Many Blue Hawks hit their marks, despite wind, at final regular-season meet

• Brady Sundheim

Press Photo by Dustin Monke Dickinson State sophomore Brady Sundheim extends his legs during his jump of 49 feet, 1 inch in the triple jump Friday during the DSU Open at the Badlands Activities Center. In the backrground to Sundheim’s right, former DSU jumper Craig Charlow leaps and exclaims for Sundheim, who set a personal record with the jump but surpassed it later in the meet with a winning mark of 49-7.
• Marissa Stanton

Press Photo by Dustin Monke Dickinson State sophomore Marissa Stanton finishes out her victory in the 400 meters on Thursday during the Dickinson State Open at the Badlands Activities Center.

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Thursday started out as a beautiful day for a track and field meet.

Then, as it does in southwest North Dakota, the wind picked up.

A gusty northwest wind helped and hindered athletes during the Dickinson State Open at the Badlands Activities Center, a meet held for old Dakota Athletic Conference teams in place of the conference championship.

“It was really nice day for us,” DSU head coach Pete Stanton said. “Obviously the wind played an effect in anything from the 400 (meters) on up. It really caused havoc on those events. But, on the plus side, it was definitely a friend of the people in the field events.”

While some athletes struggled running against gusts of up to 40 mph, others found it quite helpful.

For instance, sophomore Brady Sundheim soared to a personal-best leap of 49 feet, 6½ inches to win the men’s triple jump and Fred Agbaje, a DSU runner competing unattached this season, cruised to a winning time of 10.31 seconds in the 100 meters. Both had the wind at their backs.

“The wind did help, but I feel like I was coming on strong at the end of the meet anyways,” Sundheim said.

One Blue Hawk didn’t even need a push from the wind to fly to a record-breaking day.

Senior Jennifer Hartman, in her final home meet, broke a 30-year-old school record in the long jump with a mark of 19-2¾.

The women’s long jump was the first field event of the meet. It was held in the late morning when the wind was more calm.

“It was early on when the wind wasn’t blowing as bad. It didn’t help us out quite as much,” said Hartman, who was named the DAC outstanding senior female athlete.

Hartman surpassed the old mark of 19-1½ set by Gail Havelka in 1982.

DSU junior Brianny Williams was second in the event with a NAIA national-qualifying standard of 18-11¾. Williams also broke her own school record in the 110 hurdles with a time of 14.26 seconds.

“Our two long jumpers had outstanding days,” Stanton said.

Hartman was second in the high jump behind teammate Hailey Schaper, who jumped 5-5 while Hartman went 5-3.

She was also second in the triple jump. Winner Kathleen Mulligan of Carroll College had a huge leap of 40-2¼. Hartman tied a season-best jump of 37-9½.

Hartman will compete in all three events at the NAIA national championships.

“I’m really excited,” she said. “When I get there, I’m sure I’ll be nervous, but you’ve just got to kind of compete and get one good jump in there.”

DSU sophomore Brittany Young just missed qualifying in the 1,500 meters, coming up about 4 seconds short with a time of 4:44.23. She also anchored the 1,600 relay team to a win in 4:18.

The Blue Hawk women’s 400 relay team clocked a winning time of 50.26. Marissa Stanton was a part of both relays and won the 400 in 1:01.75.

DSU’s men and women both compiled the most points.

The Blue Hawk women edged Jamestown College 211 points to 208 while the men had 206.5 to race past the second-place Jimmies’ 135.

While DSU’s men added some national qualifiers, most were at the NAIA’s B standard, which didn’t automatically punch their tickets to Marion, Ind., for the national championships.

“We’ll have some decisions to make on the men’s side because we can only take three. We have about five or six B standards,” Stanton said. “That’s the way that goes, but I think it’s nice that we have that decision to worry about because we really had an outstanding performance on both sides.”

Sophomores Jordan Buechler and Tyler Lalim each qualified with B standards. Lalim won the javelin at 187-5 while Buechler topped out at 15-5 to take second in the pole vault.

One Blue Hawk who will be going to nationals is senior Tyler Schmidkunz. He took second and qualified in both the hammer throw (172-3) and shot put (50-8¼). He was third in the discus (144-4).

Valley City State’s Darien Moore continued his dominance over the former Dakota Athletic Conference area competitors in the throws, winning the discus (157-6), hammer (197-6) and shot put (56-4¾).

“I’m extremely happy for Tyler Schmidkunz, a senior who qualified for us that had been right on the edge most of his career,” Stanton said. “You want guys like that to make it. He’s done everything we ever asked of him and he’s put the time and work into it. It’s really nice for him to be able to go the nationals.”

