Herauf wins 3 events, but Century comes away with West Region title

• Jess Herauf

Press Photo by Dustin Monke Dickinson High senior Jess Herauf throws the javelin on Saturday morning at the West Region track and field meet. Herauf won the javelin, long jump and 100-meter hurdles. She finished second in the 300 hurdles and was named the region’s Senior Athlete of the Year.

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Jess Herauf ran from one side of 13th Avenue West to the other for more than an hour Saturday.

Competing in the long jump and the javelin at the same time got a little taxing on the Dickinson High senior.

There were some out-of-breath moments as she ran from the javelin throw area on the Dickinson State football practice field to the jump pits at the Badlands Activities Center. Still, the easygoing athlete smiled, laughed about the task at hand and, most importantly, got the job done.

Herauf won the javelin and the long jump and finished a close second in the 300-meter hurdles about 20 minutes after her opening events concluded. She wrapped up her day at the West Region track and field meet by winning the 100 hurdles.

“I know state is going to be hectic. It was good practice for state,” said Herauf, who was named the West Region’s senior athlete of the year. “I did fine. Everyone is so nice about it because they all know that I do random events. All the coaches were really nice and they held it up for me.”

Herauf won the javelin with her first throw, a distance of 134 feet, 1 inch. No one else equaled any of her throws in the vent.

She won the long jump in 17-7½ before running back to the javelin area for the final round.

The 300 hurdles turned out to be one of the most exciting races of the day. Herauf and Minot freshman Morgan Milbrath ran neck-and-neck all the way to the finish with Milbrath, running the race for just the second time, winning with a time of 44.98 seconds. Herauf finished in 45.01 seconds.

Milbrath picked up the most wins. Along with her win over Herauf in the 300 hurdles, the freshman won the 100 (12.24), 200 (24.94) and 400 (57.78).

“Wow. Hat’s off to Morgan,” Herauf said. “It’s going to be fun at state. It’s definitely going to be a tight race. I’m excited to run against her.”

Herauf later won the 100 hurdles in 15.64 seconds, edging Mandan’s Chelsea Peterson by one-tenth of a second.

Bismarck Century took home the team championship with 221 points, running away from runner-up Minot High, which had 135.

The Patriots won all four relay events and had four individual champions.

Brie Lynch, who moved to Bismarck from Dickinson last year, won the 800 meters with a time of 2:20.35. Hannah Larson won the high jump in 5-1. Hannah Jeske’s triple jump of 35-1½ edged Larson by 2¼ inches. Danielle Smith won the shot put in 39-1.

“I think it’s a credit to all of our girls. I think our depth really came through for us today,” Century coach Nick Walker said. “We had a few events that we won, but we had a lot of girls in that three through eight range today that stepped up and performed.”

Minot had its big moments, too.

Senior Brecca Wahlund set a new meet record in the 3,200 meters with a time of 10:45.98. She also won the 1,600 meters in 5:11.83.

Wahlund’s two-mile run bested the previous record of 10:52.21 set by Mandan’s Carly Emil in 2000.

“She’s a phenomenal runner. It was awesome just to be able to do that today. I’m just really thankful,” Wahlund said. “I just kept pushing it. I really didn’t know what I was going to run today. I just tried to give it my all and it felt good today.”

Williston had two winners.

Dani Clarke won the discus with a throw of 135-3. Hailey Horab won the pole vault with leap of 10 feet.

As the field events got going late in the morning, a slight rain continued to fall. But soon it let up, the clouds parted and by the end of the afternoon, the sun came out, the temperature warmed up and the meet opened up.

“It started off a little rough with the rain, but it turned into a beautiful day,” Herauf said. ‘It was a great day all around. Everyone had a good day and no one thought they’d have a good day because of the forecast.”

While Herauf had a successful day, one of her favorite moments came in watching senior teammate Ally Hoffmann run a state-qualifying time of 2:24.10 in the 800.

“She’s been trying to do that since the first race,” Herauf said. “When she qualified that, our whole team dogpiled her.”

West Region girls meet

Team scores: 1, Bismarck Century, 221. 2, Minot, 135. 3, Bismarck, 133.5. 4, Dickinson, 83. 5, Mandan, 72.5. 6, Jamestown, 47. 7, Williston, 44. 8, Bismarck St. Mary’s 1.

100: 1, Morgan Milbrath, Minot, 12.24, SQ. 2, Amity Lantz, Dickinson, 12.64, SQ. 3, Bailey Reiner, Bismarck, 12.64, SQ. 4, Brie Lynch, Bismarck Century, 12.64, SQ. 5, Alexis Cannon, Minot, 12.94, SQ. 6, McKayla Orr, Jamestown, 13.04, SQ. 7, Lily Obrigewitch, Bismarck Century, 13.14. 8, Kayla Helbling, Mandan, 13.24.

