The Jamestown High School track and field team learned a lot watching their competition at the Starion Sports Complex in Mandan
"This was a huge meet, lots of kids competing," JHS co-head track and field coach Mike Dietz said. "It's good for our kids to see and to have that experience every once in a while. When you can see some of those athletes compete you pick up on some of the things they are doing and you want to start to emulate them."
Jamestown competed against all the West Region schools at the Mandan MAR Meet Thursday night. The boys' team ended up placing ninth out of the 10 competing teams with 23 points while the girls' team rounded out the top-four WDA teams with 63 points.
Some members of the Blue Jay squad did not compete Thursday but are slated to race today and Saturday at the Howard Wood Invitational in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
"We had PRs all over the track and in the jumps and in the throws," Dietz said. "It starts to warm up and you start to get some nice performances. It was really nice to see. We really like the mix of kids that we have this year. We have a lot of kids who want to work hard and put the time in to be excellent."
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Thomas Allmer is one of those athletes.
Allmer, the Jays' main man in the throws, qualified to the state meet in the shot put where he threw a personal best of 48 feet, eight inches -- two inches farther than the state-qualifying distance. Allmer will now be competing in shot and discus at State.
While Allmer was shooting his shot, the Blue Jays had several athletes leaping to new heights and distances.
"We've got some good athletes in the with Devin Beach and Brode Hillstrom," Dietz said. "They are older kids who are good athletes and have some speed and they want to compete and they want to compete at the highest level all the time. Getting them over to where they want to be, just takes time physically. They are coming, they are good kids and they work hard."
Beach, a junior and Daniel Ulrich, a senior for the Jays, wound up seventh in the high-jump contest, both clearing the bar at 5 feet, six inches. Williams Durocher of Bismarck Century earned first-place honors and a spot at state with a jump of 6-02.
While Beach missed out on hitting the mark for State in high jump, he kicked his way to a state tourney berth in the triple jump, landing at 41-10. Hillstrom, a junior, did not hit any state tournament distances Thursday but has already qualified to State in long jump -- with a jump of 21-10 at last week's Karlgaard Invite in Bismarck.
While Dietz kept an eye on his field event crew, he also strayed to the track where Annie Nabwe put on yet another show.
The current Blue Jay school record holder in the girls' 100-meter dash sat out of her signature race Thursday but she still got plenty of sprints in. Nabwe, a junior, was the leadoff runner in both the 400 and 800-meter relays. The Blue Jays won the 4x200 meter race with a time of 1:48.56 and just barely missed Century in the 4x100. The Patriots broke the tape at 49.54 seconds while the Jays finished at 50.34.
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The Jays have qualified to State in both relays and Dietz said that the Jays' 400-meter relay time is near the top in the state.
"We knew that if we put Annie on a relay that definitely improves your chances for qualifying to State when you have that kind of speed," Dietz said. "She ran really well in both relays (and) it was just something new for her to do and relays are fun."
Nabwe also rebroke her own school record in the shot put where she threw a 45-08. The junior also received top honors in the discus throwing a 126-00.
While many of the Blue Jays have already gotten to State, Dietz said the Jays aren't going to get lackadaisical headed into the last few meets of the year.
"This is a good time to get back to basics and then get them ramped back up in the next couple of weeks here," Dietz said. "The season might be close to over but it's not over yet so we still have time to improve."
Team results
Boys: 1. Century 225, 2. Williston 116, 3. Bismarck High 104, 4. St. Mary's 57, 5. Legacy 56.5, 6. Dickinson 54.5, 7. Mandan 52, 8. Minot 40, 9. Jamestown 23, 10. Watford City 6. Girls: 1. Bismarck High 147, 2. Minot 114, 3. Century 99, 4. Jamestown 64, 5. Watford City 62, 6. Mandan 60, 7. Williston 52, 8. Legacy 48, 9. Dickinson 42, 10. St. Mary's 34.
Top finishers / Blue Jay results
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100-meter dash: Boys: 1. Dawson Hawkinson, BHS, 11.15; 15. Levi Korum 11.96; 21. Paris Ndikum 12.08; 36. Eric Chea 12.47; 48. Damien Cross 12.90; 57. Ethan Hoff 13.24; 60. Sam Ulrich 13.39; 64. Ray Vasquez 13.78; 66. Ty Kapp 13.85; 72. Garin Goff 15.60. Girls: 1. MaLiah Burke, MIN, 12.6; 9. Allysah Larson 13.61; 48. Krysta Schmiedberg 15.99; 49. Anabelle Cramer 16.16.
200: Boys: 1. Hawkinson 22.26; 34. Melusi Senzanje 25.69; 35. Hunter Nelson 25.7; 38. Chea 25.84; 43. Caden Michaelson 26.22; 54. Asher Williams 26.84; 60. Xander Netolicky 27.53; 64. Lucas Kjellberg-Jones 29.2; 65. Jack Van Berkom 29.85; 66. Isaac Duven 31.29; 67. Garin Groff 32.7. Girls: 1. Erin Palmer, BC, 25.54; 20. Larson 28.59; 42. Erica Tarr 30.22; 43. Sydney Fisher 30.26; 55. Schmiedberg 33.96.
400: Boys: 1. Cutter Jones, WIL, 52.89; 25. Carter Burchill 59.06; 34. Ethan Hoff 1:00.98; 39. Chea 1:03.32; 41. Michaelson 1:04.68; 46. Kapp 1:11.26. Girls: 1. Acey Elkins, MAN, 1:01.82; 15. Kyra Hoffer 1:09.57; 17. Arya Mickelson 1:09.76; 21. Carly Raap 1:10.45.
