The Becker Bulldog boys and girls track teams competed in the “last chance” meet in Little Falls Tuesday.  

 

This is a meet that allows all athletes “one more chance” to really improve a time, distance, or height before gearing up for the section 8AA meet next week Wednesday and Saturday.

 

“This meet is a bit different in that the athletes decide what events they would like to compete in to get a top performance or maybe just try an event,” said Head Coach Paul Schmidt.

 

Dawson Thom continued to be Becker’s top thrower and he performed well in the shotput and discus with tosses of 43'6.75" and 121' 10".  Mitchel Enerson threw well enough in the discus to earn him a spot on the section team with a toss of 109' 5".  Nick Radunz also threw well, with a disc toss of 115' 6". Ryan Nohner had a shot put chuck of 38' 3".

 

In field events, Ethan Holm achieved his top vault of the year at 10' 6" and Jacob Drury is getting back into form in the high jump after an early injury with a season best jump of 5' 6".

 

“It is great to see these two peaking at the right time,” said Schmidt.  

 

Holm also won the triple jump with a leap of 39' 4".

 

Matt Davalos took a break from the 300M hurdles to win the 200M with a time of 24.81. He was also a part of the winning 4x400M relay team with Austin Hemmelgarn, Kevin Andres and Sam Ricker.

 

Hemmelgarn won the 100M as well with Sid Boros a close second.  

 

“It was great to see Sid back running again and look forward to having him return for our section meet next week,” said the head coach.  

 

Kevin Andres won the 400M with Boros taking second place.

 

Jonathan Novak ran his top time in the 1600M, placing third with a 4:55.93 time and Sam Ricker ran in the 800M and finished third with a time of 2:09.66.  

 

Eighth grader Michael Schmitz came along and ran well in the 110M and 300M hurdles, finishing fourth in the 110's with a time of 19.12 and sixth in the 300 hurdles. 

 

The team finished in second place with 65.5 points.  Little Falls won the meet with 79.5 and Zimmerman was third with 41 points.

 

Aubree Lahr took first place in the pole vault (9'6) and triple jump (32'9) and ran the 4x100 relay with her fellow seniors, Haley Hubbard (third in triple jump -31'5), Kassidy Severson, and Allyna Storms.

 

“This was a fun chance for these girls to run a final relay as a senior group,” said Head Coach Trish Reimer-Kealy.

 

Keeley Holm placed second in both the 100M (14.39) and the 200M (28.69).  Lexi Dehmer gave the 400M a try and won that race (63.83) with Jayna Adu Gyanfi  taking third (25.50 and Payton Anderson fourth (65.75).  Miranda O'Brien was second in 100M hurdles (17.28) and fourth in 300M hurdles (53.24).

 

Victoria Kolbinger ran the 1600M and took first in a personal record time of 5:37.73. Courtney Nuest was fourth in 6:04.66.  Arin Hendrickson earned a personal record in that race, improving her time to 6:20.36.

 

In the 800M, Allyna Storms ran 2:56.67.

 

The 3200M had three Becker girls who had not run that event before do very well.  Adeline Kent took second overall (13:02.57) Alayna Lindquist third (113:05.87) while Jackie Yoerg took fourth (13:42.46).

 

Madi Kerzman was second in the shot put (32'7) and third in discus (98'10).

 

Miranda O'Brien placed third in the long jump with a personal record (14'7 1/2).  Another personal record was achieved by Cienna Pleoger in the triple jump (30' 7 3/4).

 

The relays saw a first place finish in the 4x800M (10:34.3) by Julia Bengtson, Adeline Kent, Courtney Nuest and Alli Hendrickson. 

 

First place also went to the 4x400M team  (4:46.30) in  Amelia Kirchner, Nikki O'Brien, Callie Doucette and Tate Spinner.

 

Second place in the 4x100M (4.54) went to Kayden Westin, Nikki O'Brien, Miranda O'Brien and Makenna Noaeill.

 

“I’m so proud of the girls who stepped out of their comfort zone at this meet and had lots of fun,” Reimer-Kealy said.

 

The Section 8AA meet starts Wednesday at Moorhead with prelims while finals will occur Saturday at Sauk Rapids-Rice.