200: 1, Morgan Milbrath, Minot, 24.94, SQ. 2, Alexis Cannon, Minot, 25.94, SQ. 3, Kylie Yineman, Bismarck Century, 26.34, SQ. 4, Bailey Reiner, Bismarck, 26.54, SQ. 5, Andrea Kelsch, Bismarck Century, 26.54, SQ. 6, Lily Obrigewitch, Bismarck Century, 26.84, SQ. 7, Amity Lantz, Dickinson, 26.84, SQ. 8, Taylor Miller, Mandan, 26.94, SQ.

400: 1, Morgan Milbrath, Minot, 57.78, SQ. 2, Brie Lynch, Bismarck Century, 1:00.11, SQ. 3, Sierra Link, Bismarck Century, 1:00.39, SQ. 4, Jamie Vander Vorste, Minot, 1:01.64, SQ. 5, Madison Milbrath, Minot, 1:02.23. 6, Carli Defoe, Mandan, 1:02.44. 7, Alexis Jacobs, Bismarck Century, 1:02.86. 8, Sierra Duttenhefer, Minot, 1:03.12.

800: 1, Brie Lynch, Bismarck Century, 2:20.35, SQ. 2, Brittany Brownotter, Bismarck, 2:20.63, SQ. 3, Alison Allmer, Jamestown, 2:20.98, SQ. 4, Libby Fontenot, Bismarck, 2:22.40, SQ. 5, Caitlyn Carlson, Bismarck, 2:22.96, SQ. 6, Jamie Vander Vorste, Minot, 2:23.54, SQ. 7, Ally Hoffman, Dickinson, 2:24.10, SQ. 8, Jessie Steinwand, Bismarck Century, 2:26.72.

1,600: 1, Brecca Wahlund, Minot, 5:11.83, SQ. 2, Alison Allmer, Jamestown, 5:19.79, SQ. 3, Jordan Jacob, Bismarck Century, 5:22.22, SQ. 4, Tessa Haussler, Bismarck, 5:27.23, SQ. 5, Brooklyn Beehler, Bismarck, 5:30.20, SQ. 6, Alexis Zeis, Bismarck, 5:30.24, SQ. 7, Megan Sanford, Bismarck Century, 5:34.29, SQ. 8, Alana Fischer, Bismarck St. Mary’s, 5:40.45.

3,200: 1, Brecca Wahlund, Minot, 10:45.98, SQ (Previous West Region record, Carly Emil, Mandan, 10:52.21.) 2, Kayla Wald, Bismarck, 12:07.27, SQ. 3, Savannah Link, Bismarck Century, 12:08.35, SQ. 4, Paige Melin, Bismarck Century, 12:18.31. 5, Andrea Markwart, Bismarck Century, 12:18.78. 6, Nicole Stewart, Bismarck, 12:21.87. 7, Moriah Juhl, Williston, 12:25.80. 8, Rachel Wingenbach, Mandan, 12:34.55.

100 hurdles: 1, Jess Herauf, Dickinson, 15.64, SQ. 2, Chelsea Peterson, Mandan, 15.74, SQ. 3, Hadley Rosales, Bismarck Century, 16.24, SQ. 4, Tessa Delzer, Bismarck Century, 16.34, SQ. 5, Kaytlyn Bowers, Mandan, 16.44, SQ. 6, DelRay Audet, Minot, 16.94. 7, Sophie Bengson, Minot, 16.94. 8, Taylor Vasichek, Mandan, 17.04.

300 hurdles: 1, Morgan Milbrath, Minot, 44.98, SQ. 2, Jess Herauf, Dickinson, 45.01, SQ. 3, Chelsea Peterson, Mandan, 46.81, SQ. 4, Tessa Delzer, Bismarck Century, 47.93, SQ. 5 (tie), Taylor Gorssman, Bismarck; Kaytlyn Bowers, Mandan, 48.88. 7, DelRay Audet, Minot, 48.94. 8, Taylor Vasichek, Mandan, 49.01.

400 relay: 1, Bismarck Century, 50.23, SQ. 2, Bismarck, 50.77, SQ. 3, Minot, 51.02, SQ. 4, Mandan, 52.04, SQ. 5, Dickinson, 52.71, SQ. 6, Jamestown, 53.26. 7, Williston, 54.16.

