Lots of success was to be found from Lake Region athletes at the Class B state track and field meet last weekend.
The best team performance came from the New Rockford-Sheyenne girls, who finished fourth out of 52 placing teams. Junior Emmie Belquist won the 300-meter hurdles and was part of a relay team that won the 4×400 while setting a school record.
Nelson County didn’t have many athletes competing, but the ones who did sure made it count. Senior Tyler Cree-Beglau won a triple jump championship on the boys’ side, and junior Dagan Slade won a shot put championship on the girls’ side.
Here are the highlights for each area team.
Boys
Nelson County: 10 points (T-22nd place out of 45 teams)
Cree-Beglau won the triple jump with a personal-best 45’11.75’’. He added a 15th-place finish in the 400-meter dash, 20th-place in long jump and 23rd-place in the 800-meter dash.
Senior Landon Sundeen came in 22nd place in shot put.
Langdon Area/Munich: 6 points (T-27th place out of 45 teams)
The Cardinals were led by sophomore Caleb McDonald, who placed fifth in long jump and eighth in high jump.
Senior Tanner McDonald made the podium in the 300-meter hurdles, finishing eighth.
Benson County: 3 points (T-35th place out of 45 teams)
Senior Grant Engebretson made the podium in long jump, placing sixth with a mark of 20’6.5’’. He added a 10th-place finish in pole vault with a personal-best 12’9’’.
New Rockford-Sheyenne: No place
Senior Marial Deng finished ninth in long jump and 14th in high jump.
Thomas Allmaras, Jackson Schumacher, Alex Knatterud and Zack Langstaff took home a ninth-place mark in the 4×200 relay (1:37.15).
North Star: No place
Sophomore Rylen Anderson had the highest individual place for the Bearcats boys, at 13th in long jump.
Senior Sean Freund set a personal best in javelin with a 150’4’’, good for 18th place.
Girls
New Rockford-Sheyenne: 35 points (4th place out of 52 teams)
Belquist is now a state champion in the 300-meter hurdles.
She ran a 45.18 in the prelims, good for second place, before placing first in the finals with a personal-best 44.17.
It came a year after a fifth-place state finish in the same event.
She also placed second in the 100-meter hurdles, running a 15.51 in the prelims and a 15.41 in the finals.
Belquist’s 200-meter dash time also improved from the prelims to finals — 26.01 (seventh place) to 25.86 (sixth place).
The relay quartet of Belquist, Jaida Schumacher, Ava Peterson and Kaci Weisenburger won the 4×400 with a time of 4:01.52. The mark was a school record, beating the 4:07.18 set by Mary Kay Lange, Penny Vorland, Julie Laber and Lana Vorland in 1988, per the New Rockford Transcript.
Langdon Area/Munich: 18 points (T-16th place out of 52 teams)
Freshman Fenja Lawson placed third in discus (134’1’’) and fifth in shot put (38’9.5’’).
Sophomore Meggy Hetletved finished seventh in the 100-meter hurdles finals (16.05) after coming in sixth in the prelims (15.93).
The Cardinals had a 4×400 relay team place third: Taya Feist, Olivia Lorenz, Hallie Overby and Mya Swanson (4:06.05).
Nelson County: 13 points (T-19th place out of 52 teams)
Slade was the only Chargers girl at state. She won the shot put for the second consecutive year. Her throw of 47’5’’ was not her personal best but still beat the rest of the competition by nearly two feet.
Slade added a sixth-place mark in discus (126’10’’).
Benson County: 9 points (T-27th place out of 52 teams)
Sophomore Addisyn Faul made the podium in both hurdles events.
In the 300, she ran a 46.46 in the prelims, putting her in fifth. Then she ran a personal-best 45.73 in the finals, giving her a third-place finish.
In the 100, she came in seventh in the prelims (15.93) and sixth in the finals (16.05).
Senior Aubrey Kenner was ninth in the 300-meter hurdles.
Sophomore Lacie Fautsch was 11th in shot put and 13th in discus.
North Star: 4 points (T-37th place out of 52 teams)
Freshman Claire Jorde made the podium in triple jump, placing sixth with a 34’10.75’’.
Jorde also came in ninth in long jump (16’2’’).
Eighth-grader Genevieve Ahlberg was eighth in long jump, just beating Jorde with a mark of 16’3’’.
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