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Madison Johnson was a double winner in the girls' 800 and 1,600.
Logan Weninger took the boys' 200 and 400 dashes, and also ran on the winning 4x400-meter relay team.
Ahead of the 2023 spring outdoor track season, Carrington's Logan Weninger decided to get a leg up on his competition.
For the past few months, the speedy Cardinal junior has been competing as an unattached athlete in collegiate indoor meets, as there is no officially-sanctioned high school season in North Dakota.
Weninger's head start paid off with two individual event victories at the State Class B Indoor Track Meet at NDSU's Shelly Ellig Indoor Track and Field Facility, and he also anchored another relay which took a first place award.
He would win the 200 (23.6 seconds) and 400-meter dashes (51.38), and crossed the line for the 4x400 relay team (3:40.65) which also included runners Jaxon Schaefer, Ryder Bickett and McKade Zink.
Schaefer had the other placing performance for CHS in the pole vault, taking seventh with an 8'9" effort.
With that, the CHS boys placed sixth overall with 32 points. Kindred, last year's state outdoor title winners, look to be the team to beat again with an unchallenged 132-point afternoon, well ahead of Hillsboro/Central Valley (54 points) in second.
The Cardinal girls made use of three event titles, two by Madison Johnson, one by Kenadie Pazdernik, a 4x800 relay win and depth in the hurdles and pole vault to win the team race with 82 points, 12 clear of runner-up Lisbon.
Johnson swept the 800 and 1,600-meter events in 2:30.71 and 5:31.76, respectively, and Pazdernik was the top 3,200 (two-mile) runner with a 12:42.93 clocking.
Pazdernik would run the second leg of the winning 4x800-meter team with Mercedes Lura, Kacie Rexin and Edyn Hoornaert. The foursome crossed the finish line in 10:53.04.
Senior Haley Wolsky placed second in both the 60-meter hurdles (10.07) behind meet record-setting winner Kelsie Belquist of NR-S, and matched that placement in the pole vault (9'3"). The 4x400 group of Kennedy and Isabel Wendel, Rexin and Hoornaert (4:29.57) were also second.
Lura took third in the pole vault and sixth in the 200, while Isabel Wendel was sixth in high jump and seventh in the 60 hurdles. Sierra Friedt's pole vault showing of seventh place rounded out the Cardinal scoring.
Full CHS results from the State B Indoor are as follows:
State Class B Indoor Track Meet
Shelly Ellig Indoor Track
and Field Facility, NDSU
Girls' Team Scores
Carrington 82, Lisbon 70, Central Cass 53, Shiloh Christian 50, NR-S 47, Oak Grove Lutheran 44, Kindred 40, Hatton-Northwood 34, Hillsboro/Central Valley 23, Grafton 18, Kidder County 16, Ellendale 14, Edgeley/Kulm and HWC 13, Benson Co. and LaMoure/Litchville-Marion 12, Grant Co./Flasher, New Town and Sargent Co. 6, Enderlin 5.
CHS Girls' Individual Results
200-Meter Dash: Mercedes Lura (6th), 28.05; Jazmyn Ybarra (51st), 33.09
800-Meter Run: Madison Johnson (1st), 2:30.71
1,600-Meter Run: Johnson (1st), 5:31.76
3,200-Meter Run: Kenadie Pazdernik (1st), 12:42.93
60-Meter Hurdles: Haley Wolsky (3rd-prelims), 10.07, (2nd-finals), 10.07; Isabel Wendel (7th-prelims), 10.63, (7th-finals), 10.73
4x400-Meter Relay: Kennedy Wendel, I. Wendel, Kacie Rexin, Edyn Hoornaert (2nd), 4:29.57
4x800-Meter Relay: Lura, Pazdernik, Rexin, Hoornaert (1st), 10:53.04
High Jump: I. Wendel (6th), 4'8"; Ybarra (9th-Tie), 4'4"
Pole Vault: Wolsky (2nd), 9'3"; Lura (3rd), 8'9"; Sierra Friedt (7th), 7'3"; Ybarra (11th), 6'9"
Triple Jump: Friedt (15th), 27' 6 3/4"; Kelsi Neuman (18th), 26' 8 1/4"
Shot Put: Neuman (23rd), 26'6"; Molly Hansen (26th), 25'9"
Boys' Team Scores
Kindred 132, Hillsboro/Central Valley 54, New Town 52, Lisbon 48, Central Cass 39, Carrington 32, Benson Co. 31, NR-S 27.5, Oak Grove Lutheran 25, Shiloh Christian 24, Kidder Co. 21, HWC 19, Edgeley/Kulm 18, Grafton 17, Sargent Co. 13, Grant Co./Flasher 7, Barnes Co. North and Maple River 6, Richland 5, Ellendale 2, Strasburg 1.5, Enderlin, Hatton-Northwood and LaMoure/Litchville-Marion 1.
CHS Boys' Individual Results
60-Meter Dash: McKade Zink (33rd), 7.78; Peyton Harrington (50th), 8.03; Jake Otto (60th), 8.19; Maddyx Davis (77th), 8.64
200-Meter Dash: Logan Weninger (1st), 23.60; Davis (62nd), 29.38
400-Meter Dash: Weninger (1st), 51.38; Harrington (14th), 1:00.44; Davis (27th), 1:06.48
800-Meter Run: Joe Lindberg (17th), 2:24.85; Avery Konschak (28th), 3:00.71
1,600-Meter Run: Lindberg (19th), 5:30.22
4x200-Meter Relay: Otto, Harrington, Ryder Bickett, Zink (9th) 1:42.95
4x400-Meter Relay: Jaxon Schaefer, Bickett, Zink, Weninger (1st), 3:40.65
Pole Vault: Schaefer (7th), 8'9"
Shot Put: Dylan Bachmeier (38th), 33'6"
