State track and field championships run Thursday through Saturday at Sioux Falls

MITCHELL — Watertown High School's athletes closed out their regular season by winning 15 events in the Mark Wendelgass Relays track and field meet on Friday.

The meet was postponed on Thursday due to poor air quality. Brookings, Huron and Mitchell also competed.

Mark Wendelgass Results: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23818026-2023-mark-wendelgass-relays-results?responsive=1&title=1

"It was nice to get this meet in," said Watertown head coach Chad Rohde. "It would have been a terrible way to end a season or someone's last meet like some seniors."

Boys division event winners for the Arrows included Jaxson Fiechtner (800-meter run), Boaz Raderschadt (shot put and discus), Tommy Foley (pole vault) and Brayden Ross (triple jump).

James Clendenin, Wyatt Smunk, Markus Pitkin and Noah Dagel won the 400 relay and Fiechtner anchored the winning 1,600 relay that included Jeremiah Schulte, Ayden Steiner and Jerome Zebroski.

Girls division event winners for Watertown were Anna Hirtz (100 dash), Andi Olson (800 run), Emma List (3,200 run), Malia Kranz (shot put), Maddy Rohde (javelin), Reese Munger (high jump) and Elizabeth Lake (pole vault).

Emma and Molly Hendricks, Olivia Whiting and Ellery Stark teamed to win the medley relay.

"The athletes on the bubble did all they could to move themselves into a spot to earn a berth in the state meet," said Rohde.

Watertown's athletes will conclude their season Thursday through Saturday in the South Dakota State High School Track and Field Championships at Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls.

"Our focus now is to get in a good week of practice with the athletes who will be at the state meet. Certainly some kids feel like they have some unfinished business and are hoping to get some personal-best marks," said Rohde.

"This will be a little smaller group than we normally take to state, but we're still hoping to make some noise and bring home some hardware."

Complete results can be found at www.thepublicopinion.com.

Region 6A

MOBRIDGE — Mobridge-Pollock again swept the team titles in the Region 6A track and field meet on Friday.

The Tigers won the girls division with 267 points and the boys division with 184.5 in the eight-school meet.

Region 6A Team Scores: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23818020-region-6a-team-scores?responsive=1&title=1

Faith Heil (800 and 1,600-meter run), Ryli Thompson (100 and 400 dashes), Sophia Overland (200 dash), Heidi Olson (3,200 run) and Emily Hatzenbuhler (discus) each won events for Mobridge-Pollock's girls, who also won four of the five relays.

The Tigers won the 400 (Brooke Bain, Overland, Kennedi Schmeichel and Mariah Goehring), 800 (Overland, Jacy Netterville, Jayda Thompson and R. Thompson), 1,600 (Netterville, Heil and the Thompsons) and 3,200 (Netterville, J. Thompson, Olson and Heil) relays.

Mobridge-Pollock's boys got event winners from Simon Fried (300 hurdles and pole vault) and Carter Hinsz (shot put) and also won the 1,600 (Remmi Ford, Turner Pfitzer, Shane Henderson and Fried) and medley (Greg Kessler, Mack Saxon, Broc Bauer and Ashton Waliser) relays.

Region 6A Results: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23818021-region-6a-track?responsive=1&title=1

Kaidence Bulgin (110 hurdles) and Peyton Schnabel (pole vault) of North Central also won events in the girls division. Tyler Bull Head of McLaughlin won the boys' high jump.

Brendon Bothwell of Stanley County, (100 and 200 dashes plus 400 relay), Pierce Baumberger of Miller (1,600 and 3,200 runs) and Isaak Hunter of Miller (110 hurdles and triple jump) each won multiple events in the boys division.

Complete results can be found at www.thepublicopinion.com.

Big 4 Meet

MITCHELL — Watertown swept team titles in the eighth-grade divisions on Friday during the Big Four Middle School Track and Field meet.

Huron, Brookings and Mitchell also competed. Watertown won the eighth-grade girls division with 283 points and the eighth-grade boys division with 236.25.

Brookings won over Watertown in the seventh-grade girls division. Mitchell won the seventh-grade boys division, followed by Brookings and Watertown.

Lincoln Schutt won the 100, 200 and 400 dashes and also ran on the winning 400 relay (Charlie Whiting, Zach Beynon and Johnathan Lake) in the eighth-grade boys division to lead Watertown.

Other WMS event winners were:

Big 4 Results: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23818025-2023-big-4-track-field-results?responsive=1&title=1

Eighth-Grade Boys: Dane Stark (1,600 run) and Whiting (pole vault). The Arrows also won the 800 (Isaac Rehorst, Bailey Dorneman, Owen Engelbrecht and Caden Corey) and 1,600 (Jaxon Dorothy, Landon Struckman, Corey and Xane Fligge) relays.

Eighth-Grade Girls: Claire Schochenmaier (400 dash), Jordan Remmers (800 and 1,600 runs), Claire Woolley (100 hurdles), Savannah Sovell (200 hurdles), Mayla McGhee (high jump), Shauna Evenson (long jump) and Hensley Hogue (pole vault). Watertown also won the 800 relay with Wooley, Katie Schneider, Evenson and Briana McElhany and the 1,600 relay with McElhany, Tai Engels, Schochenmaier and Remmers).

Seventh-Grade Boys: Zachary Fayant (400 dash), Kye Paulson (high jump), Braden Zenc (pole vault), Tyson Miller (long jump) and the medley relay team of Miller, Gavin and Gage Robison and Carson Schlaht.

Seventh-Grade Girls: Torrence Tipton (high jump).

Complete results can be found at www.thepublicopinion.com.

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This article originally appeared on Watertown Public Opinion: Highlights from Mark Wendelgass Relays and Region 6A track meets