Teams add to state qualifiers at Badlands Conference meet

• Marah Friez and Erika Olson

Press Photo by Royal McGregor Bowman County senior Erika Olson, left, and Mott-Regent junior Marah Friez race down the final stretch of the girls 1,600-meter relay on Tuesday afternoon during the Badlands Conference track and field meet at the Badlands Activities Center. At right, Mott-Regent junior Naomi Meier, who ran in the relay, cheers on Friez. Bowman County won the race, beating Mott-Regent by 15-hundredths of a second.
• Boys 100 meters

Press Photo by Royal McGregor Killdeer senior Lewis Keller, right, strains to get past Heart River junior Seth Ewoniuk in the boys 100-meter race as Bowman County junior Colter Braaten, back left, and Glen Ullin-Hebron’s Steven Wiedmer and Hazen’s Josh Erhardt, back right, give chase on Tuesday afternoon during the Badlands Conference track and field meet at the Badlands Activities Center. Keller won in 11.29 seconds.

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The Dickinson Trinity boys and girls track and field teams were waiting for its relays to qualify for the Class B state meet.

The Titans don’t have to wait any longer after the boys 3,200-meter relay and the girls 1,600 relay both qualified for state during the Badlands Conference Meet on Tuesday at the Badlands Activities Center.

“We’ve been anticipating when we are going to start getting our relays in,” Trinity senior Andrea Jirges said. “I think that’s where the main excitement came from.”

Trinity has been close to qualifying its relays the last few meets and head coach Craig Kovash said it was going to happen sooner or later.

“Those are some things that we were thinking we might be able to get in,” he said.

The 3,200 relay group that consisted of Alex Binstock, Mitchell Meyer, Brady Fettig and Paul Gardner ran a time of 8 minutes, 32.32 seconds.

In the final event, the Titans’ girls 1,600 relay team of Kaitlyn Grinsteinner, Selina Kudrna, Morgan Kuntz and Jirges met the exact state meet qualifying time of 4:16.24.

Jirges ran the final leg of the race against Bowman County senior Erika Olson and Mott-Regent junior Marah Friez. The three competed against each other in the 400 dash when the finish was Olson, Friez and Jirges. The 1,600 relay finish was exactly the same.

Olson also ran state-qualifying times in the 100 (12.71), 200 (26.58) and 400 (1:01.25). The 1,600 relay win was at 4:14.43. She won the 100.

“We’ve been working for that for a really long time and it’s good to finally get it,” Olson said.

Watford City led the way with 121 team points, Mott-Regent came in second with 84 and Bowman County had 82.

Friez led the Wildfire, winning the 200 (26.48) and 400 (1:01.28) and taking second in the 100 (12.73).

“We just come in with confidence every time and we have the mentality that we are going to do well,” Friez said. “We push each other to do well.”

Also on the girls side, Killdeer’s Taylor Boster continues to have outstanding senior season. She won the shot put at 38 feet, 9 inches and the discus (124-5), both state-qualifying standards. She said she wouldn’t be where she is today without the help of her twin brother Kyle.

“I definitely chase Kyle, because he is the guy and he does throw farther,” she said with a laugh. “He does push me a lot and he knows what I’m capable of doing and I do the same for him.”

Kyle Boster had a good day of his own, winning the discus (144-9) and coming second in the shot put (43-10). His teammate, Nick Klatt, finished first in the shot put (48-11) and third in the discus (131-7).

“We bring our competition to every meet,” Kyle Boster said. “He pushes me hard in shot put and I push him discus. It’s great to have that friendly competition along with you all the time.”

On the boys side, the throwing performances helped the Cowboys to a team win with 116 points. Bowman County finished second (89) and Hazen was third (71).

Adding to the Killdeer wins was Lewis Keller, who won the 100 (11.29) and the long jump (20-5½). He also aided the 800 relay with Tucker Beck, Lewis Dobitz and Hunter Lincoln in a time of 1:35.26.

“I’m pleased with how I did today,” Keller said. “All of our relays did really well today.”

Michael Palczewski led the Bulldogs with two individual wins in the 200 (23.27) and 400 (51.43).

One runner that had his sights set on running state-qualifying times was Beach freshman Hunter Weinreis. He won the 1,600 (4:50.16) and 3,200 (10:28.27) runs, but fell just short of qualifying times.

“I wanted to qualify for the mile and two mile today, but that might not have happened,” Weinreis said before knowing his official times. “I really want to make it to state and I wanted to do really well.”