DSU sophomore Nathan Magstadt won the 110 hurdles in 14.34 seconds and the 400 hurdles in 54.11 and helped the 400 relay team to an uncontested winning time of 43.36. An NAIA All-America finisher in the 400 hurdles last season, Magstadt has run only the B standard this season.

Sophomore Andrew Knebel tied for the win in the high jump at 6-3¼, sophomore Johnpaul Williams won the long jump in 22-11¾.

For unattached runners, former DSU standout Sean Pickstock of the Bahamas proved a good rabbit for Carroll’s Benjamin Cutler to chase. Pickstock’s winning time of 20.7 seconds helped Cutler reach the NAIA A qualifying standard time of 21.5.

In the 800, the wind kept ex-Blue Hawk Ismael Arzola from helping current DSU runner Dustin Sandbak from qualifying. Arzola had a time of 1:57.35, coming out ahead of Sandbak’s 1:58.99.

The busiest Blue Hawk of the day was Trevor Willis, who was named the DAC’s outstanding senior male athlete.

Gearing up for the decathlon at the national meet, Willis competed in five events. He won was second in the long jump, fourth in the pole vault, ran in the winning 400 relay and the third-place 1,600 relay. He took a no-height in the high jump.

“I would like to have a couple better performances, but this time basically I just want good performances and know what I need to work on in the next two weeks in practice before nationals,” Willis said.

Dickinson State Open

At Badlands Activities Center, Dickinson

Note: Top 8 listed were applicable.

Men

Team scores: Dickinson State 206.5, Jamestown College 135, Carroll College 61.5, Valley City State 55, Black Hills State 44, Rocky Mountain College 16, University of Great Falls (Mont.) 9.

100: 1, Fred Agbaje, unattached-DSU, 10.31. 2, Sean Pickstock, unattached-DSU, 10.57. 3, Benjamin Cutler, Carroll, 10.67 (NQ-B). 4, Josh Neumiller, DSU, 10.86. 5, Philip Reuer, VCSU, 11.1. 6, Evan Schreiner, JC, 11.33. 7, Terrance Yelder, unattached-DSU, 11.42. 8, Jermaine Erby, VCSU, 11.59.

200: 1, Sean Pickstock, unattached-DSU, 20.7. 2, Benjamin Cutler, Carroll, 21.5 (NQ-A). 3, Josh Neumiller, DSU, 22.1. 4, Philip Reuer, VCSU, 22.2. 5, Evan Schreiner, JC, 22.4. 6, Brent Jansen, JC, 22.6. 7, Riley Moore, DSU, 22.74. 8, William Swanson, JC, 22.84.

400: 1, Jarann Johnson, JC, 51.29. 2, William Swanson, JC, 52.44. 3, Brent Jansen, 52.72. 4, Riley Moore, DSU, 53.12. 5, Baker Diede, BHSU, 53.57.

800: 1, Ismael Arzola, unattached-DSU, 1:57.35. 2, Dustin Sandbak, DSU, 1:58.99. 3, Chris Gill, unattached-DSU, 2:01.09. 4, Scott Erdahl, BHSU, 2:02.92. 5, Kinsly Tarmann, VCSU, 2:03.09. 6, Nathan Christensen, JC, 2:05.12. 7, Kendall Witzen, JC, 2:06.16. 8, Wayne Engelhard, VCSU, 2:08.18.

1,500: 1, Cesar Mireles, RMC, 4:00.75. 2, Taylor Peliska, Carroll, 4:03.07. 3, Ben Vaughan, Carroll, 4:07.53. 4, Lyle Pocha, Carroll, 4:10.00. 5, Abdi Ismail, unattached-DSU, 4:16.35. 6, Mark Wilcox, BHSU, 4:19.62. 7, Troy Solly, Carroll, 4:20.27. 8, Robert Quintero, DSU, 4:20.41.

110 hurdles: 1, Nathan Magstadt, DSU, 14.34 (NQ-A). 2, Trent Roemmich, JC, 14.97. 3, Andrew Knebel, DSU, 15.31. 4, Scott Roemmich, JC, 15.36. 5, JT Petsch, JC, 15.53. 6, Eric Chilson, BHSU, 16.1. 7, Derek Roemmich, JC, 16.31.

400 hurdles: 1, Nathan Magstadt, DSU, 54.11 (NQ-B). 2, JT Petsch, JC, 57.24. 3, Scott Roemmich, JC, 57.32. 4, Justin Erdy, VCSU, 59.72. 5, Trent Roemmich, JC, 59.74. 6, Mark Huntington, Carroll, 1:00.48. 7, Ariel Hurtado, DSU, 1:01.43. 8, Derek Roemmich, JC, 1:03.98.

400 relay: 1, Dickinson State (Josh Neumiller, Trevor Willis, Nathan Magstadt, Jon Dinius) 43.36.

