Weathering wind

A whipping wind slowed down runners on the backstretch and pushed jumpers further into the pits.

Nevertheless, there few complaints to be heard Friday afternoon at the Badlands Activities Center as the Dickinson State track and field team christened Huffman Track by winning the men's side of its season-opening Blue Hawk Games.

"It is a fast track, it's a great surface to train on and a great surface for good times. That definitely showed today," DSU head coach Pete Stanton said. "The tailwind in our short sprints and our jumps was a big factor for them today."

Jermaine Christie took advantage of the wind at his back, winning the long jump and the 110-meter hurdles, qualifying for the NAIA national championships in each event.

Christie beat teammate Allan Ayala in the 110 hurdles -- Ayala went on to take an easy win in the 400 hurdles -- and blasted off for a meet-record leap of 24 feet, 3¾ inches in the long jump.

"You can never control he weather, but you can always control your attitude, and we did that today," Stanton said.

DSU's men won 10 of the 20 events.

Senior Sean Pickstock was DSU's only other multiple winner. He had a 21.58 to win the 200 meters and a 48.40 in the 400 -- both relatively slow times for Pickstock as he fought the wind, a factor he too said he could have done without.

"It was horrible," said Pickstock, who anchored the 1,600 relay team to a come-from-behind victory. "The first turn was good, then when you reached the back stretch and it was like a hurricane hit you in the face. It slowed down all your momentum and you can't really do much."

Perhaps that's why Jamal Forbes did so well. Forbes' events allowed him to stay closer to the stadium on the front stretch, where the wind wasn't as fierce. He set a meet record and qualified for nationals in the 100 meters with a time of 10.28 seconds and paced the 400 relay team to a win in 42.27 seconds.

Lee Irvine fought the wind to a win in the 800 (1:59.26) and as an alternate in the 1,600 relay, where his burst in the third leg helped bring DSU back from behind and set up Pickstock for his race to the finish.

"He did a really good job," said Ayala, whose spot Irvine took in the relay.

Kurt McCormack leapt 48-7½ to beat teammate Johnny Emtman in the triple jump and ran in the 1,600 relay.

U-Mary thrower Ben Jacobson swept the throwing events, winning the men's shot put, discus and hammer toss.

The Blue Hawk men had 262 team points. The University of Mary finished second with 129.

It was DSU's first home meet since May 2008 -- even that was a small get-together without many elite athletes -- and the first Blue Hawk Games since 2007. Weather and construction on the new stadium had kept the team from holding meets for the majority of the past two years.

"It was so nice to be able to run on this track and for everyone to see our track program, because no one really has," said DSU senior Kelsey Aide, who won the pole vault on attempts with a meet-record and national-qualifying leap of 12-1.

Aide was one of three DSU winners. Senior Kyla Wasser won the 100 with a national-qualifying time of 12.16 seconds and freshman Kim Schulz took the javelin with a throw of 133-10.

U-Mary had 198 team points and won eight events to hold off Black Hills State, who won seven events and had 182 points. DSU was third with 141.

Seven different Marauder women won individual events, including Dickinson native Dakota Wolf, who won the 1,500 meters in 4:59.26 and took second in the 800 in 2:25.24.

Black Hills State thrower Cody Milbourn led her team with wins in both the hammer throw (151-2) and shot put (40-4¼). Yellow Jackets senior Shannon Hellman set a meet record in the 100 hurdles (13.56 seconds) and anchored the winning 1,600 relay (4:15.91).

Because of the role the conditions played in the results, several Blue Hawks said they were frustrated with their times and distances in what will likely be their only home meet of the season.

Pickstock, however, said it gives DSU room for improvement.

"I wish it was warmer, so we could have showed up with better performances," Pickstock said. "I guess they (the fans) will have to look at nationals to see what we can do."

College track and field

Results Friday

Blue Hawk Games

At Badlands Activities Center

Note: This was the first track and field meet held on Huffman Track and the Badlands Activities Center.

Men

Team scores: Dickinson State 262, University of Mary 129, Black Hills State 104, South Dakota Mines 98, Minot State 49, Gillette (Wyo) College 7.