Trinity’s newest qualifier was Ben Gordon. The junior won the javelin with a throw of 167-4. Kovash knew Gordon was capable of that distance.

“Ben’s been really close and he threw well today and got in,” Kovash said.

Badlands Conference Meet

At Badlands Activities Center, Dickinson

Boys

Team scores: Killdeer 116, Bowman County 89, Hazen 71, Dickinson Trinity 67, Watford City 50, Heart River 48.5, Beach 48, Richardton-Taylor 48, Washburn 40, Mott-Regent 35, New Salem-Almont 32, Standing Rock 32, Hettinger-Scranton 23.5, Grant County-Flasher 16, Beulah 16, Center-Stanton 8.

100: 1, Lewis Keller, Killdeer, 11.29 (SQ). 2, Seth Ewoniuk, HR, 11.33 (SQ). 3, Tyrel Albers, Hazen, 11.6. 4, Zach Cofer, NSA, 11.71. 5, Monty Johnson, Washburn, 11.79. 6, Colter Braaten, BC, 11.88. 7, Levi McKitrick, BC, 11.96. 8, Brendin Steiner, Trinity, 12.07.

200: 1, Michael Palczewski, BC, 23.27. 2, Lewis Dobitz, Killdeer, 23.5. 3, Lewis Keller, Killdeer, 23.52. 4, Tyrel Albers, Hazen, 23.58. 5, Tyler Swanke, BC, 23.98. 6, Seth Ewoniuk, HR, 24.07. 7, Drew Kamrath, Washburn, 24.18. 8, Brandon Hill, HS, 24.28.

400: 1, Michael Palczewski, BC, 51.43 (SQ). 2, Lewis Dobitz, Killdeer, 52.43. 3, Tyler Swanke, BC, 53.2. 4, Danny Skolglund, Beach, 53.95. 5, Drew Kamarth, Washburn, 53.97. 6, Levi McKitrick, BC, 54.57. 7, Paul Gardner, Trinity, 54.83. 8, Brandon Hill, HS, 55.0

800: 1, Elijah Strong Heart, SR, 2:04.69. 2, Andrew Kaiser, Washburn, 2:08.1. 3, Guy Ross, WC, 2:08.78. 4, Dylan Northrop, HR, 2:09.67. 5, Bradly Messer, RT, 2:09.83. 6, Lane Voltz, RT, 2:11.46. 7, Tyson Kudrna, HR, 2:17.71. 8, Alex Binstock, 2:18.12.

1,600: 1, Hunter Weinreis, Beach, 4:50.16. 2, Elijah Strong Heart, SR, 4:56.65. 3, Bradley Messer, RT, 5:08.7. 4, Calvin Aichele, Beulah, 5:10.01. 5, Robert Sauer, GCF, 5:11.02. 6, Josh Enget, Beulah, 5:28.19. 7, David Chavez, BC, 5:33.53. 8, Cole Wilhelmi, Trinity, 5:37.34.

3,200: 1, Hunter Weinreis, Beach, 10:28.27. 2, Zack Schmidt, GCF, 10:57.75. 3, Dylan Gress, Trinity, 11:05.71. 4, Calum Blankenship, Killdeer, 11:17.83. 5, Brenden Harrison, SR, 11:19.7. 6, Justin Germann, BC, 11:37.19. 7, Calvin Aichele, Beulah, 11:44.22. 8, James Ternes, Hazen, 11:50.17.

110 hurdles: 1, Tanner Vesledahl, MR, 16.58. 2, Shawn Fulwider, WC, 17.55. 3, Tucker Beck, Killdeer, 17.59. 4, Tanner Fischer, BC, 18.31. 5, Logan Haberstroh, MR, 18.45. 6, Calum Blankenship, Killdeer, 19.24. 7, Christian Hughes, HS, 19.4. 8, Sam Scherer, Trinity, 20.43.

300 hurdles: 1, Shawn Fulwider, WC, 43.64. 2, Tanner Vesledahl, MR, 43.85. 3, Logan Haberstroh, MR, 44.04. 4, Tanner Fischer, BC, 45.17. 5, Michael Schulz, WC, 47.57. 6, Taylor Heins, NSA, 47.63. 7, Chad Gullickson, RT, 47.8. 8, Coltyn Nelson, Trinity, 47.96.