1,600 relay: 1, Jamestown (William Swanson, Brent Jansen, Evan Schreiner, Derek Roemmich) 3:31.20. 2, Carroll 3:31.60. 3, DSU (Riley Moore, Nathan Magstadt, Trevor Willis, Andrew Knebel) 3:38.70. 4, Valley City State 3:41.2.

3,000 steeplechase: 1, Jed Morgan, BHSU, 9:42.65. 2, Mark Wilcox, BHSU, 10:18.76. 3, Toryn Rogers, RMC, 11:23.68.

High jump: 1 (tie), Andrew Knebel, DSU, 6-3¼; Tyler Burns, Great Falls, 6-3¼. 3 (tie), Brady Sundheim, DSU, 6-1¼; Scott Murphy, unattached-DSU, 6-1¼; Jacob Wilson, BHSU, 6-1¼. 6, Brian Sinner, JC, 5-11¼.

Pole vault: 1, Easton Padden, Carroll, 16-8¾ (NQ-A). 2, Jordan Buechler, DSU, 15-5 (NQ-B). 3, Johnpaul Williams, DSU, 14-5¼. 4, Trevor Willis, DSU, 13-11¼. 5, Jeremy Evenson, DSU, 13-5¼. 6, Adrian Paet-Bullaoit, JC, 8-5¼.

Long jump: 1, Johnpaul Williams, DSU, 22-11¾. 2, Trevor Willis, DSU, 21-6¾. 3, Jacob Wilson, BHSU, 21-0¾. 4, Jeremy Evenson, DSU, 20-3. 5, Andrew Knebel, DSU, 20-1.

Triple jump: 1, Brady Sundheim, DSU, 49-6½ (NQ-A). 2, Mac Collins, DSU, 42-0. 3, Jeremy Evenson, DSU, 41-10.

Shot put: 1, Darien Moore, VCSU, 56-4¾ (NQ-A). 2, Tyler Schmidkunz, DSU, 50-8¼ (NQ-B). 3, Robert Nelson, JC, 45-1½. 4, Justin Dvorak, unattached-DSU, 43-0¼. 5, Mike Findlay, JC, 42-0¾. 6, Brandon Bodien, JC, 41-5¾. 7, Sam Herauf, DSU, 40-7.

Hammer throw: 1, Darien Moore, VCSU, 197-6 (NQ-A). 2, Tyler Schmidkunz, DSU, 172-3 (NQ-B). 3, Cody Clausen, unattached-DSU, 141-0. 4, Garrett Tenney, JC, 137-4. 5, Sam Herauf, DSU, 133-5. 6, Justin Dvorak, unattached-DSU, 129-8. 7, Brandon Bodien, JC, 121-9. 8, Austin Hibl, unattached-DSU, 113-5.

Discus: 1, Darien Moore, VCSU, 157-6 (NQ-A). 2, Robert Nelson, JC, 154-1 (NQ-B). 3, Tyler Schmidkunz, DSU, 144-4. 4, Mike Findlay, JC, 137-9. 5, Cody Clausen, unattached-DSU, 132-7. 6, Austin Hibl, unattached-DSU, 126-1. 7, Garrett Tenney, JC, 124-8.

Javelin: 1, Tyler Lalim, DSU, 187-5 (NQ-B). 2, Cody Clausen, unattached-DSU, 183-6. 3 (tie), Eli Bachmeier, DSU, 180-10; Brandan Haggarty, Carroll, 180-10. 5, Mac Collins, DSU, 180-4. 6, Jay Bachman, JC, 156-8. 7, Kevin Moore, JC, 154-10. 8, Grayson Leder, JC, 136-10.

Women

Team scores: Dickinson State 211, Jamestown College 208, Carroll College 57, Black Hills State 48, Valley City State 28, University of Great Falls (Mont.) 10.

100: 1, Taylor Miller, JC, 12.5. 2, Shelby Snare, DSU, 12.63. 3, Mardee Clark, DSU, 13.01. 4, Chelsey Schwindt, DSU, 13.04.

200: 1, Taylor Miller, JC, 25.6. 2, Shelby Snare, DSU, 25.8. 3, MacKenzie Powell, Carroll, 26.8. 4, Chelsey Schwindt, DSU, 27.0. 5, Mardee Clark, DSU, 27.5

400: 1, Marissa Stanton, DSU, 1:01.75. 2, MacKenzie Powell, Carroll, 1:01.74. 3, Maddey Hornung, unattached, 1:03.56. 4, Stephanie Erlandson, JC, 1:07.89.

800: 1, Taylor Lucero, UGF, 2:17.08. 2, Mallory Souder, JC, 2:30.58. 3, Ashlyn Wilhite, BHSU, 2:33.53. 4, Bernie Bachel, JC, 2:34.66. 5, Stormie Sickler, DSU, 2:41.6. 6, Margaret Martinez, VCSU, 2:42.17. 7, Ashley Mueller, JC, 2:43.86. 8, Andrea Markwart, JC, 2:45.86.

