VOLGA – The Flandreau Flier girls tied with host Sioux Valley at the Brace-Hopfinger Relays on Tuesday, April 9 in Volga.
Flandreau and the Cossacks each scored 101 points. Great Plains Lutheran won the invite with 106 points.
The Flier boys placed ninth with 39 points. Elkton-Lake Benton won with 146 points.
For the Flier girls, four first place finishes were record.
Morgan Sheppard was the winner of the 400 meter race in a time of 1:02.90, Faith Wiese won the 800 meter run, 2:24.32 and a relay team of Wiese, Kiley Westberry, Josie Hamilton and Sheppard won that event in 4:20.22. Sadie Iott took the triple jump with a leap of 32’2”.
The boys did not have a title winner but had a couple of third place finishes. Brenton Westberry in the 200 meter dash (24.04) and the 4x400 relay team of Westberry, Ben Kulm, Micah Otto and Paul Parsley with a time of 3:41.20.
Boys
100 m dash: 8th Brenton Westberry 12.02
200 m dash: 3rd Westberry 24.04
800 m run: 7th Wyatt Kontz 2:24.47; 8th Sam Schmidt 2:25.36
1600 m run: 5th Tanner Reed 5:18.81
Long Jump: 7th Tucker Hemmer 18’4”
High Jump: 7th Otto 5’4”
4x100 m relay: 6th Elijah Johnson, Hayden Garcia Pedro Barona, Franklin Donis Castillo 53.10
4x200 m relay: 5th Westberry, Parsley, Otto, Kulm 1:39.11
4x400 m relay: 3rd Westberry, Kulm, Otto, Parsley 3:41.20
4x800 m relay: 3rd Wyatt Kontz, Nate Hobbie, Schmidt, Kenton James 9:51.31
Medley relay: 4th Lanz Dailey, Alex Poitra, Luke Sheppard, Reed 4:20.92
Girls
100 m dash: 2nd Morgan Sheppard 13.62; 5th Ella Hoffman 14.16; 8th Morgan Kontz 14.46
200 m dash: 7th Sheppard 30.98
400 m dash: 1st Sheppard 1:02.90; 3rd Hoffman 1:09.81
800 m run: 1st Faith Wiese 2:24.32; 3rd Kiley Westberry 2:40.68; 5th Diamond Roy 2:46.44
1600 m run: 4th Westberry 2:40.68
ELKTON – A smaller group of athletes participated in the Vince Relays in Elkton on Saturday where only four teams participated.
Host Elkton-Lake Benton won both team titles. The boys scored 298 points and the girls 184.5. DeSmet was second and the Fliers were third with team scores of 126.5 and 124.5.
The Flier girls recorded several first place wins and three were double gold winners.
Wiese was a double winner taking the 800 and 1600 meter runs in times of 2:26.55 and 5:24.29 respectively.
Winning the 400 meter run was Kiley Westberry (1:05.41) and also as a member of the 4x800 relay along with Diamond Roy, Hailey Lahr and Dreamer Cournoyer. Their time was 11:18.27.
In the jumps, Sadie Iott won the long jump (14’1”) and the triple jump with a leap of 32 feet, three quarters of an inch.
Flandreau’s boys lone first place win came in the 4x800 meter relay ran by Tanner Reed, Wyatt Kontz, Nate Hobbie and Sam Schmidt in a time 9:34.72.
Boys
100 m dash: 7th Alex Poitra 12.76
200 m dash: 3rd Paul Parsley 25.16; 6th Poitra 26.26
400 m dash: 3rd Micah Otto 57.86; 6th Teague Bergjord 59.95
800 m run: 8th Poitra 2:45.52
1600 m run: 2nd Tanner Reed 5:23.75; 3rd Sam Schmidt 5:27.04
3200 m run: 2nd Wyatt Kontz 12:32.5; 3rd Kenton James 13:02.95; 4th Nate Hobbie 13:25.19; 5th Daniel Hobbie 13:48.32
4x100 m relay: 3rd Elijah Johnson, Franklin Donis-Castillo, Hayden Garcia, Nic Caple 55.5
4x200 m relay: 3rd Johnson, Pedro Barona, Donis-Castillo, Garcia 1:56.61
4x400 m relay: 2nd Brenton Westberry, Otto, Parsley, Bergjord 3:51.5
Girls
100 m dash: 2nd Morgan Kontz 14.33; 8th Hailieanne Schepel 15.7
200 m dash: 4th Kontz 30.45
400 m dash: 1st Kiley Westberry 1:05.41
800 m run: 1st Faith Wiese 2:26.55
1600 m run: 1st Wiese 5:24.59; 2nd Diamond Roy 6:21.21; 5th Hailey Lahr 7:16.47
3200 m run: 1st Josie Hamilton 13:05.51
4x800 m relay: 1st Westberry, Roy, Lahr, Dreamer Cournoyer 11:18.27
Shot: 4th Lily Klein 28’
Discus: 6th Klein 68’3”
Javelin: 4th Klein 72’7’; 5th Fawn Frias 70’1”
High Jump: 4th Mya Nichols 4’4”
Long Jump: 1st Sadie Iott 14’1”; 3rd Ayashi Artoz 12’6”
Triple Jump: 1st Iott 32’ .75”
