Against the wind: Midgets, Titans not hampered by breeze at first home meet of year

• Joseph Sickler and Paul Gardner

Press Photo by Dustin Monke Dickinson High hosted the Jack Carlson Booster Meet on Tuesday at the Badlands Activities Center. Dickinson High senior Joseph Sickler, right, outraces Dickinson Trinity senior Paul Gardner down the stretch for the win in the 800-meter run.
• Brandon Fischer

Press Photo by Dustin Monke Dickinson High hosted the Jack Carlson Booster Meet on Tuesday at the Badlands Activities Center. Bowman County senior Brandon Fischer clears the high jump en route to a victory.
• Andrea Jirges

Press Photo by Dustin Monke Dickinson High hosted the Jack Carlson Booster Meet on Tuesday at the Badlands Activities Center. Trinity senior Andrea Jirges flies into the long jump pit.

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Temperatures changed, showers came and went but one thing never changed Tuesday at the Jack Carlson Booster track and field meet — the wind.

A stiff south wind swirled through the Badlands Activities Center bowl for much of the day, but it still wasn’t enough to slow down the teams just happy to be outside and racing in mid-April.

“It’s a different luxury,” Dickinson High co-coach Jay Schobinger said.

Bismarck Century’s boys won nine events as it claimed the team win and the Patriots’ girls won four events to earn the top spot despite Minot High winning seven events.

However, it was Dickinson’s meet and its athletes took advantage of the chance to compete.

In the 100 meters, moved to the stadium’s backstretch so runners could go with the wind, Dickinson’s duo of Mason Frank and Jace Dukart finished first and second, respectively, with state-qualifying hand-held times of 11.44 seconds.

Frank was awarded the win based on a slight advantage in his hand-held time. The senior stuck his nose out over the finish line just ahead of his sophomore teammate.

Frank said the 100 is always a blur, but remembered “jumping the gun, getting a great start, concentrating down the lane and not really thinking about the other competitors.”

Dickinson’s 3,200 relay team of Brett Braunagel, Mike Porter, Dallas Zastoupil and Joseph Sickler fell 3.38 seconds short of qualifying for state.

In the 400 relay, Dickinson missed by two-hundredths of a second. The Midgets’ team of Frank, Zastoupil, Michael Cherwinski and Dukart ran a 45.46.

Century won with a 45.43. The state-qualifying time is 45.44.

Sickler said the team’s relays are steadily improving.

“They’ll be stronger eventually,” Sickler said. “We’ve got to work on our handoffs.”

Sickler won another event but fell just short of a state-qualifying time.

He battled Dickinson Trinity’s Paul Gardner down the stretch in the 800 meters and pulled away late to win with a time of 2:03.01. Gardner was second at 2:04.59.

“It was really windy. It was pretty fun,” said Sickler, who ran with Gardner, a senior at New England High School, on the Midgets’ cross country team. “Paul was pushing me a lot.”

Gardner, who helped Trinity’s 1,600 and 3,200 relay teams place third and fourth, respectively, said it was good for him and his teammates to see Class A competition after attending two Class B meets.

However, Gardner said the wind — the one adversary he was expecting to dominate the day — didn’t turn out to be so bad, even in the 800 where the racers turned into the stiff breeze twice down the track’s frontstretch.

“I was expecting it to be really bad,” Gardner said. “But by the time we started competing against each other, I was more focused on the race. It was back and forth and it was really exciting so I didn’t think about the wind that much.

“All day I was worried about it, then it came to race time and you say, whatever. You get down and race and compete hard.”

Bowman County junior Brandon Fischer tied Sidney (Mont.) senior Josh Torgerson for the win in the high jump. Both leapt 6 feet.

Hazen’s Tyler Parker won the javelin with a state-qualifying throw of 165-8.

Bismarck Century’s Drew Wiseman had a solid day, earning state-qualifying marks in three events.

He won the 200 in 22.14 seconds, the 300 hurdles in 40.05 and helped the Patriots’ 1,600 relay team cruise to a win by more than 10 seconds with a time of 3:34.17.

