Senior High girls
win true team title
CROOKSTON -- The East Grand Forks Senior High girls track team won nine events, including all four relays, to win the Minnesota Section 8AA true team meet here Tuesday.
Jaclyn Scanlan finished first in the 800 meters with a time of 2 minutes, 23.61 seconds and the 1,600 in 5:13.69 for the Green Wave.
Bridget Piche won the 100 (12.87 seconds) and the pole vault with a leap of 9 feet, 6 inches. Chelsey Frydenlund won the long jump with an effort of 17-1.
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Senior High finished with 458½ points. Detroit Lakes came in second place with 365½, followed by Fergus Falls with 363½.
In the boys division, Senior High missed the true team state meet by the narrowest of margins.
Perham won the team title with 380½ points, followed by the Green Wave with 380.
The team title came down to the final race, the 4x800 relay. Perham edged Senior High by 1.53 seconds.
"It was a tremendous effort," Senior High boys coach Kirk Misialek said, "but we've got some bummed kids. The crowd was going crazy (during the 4x800). It was classic."
The Green Wave boys had four first-place finishers, all in field events.
Brandon Brekke won the high jump with a leap of 6 feet. Luke Misialek won the long jump with a leap of 19-9½. Joey Hanson won the discus with a throw of 142-8. Cody Grabow won the shot put with a toss of 46-0¼.