100: 1, Jamal Forbes, DSU, 10.28 (meet record). 2, Cory Ploof, Mary, 10.77. 3, Michael Sands, DSU, 10.77. 4, Johnny Lester, MSU, 10.91. 5, Cordero Bonamy, DSU, 10.99. 6, Miguel Gonzalez, Unattached, 11.01.

200: 1, Sean Pickstock, DSU, 21.58. 2, Cory Ploof, Mary, 22.09. 3, Jamie Dale, Mines, 22.69. 4, Devin Hiller, Minot State, 22.75. 5, Ryan McCoy, DSU, 22.80. 6, Ian Smith, DSU, 22.84.

400: 1, Sean Pickstock, DSU, 48.40. 2, Khaldon Evans, MSU, 49.01. 3, Ian Smith, DSU, 50.35. 4, Garrett Shaal, Mines, 51.40. 5, Brandon Delao, Mary, 52.11. 6, Dominic Collie, Unattached, 52.29.

800: 1, Lee Irvine, DSU, 1:59.26. 2, Ramon Miller, Unattached, 2:02.48. 3, Cody Bordewyk, BHSU, 2:04.17. 4, Edwin Chelashaw, DSU, 2:05.87. 5, Lucas Fried, Mines, 2:08.22. 6, Trevino Thompson, DSU, 2:08.71.

1,500: 1, Laine Parish, BHSU, 4:17.59. 2, Neil Long, BHSU, 4:21.90. 3, Lucas Fried, 4:22.58. 4, Edwin Chelashaw, DSU, 4:23.02. 5, Blake James, 4:27.29. 6, Cole Lemke, BHSU, 4:28.72.

5,000: 1, Birch Haraden, BHSU, 15:49.99. 2, Neil Long, BHSU, 15:55.10. 3, Thomas Everett, Mines, 15:58.54. 4, Brandon Velasquez, MSU, 16:20.35. 5, Sammy Chavez, DSU, 16:34.22. 6, Joe Mead, Gillette, 16:37.63.

10,000: 1, Kipkorir Mutai, Gillette, 32.33.30. 2, Dan Molnar, Unattached, 33:20.70. 3, Hayden Hohnholt, Gillette, 35:20.30. 4, Matt Pike, Mines, 36.33.10.

110 hurdles: 1, Jermaine Christie, DSU, 14.60. 2, Allan Ayala, DSU, 14.98. 3, Kurtis Gross, DSU, 15.20. 4, Seth Brotherton, Mines, 16.34.

400 hurdles: 1, Allan Ayala, DSU, 53.05. 2, Andre Walsh, DSU, 57.14. 3, Seth Brotherton, Mines, 59.91. 4, Jordan Davis, Mary, 1:02.26. 5, KC Fiedler, BHSU, 1:03.14. 6, Kevon Brown, Mary, 1:09.15.

3,000 steeplechase: 1, Cody Bordewyk, BHSU, 9:46.56. 2, KC Fiedler, BHSU, 10:00.56. 3, Craig Leavitt, BHSU, 10:56.65. 4, Walter Ngeno, Gillette, 11:22.55. 5, Nathan Brown, DSU, 12:00.33.

400 relay: 1, DSU (Michael Sands, Kurt McCormack, Cordero Bonamy, Jamal Forbes) 42.27. 2, Minot State 43.26. 3, Mines 43.42.

1,600 relay: 1, DSU (Ian Smith, Kurt McCormack, Lee Irvine, Sean Pickstock) 3:31.59. 2, Mines A 3:32.48. 3, Mines B 3:51.51.

High jump: 1, Omari Dookie, Unattached, 6-0¾. 2, Cody McCarger, Mary, 5-10¾. 2, Scott Murphy, DSU, 5-10¾. 4, Canyon Parcell, DSU, 5-10¾J. 5, Trent Nelson, Mines, 5-8¾.

Pole vault: 1, Jake Alexander, Mary, 14-6. 2, Kolten Jelden, Mines, 14-6J. 3, Greg Schenavar, Mary, 13-5¾. 4, Trevor Willis, DSU, 12-11¾. 5, Johnny Nguyen, DSU, 12-6. 6, Tim Simonich, Mary, 12-0.

