Luverne senior Danielle Cook placed third in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles during the Section 3A Track and Field Championships in Montevideo Thursday.By John RittenhouseA 10-year run of sending at least one girl to the Minnesota State Class A Track and Field Championships came to an end for Luverne Thursday.Competing at the Section 3A meet in Montevideo, the Cardinals were unable to meet any of the criteria that sends an athlete on to the state classic in Blaine.Section champion relay teams, first- and second-place finishers in individual events and any individual or relay that meets the state-qualifying standards in place for the section meet earn automatic berths into the state meet.For the first time since 1994, no Luverne girls could get the job done Thursday.Senior Danielle Cook and the 3,200-meter relay team missed advancing to state by one place.Cook placed third in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles with respective 16.82 and 48.3 times. Her effort in the 300 was less than one-half of one second short of meeting the state-qualifying standard.The 3,200-meter relay team of Tera Boomgaarden, Sadie Dietrich, Lexi Heitkamp and Victoria Arends placed second with a time of 10:11.3.Arends, Heitkamp and Boomgaarden picked up individual places for the Cardinals.Arends ran 800 meters in 2:30.95 to place fifth, Heitkamp was sixth in the 3,200-meter run (12:35.85) and seventh in the 400-meter dash (1:02.37) and Boomgaarden was eighth in the 800 (5:56.66).Maggie Kuhlman, Serena Franken, Jenni Christensen and Callen Bosshart also placed individually.Kuhlman cleared the 300 meter hurdles in 50.37 to place sixth, Franken tossed discus 100-11 to finish seventh, Christensen was seventh in the 200-meter dash in 28.22 and Bosshart placed eighth in the 100-meter dash in 13.91.Luverne placed fifth in the 400- and 800-meter relays with respective 53.25 and 1:51.68 times. Bosshart, Cassie Pap, Erin Hoiland and Nicole Willers ran the 400. Bosshart, Amanda Dooyema, Cook and Christensen teamed up in the 800.The Cardinals finished sixth in team competition with 46 points.
