Rapid City Central's Cole Tucker, left, stretches to cross the finish line just ahead of Rapid City Stevens' T.J. Boehler in the boys' 400-meter relay with a time of :43.58. Photo by Dick Kettlewell/Journal staff

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6 athletes double their Douglas fun
By Sean Welsh, Journal Sports Writer

RAPID CITY -- Six different athletes won a pair of events at the Douglas Early Bird high school track and field meet, which featured several teams from around the Black Hills, on Saturday at Patriot Stadium.

"The team performed very well," said Stevens head coach Paul Hendry. "Again, it was pretty early in the season, but they get out there and they competed very well."

"We were happy with our kids," said Central head coach Dave Dolan. "Our young kids just kind of gradually keep improving and that's what we have to do throughout the course of the season."

Much like the Rapid City Developmental meet last week, not all of the teams were at full strength. There were, however, some solid individual performances across the board.

Rapid City Stevens' T.J. Boehler had a solid day, winning the 200-meter dash with a time of 23.26 seconds and the 400-meter run with a time of :50.80.

Ben Jasinski of Rapid City Central just missed sweeping the jumping events, however, he did win the high jump (6 feet, 2 inches) and the long jump (20-41/4). He took second in the triple jump behind St. Thomas More's Dusty Nowotny.

Eric Flores was the third male competitor to take home two wins, as the Custer thrower threw the discus 158-8 and the shot put 59-71/2 to win both events.

On the girls' side, Douglas' Shannon Hellman continued her dominance in the hurdling events, taking home the first-place hardware in both the 100- and 300-meter hurdles. She had a time of :15.10 in the 100 and a 47.23-second clocking in the 300. Hellman also tallied a second-place finish in the 200-meter dash to close out her day.

Central's Courtney Ollerich had a triple jump of 33-8 and also posted a leap of 17-11/2 in the long jump to win both events.

Jessica Engel was the other competitor to take home two individual gold medals on Saturday, as she won the 800- and 1,600-meter runs. The Sturgis Scooper posted times of 2:25.66 and 5:24.73, respectively.

The boys hurdling team from Stevens remained solid, as Alex Holmgren won the 300-meter and Matt Hanley won the 110-meter and took second in the 300.

Central's Leia Jackson and Stevens' Brittany Garner each ran in one open sprint, with Jackson taking the 100-meter dash and Garner the 200-meter.

Cobbler Cole Tucker was again steady, winning the boy's 100-meter dash.

"Cole Tucker, in the 100, he ran very well," Dolan said. "And our 4x100 relay team I thought ran very well. It was very pleasant to see them run a time that fast this early in the season."

Central's 400-meter relay team won the boy's event with a time of 43.58 seconds.

Stevens' Samee Pagel was the only participant to break the one-minute mark in winning the girl's 400-meters.

Rapid City Christian had an athlete win an event when Alida Oegema won the 3,200-meter run.

On the boy's side, three different thinclads won the longer running events, with Central's Seth Breckenridge (800-meter run), Douglas' Dan Black (1,600-meter) and Pine Ridge's Alex Pine (3,200-meter) all getting first-place finishes.

Breckenridge pulled a late comeback in the 800, passing Stevens' Marshall Kambestad on the final straightaway to win by only seven-tenths of a second.

"We've got a lot of youngsters - ninth, 10th and 11th graders - and very few seniors in both boys and girls, so we've got to be patient and let them just continue to get stronger and gain some confidence," Dolan commented.

Raider Bryan Keck won the boy's pole vault and Sturgis' Christy Mortenson won the same event on the girls' side.

Custer's Sarah Uhrich, won the girls high jump. Denna Goodrich (Spearfish) and Lynnae Fox (Newell) won the girls discus and shot put events, respectively.

Hendry seemed satisfied with the way the team performed, despite not being in full force.

"We didn't run all our individuals in as many open events as we might later on in the year, but there were a couple (good individual performances): like Matt Hanley in the 110 hurdles and actually 300 hurdles too. Alex Holmgren, of course, in the 300 hurdles. Justin Kluk had a pretty good day throwing. Samee Pagel won the 400, in her first race of the year."

Girls division

100 meters-1, Leia Jackson, Rapid City Central, 12.29 seconds; 2, Haylee Weisgram, Rapid City Stevens, :12.78; 3, Becca Bedard, RCS, :12.88; Kara Olson, Douglas, :13.12; 5, Melissa Kittles, RCC, :13.15.

200 meters-1, Brittany Garner, RCS, :25.56; 2, Shannon Hellman, Douglas, :27.36; 3, Mallory Jeffery, Spearfish, :27.43; 4, Olson, Douglas, :27.90; 5, Kelsey Weisgram, RCS, :28.00.

