 10' mark and Dobitz finished fifth for Killdeer, while on the boys side Bohmbach and Cattoor earned first and second places for Killdeer with vaults of 12', and Glaser was third for Dickinson Trinity. Killdeer's Elijah Ramos was fifth in the event.
In the high-jump, Hendrickson took second for Killdeer with a 5'10" leap and Anna Nasset took first for Hettinger County at 5'1". Killdeer's Lambert was second-place at 5'-even and Bowman County's Avrie Nohava was fifth.
Bowman County's Ellie Powell and Andrews earned fourth and fifth in the long-jump for the girls, while Bishop Duffield took second-place with a leap of 21'3". Dickinson Trinity's Glaser was fifth in the event. Duffield also finished with a sixth-place in the triple jump for Bowman County, and Anna Nasset took home fourth-place with a 33'5" for Hettinger County while Heart River's Abby Talkington took fifth in the triple-jump.
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