It's no secret that Minnesota is one of the toughest state meets to get into across the US.Thankfully there were no surprises out of Section 1AA. With four of the top five shot putters in the state coming out of Section 1AA, let's just be thankful that they all survived via standard and will compete next Friday at Hamline in what should be one of the meet's marquee events.
Owatonna's Casey Dehn won the meet with 62-6, Stanford-bound teammate Sean Wallace finished second at 58-1, Red Wing sophomore Luke Johnson was third at 54-7 and Farmington junior Logan Hussung came in fourth at 54-6 -- all surpassing the state standard of 54-4. The next in what is becoming a emerging tradition of Owatonna throwers, sophomore Jake Fensky finished 5th at 53-1.
The 1AA discus will be held Saturday at Lakeville South. Five 1AA throwers have thrown over the state standard of 153-9 this season: Dehn (187-6), Johnson (173-2), Hussung (161-3), Wallace (159-9) and Owatonna junior Brian Vargason (159-11.) All should all be in good position to advance to State.
The super-sophomore out of Red Wing, Johnson, will have his chance for revenge against Dehn and Wallace in the discus on Saturday at Lakeville South. Johnson's marks rank him as the second best sophomore in Minnesota prep history in both of shot put and discus, behind only current record holder Nate Englin (61-8 1/2, 2002) and former state record holder Mike Yonkey (174-4, 1985).
You can read about Dehn and Section 1AA in the Star Tribune HERE.
Read more about the throws at this weekend's NCAA Regionals and in high school section competition, HERE, at Kevin's blog Throwing Farther.
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