Century’s Conrad Schwarzkopf easily won the shot put (54-6) and the discus (174-11).

On the girls side, Minot High junior Morgan Milbrath was her usual standout self, winning the 100 with a time of 12.34 seconds, the 200 in 25.34 and helping the 400 and 800 relay teams to wins in 51.88 and 1:47.46, respectively.

Finishing runner-up to Milbrath in both the 100 and the 200 was Bowman County’s Erika Olson, who had state-qualifying times of 12.74 and 26.54 seconds, respectively.

Minot’s Jayd Eggert won the discus (134-2) and the javelin (119-1).

Mandan’s Chelsea Peterson had qualifying times in the 100 hurdles (15.94) and 300 hurdles (47.84).

Trinity senior Andrea Jirges was her team’s lone state qualifier. She finished fifth in the long jump at 16-6½.

Jack Carlson Booster Meet

At Badlands Activities Center

Boys

Team scores: Bismarck Century 208, Minot High 119.5, Bismarck High 117, Dickinson High 93, Dawson County (Mont.) 55.5, Sidney (Mont.) 36, Dickinson Trinity 33, Hazen 24, Bismarck St. Mary’s 14, Bowman County 11, Williston 10, Mandan 2.

100: 1, Mason Frank, DHS, 11.44 (SQ). 2, Jace Dukart, DHS, 11.44 (SQ). 3, Cody Humann, Bismarck, 11.54. 4, Karter Gorney, Minot, 11.54. 5, Ben Kraft, Century, 11.54. 6, Noah Krebs, St. Mary’s, 11.64. 7, Isaac Walth, Bismarck, 11.74. 8 (tie), Tanner Presky, 11.74; Jordan Sperle, Century, 11.74.

200: 1, Drew Wiseman, Century, 22.14 (SQ). 2, Cody Humann, Bismarck, 22.94 (SQ). 3, Isaac Walth, Bismarck, 23.24 (SQ). 4, Austin Streyle, Bismarck, 23.74. 5, Dalton Weisz, Century, 23.74. 6, Tyrel Albers, Hazen, 23.74. 7, Kimani Benjamin, Minot, 23.74. 8, Michael Palczewski, BC, 23.94.

400: 1, Kimani Benjamin, Minot, 52.50. 2, Landon Jochim, Century, 52.68. 3, Tanner Presky, Minot, 53.93. 4, Braden Hodenfield, Minot, 54.14. 5, Jace Dukart, DHS, 54.29. 6, Carl Wahlin, Century, 54.77. 7, Caleb Albertson, Minot, 55.32. 8, Kent Steffl, Century, 55.94.

800: 1, Joseph Sickler, DHS, 2:03.01. 2, Paul Gardner, Trinity, 2:04.59. 3, Austin Mack, DHS, 2:06.18. 4, Dylan Sether, Century, 2:06.43. 5, Mike Porter, DHS, 2:09.10. 6, Alex Willey, SM, 2:09.49. 7, Lucas Bussman, Mandan, 2:10.40. 8, Zachary Burkart, Minot, 2:11.79.

1,600: 1, Forrest Allen, Century, 4:47.07. 2, Jackson Binstock, Dickinson, 4:50.38. 3, Vlad Kutka, Dickinson, 4:52.21. 4, Matt Keltgen, DC, 4:56.39. 5, Sage Walz, Century, 4:57.74. 6, Stephan Gaydos, Century, 4:58.74. 7, Cole Olson, Bismarck, 4:59.63. 8, Layne Schafer, Sidney, 5:00.28.

3,200: 1, Cataldo Didonna, Century, 10:24.95. 2, Andrew Beach, Minot, 10:45.09. 3, Matt Ketgen, DC, 11:05.72. 4, Mason Schmidt, Minot, 11:05.72. 5, Chris Stock, Minot, 11:24.01. 6, Dylan Weber, Minot, 11:42.42. 7, Austin Papka, Sidney, 12:24.58.

