WHITEFISH BOYS AND POLSON GIRLS TAKE 3RD AT STATE

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Trophies for both Pirates, Bulldogs  

Published: Sunday, May 31, 2009 12:28 AM CDT 
The Daily Inter Lake

BUTTE - Whitefish and Polson are coming home with similar team trophies for the second year in a row.

The defending state champion Bulldogs, led by a distance sweep from senior Drew Coco, tallied 72 points for third place at the Class A state track meet on Saturday.

After two days of competition, Corvallis won with 108 and Laurel was runner-up with 76.

The Polson girls, defending state champs a year ago, earned a third-place finish this time around, totaling 58 points. The Belgrade girls won with 83 and Hamilton was second, 60.

Coco won the 800 in 1:58 and ran a 10:15 to win the 3,200. On Friday, he won the 1,600 also.

Last year, Coco placed second in both the 1,600 and 3,200 and didn't race at state in the 800.

Christa Redcrow finished second in the 300 hurdles and teammate Breanne Kelley came in fourth for Polson.

The Polson 1,600 relay team took second and Loni Havlovick took fourth in the discus for the second year in a row.

The Bigfork girls came in fourth with 38 points. Mallery Knoll improved on last-year's state finishes and earned third place in the 100 and 300 hurdles. Knoll took fourth in the 100 at state last year as a freshman and didn't place in the hurdles.

Kayla Carlson placed third in the 1,600 in her last distance race in Class A.

Bigfork is moving to Class B next season.

Ronan's Sadie McMillan won the 100, took third in the 100 hurdles and placed fifth in the 200.

Libby senior Seth Wright was a runner-up in the triple jump.

Ryan Kelley of Polson earned second place in the pole vault and fifth in the 110 hurdles, Jason Bowman took fourth in the 200 and the Polson boys scored 32 points for fifth place.

Donny Tudahl of Bigfork earned fourth in the discus.

Class A Boys Track and Field Meet

at Butte

Team Scores - 1, Corvallis, 108; 2, Laurel, 76; 3, Whitefish, 72; 4, Frenchtown, 34; 5, Polson, 32; 6, Columbia Falls, 22.5; 7, Libby, 22; 8, Dillon, 21; 9, Lewistown, 13; 10, Belgrade, 12; 11, Billings Central, 12; 11, Hamilton, 12; 11, Ronan, 11; 11, Stevensville, 12; 15, Bigfork 11; 16, Glendive, 10.5; 17, Sidney, 10.5; 18, Browning, 8.5; 18, Anaconda, 8.5; 20, Butte Central, 8; 21, Hardin, 4; 22, Havre, 3; 23, Miles City, 1.

Saturday's Results

100 - 1, Seth Marshall, Laurel, 11.11; 2, Jonny Dilworth, Frenchtown, 11.18; 3, Ben Dixon, Corvallis, 11.19; 4, Dean Phillips, Columbia Falls, 11.2; 5, Derek Ohs, Glendive, 11.35; 6, Bryce Carver, Dillon, 11.42.

200 - 1, Seth Marshall, Laurel, 22.21; 2, Jonny Dilworth, Frenchtown, 22.67; 3, Bryce Carver, Dillon, 22.83; 4, Jason Bowman, Polson, 23.02; 5, Anto Daoud, Whitefish, 23.06; Stephen Baumgartner, Columbia Falls, 23.08.

800 - 1, Drew Coco, Whitefish, 1:58.28; 2, Drew Zieler, Corvallis, 1:59.16; 3, Jake Jessop, Hamilton, 2:00.29; 4, Brett Weidler, Laurel, 2:00.49; 5, Derrick Williams, Columbia Falls, 2:00.79; 6, Caleb Bentley, Lewistown, 2:00.91.

3,200 - 1, Drew Coco, Whitefish, 10:15.76; 2, Tucker White, Billings Central, 10:20; 3, Shawn Whitman, Columbia Falls, 10:20.03; 4, Chris Jessop, Corvallis, 10:22.05; 5, Mikey Wall, Billings Central, 10:23.85; 6, Jake Jessop, Hamilton, 10:33.39.

110 Hurdles - 1, Slater Powell, Corvallis, 14.69; 2, Jamie Engledrum, Ronan, 15.72; 3, Justin Morgan, Corvallis, 16.04; 4, Derek Crittenden, Whitefish, 16.42; 5, Ryan Kelley, Polson, 16.5; 6, John Perrodin, Havre, 16.51.

400 Relay - 1, Corvallis, 43.01; 2, Dillon, 43.85; 3, Polson, 44.11; 4, Sidney, 44.25; 5, Belgrade, 44.38; 6, Whitefish, 44.44.

1,600 Relay - 1, Laurel, 3:27.42; 2, Whitefish, 3:27.53; 3, Frenchtown, 3:29.65; 4, Corvallis, 3:30.53; 5, Belgrade, 3:31.34; 6, Columbia Falls, 3:32.03.

Javelin - 1, Nick WIlson, Laurel, 207-9; 2, Austin Landis, Corvallis, 183-3; 3, Dylan Buehler, Lewistown, 177-0; 4, Joel Fuller, Libby, 174-8; 5, Dustin Beck, Whitefish, 169-2; 6, Nick Love, Miles City, 167-8.

