Section 7A Track Finals Held At UMD

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June 4

Kerry Rodd-NSO

DULUTH – The track dominance of Esko continued into the Section 7A boys and girls meets held on Friday at UMD. The Esko boys won with 103 points and the girls did the same with 148 points. In other words, there wasn’t a team close on either side of the ledger for the Eskomos.

Following Esko on the boys side was Eveleth-Gilbert with 67 points and then Two Harbors, International Falls and Proctor rounding out the top five.

The top two runners in each individual event make it to state and the top relay teams advanced.
The 100 and 200 were won by Two Harbors runners Chad Breiie and Chris Carlson respectively, while Carlson also won the 400. In the 800 it was the first of two wins for Cromwell’s Jordan Smith, who won in 2:02.8 and Smith also took the title in the 1,600 meter run. The 3,200 meter run was won by Cook County’s Kieran Scannel with Esko’s Jackson Lindquist finishing second. Nathan Harder of Deer River won the 100 meter high hurdles, while the 300 intermediate hurdles were won by Sam Stokes-Cerkvenik of Virginia. International Falls went 1-2 in the high jump with Tim Myles and Shawn Filipiam doing their thing.
Jake Jenson of the Falls won the pole vault with Esko’s Phil Wirtz a close second. The shot put and discus were won by Shawn Johnson of Eveleth-Gilbert, who set meet records in both.
Max Reinertson of Esko was the winner of the triple jump with Caleb Hemp-Sill of Two Harbors finishing second.

Where the Esko boys were the best were in the relays. The group of Nick Anderson, Tony Wilcox, Dain Brademan and Adam Ryan captured the 400 meter relay for Esko. Two Harbors took the 800 relay title. In the 1,600 relay it was Esko again with Ryan, Wilcox, Adam Eskuri and Anderson taking the win. Finally, in the 3,200 it was Esko with Jackson Lindquist, Brock Anderson, Wirtz and Eskuri finishing in a blazing time of 8:34.00.

The Esko girls were never threatened during the day with a gaudy 148 points. The second place finisher was Hinckley-Finlayson with 62 points followed by Greenway, Two Harbors and Marshall in the top five.

The 100 meter dash was won by Sam Argir of Chisholm in 12.81 with Alyson Glumac of Esko also qualifying for state in second place in a time of 12.92. The 200 was won by Chisholm’s Tia Lindberg and the 400 title was captured by Mika LaDoux of Greenway. Esko’s Katie Shelerud started a big day by winning the 800, while Floodwood’s Sarah Chasson was first in the 1,600 in 5:24.2 with Esko’s Kailee Kiminski taking a close second. In the 3,200 it was Sonja Peterson of Two Harbors taking top honors with Carlton’s Lindsay Dahl-Holm taking second and also qualifying for a state trip. Proctor nabbed a first place in the 100 meter hurdles with Micayla Westendorf, and Natasha Dragicevich of Moose Lake-Willow River was second. Brea Durovec of Floodwood captured first in the 300 hurdles, Alicia Hendrickson of International Falls won the pole vault, Esko’s Janae Beaudot was first in the high jump and Katie Tonner of Esko was the winner in the long jump with Glumac taking another first place in the triple jump. Esko also picked up first place in the discus by Haylee Goranson with a toss of 114′ 6″ with Barnum’s Alycia Bonneville taking a close second.

Like the boys, the Esko girls had strong performances in the relay events. Glumac, Amanda Bergstedt, Tonner and Delany Pearson hooked up to win the 400 meter relay. The 800 meter relay was also won by the Esko team of Glumac, Tonner, Erika Shady and Kelsey Mudek. Esko completed the relay sweep by also taking the 1,600 and 3,200 meter relays. In the 1,600 it was Tonner, Mudek, Kiminski and Shelerud. In the 3,200 the team of Kaitlyn Johnson, Hillary Anderson, Shelerud and Marisa Shady nabbed the top spot.

Kerry Rodd can be reached at kerry@northlandsportsonline.com