110 hurdles: 1, Dylan Leutz, Century, 14.94 (SQ). 2, Brandon Schmid, Bismarck, 15.54 (SQ). 3, Ben Love, Minot, 16.24. 4, Dan Perez, Century, 17.24. 5, Nick Perrin, Century, 17.44. 6, Chance Unterseher, Century, 17.84. 7, Kalen Hance, Sidney, 17.84. 8, Joel Crane, Century, 18.54.

300 hurdles: 1, Drew Wiseman, Century, 40.05 (SQ). 2, Brandon Schmid, BHS, 42.82. 3, Dominic Neameyer, Century, 44.63. 4, Casey Schaff, Century, 46.01. 5, Grant Ehli, Century, 47.88. 6, Kalen Hance, Sidney, 53.94.

400 relay: 1, Century (Ben Hess, Dylan Leutz, Taylor Daniel, Ben Kraft) 45.43 (SQ). 2, Dickinson (Mason Frank, Dallas Zastoupil, Michael Cherwinski, Jace Dukart) 45.46. 3, Minot 45.86. 4, Bismarck 46.20. 5, St. Mary’s 46.75. 6, Dawson County 46.79. 7, Hazen 47.09.

800 relay: 1, Century (Jordan Sperle, Dalton Weisz, Taylor Daniel, Ben Kraft) 1:35.20. 2, Minot 1:36.88. 3, Hazen 1:39.17. 4, Century B 1:39.45. 5, Dickinson (Taren Staudinger, Levi Jordheim, Austin Mack, Vlad Kutka) 1:39.68. 6, Dawson County 1:43.11. 7, Williston 1:49.10.

1,600 relay: 1, Century (Dalton Weisz, Drew Wiseman, Carl Wahlin, Troy Dewey) 3:34.17. 2, Dawson County 3:44.48. 3, Trinity (Paul Gardner, Alex Binstock, Mitchell Meyer, Cole Beck) 3:46.41. 4, Sidney 3:47.20 5, Dickinson (Mason Frank, Michael Cherwinski, Vlad Kutka, Jesse Kessel) 3:49.44.

3,200 relay: 1, Dickinson (Brett Braunagel, Mike Porter, Dallas Zastoupil, Joe Sickler) 8:27.62. 2, Minot 8:35.68. 3, Century 8:38.46. 4, Trinity (Alex Binstock, Paul Gardner, Brady Fettig, Mitchell Meyer) 8:59.98. 5, St. Mary’s 9:12.32.

High jump: 1 (tie), Brandon Fischer, BC, 6-0; Josh Torgerson, Sidney, 6-0. 3, Levi Jordheim, DHS, 5-10. 4, Alex Cundiff, Williston, 5-8. 5 (tie), Jace Kruger, Trinity, 5-6; Nick Klug, Trinity, 5-6; Austin Papka, Sidney, 5-6. 8, Tanner Schwartz, DC, 5-6; Cyril Nagurski, Century, 5-6.

Long jump: 1, Josh Reed, DC, 21-4 (SQ). 2, Brett Adam, Bismarck, 21-1½ (SQ). 3, Drew Wiseman, Century, 21-1 (SQ). 4, Alex Yanosko, Minot, 20-11 (SQ). 5, Isaac Walth, Bismarck, 20-8. 6, Alex Cundiff, Williston, 20-3½. 7, Levi Jordheim, DHS, 20-3. 8, Dominic Neameyer, Century, 19-9.

Triple jump: 1, Alex Yanosko, Minot, 42-6 (SQ). 2, Bronte Liggins, Bismarck, 42-4 (SQ). 3, Dalton Dewald, Bismarck, 42-1½ (SQ). 4, Taylor Daniel, Century, 41-7 (SQ). 5, Josh Torgerson, Sidney, 41-1½. 6, Josh Reed, DC, 41-1½. 7, Justin Brown, Sidney, 41-0. 8, Collin Maas, Hazen, 40-3½.

