Athletics: Alexandria clinch 1st place in Monticello encounter with 161 team points – Alexandria Echo Press
The Alexandria Boys’ Track and Field team scored another victory Tuesday beating seven other teams. Competing at Monticello, Alexandria scored 161 points, 38 more than second-placed Monticello.
The Cardinals have won three events, six second-place finishes and seven third-place finishes.
Christian Doumbia and Will Heydt helped the Cardinals to two of their three wins. Doumbia won the 100m by 0.03 (11.41) against compatriot Cardinal Vendal Becker (11.44), and Doumbia was one of four runners in the 4x100m relay team, along with Heydt, Teagan Pfeffer and Trey Negen, who won the first with a time of 46.19.
Heydt also took first place in the triple jump (43-6) and second in the long jump (20-00). The Cardinals earned two additional second-place finishes in field events, with Bryr Homelvig finishing second in pole vault (11-00) and Zander Homelvig second in discus (123-10).
Logan Peterson took second place in the 110m hurdles with a personal best 17.02 while the team of Owen Draper, Hunter Mohr, Joel Brault and Erick Bergerson took second place in the 4x800m relay (9:07 ,52).
Otto Anderson finished third in the 110m hurdles with a personal best 17.17.
In the 4x200m relay, the team of Becker, Pfeffer, Matthew Johnson and Walker Hennen finished third (1:38.18).
Brault was third in the 3200m (10:06.49) while Riley Wagner posted a personal best 2:08.15 in the 800m which also earned him third place.
Rounding up the top three for the Cardinals, Pfeffer was third in the long jump (19-8) while Joey Lanoux earned third in the discus throw (123-4) and third in the shot put with a record 45-8 staff.
The Cardinals return to action at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in Willmar for a quadruple encounter.