400 relay: 1, HR (Jarek Haverluk, Cole Hlebechuk, Tyson Kudrna, Seth Ewoniuk), 46.5. 2, Washburn, 46.69. 3, Hazen, 47.22. 4, HS, 48.04. 5, Trinity, 49.15. 6, CS, 49.27. 7, Beach, 49.47. 8, Killdeer, 50.21.

800 relay: 1, Killdeer (Tucker Beck, Lewis Dobitz, Hunter Lincoln, Lewis Keller), 1:35.26. 2, BC, 1:35.64. 3, Hazen, 1:36.33. 4, Heart River, 1:37.08. 5, WC, 1:40.76. 6, MR, 1:41.71. 7, Trinity, 1:42.31. 8, GUH, 1:42.96.

1,600 relay: 1, Killdeer (Tucker Beck, Lane Oversen, Hunter Lincoln, Lewis Dobitz), 3:33.96 (SQ). 2, BC, 3:36.87. 3, Trinity, 3:42.36. 4, WC, 3:45.44. 5, Beach, 3:45.5. 6, RT, 3:46.23. 7, SR, 3:52.54. 8, Washburn, 3:55.24.

3,200 relay: 1, Trinity (Alex Binstock, Mitchell Meyer, Brady Fettig, Paul Gardner), 8:32.32 (SQ). 2, WC, 8:56.56. 3, RT, 8:58.14. 4, SR, 9:08.11. 5, Killdeer, 9:08.79. 6, BC, 9:26.69. 7, Hazen, 9:36.14. 8, Beulah, 10:03.73.

High jump: 1, Brandon Fischer, BC, 5-8. 2, Isaiah Maschner, HR, 5-8. 3, Nick Klug, Trinity, 5-8. 4, Jace Kruger, Trinity, 5-6. 5, Cade Shypkoski, HR, 5-6. 6, Justis Caldwell, HS, 5-6. 7, Cole Rolfsrud, WC, 5-4. 8, Michael Schulz, WC, 5-2.

Pole vault: 1, Monty Johnson, Washburn, 12-9 (SQ). 2, Brandon Hill, HS, 12-0 (SQ). 3, Brandon Fischer, BC, 11-6. 4, Mitchell Kovash, Trinity, 11-6. 5, Forrest VanOrmann, RT, 11-0. 6, Nick Blevins, Washburn, 10-0. 7, Alex Burke, BC, 9-6. 8, Mason Heth, Trinity, 9-6.

Long jump: 1, Lewis Keller, Killdeer, 20-5½. 2, Danny Skoglund, Beach, 20-4. 3, Cory Rebel, RT, 20-0. 4, Casey Walcker, Beulah, 19-9. 5, Zach Cofer, NSA, 19-4½. 6, Dalton Reitz, HS, 18-10½. 7, Adam Berg, CS, 18-10. 8, Jacob Greff, MR, 18-8.

Triple jump: 1, Zach Cofer, NSA, 42-9½ (SQ). 2, Jared Zent, RT, 42-2½ (SQ). 3, Cory Rebel, RT, 41-1½. 4, Collin Maas, 41-½. 5, Danny Skoglund, Beach, 40-7½. 6, Adam Berg, CS, 40-1½. 7, Jarek Haverluk, HR, 40-1. 8, Cade Shypkoski, HR, 39-5½.

Shot put: 1, Nick Klatt, Killdeer, 48-11 (SQ). 2, Kyle Boster, Killdeer, 43-10. 3, Austin Cieslak, Hazen, 43-6. 4, Landon Lechler, Beach, 43-0. 5, Michael Maas, Hazen, 42-7. 6, Chandler Rivinius, GCF, 41-0. 7, Seth Kreil, Hazen, 40-7. 8, Blaze Sommer, Hazen, 40-2.

Discus: 1, Kyle Boster, Killdeer, 144-9 (SQ). 2, Tyler Parker, Hazen, 133-3. 3, Nick Klatt, Killdeer, 131-7. 4, Austin Cieslak, Hazen, 131-0. 5, Michael Maas, Hazen, 128-4. 6, Tanner Vesledahl, MR, 125-9. 7, Hunter Fears, Hazen, 117-7. 8, Morgan Cummins, GCF, 111-11.

Javelin: 1, Ben Gordon, Trinity, 167-4 (SQ). 2, Tyler Parker, Hazen, 165-5 (SQ). 3, Taylor Heins, NSA, 158-1. 4, Christian Stockert, Trinity, 151-6. 5, Skylar Rebel, NSA, 138-4. 6, David Murphy, SR, 137-0. 7, Reid Brown, WC, 135-5. 8, Marc Wagner, Killdeer, 135-0.

