Milbank Runners Earn Season-Best Times at Twi-Light Meet

The Milbank Bulldog track and field team achieved nearly 60 personal-best scores at the Sisseton Twi-Light Meet on Friday, May 7. “This is outstanding at this time of the season,” noted head coach Eric Townsend. “Both teams are in a great position to qualify a number of athletes to the state track meet in a couple of weeks as many are currently in the top 24 in Class A.”

Nick Batchelor moved up to No. 2 on the varsity honor roll in the 1600-meter run with a time of 4:25.05 and to No. 4 in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:00.56.  Bennett Schwenn rebroke his own school record in the triple jump with a leap of 45′ 9.75″. In In the pole vault event, Maggie Kruger moved up to No. 3 on the varsity honor roll with a vault of 7′ 6″, Rylee Scoular moved up to #7 with a vault of 6′ 6″, and Katie Kruger moved up to #10 with a vault of 5′ 6″.

Results for Milbank from the Sisseton meet:

Varsity Girls

100 m dash – 6. Laney Forrette, 13.41; 9. Siera Wenzl, 13.53; 16. Jacy Dexter, 14.03.
200 m dash – 2. Madi Thue, 28.33; 3. Siera Wenzl, 28.39; 4. Laney Forrette, 28.81.
400 m dash – 3. Madi Thue, 1:02.75; 5. Maurina Street, 1:04.47; 6. Amaya Street, 1:05.10.
800 m run – 5. Ellie Neugebauer, 2:39.00.
1600 m run – 3. Tyra Berry, 6:09.08; 4. Maiah Brown, 6:05.35; 5. Kynlee Speidel, 6:08.02; 8. Stella Wendland, 6:32.49.
3200 m run – 1. Ashlynn Batchelor, 11:42.13; 4. Tyra Berry, 13:20.76; 5. Kynlee Speidel, 13:21.45; 6. Maiah Brown, 13:34.26.
100 m hurdles – 10. Elsie Seffrood, 19.39; 11. Nadia Schneck, 19.64; 14. Ashlyn O’Farrell, 20.11; 16. Tatum Berry, 20.43.
300 m hurdles – 7. Ashlyn O’Farrell, 54.24; 9. Elsie Seffrood, 54.42; 13. Nadia Schneck, 58.77; 15. Tatum Berry, 59.21.
400 m relay – 1. Milbank (Laney Forrette, Rachel Schulte, Siera Wenzl, Madi Thue), 52.60.
800 m relay – 1. Milbank (Laney Forrette, Rachel Schulte, Siera Wenzl, Madi Thue), 1:50.38.
1600 m relay – 1. Milbank (Amaya Street, Ellie Neugebauer, Nadia Thue, Maurina Street), 4:29.29.
3200 m relay – 1. Milbank (Ellie Neugebauer, Maurina Street, Amaya Street, Ashlynn Batchelor), 10:07.34.
1600 m medley relay – 8. Milbank (Jacy Dexter, Savanna Osowski, Nadia Thue, Stella Wendland), 5:10.39.
High jump – 2. Rachel Schulte, 4-9; 9. Claire Snaza, 4-3; 9. Elsie Seffrood, 4-3; 19. Aubrey Fraasch, 3-11.
Pole Vault – 3. Maggie Kruger, 7-6; 4. Jacy Dexter, 6-6; 5. Rylee Scoular, 6-6; 7. Katie Kruger, 5-6.
Long jump – 8. Tatum Berry, 13-9.25; 20. Savanna Osowski, 12-2.75; 23. Ashlyn O’Farrell, 11-5.75; 24. Aubrey Fraasch, 11-5.25.
Triple jump – 3. Ellie Neugebauer, 30-9.5; 6. Tatum Berry, 30-2.25; 8. Savanna Osowski, 29-10.75; 9. Aubrey Fraasch, 29-6.25.
Shot put – 8. Averie Engebretson, 27-2; 17. Amelia Pederson, 25.1.75; 28. Shaylee Pekelder, 21-1; 30. Cailey Sime, 19-11.
Discus – 16. Averie Engebretson, 70-1; 18. Amelia Pederson, 67-7.
Varsity Boys
100 m dash – 1. Bennett Schwenn, 10.99; 4. Dustin Gertsema, 11.83; 8. Michael Karges, 12.01.
200 m dash – 1. Bennett Schwenn, 22.84; 12. Aiden Foell, 25.29.
400 m dash – 1. Bennett Schwenn, 51.98; 7. Payton Brown, 59.22; 16. Maddox Hanson, 1:02.10.
800 m run – 1. Nick Batchelor, 2:00.56; 4. Kaden Krause, 2:13.15; 23. Will Karels, 2:40.69; 28. Maddox Hanson, 2:50.09.
1600 m run – 2. Nick Batchelor, 4:25.05; 6. James Batchelor, 5:03.26; 17. Will Karels, 5:56.49.

3200 m run – 3. James Batchelor, 11:12.89; 5. Isaac Graham, 11:44.99; 6. Isaac Johnson, 12:09.53; 7. Grant Van Peursem, 12:38.72.
110 m hurdles – 3. Max Lightfield, 17.33; 7. Mason Cordingley, 19.86; 11. Sammy Femling, 24.82.
300 m hurdles – 4. Max Lightfield, 45.57; 14. Sammy Femling, 52.83; 15. Mason Cordingley, 55.73.
800 m relay – 4. Milbank (Dustin Gertsema, Carter Bowsher, Karson Weber, Kaden Krause), 1:39.36.
1600 m relay – 7. Milbank (Kaden Krause, Payton Brown, Eli Johnson, Max Lightfield), 3:51.62.
3200 m relay – 4. Milbank (Payton Brown, Isaac Graham, Grant Van Peursem, Isaac Johnson), 9:33.97.
High jump – 11. Aiden Foell, 4-11.
Pole vault – 1. Karson Weber, 11-6; 2. Jayden Johnson, 10-6; 3. Jack Sandvig, 9-6; 9. Garrett Weber, 8-6.
Long jump – 6. Eli Johnson, 17-8.75.
Triple jump – 1. Bennett Schwenn, 45-9.75; 10. Stevie Ash, 35-6.25; 14. Eli Johnson, 34-9.
Shot put – 1. Ryker Trevett, 48-9.5; 12. Jace Rufer, 36-11.5; 13. Marshall Voeltz, 36-11; 18. Connor Bender, 35-4.
Discus – 19. Marshall Voeltz, 95-0; 20. Connor Bender, 94-0; 24. Jace Rufer, 85-10.

 Photo – Nick Batchelor