Long jump: 1, Jermaine Christie, DSU, 24-3¾ (meet record). 2, Thomas Hartwell, Mary, 22-9¾. 3, Johnny Emtman, 22-8. 4, Dominic Goodman, DSU, 22-2½. 5, Jamie Dale, Mines, 21-8¼. 6, Ossie Dukes, Mary, 20-5¼.

Triple jump: 1, Kurt McCormack, DSU, 48-7½. 2, Johnny Emtman, DSU, 47-3. 3, Andrew Moore, Mary, 44-11¾. 5, Jordan Visina, Minot State, 41-0¼. 6, Ossie Dukes, Mary, 40-5½.

Shot put: 1, Ben Jacobson, Mary, 50-9¼. 2, Clayton Unruh, DSU, 48-10¾. 3, Delron Inniss, DSU, 48-5½. 4, Chandlor Mikkonen, BHSU, 46-4. 5, Mark Reding, Mines, 45-1½. 6, Tyler Schmidkunz, DSU, 44-7.

Discus: 1, Ben Jacobson, Mary, 148-10. 2, Jason Kraft, DSU, 139-2. 3, Brian Freed, Unattached, 132-10. 4, Miguel Flores, Mines, 129-10. 5, Luke Leno, DSU, 129-0. 6, Matt Deardoff, Mines, 128-8.

Hammer throw: 1, Ben Jacobson, Mary, 165-2. 2, Cole Nicholas, BHSU, 160-10. 3, Delron Inniss, DSU, 143-8. 4, Tyler Schmidkunz, DSU, 141-2. 5, Chandlor Mikkonen, BHSU, 137-6. 6, Tad Harman, Mary, 129-0.

Javelin: 1, Kordell Wolfe, Mary, 187-9. 2, Brent Peltz, Mary, 183-11. 3, Josh Ming, MSU, 182-2. 4, Jerad Aasen, Minot State, 178-6. 5, Chad Dawson, DSU, 174-8. 6, Trevor Willis, DSU, 174-8.

Women

Team scores: University of Mary 198, Black Hills State 182, Dickinson State 141, Minot State 62, South Dakota Mines 48.

100: 1, Kyla Wasser, DSU, 12.16. 2, Mishay Weber, Mary, 12.45. 3, Kayla Montgomery, MSU, 12.62. 4, Kelsey Aide, DSU, 12.65. 5, Melissa Walker, Mary, 12.85. 6, Franzi Schmid, DSU, 12.98.

200: 1, Nicketa Combs, Mary, 25.31. 2, Shannon Hellman, BHSU, 25.38. 3, Kyla Wasser, DSU, 26.41. 4, Katelyn Kieffer, Mines, 27.44. 5, Alissa Klose, MSU, 27.82. 6, Taylor Tuomy, MSU, 27.95.

400: 1, Megan Jenkins, Mary, 1:02.07. 2, Katelyn Kieffer, Mines, 1:02.99. 3, DayLynn Batey, DSU, 1:03.14. 4, Shelby Snare, DSU, 1:04.51. 5, Lillian Temple, Mines, 1:05.54. 6, Taylor Tuomey, MSU, 1:05.70.

800: 1, Melissa Agnew, Mary, 2:24.60. 2, Dakota Wolf, Mary, 2:25.24. 3, Emilee Morehouse, Mary, 2:26.56. 4, Wendy O'Lexey, BHSU, 2:32.91. 5, Abi Bever, BHSU, 2:36.27. 6, Melissa Perez, DSU, 2:36.41.

1,500: 1, Dakota Wolf, Mary, 4:59.26. 2, Erin Curren, BHSU, 5:05.25. 3, Wendy O'Lexey, BHSU, 5:05.27. 4, Rayel McPeters, DSU, 5:19.72. 5, Katie Cook, BHSU, 5:19.78. 6, Robin Rosechandler, BHSU, 5:25.99.

10,000: 1, Tina Marie Soto, unattached, 42:23.80.

