WEBSTER – Great Plains Lutheran won both the boys’ and girls’ team championships during the Mustang Invitational track and field meet on Friday.
Herreid-Selby was second in boys with Aberdeen Christian third, while Northwestern was runner-up in the girls’ team points.
Micah Holien of GPL won three open events on the day to help power the Panthers to the boys’ team title. He won the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter dashes.
Other multiple open event winners on the boys’ side were Kaleb Foltz of Tri-State who won the 800 and 1,600, and Tucker Keller of Florence-Henry who won the 110-meter high hurdles and 300-meter intermediate hurdles.
Christian eighth-grader Joseph Richards was second in the 3,200-meter run.
On the girls’ side, Aberdeen Christian’s Shawnteah La Croix won the 200-meter dash and the long jump. Competing in the long jump for just the second time, the sophomore improved by more than a foot from earlier this week with a leap of 17 feet, 4 inches.
The Knights grabbed three of top four spots in the long jump with Maggie Fites third and Ali Isakson fourth.
Other double open event winners for girls were Ella Boekelheide of Northwestern who won the 400-meter dash and 3,200-meter run, Abigail Kjenstad of Great Plains Lutheran who won the high jump and triple jump, and Hadlee Holt of Iroquois-Lake Preston who won the shot put and discus.
To see complete meet results, click on the following link:
https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/meet/538220/results/all
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