By John RittenhouseA pair of track programs from the Star Herald coverage area tested their skills at the Worthington Invitational Thursday.The day proved to be a good one for Luverne, which repeated as team champions in the boys’ and girls’ divisions. Adrian placed fifth in a seven-team boys’ field, and the Dragon girls capped a seven-squad field.Luverne’s girls captured nine meet titles and finished second in seven events while winning the team title by 71 points over the host school.Danielle Cook played a role in three of the wins as she took top honors in the 100- and 300-meter hurdles with respective 16.56 and 49.93 times, and ran a leg with the champion 800-meter relay team. Cook, Amanda Dooyema, Callen Bosshart and Jenni Christensen ran the 800 in 1:53.34.Luverne also won the 1,600- and 3,200-meter relays with 4:31.34 and 10:43.35 efforts. Christensen, Dooyema, Sadie Dietrich and Victoria Arends teamed up in the 1,600. Dietrich, Tera Boomgaarden, Arends and Lexi Heitkamp ran the 3,200.Dietrich (2:42.1 in the 800), Heitkamp (5:26.25 in the 1,600), Christensen (27.89 in the 200) and Marissa Stewart (100.9 in the discus) picked up individual meet titles.Stewart (31-5 1/4 in the shot put), Arends (1:05.3 in the 400), Boomgaarden (2:45.54 in the 800), Maggie Kuhlman (4-6 in the high jump), Kelsey Dooyema (13:31.1 in the 3,200) and Nicole Willers (28.65 in the 200) placed second individually for LHS.The 400-meter relay team of Bosshart, Cassie Pap, Erin Hoiland and Willers finished second in 55.64.A pair of fourth-place performances proved to be the highlight of the meet for the Adrian girls.Dragon Jolene Reisdorfer finished fourth in the 200-meter dash in 28.88, and ran a leg with Adrian’s fourth-place finishing 800-meter relay. Reisdorfer, Emily Thier, Amanda Lynn and Sarah Jensen ran the 800 in 2:00.06.The Luverne boys walked away with 11 meet titles and finished second in three events.Marcus Walgrave set a new meet record with the winning time of 15.12 in the 110-meter high hurdles. He also won the 100-meter dash in 11.4.Tyler Elbers (6-0 in the high jump and 23.74 in the 200) and Justin Van Wyhe (39-9 3/4 in the triple jump and 18-2 1/4 in the long jump) also won two individual events each for LHS.Scott Goebel claimed the 1600-meter run title in 5:06.76, Nick Otten took top honors in the 3,200-meter run in 10:58.52, and Tim Rust cleared 11-6 to win the pole vault.Luverne also won the 400- and 800-meter relays with 47.29 and 1:37.28 times. Elbers, Cody Gehrke, Chris Morgan and Andrew Hulstein ran the 800. Elbers, Rust, Van Wyhe and Hulstein teamed up in the 400.Rust finished second in the 100-meter dash in 11.89, and Ruston Aaker came in second during the 400-meter dash with a time of 55.05.Aaker, Jake Hendricks, Nick Otten and Kyle Bitterman placed second in the 3200-meter relay with a time of 9:07.65.The Adrian boys were led by a pair of second-place performances turned in by Casey Knips and Jared Brake.Knips, who finished third with a toss of 40-3 1/4 in the shot put, placed second in the discus with a toss of 121-5.Brake, who placed third in the 110-meter hurdles (16.75) and triple jump (36-11), finished second in the long jump with a distance of 18-1 1/4.Here is a look at the team standings and the rest of Luverne’s and Adrian’s top six finishers during the Worthington Invitational.Girls’ standings: Luverne 195, Worthington 121, Southwest United 70, Southwest Christian 67, Fulda 35, Red Rock Central-Westbrook-Walnut Grove 30, Adrian 13.Boys’ standings: Luverne 174, SWC 140.5; Fulda 98, Worthington 80.5; Adrian 51, RRC-W-WG eight, SWU one.Luverne girlsThird place: K.Dooyema, 1,600, 6:04.64; Hilary Hansen, 400, 1:07.56; Amanda Kannas, 3,200, 14:13.9; Arends, high jump, 4-4; Pap, long jump, 13-2.Fourth place: Bosshart, 100, 13.75; Kuhlman, long jump, 12-10 1/2.Fifth place: Willers, 100, 13.79; Kuhlman, 300 hurdles, 56.97; Pap, triple jump, 29-8; Bosshart, long jump, 12-7 3/4.Sixth place: Kuhlman, triple jump, 29-4; Jessica Willers, 100 hurdles, 19.9.Adrian girlsFifth place: Lynn, 400, 1:09.66.Sixth place: 400 relay (Thier, Monica Souksanvong, Jamie Koehne and Kristina Wagner), 59.19; McCall Heitkamp, 800, 2:54.4.Luverne boysThird place: Morgan, 300 hurdles, 45.7; Hulstein, high jump, 5-6; 1,600 relay (Aaker, Bitterman, Hendricks and Goebel), 3:56.11.Fourth place: Hulstein, 110 hurdles, 17.04; Hendricks, 400, 55.79; Goebel, 800, 2:15.42; Gehrke, 200, 24.88.Fifth place: Ryan Wynia, pole vault, 8-0.Sixth place: Ben Cornish, long jump, 15-11; Thomas Gluf, discus, 111-7; Morgan, shot, 37-10 1/2; Bitterman, 800, 2:17.4.Adrian boysThird place: Kyle Knips, 400, 55.7.Fourth place: 3,200 relay (Lee Stover, Paul Honermann, Brandon Bullerman and Justin Reisdorfer), 9:27.83.Fifth place: Stover, 800, 2:16.34; 800 relay (Billy Anderson, Josh Croat, Chad Janssen and K.Knips), 1:44.78.Sixth place: 400 relay (Janssen, Jordan Brake, Croat and Anderson), 52.99.