400 meters-1, Samee Pagel, RCS, :59.98; 2, Anne Doshier, RCS, 1:01.44; Olson, Douglas, 1:01.89; 4, Bedard, RCS, 1:03.37; 5, (tie) Jenelle Foos, Newell, Casarah Pine, Red Cloud, 1:03.65.

800 meters-1, Jessica Engel, Sturgis, 2:25.66; 2, Taryn Sahli, RCS, 2:29.14; 3, Kendra Crisman, RCS, 2:35.41; 4, Pine, RC, 2:37.34; 5, Alyssa Weaver, Newell, 2:37.39.

1,600 meters-1, Engel, Sturgis, 5:24.73; 2, Alida Oegema, Rapid City Christian, 5:55.12; 3, Laressa Peterson, RCC, 6:09.32; 4, Brittany Brown, Douglas, 6:14.66; 5, Weaver, Newell, 6:19.73.

3,200 meters-1, Oegema, RCCh, 12:20.60; 2, Mariah Russell-Crane, Sturgis, 13:15.00; 3, Jamie Duprel, Sturgis, 14:14.40; 4, Katie Clark, Douglas, 15:24.00; 5, Breana Schrempp, Douglas, 15:55.10.

100-meter hurdles-1, Hellman, Douglas, :15.10; 2, Amanda Davis, Sturgis, :15.70; 3, Kayla Wolff, RCS, :15.90; 4, H. Weisgram, RCS, :16.00; 5, Kristen Quasney, RCC, :17.10.

300-meter hurdles-1, Hellman, Douglas, :47.23; 2, Hogan, RCS, :48.57; 3, Wolff, RCS, :50.12; 4, Davis, Sturgis, :50.18; 5, Leah Sperry, Spearfish, :50.42.

400-meter relay-1, Rapid City Central "A". "50.70; 2, Rapid City Stevens "A", :51.84; 3, Belle Fourche :53.87; 4, Sturgis "A" :54.08; 5, Rapid City Stevens "B", :54.52.

800-meter relay-1, Douglas, 1:51.33; 2, Rapid City Stevens "A", 1:52.15; 3, Spearfish, 1:55.48; 4, Sturgis "A", 1:56.19; 5, Rapid City Central, 1:56.92.

1,600-meter relay-1, Rapid City Stevens "A", 4:22.33; 2, Spearfish, 4:26.00; 3, Rapid City Central, 4:28.38; 4, Sturgis "A", 4:29.85; 5, Rapid City Stevens "B", 4:38.11.

3,200-meter relay-1, Rapid City Stevens "A", 10:35.00; 2, Rapid City Stevens "B", 10:59.60.

1,600-meter medley relay-1, Sturgis, 4:55.80; 2, Rapid City Christian, 5:07.41; 3, Custer, 5:22.59.

High jump-1, Sarah Uhrich, Custer, 5 feet; 2, Kelsey Moen, RCS, 4-11; 3, Kati Ginsbach, Hill City, 4-11; 4, Brooke Warne, RCS, 4-11; 5, Angela Turner, RCC, 4-9.

Long jump-1, Courtney Ollerich, RCC, 17-1.5; 2, Turner, RCC, 15-7.25; 3, Stephanie Reeves, BF, 15-4; 4, McKenzie Marta, Spearfish, 15-0.25; 5, Karris McKie, RCS, 14-11.50.

Triple jump-1, Ollerich, RCC, 33-8; 2, Turner, RCC, 31-11; 3, Lauren Stephens, BF, 31-8.75; 4, Amy Sykora, RCS, 31-7.5; 5, McKie, RCS, 31-6.75.

Shot put-1, Lynnae Fox, Newell, 40-1.25; 2, Amber Ball, Sturgis, 34-4; 3, Sadie Pravecek, Spearfish, 33-3; 4, Brooke Garner, RCS, 33-0; 5, Deena Goodrich, Spearfish, 31-11.75.

Discus-1, Goodrich, Spearfish, 115-6; 2, Megan Jung, RCS, 111-9; 3, Becca Carbo, RCS, 104-3; 4, Emily Summers, Douglas, 101-11; 5, Brooke Garner, RCS, 97-1.

Pole vault-1, Christy Mortenson, Sturgis, 9-9; 2, Kassie McKie, RCS, 9-3; 3, (tie) Kallie Baum, RCC, Laura Hilton, Sturgis, 8-6; 5, Celena Myers, BF, 8-6.

Boys division

100 meters-1, Cole Tucker, RCC, :11.00; 2, Marcus Harms, BF, :11.19; 3, Cory Beefert, RCC, :11.29; 4, Mickey Sirois, Custer, :11.42; 5, Jared Pettyjohn, RCS, :11.43.

