MSHSL State Class A Prelim Session Review

The Class A prelim session -- along with selected field event finals and the finals of the 3200m runs --of the 2007 MSHSL State Championships is now in the books. Scroll down to find event-by-event headlines, splits, and top results from all the day's action

Girls High Jump: Tollefson's winning 5-6 the top jump of day
1st -- Toni Tollefson (Lake Park-Audubon) 5-6
2nd --Danielle Luhman (Rushford-Peteson/Houston) 5-5
3rd -- Megan Lambertson (Litchfield) 5-4

Boys Shot Put:
1st -- Chip Maresh (Glencoe-Silver Lake) 56-11 1/2
2nd -- Tyler Velzke (Waterville-Elysian-Morristown) 53-7 3/4
3rd -- Justin Brown (Rushford-Peterson/Houston) 52-11 1/2

Boys Triple Jump:
1st -- Kenny Schofield (Cotton) 43-10
2nd -- Dan Smelter (Stewartville) 43-5
3rd -- Omar Longoria (Dilworth-Glynden-Felton) 43-0 1/4

Boys Pole Vault:
1st -- Raphy Gelo (Int'l Falls) 14-0
2nd -- Steven Lewis (Foley) 14-0
3rd -- Mitch Hagen (Pelican Rapids) 13-9

Girls Discus:
1st -- Melissa Smith (Rushford-Peterson/Houston) 141-0
2nd -- Jasmine Henrich (Morris Area) 140-9
3rd -- Sam Broderius (BLH-Bold) 132-9

Girls Long Jump:
1st -- Stephanie Erlandson (Breckenridge/C-T) 17-8
2nd -- Danielle Luhman (Rushford-Peterson/Houston) 17-3 3/4
3rd -- Brianna Helland (Maple River) 17-3 1/2

Girls 100m Hurdles Prelims: Thomas qualifies ahead of the field
Heat 1 – Leslie Thomas (DeLa Salle) wins in 15.51
Heat 2 – Samantha Wermager (Caledonia/Spring Grove/Mabel-Canton) edges Megan Grandgenett (Blue Earth) by .01, 15.83 to 15.84

Also qualifying … Streit, Sowada, May, Harmon, Brekke, Schultz

Boys 110m Hurdles Prelims: Reeve fastest hurdler of the day -- Class AA or Class A
Heat 1 – Matt Reeve (Fairmont) wins in 14.68, the fastest time of the day.
Heat 2 – Nick Spaeth (Montevideo) wins in 14.87

Also qualifying … Daggett, Flies, Fragodt, Mallory, Schmitz, Robinson, Tjepkes

Girls 100m Prelims: Tinglestad and Jensen set for finals duel.
Heat 1 – Ashley Tinglelstad (Lake Park-Audubon) wins in 12.42 ... defending champ Megan Geyen 2nd in an auto-qualifying 12.54
Heat 2 – Ellie Jensen (Providence Academy) wins in 12.39

Also qualifying … Kjolhaug, Darling, Hutton, Schmit, Sutherland, Ceirnia

Boys 100m Prelims:
Heat 1 – Alex Williams (Lester Prairie/Holy Trinity) wins a close race out of lane 8 in 11.04
Heat 2 – Matt Dvorak (St. Croix Lutheran ) wins in 10.95, with a +5.2 m/s wind
Heat 3 – Micah Andros (St. Peter) wins in 10.97 behind a 4.2 m/s tailwind

Also qualifying … Hrdlicka, Mignard, Klingelhutz, Prax, Oie, Boy

Girls 4 x 200m Relay Prelims:
Heat 1 – Sauk Centre wins in 1:45.91
Heat 2 – Belle Plaine wins in 1:47.68

Also qualifying … Providence Academy, Blake School, Pipestone Area, Warroad, Clingon-Graceville-Beardsley/Chokio-Alberta, Caledonia/Spring Grove/Mabel-Canton, Glencoe-Silver Lake

Boys 4 x 200m Relay Prelims:
Heat 1 – Glencoe-Silver Lake wins in 1:32.10
Heat 2 – Frazee wins in 1:32.42

Also qualifying … Concordia Academy, Providence Academy, Plainview-Elgin Millville, Proctor, Yellow Medicine East, Chatfield, LeSueur-Henderson

