Hutchinson Invitational
Tiger boys track team 7th, girls 8th
PUBLISHED: 4/11/2003
(Reprinted with permission)
Independent Sports Article
HUTCHINSON — Led by Kai Sill’s second-place finish in the 200 meters, Marshall’s boys track team finished seventh among eight teams at the Hutchinson Invitational Thursday. The Tigers scored 58.5 points.
The girls, meanwhile, were eighth with 23 points.
“It was extremely tough competition,” Marshall boys coach Mike Jacobs said. “I don’t think we scored as well as we could have. We DQed in 4x200 (relay). We were third and could have ended in second. Those were points we gave up.
“Some kids had a hard time motivating themselves. That was people who didn’t respond in doing double duty. That’s one area we have to work on.”
Sill knocked a second off his 200-meter time, running a 23.3. The Tigers had a 3-4 finish in the 3,200 run with Akey Jumale and Tom Allen. In the 1600, Yahya Iman was third and Allen eighth.
In the girls meet, eighth-grader Laura Johnson ended third in the 3200 run and sixth in the 1,600 with a personal-best 5:51. Traci Pagel was eighth in the 1,600 with a personal-best 6:03.
“Laura had a real good day in the 1,600,” Marshall girls coach Leo Geraets said. “We had somewhere between 10-12 personal bests. Our times and distances were better.
“We want to build on that excitement and work harder to make sure it carries over to better times and distances. Overall, the girls are pleased. We need to build on that and carry it over to our practices and meets.”
HUTCHINSON INVITATIONAL
Team scores: Mankato East 180, Buffalo 103.5, Hutchinson 98, New Ulm 77, Coon Rapids 71, Willmar 65.5, Marshall 58.5, Litchfield 44.5
Tiger placings:
4x800 relay — 3. (Yahya Iman, Tyler Crowley, Francis Dierickx, Bart Johnson), 8:44
1600 run – 3. Iman 4:40; 8. Tom Allen 4:44
4x100 relay — 5. (Matt Abel, Adam Gifford, Tyler Mitlyng, Jamie Placsencia) 48.6
400 meters — 7. Carter Kruger 56.6; 8. Nate Boerboom 56.7
300 intermediate hurdles — 5. Matt Grabau 43.57
200 meters — 2. Kai Sill 23.3
3,200 run — 3. Akey Jumale 10:11; 4. Allen 10:24
Triple jump — 5. Dan VanderZiel 38-8
High jump — 7. Placsencia 5-6
Discus — 6. John Maxwell 118-0; 7. Ryan Brunsvold 114-0
4x400 relay — 4. (Sill, Boerboom, Grabau, Kruger) 3:46.3
HUTCHINSON INVITATIONAL
Girls Team scores — Willmar 181, Mankato East 149, Coon Rapids 106, Buffalo 91, Hutchinson 61, Litchfield 54, New Ulm 31, Marshall 23
Tiger placings:
4x800 relay — 7. (Jessica Pauley, Traci Pagel, Haley Meyer, Megan Gannott) 11:20
4x200 relay — 3. (members of relay not available) 1:55
1600 run — 6. Laura Johnson 5:51; 8. Pagel 6:03
4x100 relay — 5. (members of relay not available) 53.7
3,200 run — 3. Johnson 12:43
Shot put — 8. Amber Buysse 31-7