The Becker Bulldog girls track team headed to Foley Thursday for their first Granite Ridge Conference indoor meet.
The girls finished second behind the host school.
Team scores: 1). Foley 118.5, 2). Becker 111, 3). Albany 67, 4). Mora 62, 5). Zimmerman 62, 6). Little Falls 59.5, 7). Milaca 41.5, 8). St Cloud Cathedral 23.5.
The Becker girls had a good night at this meet and Head Coach Trish Reimer-Kealy explored the different events for using some of her girls. It also gave her ninth graders a chance to see what they could do.
The meet started out on a positive note with Becker’s 4x800M relay girls running away with their race. The time recorded for Dani Nuest, Alli Hendrickson, Lexi Dehmer and Julia Bengtson was 10:15.5 — way ahead of second place Albany with 11:01.17.
Miranda O'Brien placed third in the 55M hurdles (9.76) and Callie Doucette seventh (10.31).
The 55M dash had Cassidy Pleoger taking third (7.90). She also took fourth in the 200M (28.34).
In the 1600M, Hendrickson placed second (5:38.36) and Victoria Kolbinger fourth (5:47.33).
Becker had three girls earn points in the 400M, including Lexi Dehmer taking second (66.53), Jessica Gruenes fourth (68.04) and Keeley Holm seventh (70.89).
In the 800M, Bengtson took first place with a time of 2:33.45 and Nuest third (2:37.13).
Madison Kerzman was fourth in the shot put (33'00) and Anna Briggs took sixth ( 29'5).
In the high jump, Hendrickson took fourth (4'8").
In the long jump, fourth place went to Jessica Gruenes (14'3.25), and fifth to Miranda O'Brien (14' 2.25).
Cienna Pleoger took fifth (29'5.25) in the triple jump.
Becker’s 4x200M relay team of Madi Pleoger, Kayden Westin, Abby Maruska and Jessica Gruenes placed sixth with a time of 1:59.18.
The 4x400M relay team finished off the running events a second place finish. The team consisted of Bengtson, Westin, Dehmer and Gruenes (4:31.52).
“Becker looked good as far as being in the lead for team scores until the final field event was entered, which was the pole vault,” said Reimer-Kealy.
“We did not score in that event and Foley racked up 23 points to push ahead of us.”
“It looks to be and exciting season,” she said. “All-in-all it was a good official first meet for the season. We really are looking forward to getting outside but it looks like that will have to wait for a bit.”
Up Next
Monday, Reimer-Kealy’s team was scheduled to be at Milaca, but the meet will be moved to Becker at the field house due to the anticipated weather and snow conditions.
