Alex boys' track: Cards take sixth at CLC Indoor

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The Alexandria boys’ track and field team put together 33 personal records and 14 more season bests as a young roster finished sixth at the CLC Indoor meet at St. Cloud State University this past Saturday.

The Cardinals’ Jesse Hacker set a new personal mark in the shot put on his way to a first-place finish. His toss of 51’9” was coupled with his second best throw of 51’6” to break a tie and win the event for Alexandria.

The 4x400-meter relay team picked up the other win for Alexandria on the day. Mitch Peck, Zac Bartholomeo, Phil Pham and Nathan Huss ran to first with a time of 3:40.38.

Alexandria also had three second-place finishes. Bartholomeo ran the 1,600 in 4:36.65, and Peck dropped 1.5 seconds off his 60-meter hurdles time to finish as the runner-up. The 4x100 team took second as Lee Klein, Huss, Peck and Pham finished in 46.33.

Sartell made it a clean sweep for the Sabres boys’ and girls’ teams by taking first at the event with a team score of 115.5. Willmar was second with 85 points and Brainerd rounded out the top three with 76.5.

“The conference this year seems to have a lot of balance with each school having specific strengths,” head coach Jerry Amundson said. “Sartell won the competition with some impressive field event strengths in the jumping area. They won triple jump, high jump and pole vault, as well as some great distance performances.”

Alexandria will have some practice time now before getting back in action on April 13. The Cardinals will travel to the Moorhead Invitational at Concordia College that day.

BOYS’ CLC INDOOR MEET

TEAM RESULTS – 1. Sartell, 115.5; 2. Willmar, 85; 3. Brainerd, 76.5; 4. Sauk Rapids, 67.5; 5. Fergus Falls, 62; 6. Alexandria, 60; 7. Rocori, 44; 8. St. Cloud Tech, 39; 9. St. Cloud Apollo, 32.5

ALEXANDRIA RESULTS – 60-METER HURDLES – Mitch Peck – eighth place, 9.26; Joe Gorghuber – 10.74; Tanner Runge – 11.05

60-METER DASH – Phil Pham – fourth place, 7.50; Lee Klein – 7.56; Nathan Huss – 7.69; Tyler Kelly – 7.92; Sitka Corage – 8.41

1,600-METER RUN – Zac Bartholomeo – eighth place, 4:36.65; Jimmy Pfeffer – 5:11.04; Brandon Jerde – 5:11.08; Trent Piepenburg – 5:13.32; Aaron Runge – 5:17.25

4X100 RELAY – Lee Klein, Nathan Huss, Mitch Peck, Phil Pham – second place, 46.33

400-METER DASH – Cole Jodsaas – 26th place, 1:02.84; Sitka Corage – 31st place, 1:04.49; Zach Cahlin – 33rd place, 1:05.21; Landon Anderson – 36th place, 1:06.74; Damian Carter – 38th place, 1:07.27

800-METER RUN – Kreg Anderson – 10th place, 2:18.19; Colton Sailor – 16th place, 2:24.09; Ben Tollefson – 25th place, 2:44.44

200-METER DASH – Lee Klein – sixth place, 25.09; Joe Gorghuber – 19th place, 26.20; Colby Carlson – 27th place, 27.03; Bryce Akset – 33rd place, 28.58; Alec Roth – 37th place, 29.77

3,200-METER RUN – Jimmy Lovrien – sixth place, 10:40.30; Will Sieling – ninth place, 11:00.33; Austin Thom – 10th place, 11:11.31

4X400 RELAY – Peck, Bartholomeo, James Holmquist, Huss – first place, 3:40.38

SHOT PUT – Jesse Hacker – first place, 51-09.00; Brandon Beliveau – 10th place, 42-02.00; Brian Krebs – 13th place, 40-04.00; Chase Duwenhoegger – 14th place, 40-02.00; Colin Guetter – 17th place, 39-09.00

TRIPLE JUMP – Tanner Runge – 11th place, 32-06.50

LONG JUMP – Phil Pham – third place, 19-04.25; Tyler Kelly – 13th place, 17-00.00

HIGH JUMP – Alec Roth – NH

POLE VAULT – Colby Carlson – 10th place, 10-06.00; Dylan Kriese – 15th place, 8-00.00

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