Discus - 1, Dalton Sybrant, Corvallis, 166-7; 2, Sean Ferriter, Butte Central, 154-7; 3, Sean Condon, Laurel, 154-4; 4, Donny Tudahl, Bigfork, 152-6; 5, Jarred Hergett, Laurel, 151-4; 6, Seth Wright, Libby, 144-3.

Triple Jump - 1, Isaac Hunter, Stevensville, 44-5 1/2; 2, Seth Wright, Libby, 43- 3/4; 3, Brady Sundheim, Sidney, 42-5 3/4; 4, Devin Leonardi, Hamilton, 42-3 1/4; 5, Tyler Wilde, Frenchtown, 41-11; 6, Kaden Keto, Havre, 41-9.

Pole Vault - 1, Austin Byron, Corvallis, 15-0; 2, Ryan Kelley, Polson, 14-6; 3, Kaleb Prestegaard, Whitefish, 14-0; 4, Easton Padden, Laurel, 14-0; 5, Kelby Dorn, Hardin, 13-6; 6, Joel Ballard, Columbia Falls, 13-0; 6, Marcus Fischer, Anaconda, 13-0.

GIRLS

Team scores - Belgrade 83, Hamilton 60, Polson 58, Bigfork 38, Billings Central 37, Lewistown 35, Stevensville 34, Ronan-St. Ignatius 32, Sidney 30, Glendive 28, Corvallis 22, Frenchtown 22, Columbia Falls 11, Miles City 10, Whitefish 9, Libby 7, Butte Central 5, Livingston 3, Dillon 2, Laurel 1.

100 - 1, Sadie McMillan, Ronan-St. Ignatius, 12.84; 2, Brekka Johnson, Stevensville, 21.91; 3, Mallory Knoll, Bigfork, 13.01; 4, Amanda Foley, Whitefish, 13.02; 5, Ashley Skillestad, Glendive, 13.16; 6, Marissa Stanton, Billings Central, 13.19.

200 - 1, Paige Squire, Corvallis, 26.09; 2, Ashley Skillestad, Glendive, 26.63; 3, Brekka Johnson, Stevensville; 4, Kirsten Haas, Belgrade, 27.07; 5, Sadie McMillan, Ronan-St. Ignatius; 6, Jackie Dringle, Belgrade, 27.20.

1,600 - 1, Brook Rodgers, Lewistown, 5:17.94; 2, Misha Trotter, Hamilton, 5:21.56; 3, Kayla Carlson, Bigfork, 5;22.18; 4, Emily Schall, Frenchtown, 5:30.76; 5, Leann Quinlna, Lewistown, 5:32.02; 6, Brianna Dudley, Butte Central, 5:3.43.

100 hurdles - 1, Paige Squire, Corvallis, 15.16; 2, Kirsten Haas, Belgrade, 15.29; 3, Sadie McMillan, Ronan-St. Ignatius, 15.50; 4, Breanne Kelley, Polson, 15.95; 5, Miranda Rabold, Billings Central, 16.51; 6, Sadie Sampson, Glendive, 16.55.

300 hurdles - 1, Kirsten Haas, Belgrade, 44.42; 2, Christa Redcrow, Polson, 46.90; 3, Mallory Knoll, Bigfork, 47.12; 4, Breanne Kelley, Polson. 47.19; 5, Sadie McMillan, Ronan-St. Ignatius, 47.33; 6, Miranda Rabold, Billings Central, 47.85.

400 relay - 1, Belgrade (Kirsten Haas, Jackie Dringle, Aimee Beck, Jamie Greaney) 50.09; 2, Hamilton 50.21; 3, Columbia Falls 51.43; 4, Glendive 51.47; 5, Polson 51.72; 6, Bigfork 51.79.

1,600 relay - 1, Billings Central (Maggie Powell, Jackie Elliot, Jaelene Zygmond, Marissa Stanton) 4:01.27; 2, Polson 4:03.88; 3, Hamilton 4:06.27; 4, Belgrade 4:08.78; 5, Corvallis, 4:09.75; 6, Bigfork 4:10.05.

Discus - 1, Jamilea Kittlemann, Miles City, 116-8; 2, Averyl LaSalle, Hamilton, 113-8; 3, Jordan Sullivan, Sidney, 111-3; 4, Loni Havlovick, Polson, 110-6; 5, Heather Tyler, Dillon, 108-9; 6, Kim Shulz, Sidney, 107-7.

Triple jump - 1, Brekka Johnson, Stevensville, 36-7 1-4; 2, Jackie Elliot, Billings Central, 36-2 1-2; 3, Adessa Durglo, Ronan-St. Ignatius, 35-4; 4, Megan Baker, Hamilton, 35-1 1-2; 5, Airika Blackburn, Sidney, 35- 3-4; 6, Rachel Sweedman, Libby, 34-10.

Pole vault - 1, Vanessa Bawden, Sidney, 11-0; 2 (tie), Sadie Sampson, Glendive; Tara Johnson, Polson; Megan Baker, Hamilton; and Ketti Wilhelm, Columbia Falls, 9-6; 6, Whitney Satra, Sidney, 9-6.