By John RittenhouseBoys’ track teams from Luverne and Adrian performed well at the Trojan Relays in Worthington Tuesday.The Cardinal boys won the Class AA team championship at the meet. Adrian’s boys finished fourth out of eight teams in Class A.Marcus Walgrave had another outstanding meet individually for LHS.Walgrave set meet records while winning the 110- and 300-meter hurdles with 14.82 and 39.59 times. Cardinal coach Craig Nelson said his time in the 110-meter event is a new school record, besting the 1988 standard of 14.84 set by Brian Hoime.Walgrave also won the 100-meter dash in 11.45.Tim Rust and Tyler Elbers also captured meet titles for the Cardinals. Rust cleared 12-0 in the pole vault. Elbers cleared 6-2 in the high jump.Luverne also fielded the winning 400- and 800-meter relays, which recorded 46.34 and 1:36.17 times respectively. Elbers, Rust, Cody Gehrke and Andrew Hulstein ran the 400. Elbers, Gehrke, Chris Morgan and Hulstein competed in the 800.Hulstein cleared 6-0 to place second in the high jump. Justin Van Wyhe covered 40-8 1/4 to place second in the triple jump.Luverne’s 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays placed second with respective 3:39.29 and 8:45.24 times. Jake Hendricks, Ruston Aaker, Scott Goebel and Kyle Bitterman formed the 1,600-meter team. Bitterman, Aaker, Nick Otten and Hendricks joined forces in the 3,200.Jared Brake locked up a meet title while leading the Adrian boys to a fourth-place finish in Class A.Brake won the triple jump with a distance of 38-11 1/4. He also placed second in the long jump (18-5 1/4) and 110 hurdles (16.71), and fifth in the discus (116-7).The Luverne girls placed fourth in Class AA and the Dragon girls finished seventh in the Class A field.Marissa Stewart had an outstanding meet for the Cardinals. She won the shot put and discus competitions with tosses of 34-3 1/2 and 107-0.Luverne also won the medley relay with a time of 4:33.17. Nicole Willers, Amanda Dooyema, Lexi Heitkamp and Victoria Arends formed the team.Heitkamp placed second in the 1,600-meter run in 5:38.03. Danielle Cook finished second in the 300-meter hurdles in 47.91.The girls’ 1,600-meter relay team turned in the best performance for Adrian at the meet. Emily Thier, Amanda Lynn, Sarah Jensen and Jolene Reisdorfer covered the distance in 4:29.79 to place second.Here is a look at the rest of Luverne’s and Adrian’s Top-Eight finishers from the Trojan Relays.Luverne boysThird place: Elbers, 400, 54.58; medley relay (Ben Cornish, Gehrke, Hendricks and Goebel), 3:58.14; Otten, 3,200, 10:53.3; Van Wyhe, long jump, 19-2 1/2.Fourth place: Rust, 100, 12.05; Hulstein, 110 hurdles, 17.5; Goebel, 1,600, 4:45.81.Seventh place: Aaker, pole vault, 8-6.Eighth place: Thomas Gluf, discus, 108-0.Adrian boysThird place: Kyle Knips, 400, 53.75; medley relay (Anton Klingenberg, Jordan Brake, Pete Jensen and Lee Stover), 4:00.73.Fourth place: Casey Knips, discus, 117-5; 800 relay (Klingenberg, Chad Janssen, Billy Anderson and K.Knips), 1:40.28; 1,600 relay (Stover, Janssen, Honermann and K.Knips), 3:48.06.Fifth place: 400 relay (Anderson, Janssen, Jordan Brake and Klingenberg), 49.88; 3,200 relay (Stover, Honermann, Brandon Bullerman and Josh Croat), 9:30.97.Sixth place: C.Knips, shot, 39-10 1/2; Bullerman, 3,200, 11:37.45.Luverne girlsThird place: 800 relay (Callen Bosshart, Dooyema, Cook and Jenni Christensen), 1:51.56; 1,600 relay (Christensen, Dooyema, Sadie Dietrich and Arends), 4:16.87.Fourth place: Christensen, 400, 1:04.64; 400 relay (Bosshart, Cassie Pap, Maggie Kuhlman and Willers), 53.66.Fifth place: Cook, 100 hurdles, 16.94; Kelsey Dooyema, 1,600, 5:54.71; Tera Boomgaarden, 3,200, 13:52; Kuhlman, high jump, 4-6.Sixth place: N.Willers, 100, 13.84; K.Dooyema, 3,200, 13:12.22.Seventh place: Bosshart, 100, 13.99; Heitkamp, high jump, 4-6.Eighth place: Pap, triple jump, 29-10 1/2.Adrian girlsThird place: McCall Heitkamp, 1,600, 6:05.69.Fourth place: Sarah Jensen, 300 hurdles, 55.01.Fifth place: Lynn, 400, 1:08.89; medley relay (Monica Souksanvong, Kelsey Wiertsema, Reisdorfer and Heitkamp), 4:56.31.Sixth place: 800 relay (Reisdorfer, Thier, Lynn and Jensen), 1:58.31