Girls 4 x 100m Relay Prelims:
Heat 1 – Watertown-Mayer wins in 50.18
Heat 2 – Sauk Centre edges The Blake School by less than one one-hundredth, both teams recording 50.67

Also qualifying … Holy Family Catholic, Concordia Academy, Esko, Belle Plaine, St. James, Pipestone Area

Girls 400m Prelims: Tingelstad matches hurdle heat win with 400m prelim victory
Heat 1 – Ashley Tingelstad (Lake Park-Audubon) wins in 58.39
Heat 2 – Leighton Lerum (Providence Academy) nips Nikki Swenson (Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd) at the line, 59.00 to 59.06

Also qualifying … Nordvall, Erlandson, Wenzel, Northenscold, Kerkhoff, Utzinger

Boys 400m Prelims:
Heat 1 – Paul Schreiner (New Life Academy of Woodbury) wins in 50.51
Heat 2 – Matt Muenchow (Glencoe-Silver Lake) wins in 50.65

Also qualifying … Citrowske, Wendroth, Molitor, Endres, Head, Kerkhoff, Heglund

Girls 300m Hurdles Prelims:
Heat 1 – Kendra Mooberry (Benson/KMS) wins in 45.83
Heat 2 – Maggie May (Grand Meadow/LeRoy-Ostander/Southland) wins in 46.31

Also qualifying … Sawtelle, Helland, Grandgenett, Becker, Ceirnia, Harmon, Lundell

Boys 300m Intermediate Hurdles:
Heat 1 – Matt Reeve (Fairmont) wins in 39.38
Heat 2 – Andrew Daggett (Frazee) wins in 39.54

Also qualifying … Spaeth, Fragodt, Knebel, Robinson, Uphoff, Schmitz, Borland

Girls 800m Prelims:
Heat 1 –
@200 – Varpness (Montevideo) … 32.0
@400 – Varpness … 67.4
@600 – Varpness … 1:43.3

Melissa Varpness (Montevideo) leads wire-to-wire and wins in 2:17.82

Heat 2 –
@200 – Scanlan (East Grand Forks) … 32.2
@400 – Scanlan … 68.9
@600 – Gigstead (Perham) … 1:47.2

Brittany Gigstead (Perham) wins in 2:22.11

Also qualifying … Smith, Heitkamp, Roelofs, Dyrud, Scanlan, Kruchowski, Flores

Boys 800m Prelims:
Heat 1 –
@200 – Meints (Pine Island) … 26.8
@400 – Meints … 55.8 … Louis Hughes (Milaca) goes down with 350 to go
@600 – Meints … 1:27.3

Ned Brady (DeLaSalle) wins in 1:56.24

Heat 2 –
@200 – Carpenter (DeLaSalle) … 28.1
@400 – Carpenter … 57.0
@600 – Campbell (Bloomington Prairie) …1:27.8

Ian Campbell (Bloomington Prairie) moves with 200 to go, winning in 1:56.85

Also qualifying … Janssen, Meints, Leverington, Carpenter, Heppner, Nieuwbeerta, Babler

Girls 200m Prelims:
Heat 1 – Amanda Darling (Jackson County Central) wins in 25.28
Heat 2 – Defending champ Megan Geyen (Watertown-Mayer) wins in 25.39

Also qualifying … Coleman, Tingelstad, Mooberry, Jensen, Huschle, Heide, Kjolhaug

Boys’ 200m Prelims:
Heat 1 – Ethan Mignard (Meadow Creek Christian) wins in 22.38
Heat 2 – Micah Andros (St. Peter) wins for the second time in 22.50

Also qualifying … Williams, Thompson, Prax, Dvorak, Hrdlicka, Weinrich, Larson

Girls 3200m Finals: Swenson wins in return to 3200m
@400 – Rather (Fairmont), Greenwaldt (Minnewaska Area), Swenson (Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd) … 81.2
@800 – Delwiche (Glencoe-Silver Lake) … Swenson, Richardson
@1200 – Delwiche … 4:11.1 … Swenson, Richardson, Janning (Watertown-Mayer)
@1600 – Swenson, Janning … 5:32.7 … Richardson leads chase back 15 meters back
@2000 – Swenson … 6:52.0 … Janning 20 meters back, Richardson, Delwiche, McClellan (Perham) 25 meters behind Janning; Richardson drops out of the race at 2300 meters, stepping off onto the infield before falling
@2400 – Swenson … 8:14.6 … Janning 45 meters back, Delwiche, McClellan another 20 meters behind Janning
@2800 – Swenson … 9:38.0 … Janning 60 meters behind, Delwiche, McClellan