Girls

Team scores: Watford City 121, Mott-Regent 84, Bowman County 82, Dickinson Trinity 76, Hazen 65, Killdeer 58, New Salem-Almont 55.5, Hettinger-Scranton 46, Washburn 45, Beach 30, Richardton-Taylor 29, Beulah 24.5, Standing Rock 10, Center Stanton 9, Heart River 3, Glen Ullin-Hebron 1.

100: 1, Erika Olson, BC, 12.71 SQ). 2, Marah Friez, MR, 12.73 (SQ). 3, Shelbi McGee, BC, 13.17. 4, McKayla Roll, MR, 13.29. 5, Brittany Beckler, Hazen, 13.39. 6, Paige Gravning, HS, 13.6. 7, Maddie Homleker, Trinity, 13.63. 8, Ricki Lindley, WC, 13.66.

200: 1, Marah Friez, MR, 26.48 (SQ). 2, Erika Olson, BC, 26.58 (SQ). 3, Abby Honeyman, MR, 26.67 (SQ). 4, Brittany Beckler, Hazen, 27.82. 5, Kaitlin Reitz, HS, 27.87. 6, Dakota Wood, Hazen, 27.88. 7, Ricki Lindley, WC, 28.31. 8, Lexi Wagner, HR, 28.47.

400: 1, Erika Olson, BC, 1:01.25 (SQ). 2, Marah Friez, MR, 1:01.28 (SQ). 3, Andrea Jirges, Trinity, 1:01.59 (SQ). 4, Alexa Henke, NSA, 1:03.19. 5, Kaitlyn Grinsteinner, Trinity, 1:03.82. 6, Abi Waloch, Washburn, 1:04.07. 7, Geanna Gomillion, NSA, 1:05.3. 8, Justyce Duffield, BC, 1:05.45.

800: 1, Abi Waloch, Washburn, 2:29.59. 2, Kade Ross, WC, 2:31.25. 3, Cassie Holt, HS, 2:32.62. 4, Emily Tyrrell, RT, 2:32.81. 5, Asha Smith, WC, 2:37.14. 6, Justyce Duffield, BC, 2:39.12. 7, Lenka Machova, CS, 2:39.67. 8, McKayla Roll, MR, 2:40.3.

1,600: 1, Asha Smith, WC, 5:28.71 (SQ). 2, Emily Tyrrell, RT, 5:44.4. 3, Lenka Machova, CS, 5:46.93. 4, Kade Ross, WC, 5:56.66. 5, Hailee Farstveet, Beach, 6:00.11. 6, Kelli Pavlicek, Trinity, 6:01.22. 7, Nessa Iverson, Beulah, 6:07.06. 8, Keisha Schock, Washburn, 6:11.79.

3,200: 1, Keisha Schock, Washburn, 13:12.46. 2, Nessa Iverson, Beulah, 13:21.35. 3, Shannon Stockert, Trinity, 13:30.45. 4, Addison Sundeen, WC, 13:58.84. 5, Bessie Schmitz, WC, 14:13.18. 6, Kara Wold, WC, 14:23. 7, Kara Stegner, Trinity, 14:57.19. 8, Hannah Wegner, Beach, 15:32.11.

100 hurdles: 1, Abby Honeyman, MR, 16.05 (SQ). 2, Dakota Wood, Hazen, 16.53 (SQ). 3, Brianna Allex, WC, 17.6. 4, DeeAnna Ziegler, Hazen, 17.64. 5, Heather Pearson, Washburn, 18.17. 6, Brittany Berger, Trinity, 18.79. 7, Rylee Clarke, Killdeer, 19.08. 8, Alyssa Wittenberg, Trinity, 19.4.

300 hurdles: 1, Abby Honeyman, MR, 47.43 (SQ). 2, Acacia Fossum, RT, 47.97 (SQ). 3, Brianna Allex, WC, 49.71. 4, Selina Kudrna, Trinity, 50.83. 5, McKayla Roll, MR, 51.04. 6, Dakota Wood, Hazen, 51.41. 7, Macy Smyle, Bowman, 52.28. 8, KaDee Berger, CS, 52.39.

400 relay: 1, Trinity (Selina Kudrna, Kelbie Ficek, Maddie Homleker, Andrea Jirges), 53.82. 2, NSA, 54.33. 3, HS, 54.37. 4, WC, 54.68. 5, BC, 55.29. 6, Beach, 56.43. 7, Beulah, 56.92. 8, Killdeer, 57.22.

