Powers places seventh in 3,200

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BRANDON – Brookings junior Ainsley Powers finished seventh in the 3,200-meter run at the Class AA State Girls’ Track and Field Meet on Friday at Brandon Valley High School.

She had an 11-minute, 48.55-second clocking.

The Bobcats’ medley relay team of seniors Kailee Bartels and Kylie Tucker and freshmen Allie Clark and Kayla Shoup qualified for today’s finals with the fourth-fastest preliminary time – 4:21.15 – on Friday. Brookings has won the event each of the past two seasons.

Junior Emily Rystrom qualified fifth in the 400 in 59.97 seconds.

Powers and Shoup are in the 1,600 meters field today.

The Bobcats had a pair of close calls in the 4x200- and 4x400-meter relays.

Bartels, Tucker, Clark and Rystrom finished ninth in the 4x200 qualifier in 1:47.32 – .03 out of the finals.

Rystrom, Clark, Tucker and Ella Kjelden were ninth in the 4x400 preliminary with a time of 4:12.17 – 1.66 off the eighth-place time.

Sioux Falls Roosevelt’s Jasmine Greer broke the meet record in the shot put with a winning heave of 47 feet.

The Rough Riders lead the team race with 51 points. Watertown (41) is second and Sioux Falls O’Gorman (39) third.

Team scores

Sioux Falls Roosevelt 51, Watertown 41, Sioux Falls O’Gorman 39, Sioux Falls Lincoln 32, Rapid City Stevens 28, Aberdeen Central 23, Brandon Valley 21, Pierre 15, Sioux Falls Washington 14, Harrisburg 12, Sturgis 11, Douglas 8, Yankton 7, Mitchell 4, Rapid City Central 2, Brookings 2, Huron 1, Spearfish 1.

800 – 1, Alea Hardie, SFO, 2:17.68; 2, Jaide Geurts, SFR, 2:20.44; 3, Hope Grismer, SFR, 2:22.14; 4, Cierra Watkins, SFR, 2:24.91; 5, Elizabeth Bindert, SFL, 2:25.94; 6, Presli White, Ha., 2:26.15; 7, Addalai Dekam, SFL, 2:28.28; 8, Sydnee Serck, Y, 2:28.48.

3,200 – 1, Melanie Jacobs, AC, 11:23.47; 2, Alissa Wieman, D, 11:29.63; 3, Leah Derenge, SFL, 11:38.11; 4, Zoe Douglas, AC, 11:38.89; 5, Bryanna Kuhn, RCS, 11:46.56; 6, Lila Batcheller, SFL, 11:47.26; 7, Ainsley Powers, B, 11:48.55; 8, Hailey Uhre, RCS, 11:51.21.

4x800 relay – 1, Sioux Falls Roosevelt (Jaide Geurts, Hope Grismer, Saylor Weiland, Cierra Watkins), 9:23.87; 2, Aberdeen Central, 9:37.38; 3, Sioux Falls Lincoln, 9:37.42; 4, Yankton, 9:47.12; 5, Brandon Valley, 9:52.54; 6, Rapid City Stevens, 9:54.82; 7, Rapid City Central, 9:56.03; 8, Huron, 10:06.51.

Triple jump – 1, Myah Morris, W, 37-11; 2, Sydney Wambach, SFO, 37-1; 3, Megan Baloun, RCS, 36-6.5; 4, Rylie Stonecipher, RCS, 36-4; 5, Loralee Stock, St., 35-4.5; 6, Sammi Sundby, RCS, 35-2.25; 7, Makayla Keffeler, St., 35-1.75; 8, Madison Wuebben, Y, 35-1.

High jump – 1, Alayna Falak, W, 5-7; 2, Phekran Kong, SFW, 5-3; 3, Taia Rude, BV, 5-3; 4, Oliva Jolley, St., 5-1; 5, Carley Haring, M, 5-1; 6, Morgan Hansen, SFL, 5-1; 7, Morgan Thompson, BV, 5-1; 8, Brecli Honner, Ha., 5-1.

Shot put – 1, Jasmine Greer, SFR, 47-0 (meet record); 2, Lexie Brady, SFO, 43-7.25; 3, Hailey Harkin, Ha., 39-1.25; 4, Mackenzie Rath, P, 38-0; 5, Jenna Sayler, SFW, 37-11.25; 6, Avery Wittry, SFO, 37-6.75; 7, Maggie Heesch, W, 37-6.75; 8, Cora Tobin, Sp., 37-3.

Discus – 1, Mackenzie Rath, P, 134-10; 2, Morgan Hughes, SFL, 127-8; 3, Avery Wittry, SFO, 120-5; 4, Maggie Heesch, W, 119-8; 5, Jasmine Greet, SFR, 118-9; 6, Shayla Tuschen, SFR, 117-4; 7, Hailey Harkin, Ha., 112-10; 8, Aubri Dicus, SFR, 109-9.

Pole vault – 1, Alayna Falak, W, 12-7.5; 2, Sydney Pelletier, BV, 11-3; 3, Madisyn Trupe, RCS, 10-9; 4, (tie) Daphne Clausen, SFO, Jadyn Kelley, SFR, Sydney Ahlers, W, 10-9; 7, Jacee Johannsen, SFW, 10-9; 8, Halayna Hendrick, BV, 10-9.