Nikki Swenson (Lac qui Parle/Dawson-Boyd) wins in 11:00.77
Marissa Janning (Watertown-Mayer) nips McClellan at the line for 2nd … 11:14.60
Maddie McClellan (Perham) 3rd … 11:15.10 …Delwiche, Zwilling, Stack, Swoboda, Aune, Knutson, Blakeslee round out the top 10

Claire Richardson (Blake) DNF ... fell to the infield in the second mile.

Boys 3200m Finals: Wasinger wins rematch with XC champ Lachowitzer
@400 – Beniak (Zumbrota-Mazeppa) … 70.1 … Wasinger (Winona Cotter), Pesch (Plainview-Elgin Millville)
@800 – Lachowitzer (Perham) … 2:25.0 … Beniak, Wasinger
@1200 – Lachowitzer … 3:36.0 … Wasinger, Franta (LaCrescent), Beniak
@1600 – Lachowitzer … 4:47.5 … Wasinger, Franta, Beniak
@2000 – Lachowitzer … 5:59.3 … Wasinger, Franta, Bongard (Redwood Valley) 30 meters ahead of Beniak; Wasinger moves to the lead at 2200m
@2400 – Wasinger … 7:10.7 … Lachowitzer, Franta, Bongard drops to 30 meters back
@2800 – Wasinger … 8:21.6 … Lachowitzer, Franta 70 meters ahead of Bongard

Donny Wasinger (Winona Cotter) wins in 9:24.88
Kevin Lachowitzer (Perham) 2nd … 9:29.08
Dustin Franta (LaCrescent) 3rd … 9:30.41 … Bongard, Beniak, Henderson, Piepho, Tellinghuisen, Pesch, Behmer round out the top 10

Girls 4 x 400m Relay:
Heat 1 --
1st Leg -- Luverne & LCWM/Nicollet ... 60
2nd Leg -- Luverne ... 2:01
3rd Leg -- Luverne ... 3:03.6

Lake Crystal Wellcome Memorial/Nicollet wins in 4:04.62

Heat 2 --
1st Leg -- Belle Plaine/Holy Family & Paynesville Area... 61
2nd Leg -- Belle Plaine & Paynesville ... 2:01
3rd Leg -- Pipestone ... 3:04 ... then Belle Plaine

Pipestone wins in 4:02.93

Also qualifying ... Sauk Centre, Luverne, Belle Plaine, Lake City, Esko, Paynesville Area, Blue Earth Area

Boys 4 x 400m Relay:
Heat 1 --
1st Leg -- Foley ... 51
2nd Leg -- Concordia Academy .. 1:42.5
3rd Leg -- Concordia Academy ... 2:35 .. then Foley

Concordia retakes lead from Foley to win in 3:26.48 unofficially.

Heat 2 --
1st Leg -- Pine Island ... 50.9 ... Fairmont & Morris Area
2nd Leg -- Fairmont ... 1:43.1
3rd Leg -- Fairmont & Lanesboro/Fillmore Central ... 2:36.3

Fairmont wins in 3:27 unofficially.

Also qualifying ... Lanesboro/Fillmore Central, Sauk Centre, United South Central, Walker-Hackensack-Akeley, Foley, Chatfield, Morris Area

Team Scores: Through 4 events ...

Girls -- Rushford-Peterson/Houston 32, Litchfield 13, Lake Park-Audubon 12, Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson Boyd 12, Breckenridge/C-T 12, Perham 10

Boys -- Foley 12.5, Glencoe-Silver Lake 12, International Falls 12, Cotton 12, Waterville-Elysian-Morristown 10, Stewartville 10

Complete Class AA Friday session results can be found HERE, on the MSHSL site.


Chris Marshall assisted with coverage.

All-time Minnesota ranking information courtesy of Bill Miles and Tim Miles, publishers of the Minnesota Boys Track and Field Annual.