There will be plenty of maroon-and-silver Mountain Lake Area (MLA) track-and-field participants to watch in next Thursday’s (Thursday, May 28) Section 3A meet at Luverne, beginning at 2 p.m. – as they get set to take a shot at state.
That’s because they are heading to the meet following their finishes in the South Sub-Section 3A meet held Thursday, May 21, at Pipestone.
As far as team standings go, both the girls and boys teams of the Luverne Cardinals were crowned South Sub-Section 3A champs.
The MLA girls were tied for fourth with Pipestone Area with 77 points. The Luverne Cardinal girls finished with a team score of 148.75, almost 60 points ahead of second-place Southwest Minnesota Christian/Edgerton with 90.75 points. Springfield/Cedar Mountain/Comfrey took third with 79 points, followed in fourth by MLA and Pipestone Area, and in succession, Jackson Country Central (56 points), Windom Area (45 points), Murray County Central (33 points), Heron Lake/Okabena (26 points), Fulda (23.25 points), Hills/Beaver Creek (19 points), Westbrook/Walnut Grove/Red Rock Central (17.25 points) and Adrian (10 points).
On the boys side, MLA was seventh, compiling 51 team points. The Luverne boys topped the field with 122 team points, with Windom Area in second with 86 points and Pipestone Area, third with 84 points.The remaining field of team standings had Murray County Central with 62 points, Jackson County Central (59 points), Hills/Beaver Creek (52 points), MLA, Southwest Christian/Edgerton (45 points),, Fulda (43 points), Adrian (34 points), Springfield/Cedar Mountain/Comfrey (29 points), Ellsworth (17 points), Westbrook/Walnut Grove/Red Rock Central (12 points) and Heron Lake/Okabena.
Although teams do not advance, the top three relay teams and top six runners in each event from both the north and south sub-sections advance, Along with these automatic qualifiers, the athletes or relay teams with the four next best times or distances from the two sub-sections will advance to the section meet.
Head coach is Paul Metcalf, assisted by Scott Boelke, Matt Anderson and Brian Oeltjenbruns.
MLA Girls Advancing to Section
* Lydia Hildebrandt –
First in the 100-meter dash at 12.96
Second 200-meter dash at 26.98
Third in the pole vault with 8′ 6″
* Brianna Soutthivong –
Seventh in the 200-meter dash at 27.77
Ninth in the 100-meter dash at 13.44
* Marta Stoesz –
First in the high jump at 4’9″
Fifth in the 400-meter dash with 1:07.5
* Carmen Syverson –
Fourth in the 800-meter run with 2:33.23
Seventh in the pole vault with 7′ 6″
* Carly Paulson –
Fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with 17.18
Sixth in the triple jump with 30′ 9″
* Liana Blomgren –
Fifth in the 1,600-meter run with 6:11.83
* Brook Sunderman –
Sixth in the 300-meter hurdles with 51.64.
Sixth in the long jump with 14′ 8.75″
* Bailey Swanson –
Seventh in the 300-meter low hurdles with 51.70
* Lydia Hildebrandt, Brianna Soutthivong, Brook Sunderman, Emily Jahnke –
Third in the 4 x 100-meter relay at 53.10
* Carmen Syverson, Emily Jahnke, Liana Blomgren, Marta Stoesz –
Fifth in the 4 x 400-meter relay at 4:33.57
