Track: Lake City girls win Wabasha-Kellogg meet

The Lake City girls track and field team won the Klas-Kronebusch Invitational Friday at Wabasha-Kellogg High School and got wins in eight events.

The Tigers scored 194 points and beat Dover-Eyota/St. Charles, which scored 173 points.

Kaylee Becker won the 100-meter hurdles in 18.51 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 52.56 while two relay teams won and two placed second.

Lake City’s 4x100 team of Brandy White, Braeden McElmury, Shannon Ting and Haley Vaith won in 54.56. The 4x200 relay of White, Ting, McElmury and Bailey Cronin won in 1:56.03. The 4x400 relay team of Taylor Koller, Kristine Novak, McElmury and Cronin took second in 4:29.51 and the 4x800 team of Carissa Balow, Rebecca Goertzen, Juli Keller and Anna Johnson placed second in 11:45.21.

Kristin Getschmann won two field events for Lake City. Getschmann won the shot put with a throw of 31-7 and the discus with a throw of 80-1.

Novak won the pole vault by reaching nine feet. White won the long jump by going 14-11.

Pepin-Alma finished in third place with 66 points, most of which came from Molly Grisen.

Grisen won four events for the Eagles, beginning with the 100. Grisen won the 100 in 13.9, won the 200 in 28.02, won the 400 in 1:04.86 and the high jump by clearing 4-4.

Alysha Ausman took second in the shot put with a toss of 29-3 for Pepin-Alma.

Lake City boys place third

Carsten Dammann provided the Lake City boys track and field team with its only victory Friday at theKlas-Kronebusch Invitational Friday at Wabasha-Kellogg High School.

Dammann won the 3,200 in 11:02.5 and the Tigers got a pair of second-place finishes.

Gage Kranz took second in the 400 in 56.94, six tenths of a second behind Kenyon-Wanamingo’s Kyle Keller for Lake City and the 4x200 relay team of Zach Peterson, Jonah Kroll, Cody Hansen and Nick Tynjala took second in 1:44.81.

Pepin-Alma’s Jarod Schamaun won the long jump, going 20-5 and the triple jump with a jump of 40-1. The Eagles finished sixth with 48 points.

Dover-Eyota/St. Charles won the meet with 171 points and Wabasha-Kellogg took second with 118 points.

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