800 relay: 1, Hazen (Ally Berger, Brittany Beckler, DeeAnna Ziegler, Dakota Wood), 1:52.97. 2, NSA, 1:54.52. 3, Trinity, 1:57.91. 4, Beach, 1:58.31. 5, Washburn, 1:58.75. 6, Killdeer, 2:00.6. 7, Hettinger, 2:01.56. 8, BC, 2:01.59.

1,600 relay: 1, BC (Ashlee Edwards, Miranda Miller, Justyce Duffield, Erika Olson), 4:14.43 (SQ). 2, MR, 4:14.58 (SQ). 3, Trinity, 4:16.24 (SQ). 4, WC, 4:21.85. 5, Beach, 4:30.78. 6, RT, 4:33.17. 7, HR, 4:43.64. 8, Washburn, 4:46.55.

3,200 relay: 1, Trinity (Kaitlyn Grinsteinner, Morgan Kuntz, Katie Pavlicek, Kelli Pavlicek), 10:24.36. 2, WC, 10:37.38. 3, Washburn, 11:02.68. 4, Killdeer, 11:03.79. 5, SR, 11:37.67. 6, Beach, 12:01.63. 7, BC, 12:25.17.

High jump: 1, Macy Smyle, BC, 4-9. 2, Morgan LeMieux, Killdeer, 4-9. 3, Allison Steffan, Trinity, 4-9. 4, McKayla Haugeberg, WC, 4-7. 5, Hayley Moe, WC, 4-7. 6, Sarah Quentte, Hazen, 4-7. 7, Katelyn Dockter, Trinity, 4-5. 8, Ashley Miller, HS, 4-5.

Pole vault: 1, Kallisha Keller, Killdeer, 7-6. 2, DeeAnna Ziegler, Hazen, 7-6. 3, Rylee Clarke, Killdeer, 7-0. 4, Miranda Miller, BC, 7-0. 5, Sarah Freitag, BC, 7-0. 6, Alyssa Olin, MR, 6-6. 7, Ashlee Edwards, BC, 6-6.

Long jump: 1, McKayla Haugeberg, WC, 16-7 (SQ). 2, Cassie Holt, HS, 15-9. 3, Ricki Lindley, WC, 15-6½. 4, Mikaela Forster, NSA, 15-5. 5 (tie), Haley Hughes, NSA, 15-3. 5 (tie), Alexa Henke, NSA, 15-3. 7, Alyssa Olin, MR, 15-2¼. 8, Kallisha Keller, Killdeer, 14-6½.

Triple jump: 1, Cassie Holt, HS, 34-5 (SQ). 2, Kara Langerud, WC, 33-7. 3, Kaitlin Reitz, HS, 32-10½. 4, Haley Hughes, NSA, 32-6. 5, Allison Gion, MR, 32-5½. 6, Mikaela Forster, NSA, 32-4. 7, Allison Steffan, Trinity, 31-7½. 8, Sarah Quentte, Hazen, 30-3½.

Shot put: 1, Taylor Boster, Killdeer, 38-9 (SQ). 2, Kaycee Link, 34-3. 3, Cori Moberg, Washburn, 33-11. 4, Chantel Fulton, Beach, 33-2. 5, Morgan Nunberg, Beach, 32-6. 6, Emily Wolf, NSA, 32-1. 7 (tie), Cyndi Steadman, Beach, 30-8. 7 (tie), Courtney Ost, Hazen, 30-8. 7 (tie), Chloe Brausch, GUH, 30-8.

Discus: 1, Taylor Boster, Killdeer, 124-5 (SQ). 2, Emily Wolf, NSA, 112-2. 3, Courtney Ost, Hazen, 103-8. 4, Halle Olson, RT, 100-9. 5, Haley Sabe, BC, 99-2. 6, Abby Brown, WC, 99-0. 7, Alison Scheetz, Killdeer, 94-4. 8, Karly Doll, NSA, 92-2.

Javelin: 1, McKayla Haugeberg, WC, 125-6 (SQ). 2, Courtney Ost, Hazen, 110-0. 3, Landi Leingnag, SR, 109-5. 4, Alyssa Olin, MR, 105-5. 5, Kaycee Link, Beulah, 10-1-10. 6, Taylor Dwyer, WC, 101-5. 7, Alyson Schieno, Trinity, 100-8. 8 (tie), Hannah Balderas, Beulah, 98-0. 8 (tie), Sierra Henke, NSA, 98-0.

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