DICKINSON – With the North Star Athletic Association’s track & field championships being hosted at the Biesiot Activities Center from Wednesday, May 10 to Friday, May 12, 2023, that makes the third postseason event held in Dickinson in the last week. The NSAA postseason softball tournament was hosted at Bravera Field last weekend from May 5-8 and the postseason baseball tourney was at Astoria Field during the same spell.
Among the highlights of Day 1 in the NSAA track & field championships will be the decathlon and heptathlon for the men and women, respectively, with the 100m dash getting under way at 4 p.m. for the decathlon and 4:15 for the 110m hurdles in the heptathlon. From there, decathlon events will be held roughly every half-hour with the long-jump, shot-put, high-jump and 400m dash in the decathlon and the high-jump starting at 4:45 for the heptathlon and the shot-put and 200m dash held every hour so thereafter.
Day 2 on Thursday, May 11 will see the decathlon and heptathlon continuing and running events beginning at 2 p.m. kicking off with the 5000m run for women and men and the 100m dash to follow, among other events. Field events will be held starting at 3 p.m, including the triple-jump, hammer-throw, pole-vault and javelin for both the men’s and women’s teams.
Day 3 on Friday will feature field events beginning at 10 a.m., including the long-jump, high-jump, discus and shot-put for men and women and the running events will start at noon with the 3000m steeplechase opening the competitions and the 4x100m relay for men and women to follow, among all remaining running events.
The BAC event comes on the heels of last-week’s North Dakota State University Tune-Up Meet that featured 11 teams, including Dickinson State University at the NCAA Division I facility in Fargo. Blue Hawk athletes turned in some solid performances in that event, which is bound to be good preparation for this-week’s meet.
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Mustafa Taylor had a seventh-place showing in the 100m dash with a time of 11.19 and Martin Farver had a second-place 54.44 mark in the 400m hurdles for DSU, with Jacob Jessen finishing with 57.28, good enough for sixth-place.
Wrenzi Wrzesinski finished with a seventh-place 14.74 in the women’s 100m hurdles, while Grace Timm took second in the 300m steeplechase with a time of 11:46.66.
Taylor teamed-up with Farver, Kaholo Toaves and Nolan Lotton to turn in a 42.44 in the 400m relay, which took third-place, and Wrzesinski was on a 4x100m relay team with Kaitlyn McColly, Jewel Olson and Kyley Barnett that brought home a fifth-place 49.37.
In the field events at NDSU, Kori Nagel earned a blue-ribbon in the shot-put with a 14.54m toss to go along with a sixth-place discus throw of 43.32m, while Nathan Woodruff had an eighth-place shot of 15.09m and placed eighth in the discus with a 44.88m mark. Woodruff also had a good day in the hammer throw with a sixth-place 50.47m mark and his teammate Dahlgren finished right behind him at seventh with a 50.34m toss. Tori Nygard was sixth in the hammer-throw for the women’s team with a mark of 53.43m.
Jacob Svihovec took seventh in the javelin for DSU with a 42.32m throw and McColly took seventh for the women’s team with 38.37m and Alyssa Andress was eighth with a 37.29m mark.
Blue Hawks standout high-jumper Adarra Haglund was second with a 1.66m leap and Tyce Dahlberg was seventh for the men’s team at 1.91m, while Madison Wahl earned bronze in the pole-vault with a 3.68m mark and Cassidy Jorenson took seventh with a 3.23m effort.
The Blue Hawks women’s team won last-year’s NSAA championship meet, while the men’s team finished in second last year after winning the title in 2021.
For more information about the Dickinson State University Blue Hawks track & field teams, please keep reading The Dickinson Press and/or visit https://www.dsubluehawks.com/sports/mtrack-out/index .
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