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Boys win eight events during home meet

By John RittenhouseThe Luverne boys’ track team won eight meet championships during the annual Cardinal Quadrangular staged in Luverne Tuesday.LHS athletes won six individual titles and two relay events in what was their first outdoor meet of the 2004 campaign.Tim Rust and Justin Van Wyhe led the charge for the Cardinals by winning two individual titles each.Van Wyhe won the long and triple jumps with respective 19-4 1/4 and 40-10 1/4 distances. Rust took top honors in the 100- and 200-meter dashes with respective 11.47 and 23.47 times.Jerome Willers and Jake Hendricks also won individual championships for LHS.Willers whipped the discus 130-7. Hendricks covered 400 meters in 53.8.Luverne also won the 400- and 800-meter relays with respective 46.44 and 1:38.63 times. Ben Cornish, Van Wyhe, Jordan Siebenahler and Rust ran the 400. Hendricks, Ruston Aaker, Siebenahler and Tyler Elbers combined efforts in the 800.LHS placed second in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays in 3:38.98 and 9:05.34. Hendricks, Aaker, Scott Goebel and Elbers teamed up in the 1,600. Travis Halfmann, Thomas Pinkal, Scott Goebel and Nick Otten formed the 3,200-meter team.Cornish, Otten, Aaker, Nick Van Wyhe and Rust finished second in individual competition.Cornish ran 100 meters in 11.75, Otten covered 800 meters in 2:13.94, Aaker was timed at 54.67 in the 400, Van Wyhe tossed the shot put 41-8 and Rust cleared 13-0 in the pole vault.The Cardinals will compete at a meet in Brandon, S.D., Saturday before hosting the Cardinal Relays Tuesday.Here is a look at the rest of Luverne’s top eight efforts during the Cardinal Quadrangular.Third place: Matt Rosin, discus, 112-11; Ben Uphoff, 300 hurdles, 48.35.Fourth place: Tony Willers, shot, 37-7; Pinkal, 3,200, 11:34; Cornish, pole vault, 10-0.Fifth place: Casey Swenson, discus, 107-3; Halfmann, 1,600, 5:34.32; Mike Nelson, pole vault, 10-0; Ryan Wynia, pole vault, 10-0.Sixth place: Uphoff, 110 hurdles, 20.5; Nelson, triple jump, 32-1 1/4; Siebenahler, 200, 25.76.Seventh place: Rosin, shot, 36-2 1/2; Eric Kraetsch, 3,200, 12"56.Eighth place: Chris Ashby, 100, 12.55; Ashby, 200, 26.42.

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