Card girls' track and field: Alexandria third at Moorhead

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The Cardinal girls put together a third-place performance at the Moorhead Invitational track and field meet Friday, despite the miserable weather, finding their stride in the sprints and distance events, along with the jumps and throws.

“The Cards and Jamie Piepenburg continue to dominate the distance events,” said head coach Mike Empting. “Piepenburg won the 3,200-meter run with a personal best, school record and MAA meet record of 10:41.28, completing her race over one minute in front of her nearest competition. Both the Alexandria and MAA meet record were previously held by Piepenburg.

“Bethany Hasz and Megan Hasz placed third and fourth respectively in the 1,600-meter, with Megan posting a personal best time of 5:25.14 in her fourth place showing.”

In the 800-meter run, Julia Sieling placed seventh with a time of 2:33.02, while Kaitlyn Jacobson added a 6.23-second improvement in her performance in that event.

“In the sprints, Madelyn Urman placed second in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.32 into a head wind and rain,” said Empting. “Gabby Koel placed third in the 200-meter with a time of 28.24, again into the wind and rain, and Kate LeBrasseur improved 1.57 in the 400-meter run.”

Alexandria also dominated the high jump, putting three in the top eight spots.

Leading the way was Jenna Larson with first place on a 5’0” jump as she set a new personal best. Gabby Koel was second at 4’10” and Briquelle Bowden was sixth at 4’8”.

Brianna Johnson earned a second place in the discus with a personal best throw of 105’1” and placed fifth in the shot put with a distance of 33’0”.

“[She was] just one inch off her all-time best in that event,” said Empting.

Brittany Ludwig was fourth in the shot put with a distance of 34’3” and sixth in the discus with a throw of 96’10”.

Alexandria will be at the Sartell quadrangular on Friday.

MOORHEAD MAA INVITATIONAL

GIRLS’ TEAM SCORES – 1. West Fargo 89.5, 2. Fargo Davies 85, 3. Alexandria and Bemidji 79, 5. Moorhead 67.5, 6. Brainerd 63, 7. Detroit Lakes 62.5, 8 Fargo Shanley 61.5, 9. Fargo South 51, 10. Fergus Falls and Fargo North 27, 12. Mora 10.

ALEXANDRIA RESULTS

100 HURDLES – 15. Briquelle Bowden 19.87, 22. Jenna Larson 21.46, 25. Maria Schlapkohl 22.39. 300 HURDLES – 21. Jenna Larson 58.28, 22. Kristin Egenes 58.46, 29. Maria Schlapkohl 1:03.90.

100 DASH – 2. Madelyn Urman 13.32, 23. Britni DelCastillo 14.57, 40. Gabby Yell 16.06, 41. HollieAnn Schnitzler 16.23. 200 DASH – 6. Gabby Koel 28.24. Britni DelCastillo 30.23, Briquelle Bowden 31.34. 400 DASH – 13. Tara LeBrasseur 1:08.58, 21. Elizabeth Tagatz 1:12.26, 24. Kate LeBrasseur 1:13.94, 27. Hannah Wendel 1:15.55.

800 RUN – 7. Julia Sieling 2:33.02, 13. Nicole Canavati 2:39.80, 26. Natalie Watkins 2:49.91, 30. Kaitlyn Jacobson 2:56.91. 1,600 RUN – 3. Bethany Hasz 5:20.55, 4. Megan Hasz 5:25.14, 24. Rebecca Mateer 6:00.84. 3,200 RUN – 1. Jamie Piepenburg 10:41.28.

4X100 RELAY – 11. Britni DelCastillo, Briquelle Bowden, HollieAnn Schnitzler, Leah Huss 1:01.86, 4X200 RELAY – 14. Karla Thoennes, Maria Schlapkohl, Emily Klinkner, Leah Huss 2:09.07. 4X400 RELAY – 9. Tara LeBrasseur, Gabby Koel, Julia Sieling, Shaneé Herd 4:24.16. 4X800 RELAY – 10. Kristin Egenes, Natalie Watkins, Nicole Canavati, Melissa Drown 10:48.94.

HIGH JUMP – 1. Jenna Larson 5-0, 2. Gabbby Koel 4-10, 6. Briquelle Bowden 4-8, 17. Jaylen Olson-Rodel 4-6. LONG JUMP – 14. Britni DelCastillo 13-6, 19. Tara LeBrasseur 12-11.5, 28. Gabby Yell 10-11, 31. Lisa Klinkner 10-5. TRIPLE JUMP – 17. Hannah Wendel 27-11.25.

DISCUS – 2. Brianna Johnson 105-1, 6. Brittany Ludwig 96-10, 17. Emily Peck 77-0, 22. Madeline Gorghuber 70-8. SHOT PUT – 4. Brittany Ludwig 34-3, 5. Brianna Johnson 33-0, 11. Emily Peck 30-0, 31. Madeline Gorghuber 24-9.5.

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