200 meters-1, T.J. Boehler, RCS, :23.26; 2, Beefert, RCC, :23.64; 3, Landon Lupi, RCS, :24.07; 4, Jay Meverden, Spearfish, :24.10; 5, Pete Eckrich, Spearfish, :24.30.

400 meters-1, Boehler, RCS, :50.80; 2, Brando Krzyzanowski, RCC, :51.13; 3, Brandon Peterson, RCS, :52.51; 4, Randy Herman, BF, :52.77; 5, Matt McKie, RCS, :53.87.

800 meters-1, Seth Breckenridge, RCC, 2:04.88; 2, Marshall Kambestad, RCS, 2:05.58; 3, Kelsey Fitzgerald, RCCh, 2:08.82; 4, A.J. Christianson, RCS, 2:09.89; 5, Dan Black, Douglas, 2:14.88.

1,600 meters-1, Black, Douglas, 4:48.83; 2, Nick Lewandowski, RCS, 4:55.33; 3, Tyler Dodge, Sturgis, 4:56.47; 4, Alex Pine, Pine Ridge, 5:00.88; 5, Caleb Parsons, Custer, 5:02.52.

3,200 meters-1, Pine, PR, 10:42.00; 2, Cam Fullerton, RCS, 10:49.10; 3, Kyle Koch, Douglas, 10:54.00; 4, Steel Hellevang, BF, 11:16.90; 5, Matt Hauck, RCS, 11:36.40.

110-meter hurdles-Matt Hanley, RCS, :14.80; 2, Mike Hartley, St. Thomas More, :16.50; 3, Chris Brandt, RCC, :16.90; 4, Chris Hopkins, RCC, :17.30; 5, Jessey Toney, RCC, :17.50.

300-meter hurdles-1, Alex Holmgren, RCS, :41.49; 2, Hanley, RCS, :42.87; 3, Adam Biershenk, Spearfish, :43.86; 4, Hartley, STM, :44.97; 5, Tom Tieszen, Spearfish, :45.27.

400-meter relay-1, Rapid City Central "A", :43.58; 2, Pine Ridge, :43.95; 3, Rapid City Stevens "A", :44.08; 4, Spearfish "A", :46.38; 5, Custer "A", :46.70.

800-meter relay-1, Belle Fourche "A", 1:33.12; 2, Spearfish "A". 1:34.39; 3, Rapid City Central "B", 1:38.12; 4, Rapid City Central "A", 1:39.15; 5, Newell, 1:39.98.

1,600-meter relay-1, Belle Fourche, 3:30.84; 2, Rapid City Central, 3:39.51; 3, Rapid City Stevens "A", 3:40.32; 4, Spearfish "A", 3:43.25; 5, Douglas, 3:50.48.

3,200-meter relay-1, Rapid City Stevens "A", 8:25.40; 2, Rapid City Stevens "B", 8:34.10; 3, Sturgis, 8:54.20; 4, Rapid City Christian, 8:56.60; 5, Belle Fourche, 9:05.60.

1,600-meter medley relay-1, Spearfish, 3:49.52; 2, Rapid City Christian, 4:03.47; 3, Hill City, 4:04.56; 4, Rapid City Stevens, 4:05.85; 5, Custer "B", 4:08.73.

High jump-1, Ben Jasinski, RCC, 6-2; 2, Dusty Nowotny, STM, 5-8; 3, Matt Dolan, RCC, 5-8; 4, J.R. Toles, RCC, 5-8; 5, (tie) Kevin Kinzley, RCS, Brandon Pearson, Custer, 5-6.

Long jump-1, Jasinski, RCC, 20-4.25; 2, David Taylor, BF, 19-10.25; 3, Andrew Reed, RCC, 19-9.5; 4, Nowotny, STM, 19-8.75; 5, Pearson, Custer, 19-2.75.

Triple jump-1, Nowotny, STM, 42-11; 2, Jasinski, RCC, 41-7.5; 3, Reed, RCC, 39-11; 4, Shawn He, RCC, 39-8.75; 5, Jack Clyde, BF, 37-11.5.

Shot put-1, Eric Flores, Custer, 59-7.5; 2, Justin Kluk, RCS, 50-6.75; 3, Jason Boeding, Douglas, 47-6.5; 4, Sean Burns, RCC, 46-8.5; 5, Drew Tierney, Sturgis, 45-0.

Discus-1, Flores, Custer, 158-8; 2, Kluk, RCS, 142-3; 3, Boeding, Douglas, 133-8; 4, Burns, RCC, 133-6; 5, Tierney, Sturgis, 131-6.

Pole vault-1, Bryan Keck, RCS, 11-9; 2, Drew Smith, Douglas, 11-9; 3, Blaine Burleson, Lead-Deadwood, 11-9; 4, Dolan, RCC, 11-0; 5, Calvin Cammack, Sturgis, 11-0.