1,500: 1, Brittany Young, DSU, 4:44.23. 2, Rhianna Grossman, unattached, 4:55.9. 3, Courtney Dickson, BHSU, 4:57.3. 4, Mallory Souder, JC, 5:44.59. 5, Moriah Juhl, JC, 6:10.54.

5,000: 1, Hannah Hafner, Carroll, 19:27.9. 2, Reagan Bold, Carroll, 19:42.0. 3, Courtney Dickson, BHSU, 20:14.9. 4, Allie Reynolds, Carroll, 20:17.2. 5, Lela Carpenter, unattached-BHSU, 20:31.8.

100 hurdles: 1, Brianny Williams, DSU, 14.26 (NQ-A, school record). 2, Ashley Farr, DSU, 15.68. 3, Kayla Schumacher, JC, 16.31. 4, Ashley Cooper, JC, 16.32. 5, Jolynn Warnes, JC, 16.36. 6, Jill Gustafson, JC, 17.19.

400 hurdles: 1, Kayla Byle, JC, 1:08.70. 2, Kadie Savage, JC, 1:08.71. 3, Kristin Rath, BHSU, 1:10.13. 4, Clara Escutia, DSU, 1:12.32. 5, Kayla Schumacher, JC, 1:14:35.

400 relay: 1, DSU (Marissa Stanton, Shelby Snare, Mardee Clark, Brianny Williams) 50.26. 2, Jamestown 51.79.

1,600 relay: 1, DSU (Stormie Sickler, Marissa Stanton, Brittany Young, Shelby Share) 4:18.0. 2, Jamestown 4:28.8. 3, Jamestown 4:34.0.

3,200 relay: 1, Jamestown (Bernie Bachal, Miranda Charley, Andrea Markwart, Ashley Mueller) 11:00.42.

High jump: 1, Hailey Schaper, DSU, 5-5 (NQ-B). 2, Jennifer Hartman, DSU, 5-3. 3, Taylor Brown, JC, 5-3. 4, Mallory Johannes, JC, 5-1. 5, Jolynn Warnes, 4-11.

Pole vault: 1, Mariah Arneson, Carroll, 10-4. 2, Courtney Oliver, JC, 8-6¼. 3, Keiley Sampson, JC, 7-6½. 4 (tie), Josie Bopp, JC, 7-0½; Kaia Bickford, JC, 7-0½.

Long jump: 1, Jennifer Hartman, DSU, 19-2¾ (NQ-A, school record). 2, Brianny Williams, DSU, 18-11¾ (NQ-A). 3, Jolynn Warnes, JC, 17-6¾. 4, Josie Bopp, JC, 16-11¼. 5, Hailey Schaper, DSU, 16-10¾. 6, EmmaLee Woodland, DSU, 14-5¼.

Triple jump: 1, Kathleen Mulligan, Carroll, 40-2¼ (NQ-A). 2, Jennifer Hartman, DSU, 37-9½ (NQ-A). 3, Ashley Farr, DSU, 37-0¼. 4, Hailey Schaper, DSU, 35-7¼. 5, Jolynn Warnes, JC, 34-8½. 6, Josie Bopp, JC, 32-9¾. 7, Jill Gustafson, JC, 32-9. 8, EmmaLee Woodland, DSU, 32-2¾.

Shot put: 1, Kayla Roemmich, JC, 39-6½. 2, Madison McLaughlin, BHSU, 38-2. 3, Jessica Dolechek, DSU, 32-6½.

Hammer throw: 1, Madison McLaughlin, BHSU, 145-0. 2, Lora Rogers, DSU, 142-5. 3, Jessica Dolechek, DSU, 130-3. 4, Amber Volanti, VCSU, 114-10. 5, Mandi Spoklie, DSU, 112-6. 6, Alyssa Hummel, VCSU, 105-9.

Discus: 1, Breanna Janovy, unattached, 146-1. 2, Kayla Roemmich, JC, 139-5 (NQ-B). 3, Madison McLaughlin, BHSU, 130-3. 4, Kim Schulz, DSU, 113-6. 5, Amber Volanti, VCSU, 100-5. 6, Aylssa Hummel, VCSU, 94-5. 7, Lora Rogers, DSU, 93-7. 8, Jessica Dolechek, DSU, 93-0.

Javelin: 1, Amber Volanti, VCSU, 149-11 (NQ-A). 2, Kim Schulz, DSU, 134-11 (NQ-A). 3, Beth Segerholm, JC, 129-8 (NQ-B). 4, Mandi Spoklie, DSU, 112-4. 6, Kaia Bickford, JC, 97-10.

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