800: Boys: 1. Aidan Jarvis, MIN, 2:02.3; 48. Ethan Sprague 2:52.10. Girls: 1. Jilee Golus, BHS, 2:16.96; 10. Maddy Orr 2:43.04; 16. Jera Truax 2:48.90; 21. Hannah Soulis 2:54.03.
1600: Boys: 1. Ethan Moe, WIL, 4:28.02; 49. Sprague 6:23.32. Girls: 1. Eleni Lovgren, WIL, 5:15.72; 9. Orr 5:55.97; 11. Truax 6:01.29.
3200: Boys: 1. Flynn Krenz, WIL, 9:58.85; 8. Cullen Flieth 11:02.84; 17. Ethan Igl 12:00.18; 20. Austin Anderson 12:28.29. Girls: 1. Jaelyn Ogle, WC, 11:28.73.
110 hurdles: Boys: 1. Cullen Curl, SM, 15.26; 10. Devin Beach 17.51; 19. Ndikum 19.71. Girls: 1. Anna Rader, BC, 15.56; 9. Kaelyn Nygaard 17.67; 15. Bernadette Belzer 18.54; 19. Olivia Hagen 19.58; 23. Anabelle Cramer 21.63
300 hurdles: Boys: 1. Curl 38.72; 12. Preston Kroeber 43.79; 31. Senzanje 50.48; 38. Williams 52.16. Girls: 1. Kyley Barnett, WC, 48.65; 4. Belzer 49.72; 7. K. Nygaard 50.56; 18. Soulis 53.63; 20. Carly Raap 54.42; 22. Hagen 55.64.
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4x100 relay: Boys: 1. Century (Kenneth Brako, Mason Maler, Seth Nelson, Nate Anderson), 45.22; 3. Jamestown (Korum, Beach, Kroeber, Hillstrom), 45.77; 11. Jamestown (Hoff, Iverson, Vasquez, Michaelson), 51.68. Girls: 1. Century (Avery Mills, Eden Fridley, Hannah Herbel, Brooklyn Buchholz), 49.54; 2. Jamestown (Annie Nabwe, Hunter Petersen, Julia Skari, Yolanda Nabwe), 50.34; 12. Jamestown (Fisher, Cramer, Schmiedeberg, Tarr), 58.44.
4x200 relay: Boys: 1. St. Mary’s (Ean Leingang, Joseph Eberle, Jackson Roerick, Curl), 1:33.81; 10. Jamestown (Kjellberg-Jones, Duven, Netolicky, Cross), 1:54.16. Girls: 1. Jamestown (A. Nabwe, Petersen, Skari, Y. Nabwe), 1:48.56; 8. Jamestown (Fisher, Mickelson, Hoffer, Tarr), 2:01.61.
4x400 relay: Boys: 1. Williston (Ethan Mitchell, Logan Dangerfield, Calin Hanson, Fynn Krenz), 3:39.07; 11. Jamestown (Cross, Kapp, Burchill, Vasquez), 4:21.04. Girls: 1. Mandan (Jelani Jones, Morgan Sheldon, Cami Frey, Elkins), 4:12.30; 4. Jamestown (K. Nygaard, Raap, Skari, Belzer), 4:32.92; 6. Jamestown (Hagen, Hoffer, Mickelson, Soulis), 4:43.66.
4x800 relay: Boys: 1. Legacy (Chase Knoll, Braxton Wurgler, Ivar Martell, Aidan Hasby), 8:43.79. Girls: 1. Dickinson (Symone Beld, Peyton Laser, Raghyn Murphy, Claire Kreidt), 10:41.50.
Shop Put: Boys: 1. Trey Haugen, DHS, 52-07.50; 6. Thomas Allmer 48-08.00; 41. Blayke Simmers 35-10; 55. Bo Nelson 32-01. Girls: 1. A. Nabwe 45-08; 24. Kinley Anderson 28-11; 30. Kendyl Anderson 27-09; 31. Allison Panchot 27-07; 39. Liv Frohlich 25-08; 42. Chea Baugh 25-01; 44. Cammie Veldkamp 23-10.
Discus: Boys: 1. Hunter Harvey, BC, 146-04; 5. Allmer 135-01; 37. Simmers 95-02. Girls: 1. A. Nabwe 126-00; 26. Baugh 87-07; 30. Panchot 81-06; 34. Anderson 79-10; 54. Frohlich 65-00; 55. Anderson 62-02.5; 56. Veldkamp 57-01.
Javelin: Boys: 1. Lane Grant, BC, 157-11; 29. Kroeber 109-09; 30. Allmer 108-10. Girls: 1. Abby Fletcher, BC, 114-11; 16. Baugh 88-08; 46. Cramer 57-05; 49. Anderson 53-09.
High jump: Boys: 1. Williams Durocher, BC, 6-02; 7. Beach 5-06; 9. Daniel Ulrich 5-06. Girls: 1. MaKayla Anderson, BC, 4-11.
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Pole Vault: Boys: 1. Matthew Scheer, SM, 13-00. Girls: 1. Emily Ash, DHS, 9-09.
Long Jump: Boys: 1. JD Williams, WIL, 21.06-5; 12. Hillstrom 19-05.25; 28. Nelson 17-04; 34. D. Ulrich 16-10.75; 40. Asher Williams 16-00. Girls: 1. Anna Rader, BC, 17-06-5; 3. Y. Nabwe 16-06.50; 18. Larson 14-09; 41. Fisher 12-08.
Triple Jump: Boys: 1. Kenneth Brako, BC, 44-04.50; 4. Beach 41-10.5; 15. Hillstrom 38.07; 24. D. Ulrich 35-09.5. Girls: 1. Mandie Picard, BHS, 34-10; 3. Petersen 34-00.5; 12. Skari 31-10; 25. Belzer 28-01.50
