DICKINSON — Just days after Blake Homiston set a new Dickinson High School record in the pole-vault at 15’8”, the Midgets’ 4x100m relay team of Kaleb Pullins, Cooper Orton, Blake Weller and Braden Meschke toppled a 27-year-old mark with a second-place 43.10 while also qualifying for the Class A State Meet in the process. The DHS 4x100m B relay team of Easton Richter, Camden Hjellming, Ethan Luna and Jack Wood brought home fourth with a 44.49 and qualified for state, themselves, in the process.
Overall, DHS finished fourth in both the boys and girls varsity competitions, with Bismarck Legacy taking first on 217.5 points for the young men and edging out crosstown rivals Bismarck with 215.5, while Mandan came away with 122 to DHS’s 106, then followed by Watford City’s 29. On the girls side, Bismarck High upended Legacy, 191.5 to 183.5 for first-place and Mandan came away with 157 to the Midgets’ 74 and Watford City’s 30.
Among individual state-qualifiers on the afternoon were Weller and Meschke in the 100m dash with times of 10.98 and 10.99, respectively at fourth and fifth, while Jayden Atkins continues to impress in the sprints with another state-qualifying and blue-ribbon time of 12.3 in the same event and Kamora Phillips also qualified with a fourth-place 12.91. Claire Rodakowski qualified in the long-jump with a 17’1” mark and a second-place finish on the day, while Duncan Blauer finished just outside of state qualification with a blue-ribbon time of 52.88 in the 400m dash.
Isaac Lowery earned first in the shot-put with a state-qualifying performance of 51’4” and Homiston again qualified in the pole-vault with a top-rated 15’ effort, while Max Kostelecky also qualified by placing first in the triple-jump at 43’2”.
Other individual top-four performances included Jersey Luchi and Phillips taking third and fourth in the 200m dash at 27.14 and 27.58, respectively, while Richter was fourth in the 200 for the boys at 23.57. The girls 4x200m relay team of Atkins, Luchi, Phillips and Lauren Selle took first with a 1:47.94 and Caleb Swisher placed fourth in the 1600m run with a 4:45.34.
Meschke, Weller, Blauer and Dawson Zubke took third in the 4x400m relay with a 3:35.82, just off state qualification, and Lucas Alexander combined with Jaret Meek, Eli Ash and Swisher to earn third in the 4x800m relay with an 8:59.92.
In the other boys field-events, Nathan Stevenson took the bronze-ribbon with a 156’3” effort.
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