Austin junior Rachel Quandt set a new AHS school record and she was one of two Packer girls to win a Big Nine title as the Austin girls took fourth out of 12 teams at the Big Nine track and field meet in Mankato East Friday.

The Packer boys took ninth as a team.

Quandt broke the record of 15.81 in the 100-meter hurdles set in 2008 by AHS grad Jessica Webber. Quandt topped the record first in preliminaries when she ran the event in 15.44 seconds. Quandt ran the finals in 15.62 seconds, which was still faster than the previous record, and she beat Mankato West’s Christa Benson by .23 of a second to win the race.

Quandt credited the weather for helping her time and she also came into the meet on a mission.

“I like to get myself angry before I run, because it helps me run faster,” Quandt said. “I thought about how close I was to the record in our last meet and how much I wanted to break it. When I saw the clock, it was a great feeling.”

Quandt said winning the 100-hurdles at the Big Nine meet is a big boost for her confidence and now she’s focused on running even faster at the Section 1AA meet.

Austin’s other first place finisher was sophomore Odongonga Obala, who won the 400-meter dash with a time of 59.89 seconds. It was Oballa’s best time of the season and she won the race by about a second.

“Her endurance is getting better,” Austin head coach Nancy Jones said of Oballa. “She makes it look so smooth and easy. She really has great running form.”

Austin’s Kendall Hackensmith was All Big Nine honorable mention with a third place finish in the 300-meter hurdles, and Madison Overby earned All-Big Nine honors in the 1600-meter run, where she took third, and the 800-meter run, where she took third.

In the boys meet, Austin’s Connor Sheehan took fourth in the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes.

BOYS RESULTS

1. Mankato West 236.6; 2. Mankato East 229.5; 3. Century 209.3; 4. Red Wing 127; 5. John Marshall 120; 6. Mayo 110; 7. Owatonna 109.5; 8. Faribault 80.5; 9. Austin 68.5; 10. Winona 66; 11. Albert Lea 62; 12. Northfield 35

4 x 800-meter relay: Victor Velazquez-Mendoza, Mitchell Mayer, Sean Baker, Joe Kroymann (ninth, 8:53.08)

110-meter hurdles: Trent Brown (sixth, 16.25); Adam Bergstrom (seventh, 16.25)

100-meter dash: Jon Gallager (fifth, 11.66)

4 x 200-meter relay: Gallager, Tyler Olson, Noah Kinney, Connor Sheehan (fifth, 1:33.65)

1600-meter run: Holden Ourada (17th, 4:53.29)

400-meter dash: Sheehan (fourth, 51.87)

300-meter hurdles: Brown (third, 41.67)

800-meter run: Ourada (ninth, 2:07.52)

200-meter dash: Sheehan (fourth, 23.07)

3200-meter run: Baker (16th, 10:42.33)

4 x 400-meter relay: Corbin Munger, Adam Bergstrom, Brown, Ourada (11th, 3:40.57)

Shot put: Diego Soto (10th, 43-3.25)

Discus: Pat Hagan (ninth, 127-6)

Triple jump: Jany Gash (40-10); Brown (eighth, 40-9.50)

High jump: Mabor Chabil (seventh, 6-1)

Pole vault: Aiden Wilson (eighth, 11-6)

GIRLS RESULTS

Team scores: 1. Red Wing 228.5; 2. Century 200.5; 3. Mankato West 165; 4. Austin 139; 5. Northfield 136.5; 6. Mankato East 126; 7; Owatonna 121; 8. John Marshall 120; 9. Mayo 88; 10. Faribault 66.5; 11. Faribault 66.5; 11. Albert Lea 39; 12. Winona 23

4 x 400-meter relay: Paiton Schwab, Morgan Hose, Justice Tabor, Colie Justice (11th, 11:12.72)

100-meter hurdles: Rachel Quandt (first, 15.62); Kendall Hackensmith (fourth, 16.58)

4 x 200-meter relay: Hannah Alberts, Alex Hansen, Miranda Bergemann, Odongonga Oballa (seventh, 1:52.79)

1600-meter run: Madison Overby (third, 5:14.60); Abby Lewis (sixth, 5:19.61)

4 x 100-meter relay: Alberts, Isabelle Reuter, Paige Raymond, Quandt (10th, 54.59)

400-meter dash: Odongoga Oballa (first, 59.89)

300-meter hurdles: Hackensmith (third, 48.61); Raymond (ninth, 52.29)

800-meter run: Overby (third, 2:23.74)

200-meter dash: Oballa (third, 26.72)

3200-meter run: Lewis (fourth, 11:45.57)

4 x 400-meter relay: Hackensmith, Alex Hansen, Bergemann, Overby (seventh, 4:20.31)

Shot put: Alex Hansen (seventh, 35-10)

High jump: Alex Hansen (fifth, 5-0)

Pole vault: Sydney Marsh (10th, 8-9)