800 relay: 1, Bismarck Century, 1:47.58, SQ. 2, Minot, 1:48.23, SQ. 3, Mandan, 1:49.57, SQ. 4, Bismarck, 1:50.57, SQ. 5, Dickinson, 1:54.48. 6, Jamestown, 1:54.70. 7, Williston, 1:56.88.

1,600 relay: 1, Bismarck Century, 4:06.58, SQ. 2, Bismarck, 4:06.63, SQ. 3, Minot, 4:11.63, SQ. 4, Mandan, 4:11.69, SQ. 5, Jamestown, 4:19.66. 6, Dickinson, 4:23.99. 7, Williston, 4:30.47.

3,200 relay: 1, Bismarck Century, 10:07.06, SQ. 2, Dickinson, 10:14.01, SQ. 3, Williston, 10:20.61. 4, Bismarck, 10:23.56. 5, Mandan, 10:23.82. 6, Minot, 10:32.59. 7, Jamestown, 11:29.09.

High jump: 1, Hannah Larson, Bismarck Century, 5-1, SQ. 2, Alexis Jacobs, Bismarck Century, 4-11. 3, Ali Moody, Dickinson, 4-9. 4 (tie), Veronica Herman, Bismarck Century; Jenna Stilwell, Jamestown; Alexis Goldade, Mandan, 4-7. 7, Madi Deibert, Dickinson, 4-7. 8, Misha Taylor, Minot, 4-7.

Pole vault: 1, Hailey Horob, Williston, 10-0, SQ. 2, Kristin Ceglowski, Williston, 9-6, SQ. 3, Sierra Kreft, Bismarck Century, 9-6, SQ. 4, Marissa Koppy, Mandan, 9-0, SQ. 5, Cienna Levorsen, Dickinson, 9-0, SQ. 6, Solvei Stenslie, Mandan, 8-6. 7, Kathryn Pomeroy, Bismarck, 8-6. 8, Ashley Flickinger, Bismarck Century, 8-0.

Long jump: 1, Jess Herauf, Dickinson, 17-5½, SQ. 2, Bailey Reiner, Bismarck, 16-8, SQ. 3, Hannah Jeske, Bismarck Century, 16-1. 4, Lexi Ely, Bismarck Century, 15-11½. 5, Andrea Kelsch, Bismarck Century, 15-10. 6, Chelsy Jung, Bismarck Century, 15-6. 7, Kathryn Poemeroy, Bismarck, 15-6. 8, Katelyn Friedt, Bismarck, 15-5½.

Triple jump: 1, Hannah Jeske, Bismarck Century, 35-1½, SQ. 2, Hannah Larson, Bismarck Century, 34-11¼, SQ. 3, Natalee Todd, Bismarck, 34-8½, SQ. 4, Ashley Bohrer, Bismarck Century, 34-6½, SQ. 5, McKayla Orr, Jamestown, 34-3½, SQ. 6, Jenna Stilwell, Jamestown, 34-2, SQ. 7, Taylor Vasichek, Mandan, 34-1½, SQ. 8, Ali Moody, Dickinson, 33-8½.

Shot put: 1, Danielle Smith, Bismarck Century, 39-1, SQ. 2, Katie Weigel, Bismarck, 37-9, SQ. 3, Naomi Rust, Bismarck, 37-3, SQ. 4, Kelsey Hall, Bismarck Century, 35-11, SQ. 5, Samantha Engel, Minot, 35-2. 6, Briana Bergrud, Bismarck, 34-7. 7, Kelsey Urquhart, Jamestown, 34-6. 8, Jessica Dolechek, Dickinson, 34-6.

Discus: 1, Danielle Clarke, Williston, 135-3, SQ. 2, Katie Weigel, Bismarck, 123-5, SQ. 3, Danielle Smith, Bismarck Century, 122-9, SQ. 4, Jayd Eggert, Minot, 120-1, SQ. 5, Kelsey Hall, Bismarck Century, 110-5. 6, Elizabeth Meyer, Mandan, 105-1. 7, Samantha Engel, Minot, 103-4. 8, Kate Roscoe, Jamestown, 102-4.

Javelin: 1, Jess Herauf, Dickinson, 134-1, SQ. 2, Jayd Eggert, Minot, 110-4, SQ. 3, Elizabeth Meyer, Mandan, 109-6. 4, Anna Hruby, Bismarck, 108-4. 5, Kate Roscoe, Jamestown, 107-5. 6, Katie Weigel, Bismarck, 106-0. 7, Danielle Clarke, Williston, 103-11. 8, Naomi Rust, Bismarck, 99-6.

Awards

Senior Athlete of the Year: Jess Herauf, Dickinson High. Runner-up: Brecca Wahlund, Minot.

Coach of the year:

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