Pole vault: 1, Bryant Grimes, DC, 13-0 (SQ). 2, Alec Ouradnik, Century, 13-0 (SQ). 3, Jack Abfalter, Century, 12-6 (SQ). 4, Tanner Gay, DC, 12-6 (SQ). 5, Robert Dohner, Century, 12-0. 6, Bradyn Erickson, Bismarck, 11-6. 7 (tie), Colter Bachmeier, DC, 11-0; Taylor Schwartz, DC, 11-0; Brandon Fischer, BC, 11-0.

Discus: 1, Conrad Schwarzkopf, Century, 174-11 (SQ). 2, Brett Gehring, Bismarck, 157-0 (SQ). 3, Corbin Wyatt, Bismarck, 142-6. 4, Porter Williams, Minot, 142-0. 5, Stanley Jones, Bismarck, 141-11. 6, Dyllon Schnaible, Bismarck, 141-5. 7, Daulton King, Sidney, 137-4. 8, Riley Riehl, Century, 136-2.

Shot put: 1, Conrad Schwarzkopf, Century, 54-6 (SQ). 2, Brett Gehring, Bismarck, 49-2 (SQ). 3, Dyllon Schnaible, Bismarck, 48-3. 4, Dan Murphy, Century, 45-9. 5, Porter Williams, Minot, 44-11. 6, Nathaniel Knudson, Sidney, 43-7. 7, Michael Maas, Hazen, 42-7. 8, Brayden Soderholm, Minot, 42-7.

Javelin: 1, Tyler Parker, Hazen, 165-8 (SQ). 2, Ben Gordon, Trinity, 155-1. 3, Alex Yanosko, Minot, 154-0. 4, Justice Osborne, Minot, 151-10. 5, Brady Nelson, Minot, 146-6. 6, Zack Scalzo, Bismarck, 140-8. 7, Aaron Sayler, DHS, 139-0. 8, Jesse Kessel, Dickinson, 136-1.

Girls

Team scores: Bismarck Century 190.5, Bismarck High 123.5, Minot High 112.5, Mandan 59, Dawson County (Mont.) 57, Sidney (Mont.) 45, Dickinson Trinity 35, Dickinson High 27, Bowman County 25, Williston 23, Bismarck St. Mary’s 20.5, Hazen 10.

100: 1, Morgan Milbrath, Minot, 12.34 (SQ). 2, Erika Olson, BC, 12.74 (SQ). 3, Faith Kjelstrup, DC, 12.84 (SQ). 4, Bailey Reiner, Bismarck, 12.94 (SQ). 5, Lexi Ely, Century, 13.04 (SQ). 6 (tie), Andrea Jirges, Trinity, 13.34; Kylie Yineman, Century, 13.34. 8, Alison Froelich, Mandan, 13.34.

200: 1, Morgan Milbrath, Minot, 25.34 (SQ). 2, Erika Olson, BC, 26.54 (SQ). 3, Bailey Reiner, Bismarck, 27.34 (SQ). 4, Andrea Jirges, Trinity, 27.44. 5, Loni Bryantt, Minot, 27.74. 6, Kylie Yineman, Century, 27.74. 7, Caitlyn Carlson, Bismarck, 27.74. 8, Maria Hoff, Century, 27.84.

400: 1, Jamie Vander Vorste, Minot, 1:01.67 (SQ). 2, Morgan Miller, Bismarck, 1:01.71. 3, Andrea Kelsch, Century, 1:01.85. 4, Leslie Beaudoin, Dickinson, 1:01.92. 5, Sierra Link, Century, 1:02.47. 6, Madison Milbrath, 1:02.66. 7, Caitlyn Carlson, Bismarck, 1:02.79. 8, Chelsea Peterson, Mandan, 1:04.00.