100 hurdles: 1, Shannon Hellman, Hills, 13.56 (meet record). 2, Brianna Perry, Mary, 14.69. 3, Kristyn Nelson, Mary, 15.05. 4, Ashley Salwey, Mary, 15.29. 5, Melissa Walker, Mary, 15.66. 6, Nikki Shinkle, BHSU, 15.74.

400 hurdles: Nikki Shinkle, BHSU, 1:08.44. 2, Hilary Harrison, DSU, 1:19.54.

3,000 steeplechase: 1, Abi Bever, BHSU, 12:12.19. 2, Leigh Anne Whiteside, BHSU, 12:40.52. 3, Vanessa Escobar, DSU, 12:44.71.

400 relay: 1, Mary (Krystn Nelson, Nicketa Combs, Mishay Weber, Kristen Stewart) 48.35 (meet record). 2, DSU (Kelsey Aide, Franzi Schmid, Kyla Wasser, Kedeshia Simpson) 48.61 (meet record). 3, Minot State 51.27.

1,600 relay: 1, BHSU (Lisa Koch, Nikki Shinkle, Erin Curran, Shannon Hellman) 4:15.91. 2, Mary 4:18.55. 3, DSU (DayLynn Batey, Shelby Snare, Kelsey Aide, Kyla Wasser) 4:28.63.

High jump: 1, Brianna Perry, Mary, 5-4½. 2, Brittany Beehler, Mary, 5-2½. 3, Jennifer Hartman, DSU, 5-2½. 4, Lillian Temple, Mines, 5-0½. 5, Ashley Stewart, Mines, 5-0½. 6, Jill Lockie, MSU, 4-10½.

Pole vault: 1, Kelsey Aide, DSU, 12-1 (meet record). 2, Lisa Koch, BHSU, 12-1J (meet record). 3, Abbey Aide, MSU, 11-7. 4, Nicole Ackerman, Mary, 9-7. 5, Laurette Beal, Mines, 9-1. 6, Samantha Ziegler, Mary, 7-7.

Long jump: 1, Melissa Walker, Mary, 18-1½. 2, Kelsey Aide, DSU, 17-8. 3, Brittany Beehler, Mary, 17-7½. 4, Alissa Klose, MSU, 17-0½. 5, Samantha Williams, Mary, 16-11½. 6, Taylor Farella, Mary, 16-6½.

Triple jump: 1, Samantha Williams, Mary, 39-0½ (meet record). 2, Melissa Walker, Mary, 36-9½½. 3, Alissa Klose, MSU, 35-5¼. 4, Jennifer Hartman, DSU, 34-10¼. 5, Vanessa Friestad, Mary, 33-11½. 6, Milena Krikic, DSU, 33-10.

Shot put: 1, Cody Milbourn, BHSU, 40-4¼. 2, Breanna Janovy, BHSU, 36-6¾. 3, Lory Johnson, BHSU, 36-5¾. 4, Devon Flowers, MSU, 36-5. 5, Alaina Yaracz, BHSU, 35-11½. 6, Elizabeth Ogden, DSU, 34-5½.

Discus: 1, Breanna Janovy, BHSU, 109-10. 2, Ashley Stewart, Mines, 109-5. 3, Cody Milbourn, BHSU, 107-2. 4, Devon Flowers, MSU, 104-10. 5, Alaina Yaracz, BHSU, 103-8. 6, Elizabeth Ogden, DSU, 98-7.

Hammer throw: 1, Cody Milbourn, BHSU, 151-2. 2, Jessica Eaddy, DSU, 137-6. 3, Lory Johnson, BHSU, 129-9. 4, Alaina Yaracz, BHSU, 124-11. 5, Elizabeth Ogden, DSU, 109-11. 6, Ashley Stewart, Mines, 99-11.

Javelin: 1, Kim Schulz, DSU, 133-10. 2, Holly Hassler, Mary, 128-9. 3, Shelby Walsh, MSU, 125-7. 4, Lisa Koch, BHSU, 108-9. 5, Kayla Rummel, Mary, 106-9. 6, Kayla Haines, BHSU, 94-8.