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Track athletes land eight SWC titles

By John Rittenhouse
Luverne High School athletes locked up a combined eight championships during the annual Southwest Conference Track and Field Meet staged in Pipestone Thursday.

Four LHS boys captured a combined six conference titles during their version of the competition.
One Cardinal athlete won an individual title and a relay team emerged as a champion during the girls' competition.

The six SWC titles helped the Cardinal boys place third in the team competition with 105.75 points.

Marshall and Worthington bested Luverne in the team standings with 157.5 and 147 points respectively.

Pipestone-Jasper (96), Windom (76), Redwood Valley (62.5) and Jackson County Central (44.25) capped the boys' field.

Senior Darren Cook and junior Craig Bosch led the Cardinals to their third-place finish by winning a pair of individual events each.

Cook, who placed second in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.48, won the 110- and 300-meter hurdles titles with respective 14.8 and 40.49 times.

Bosch emerged as the shot put and discus champion with respective tosses of 49-1 and 147-9.

Freshman Tim Rust and eighth-grader Scott Goebel also picked up SWC championships for the Cardinal boys.

Rust cleared 10-6 to win the pole vault title. Goebel took top honors in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:45.52.

The Luverne girls placed fourth in a seven-team field by scoring 99 points.

JCC (135.5), P-J (126) and Worthington (107) topped the Cards in the standings. Marshall (96), RWV (69) and Windom (65.5) round out the field.

Senior Hannah Dietrich played a role in landing a pair of conference titles for the Cardinal girls.

Dietrich took top honors in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:23.98, which was just shy of a SWC meet record.

Dietrich also was a member of Luverne's 3,200-meter relay, which placed first in 10:24.9. Junior Patricia Willers, eighth-grader Sadie Dietrich and seventh-grader Victoria Arends are the other members of the team.

Cardinal girls placed second in four events during the competition.

The 1,600-meter relay team of Amanda Dooyema, Jenni Christensen and the Dietrichs finished second in 4:19.
Adria Sherwood whipped the discus 91-11, Amanda Aning cleared 9-9 in the pole vault and Sadie Dietrich ran 400 meters in 1:02.6 to place second in their respective events.

The Luverne teams will compete at the Sub-Section 10 Track and Field Championships in Pipestone today. Meet time is 4 p.m.

Here is a look at the rest of Luverne's top eight finishers from the SWC meet.

Luverne boys
Third place: Andrew Norton, high jump, 5-10; Marcus Walgrave, 110 hurdles, 15.9; Walgrave, 300 hurdles, 42.54.

Fourth place: Norton, long jump, 19-9 1/4; Norton, triple jump, 38-10.

Sixth place: 400 relay (Ben Peters, Cody Gehrke, Justin Van Wyhe, Norton), 48.9; 3,200 relay (Peter Loehnert, Jeff Luethje, Jamison Tooley and Kyle Bitterman), 9:37.24.

Seventh place: Andrew Hulstein, high jump, 5-6.

Luverne girls
Fourth place: Serena Franken, discus, 88-0; Marissa Stewart, shot, 31-0 1/2; Danielle Cook, 300 hurdles, 49.94; 800 relay (Callen Bosshart, Cook, Dooyema and Christensen), 1:54.2.

Fifth place: Stewart, discus, 86-10; Sara Sneller, shot, 30-1 1/2; Aning, high jump, 4-8; Cook, 100, 13.3; 400 relay (Bosshart, Nicole Willers, Maggie Vanden Hoek and Aning), 54.51.

Seventh place: Christensen, 400, 1:05.5; Andrea Drost, 800, 2:39.2; Arends, 1,600, 5:53.1; Tracey Scheidt, 300 hurdles, 51.9.

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