The Luverne Cardinals welcomed the track teams from Marshall, St. James and Blue Earth to Luverne on Friday, April 16. The home meet was the second meet of the season for the Cardinals and put together a strong performance.
Ashton Sandbulte took home first place in the 100 meters and 200 meters. Sandbulte clocked a time of 11 seconds, 53 milliseconds in the 100 meters. In the 200 meters, he finished with a time of 24.75.
Arekel McLaughlin finished second in the 200 meters with a time of 24.82.
In the 400 meters, Ethan Rahm took home third place with a time of 1:01.98.
Owen Janiszeski finished second in the 800 meters with a time of 2:16.38. Sam Emery finished fifth with a time of 2:29.13.
In the 1,600, Cole Janiszeski finished first with a time of 4:52.62.
In the 3,200, Sage Viessman finished third with a time of 11:51.69. Fellow Cardinal Ryan Fick finished fourth with a time of 12:25.93.
Luverne’s 4-by-200 relay team took home first place with a time of 1:38.49. The team consists of Sandbulte, McLaughlin, LaShad Smith and Eduardo Godines.
The Cardinals’ 4-by-400 relay team of Camden Janiszeski, Smith, McLaughlin and Sam Emery finished in second place with a time of 3:52.14.
The Luverne 4-by-800 relay team finished in first place. Camden Janiszeski, Owen Janiszeski, Sage Viessman and Ethan Curtiss are the runners that make up the team.
The Cardinals owned the shot put event, with four Luverne athletes finishing in the Top Six.
Jordan Friedrichsen took home first place with a throw of 44-03.00. Zach Ahrendt finished in second place with a toss of 44-00.75. Peter Baustian finished in third place with a heave of 40-08.75. Ethan Teunissen finished in sixth place with a throw of 37-08.50.
The Cardinals had four athletes finish in the Top Six in the discus as well.
Teunissen finished in second place with a throw of 112-03. Baustian finished in third place with a throw of 107-01. Ahrendt finished in fifth place by recording a throw of 98-04. Camron Kopp took home sixth place with a toss of 90-01.
In the pole vault, Eli Radtke finished in first place, Noah Mehlhaff in fourth and Tyler Rolfs in fifth.
Ethan Rahm took home fourth place in the triple jump with a leap of 34-00.50.
Gracie Zewiske took home first place in the 100 and 200 meters. The senior sprinter finished with a time of 13.37 in the 100 and 27.93 in the 200.
Sarah Stegenga finished third in the 100 with a time of 14.41. Isabella Oye finished fourth with a time of 14.48. Mia Wenzel rounded out the Top Five with a time of 14.61 to take home fifth place.
Christina Wagner finished in second place in the 200 with a time of 29.09.
Tiana Lais finished in first place in the 400 with a time of 1:04.65. Ella Schmuck took home fourth place with a time of 1:14.67.
In the 800, Tenley Nelson finished in first place with a time of 2:33.85. Kayla Bloomendaal finished in fourth place with a time of 2:58.78.
Nelson finished in first place in the 1,600 with a time of 5:38.33. Elizabeth Wagner finished fourth with a time of 6:02.83. Bloomendaal finished in fifth place with a time of 6:26.32.
Jenna DeBates clocked a time of 11:46.62 in the 3,200 to take home first place.
Elise Jarchow finished in second place in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 18.78.
Regan Feit finished in first place with a time of 48.23 in the 300-meter hurdles. Cassi Chesley finished fourth with a time of 59.58.
The Cardinals’ 4-by-100 team finished second with a time of 57.28. The team is made up of Oye, Stegenga, Abby Bolt and Brynn Boyenga.
The 4-by-400 relay team finished second with a time of 4:18.80. Nelson, Lais, Zewiske, and Elizabeth Wagner are the athletes that make up the team.
The Cardinals had two teams compete in the 4-by-800 relay. The second-place team consisted of Feit, Elizabeth Wagner, DeBates, and Grace Ingebretson. The third-place team consisted of Chesley, Maria Rops, Schmuck and Roselynn Hartshorn.
Jadyn Hart finished third in the shot put with a throw of 29-09.50.
Hart finished second in the discus with a throw of 81-06.
Elizabeth Wagner tied for first in the high jump by recording a jump of 4-10.00. Wenzel finished fourth with a jump of 4-04.00.
Jarchow finished in first place in the pole vault.
The Top Four in the long jump were all Cardinals.
Christina Wagner finished in first place with a jump of 14-10.00. Lais took home second with a jump of 14-04.75. Stegenga finished third with a jump of 13-11.75. Kendra Thorson finished fourth with a jump of 13-06.50.
Thorson finished third in the triple jump with a leap of 29-03.25.