BP track girls earn second, boys third

It was a successful day at the track and in the field for the Blooming Prairie girls and boys track and field teams when they competed against United South Central, Waterville-Elysian-Morristown, Hayfield and Lyle-Pacelli in the Blooming Prairie Varsity Invite on April 27.
The girls team earned second place out of five teams with 74 points, while the boys team scored 72 points and missed out on tying for second place by just one point.
Starting with the girls team, Sierra Larson set a personal record with a time of 14.50 seconds in the 100- meter dash, which was good for fourth place overall.
The Blossom girls achieved even better results in the 400-meter dash and the 800 meter run. In the 400- meter dash, Chloe McCarthy crossed the finish line first with a time of 1:11.94 and Hefling came in third place with a time of 1:14.59. In the 800-meter run, Emily Miller won the race with a time of 2:46.48.
Megan Oswald came in fourth place in the 1600-meter run and set a personal record with a time of 6:58.00, while Asha Lighthizer also set a personal record and came in third place in the 3200-meter run with a time of 16:07.89.
In the 300-meter hurdles, Clare Rennie came in fourth place by finishing in 1:02.67.
Blooming Prairie’s 4x200 relay, which consists of Lea, Hefling, Annaka Forsberg and Miller, earned second place with a time of 2:00.79.
Like the individual races, the Blossoms did even better in the 400 and 800 meter relays. Both Blooming Prairie’s 4x400 team, Anna Kittelson, Grace Krejci, McCarthy and Miller, and its 4x800 team, McCarthy, Abby Smith, Lila Quail and Kittelson, won first place.
In the discus throw, Micalyn Trihus finished in third place with a distance of 82-10. She also achieved a top five finish, fourth, in the shot put with a throw that went 31 feet and 6.50 inches.
Last but not least for the girls team, Oswald won the triple jump and set another personal record with a height of 28 feet and 1 inch.
For the boys team, Ezra Kiley finished in fifth place in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.04 seconds.
In the 200-meter dash, Sam Skillestad won first place with a time of 24.80 seconds, while Kiley again came in fifth place, this time he crossed the finish line in 26.47 seconds.
Blooming Prairie sophomore Sam Smith finished in fourth place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 58.24 seconds.
In the 1600-meter run, Hosea Baker finished in 5:41.14, which was good for fourth place.
Xavier Rennie finished in first place in the 110-meter hurdles and third in the 300-meter hurdles with times of 18.44 seconds and 47.25 seconds.
The Blossom 4x100 relay team, which consists of Ezra Kiley, Derek Kubicek, Brady Kittelson and James Wohlferd, finish in 49.27 seconds and earn second place.
Later, the 4x200 relay team, Kittelson, Sam Smith, Wohlferd and Skillestad, and the 4x800 meter relay team, Stephen Fennel, Jack Bruns, Alex Riley and Hosea Baker each win first place.
 
In the shot put, Adam Walsh set a personal record and came in third place overall with a distance of 36 feet and 4.75 inches, while Ezra Kiley also set a personal record with a distance of 34 feet and 5 inches, which was good for fifth place.
Walsh also excelled in the discus throw. He set a personal record in that event with a distance of 103 feet and 2 inches, which earned him second place.
Last but not least, Xavier Rennie came in second place in the triple jump with a distance of 36 feet and 2 inches.
The boys and girls teams will get another shot at improving their time, height and distance when they compete against Medford, Bethlehem Academy and United South Central at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday at Medford High School.