Two Lyle-Pacelli athletes headed to state track and field meet

Published 10:21 pm Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Lyle-Pacelli’s Sarah Holtz competes in the high jump at the Section 1A meet in Triton Tuesday. Adam Holt/Faribault Daily News

Lyle-Pacelli’s Sarah Holtz competes in the high jump at the Section 1A meet in Triton Tuesday. Adam Holt/Faribault Daily News

A pair of Lyle-Pacelli athletes earned trips to the Class A state meet at the Section 1A preliminary meet in Triton Tuesday.

LP senior Sarah Holtz earned her third straight trip to state in the high jump as she won the Section 1A meet with a height of 5-4 and LP freshman Kayla Christopherson earned her first trip to the state track and field meet in the 1600-meter run as she took second with a time of 11:19.72.

Holtz took fourth in the state high jump last year and Christopherson has run in the Class A state cross country meet three straight years.

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BOYS RESULTS

200-meter dash: Anthony Nelson (BP) (sixth, 23.66); 400-meter dash: Wyatt Grundmeier (BP) (fifth, 52.43); 110-meter hurdles: Drew Lewison (GMLOKS) (eighth, 16.91); 300-meter hurdles: Peter Torkelson (GMLOKS) (first, 41.64); 4 x 400-meter relay: Marten Morem, Elijah Baker, Gabe Hagen, Grundmeier (seventh, 3:42.02); shot put: Trey Chatman (H) (sixth, 44-1)

GIRLS RESULTS

100-meter dash: Meshon Baxter (H) (11th, 13.91); Molly Haslam (GMLOKS) (12th, 14.08); 200-meter dash: Rachel Nelson (LP) (seventh, 27.8); Emily Hovden (GMLOKS) (eighth, 27.89); 400-meter dash: Lauren Buchholtz (GMLOKS) (first, 1:00.3); Riley Queensland (GMLOKS) (10th, 1:02.50); 3200-meter run: Kayla Christopherson (second, 11:19.72); 100-meter hurdles: Katelyn Luthe (GMLOKS) (fifth, 16.69); Sam Siskow (GMLOKS) (10th, 17.60); 300-meter hurdles: Allison Bottema (GMLOKS) (12th, 52.30); 4 x 100-meter relay: Luthe, Hovden, Kassidy Kirtz, Sydney Bendtsen (third, 51.60); 4 x 200-meter relay: Jordyn Glynn, Buchholtz, Hovden, Bendtsen (second, 1:48.20); Hannah Tempel, Baxter, Alexandra Louks, Abby Stasko (H) (eighth, 1:50.99); 4 x 100-meter relay: Glynn, Buchholtz, Queensland, Amelia Staat (fifth, 4:12.46); Stasko, Louks, Tempel, Baxter (seventh, 4:14.40); high jump: Sarah Holtz (LP) (first, 5-4); Queensland (10th, 4-9); long jump: Bendtsen (sixth, 15-11.50); Isabelle Olson (GMLOKS) (10th, 14-10.5); discus: Kristi Fett (LP) (seventh, 104-3)