The Bismarck Legacy boys and Bismarck Century girls repeated both its class A state team titles at the North Dakota High School Activities Association, which took place May 21-23 at the MDU Resources Community Bowl at Bismarck State College.

 

Legacy scored 125 points to win the boys title by 40 points, and Century scored 100 points to win the girls title by four points. Both teams beat Bismarck.

 

Zayden Horne and Bennet Lonn combined to win five individual titles for the Legacy boys, scoring the bulk of their team's points by sweeping the sprints and hurdles races. Horne completed the sprint triple, winning the 100 (10.73), 200 (21.75) and 400 (48.51) finals, and Lonn won the 110 hurdles (14.50) and 300 hurdles (37.32). 

 

Lonn and Horne contributed another 10 points to Legacy's scoring, guiding the 4x100 relay to victory in 41.93. Lonn also ran on the winning 4x200 relay in 1:28.12.

 

Another triple crown was by sophomore Luke Rout of Davies, sweeping the boys 800 (1:54.03), 1,600 (4:16.41) and 3,200 (9:10.13) races.

 

Blake Homiston of Dickinson cleared an overall state record 15 feet, 9 inches to win the boys pole vault.

 

Blake Anderson of Minot threw personal bests of 58-3 and 185-7 to win both the boys shot put and discus titles, respectively.

 

Freshman Asher Fischer of Grand Forks Central threw a personal best 182-5 to win the boys javelin.

 

Ruby Ihmels won her seventh and eighth North Dakota state track and field titles to lead Century girls to the program's eighth team title. The junior ran 4:57.87 in the 1,600 and a meet record 10:25.29 in the 3,200, scoring 20 of Century's 100. Three more individual titles came from field events from Alexis Heinle in the high jump (5-5) and triple jump (38-2.50) and Madelyn Krignstad in pole vault (11-6).

 

Second-place Bismarck was led by Izzy Dahl, winning the girls 800 in 2:15.42 and anchoring the winning 4x800 relay to 9:33.32. Jilian Quale also won an individual title for Bismarck in the girls 100 in a personal best 12.01.

 

Seventh-grader Summer Nagal of Wahpeton ran personal bests in both the girls 100 and 300 hurdles, winning both state titles in 15.14 and 43.65.

 

Michelle Gee of West Fargo won both the girls 200 and 400 in 25.02 and 56.49.

 

The Legacy girls 4x100 and 4x200 relays broke the overall state record in both events. The 4x200 relay ran 1:40.57 to break the state record in the preliminary round and nearly broke it again in the final in 1:40.72. The 4x100 relay ran 47.96 to break the state record in the final.

 

Jacie Reardon of Grand Forks Central swept all three throws, winning the girls shot put (42-6.50), discus (136-2) and javelin (125-2) competitions. 

 

 

Scoring 74 points, the Hillsboro/Central Valley girls repeated the class B title, led by eighth-grade distance standout Claire Grinde.

 

Grinde broke the state meet records in the 1,600 (4:55.34) and 800 (2:13.40) and won the 3,200 (10:45.49) to complete the distance sweep. Grinde also anchored the winning 4x800 relay (9:44.52), ultimately contributing 40 of HIllsboro/Central Valley's 74 points.

 

Anya Olson of Velva-Drake/Anamoose ran season's bests of 24.43 and 56.44 to win both the girls 200 and 400 races. Olson finished second in the 100 final to Ella Pederson of Rolette/Wolford, 12.16 to 12.28.

 

The Central Cass girls 4x200 relay, during the preliminary round, broke the state meet record in 1:42.53. In the final, the same group ran 1:42.62 to win the state title.

 

Elizabeth Pinke of Hatton/Northwood broke the state meet record in the discus with a mark of 153-11. Pinke earned a second-place finish in the shot put, throwing 45-5.50. Nelson County's Dagan Slade won the shot put title with a 47-5.

 

Oak Grove Lutheran won the boys team title for the first time in program history with 67 points. Twenty of those points came in winning efforts from Noah Meidinger in the javelin, throwing 206-4, and Kai Zabel in the long jump in 22-3.

 

Owen Johnson of Northern Cass was another boys distance triple crown winner, running 1:55.60 in the 800, 4:15.15 in the 1,600 and 9:22.94 in the 3,200. Cass' 1,600 effort was a state meet record.

 

Jaran Reinhardt ran a season's best 48.78 in the boys 400 and 22.03 in the 200 to win both titles.

 

Team Champions - RESULTS

 

Class A - Bismarck Legacy boys 125 points; Bismarck Century girls 100 points

 

Class B - Oak Grove Lutheran boys 67 points; Hillsboro/Central Valley girls 74 points