800: 1, Brittany Brownotter, Bismarck, 2:26.40. 2, Lexi Zeis, Bismarck, 2:31.19. 3, Samantha Huether, Minot, 2:33.59. 4, Sage Barta, SM, 2:35.63. 5, Katelyn Grinsteiner, Trinity, 2:36.35. 6, Olivia Larsen, Williston, 2:37.17. 7, Jen Benz, Century, 2:38.35. 8, Riley Ceglowski, Williston, 2:38.45.

1,600: 1, Jordan Jacob, Century, 5:26.39 (SQ). 2, Morgan Pierce, SM, 5:45.55. 3, Alicia Fettig, Century, 5:49.33. 4, Kayla Wald, Bismarck, 5:49.57. 5, Laura Laber, Century, 5:54.54. 6, Austin Copp, DC, 5:55.16. 7, Nicole Trenda, Mandan, 5:55.52. 8, Olivia Larsen, Williston, 5:56.44.

3,200: 1, Paige Melin, Century, 13:00.69. 2, Mel Uhrich, Century, 13:18.00. 3, Jordan Donaghy, DC, 13:19.09. 4, Allison Wanner, Mandan, 16:21.39.

100 hurdles: 1, Chelsea Peterson, Mandan, 15.94 (SQ). 2, Hadley Rosales, Century, 16.24 (SQ). 3, Kaytlyn Bowers, Mandan, 16.64 (SQ). 4, Natalie Todd, Bismarck, 16.64 (SQ). 5 (tie), Sophie Bengson, Minot, 16.74 (SQ); Alexa Pagan, SM, 16.74 (SQ). 7, Melissa Lynn, DC, 16.84. 8, DelRay Audet, Minot, 17.04.

300 hurdles: 1, Chelsea Peterson, Mandan, 47.84 (SQ). 2, Sophie Bengson, Minot, 49.59. 3, Lexi Prevost, Sidney, 50.45. 4, Melissa Lynn, DC, 50.49. 5, DelRay Audet, Minot, 50.55. 6, Dakota Wood, Hazen, 50.68. 7, Hadley Rosales, Century, 50.79. 8, Domenique Glover, Minot, 51.10.

400 relay: 1, Minot (Loni Bryantt, XXXXXX, Sophie Bengson, Morgan Milbrath) 51.88 (SQ). 2, Century (Lexi Ely, Myranda Merkel, Maria Hoff, Alexis Rockey) 52.16 (SQ). 3, Bismarck 53.14. 4, Dawson County 53.19. 5, Hazen 53.33. 6, Bowman County (Kendra Swanson, Olivia Duletski, Erika Olson, Shelbi McGee) 53.67. 7, Mandan 54.09. 8, Dickinson (Kennedy Keator, Hannah Beaudoin, Justice Dolajak, Ali Moody) 54.56.

800 relay: 1, Minot (Madison Mibrath, Loni Bryantt, Jamie Vander Vorste, Morgan Milbrath) 1:47.46 (SQ). 2, Bismarck 1:52.04. 3, Bowman County (Justyce Dufield, Erika Olson, Shelbi McGee, Ashlee Edwards) 1:52.27. 4, Century 1:53.80. 5, Mandan 1:54.71. 6, Dickinson (Morgan Grosulak, Justice Dolajak, Kennedy Keator, Leslie Beaudoin) 1:55.28. 7, Trinity (Selina Kudrna, Madison Humleker, Kelbie Ficek, Lydia Brooke) 1:55.65. 8, Hazen 1:55.67.

1,600 relay: 1, Bismarck (Libby Fontenot, Morgan Miller, Taylor Grossman, Caitlyn Carlson) 4:15.20 (SQ). 2, Century 4:16.42. 3, Dickinson (Morgan Grosulak, Leslie Beaudoin, Keely Hutchens, Rachel Schroeder) 4:21.57 4, Mandan 4:22.10. 5, Trinity (Katelyn Grinsteinner, Morgan Kuntz, Selina Kudrna, Andrea Jirges) 4:23.42. 6, Dawson County 4:23.44. 7, Minot 4:23.49. 8, Sidney 4:28.13.

