By John Rittenhouse
The Luverne girls' track team played catch-up at Cardinal Field Saturday.
Three weeks after having the Tri-State Relays rained out, a slimmed down version of the event was staged in Luverne over the weekend.
The Cardinals took advantage of the situation to score 156 points while placing second to Southwest Star Concept-Sioux Valley-Round Lake-Brewster, which won the team competition with 214 points.
Worthington, Fulda and Canby-Minneota capped the field with 118, 89 and 50 points respectively.
Two Cardinals won individual events and one relay team secured a meet title during the meet.
Victoria Arends and Danielle Cook captured the individual titles for LHS.
Arends ran 1,600 meters in 5:49.84. Cook cleared the 300-meter hurdles in 48.6.
Luverne also took top honors in the 1,600-meter relay. Amanda Dooyema, Jenni Christensen Hannah and Sadie Dietrich ran the distance in 4:17.36.
The Dietrichs and Amanda Aning placed second in individual events.
Sadie Dietrich ran 200 meters in 28.42, and Hannah Dietrich was timed at 1:03.84 in the 400-meter dash.
Aning tied a meet record while finishing second in the pole vault by clearing 10-0. Worthington's Marten, who also cleared 10-0, was awarded first place based on misses at prior heights.
Aning also cleared 5-0 to place second in the high jump.
Luverne's 800-meter relay team of Callen Bosshart, Cook, Maggie Vanden Hoek and Christensen also placed second with a time of 1:53.47.
The Cardinal girls will wrap up the regular season by competing at the Southwest Conference meet in Pipestone.
Here is a look at the rest of Luverne's top eight finishers from the Tri-State Relays.
Third place: Adria, Sherwood, discus, 98-5; 400 relay (Bosshart, Vanden Hoek, Nicole Willers and Aning), 55.01.
Fourth place: Maggie Kuhlman, 3,200, 15:27.67; Christensen, 800, 2:43.44; N.Willers, 100, 14.03; Tracey Scheidt, 300 hurdles, 51.46; Marissa Stewart, shot, 30-9 1/2.
Fifth place: Marissa Stewart, discus, 89-10; Chelsea Park, 3,200, 15:40; Scheidt, 100 hurdles, 18.26; Bosshart, 100, 14.6; Abby Klosterbuer, 400, 1:09.68; Patricia Willers, 300 hurdles, 51.71; N.Willers, 200, 29.35;.
Sixth place: Megan Johnson, 3,200, 15:50; Christina Smidstra, 100, 14.62; Vanden Hoek, 200, 30.04; Dooyema, triple jump, 29-8 1/2; Allana Gacke, pole vault, 7-0.
Seventh place: Nicole Cronquist, 1,600, 6:16.4.
Eighth place: Jessica Willers, 100 hurdles, 20.29; Park, 400, 1:12.61; Arends, 200, 30.66; Gacke, triple jump, 28-4 3/4; Sandra Willers, shot, 28-11; Sara Sneller, discus, 86-2.