3,200 relay: 1, Century (XXXXXX, Taylor Thompson, Jaiden Schutte, Sierra Link) 10:25.98. 2, Minot 10:29.53. 3, Trinity (Kaitlyn Grinsteinner, Kelli Pavlicek, Katie Pavlicek, Morgan Kuntz) 10:38.06. 4, Dickinson (Meleah Leiss, Keely Hutchens, Kelsey Gillen, Shelby Stoltz) 11:02.48. 5, St. Mary’s 11:05.44. 6, Mandan 11:13.90.

High jump: 1, Alysse Charlesworth, DC, 5-1 (SQ). 2 (tie), Hannah Larson, Century, 5-1 (SQ); Ann Govig, Century, 5-1 (SQ); Veronica Hermann, Century, 5-1 (SQ). 5, Natalie Todd, Bismarck, 4-11. 6, Leslie Beaudoin, DHS, 4-11. 7, Estee Schmidt, Bismarck, 4-11. 8, Madi Deibert, DHS, 4-9.

Long jump: 1, Bailey Reiner, Bismarck, 17-8 (SQ). 2, Lexi Ely, Century, 17-3 (SQ). 3, Andrea Kelsch, Century, 16-10 (SQ). 4, Faith Kjelstrup, DC, 16-7. 5 (tie), Andrea Jirges, Trinity, 16-6½ (SQ); Natalie Todd, Bismarck, 16-6½. 7, Kasey Robson, DC, 16-5. 8, Hannah Jeske, Century, 16-3.

Triple jump: 1, Natalie Todd, Bismarck, 36-5½ (SQ). 2, Hannah Larson, Century, 35-0 (SQ). 3, Alysse Charlsworth, DC, 34-6. 4, Hannah Jeske, Century, 34-1 (SQ). 5, Ashley Bohrer, Century, 33-8½. 6, Katelyn Van Berkum, Bismarck, 33-5. 7, Kathryn Pomeroy, Bismarck, 33-3. 8, Ashley Meyer, 33-3.

Pole vault: 1, Jalyssa Gorder, Sidney, 10-6. 2, Mikayla Minow, Sidney, 10-6. 3, Ann Govig, Century, 10-0 (SQ). 4, Hailey Horob, Williston, 9-6 (SQ). 5, Kasey Robson, DC, 9-6 (SQ). 6 (tie), Haley Moch, Century, 9-0 (SQ); Solvei Stenslie, Mandan, 9-0 (SQ). Erin Harris, Sidney, 9-0 (SQ).

Discus: 1, Jayd Eggert, Minot, 134-2 (SQ). 2, Dani Clarke, Williston, 127-2 (SQ). 3, Whitney Leuenberger, Sidney, 125-6. 4, Ali Hasche, Century, 116-1 (SQ). 5, Maggie Schwarzkopf, Century, 113-8. 6, Naomi Rust, Bismarck, 112-2. 7, Elizabeth Meyer, Mandan, 111-6. 8, Whitney Perrin, Century, 110-2.

Shot put: 1, Maggie Schwartzkopf, Century, 39-1 (SQ). 2, Whitney Leuenberger, Sidney, 38-8. 3, Naomi Rust, Bismarck, 37-8 (SQ). 4, Kelsie Hall, Century, 36-9 (SQ). 5, Ali Hasche, Century, 36-7 (SQ). 6, Brianna Bergurd, Bismarck, 36-0 (SQ). 7, Jayd Eggert, Minot, 34-3. 8, Maari Beck, Century, 33-8.

Javelin: 1, Jayd Eggert, Minot, 119-1 (SQ). 2, Alyson Schieno, Trinity, 111-1. 3, Elizabeth Meyer, Mandan, 111-0 (SQ). 4, Dani Clarke, Williston, 105-7. 5, Erin Harris, Sidney, 101-8. 6, Abby Grove, DHS, 101-7. 7, Courtney Ost, Hazen, 97-8. 8, Naomi Rust, Bismarck, 97-5.

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