Sue Sitter/PCT Rugby’s Peyton Hauck races in the girls’ 100-yard dash event at the Panther Booster Invitational Track and Field Meet at Rugby High School May 15.

The number of Rugby Panthers track athletes with tickets punched for state grew after three meets held in a one-week period May 9-16.

Rugby’s William Lundberg continued to excel in the dash events. He added a qualifying 51.94-second time in the 400-meter dash to qualifiers in the 100 and 200-meter events earned earlier in the season.

Logan Gronvold earned a third ticket to state in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.10 seconds.

In the long jump, Bryceton Deplazes added a state qualifying mark of 20 ft., 9.75 inches to the qualifying triple jump he earned earlier in the season.

In the javelin event, Brody Schneibel punched his ticket to state with a throw of 160 ft., 8 in.

On the Rugby Panthers Girls’ team, Ashley Martodam added a qualifying triple jump of 34 ft., 5 in. to the long jump qualifier she earned earlier in the season at the Central North Dakota Conference Outdoor Meet held in Rugby May 9.

Also earning a qualifying distance in the triple jump was Lacie Deplazes, with a mark of 34 ft. 1 in.

Rugby’s Janikka Miller bested her two previous high jump qualifying marks of 5.0 feet with a jump measured at 5 ft. 2 in.

Shot putter Riley Bonebrake added a second qualifying throw to the 36 ft., 7 in. mark she earned at the previous week’s Charlie Hanneman Memorial Meet.

Distance runners came into their own for the girls’ team, with a relay team of Brooklyn Bartsch, Hallie Hauck, Sam Blessum and Hannah Senechal securing a spot at state in the 4×400-meter relay with a time of 4:16.45.

Hauck added her ticket to state to one she had earned in the long jump at the Charlie Hanneman Memorial Meet. Her older sister, Peyton, had also qualified in the long jump at an earlier meet.

Bartsch again ran in the 4×800-meter relay, this time with teammates Mikaylee Livedalen, Jaelyn Lunde. Senechal again ran the anchor leg of the race. The four qualified for state with a time of 10:17.19.

Bartsch added her qualifying relay times to a qualifier she earned in the 800-meter event at the Hanneman Memorial Meet.

The intense schedule continued apace with the Panther Booster meet in Rugby Monday, May 15.

The meet saw the 4×100-meter relay team of Kristian Fritz, Cole Fahnestock, Logan Gronvold and William Lundberg qualify for state with a time of 45.69 seconds.

Cy Walker qualified for state in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 16.38 seconds.

Rugby’s Senechal qualified for the 800-meter race, and Bartsch qualify in the 400-meter dash.

The meet also saw Rugby’s Austin Dibble place first in the boys’1600-meter run with a time of 4:47.40.

In the boys’ 3200-meter run, Jenner Johnson set a personal record with a time of 11:14.24.

Rugby placed first in team scores over 17 other class B schools participating.

Coach Scott Grochow said Panther athletes who had not yet qualified for state would have a chance at the North Central Region Meet, scheduled for May 19. Results from that meet will appear in the May 27 Pierce County Tribune.

Rugby results for the Panther Booster Invitational Meet were:

Boys’ results:

100-meter dash: Kristian Fritz, fifth place, 11.80 seconds; Tatum Risovi, 12.37 seconds

200-meter dash: Levi Lundberg, 29.69

400-meter dash: Cole Fahnestock, 52.63

800-meter run: Connor Klein, 2 minutes, 20.06 seconds; Connor Ramsey, 2:26.99; Maddex Kirchofner, 2:30.27; Elijah Towe, 2:36.04.

1600-meter run: Austin Dibble, first place, 4:47.40; Jenner Johnson, fourth place, 5:05.39; Brayden Green, seventh place, 5:14.55; Elijah Towe, 5:43.02.

3200-meter run: Johnson, first place, 11:14.24, PR; Green, 11:47.

110-meter hurdles: Cy Walker, second place, state qualifier, 16.38; Bryceton Deplazes, third place, 16.64.

300-meter hurdles: Walker, 46.83; Hudson Torr, 53.32.

4×100-meter relay: Fritz, Cole Fahnestock, Logan Gronvold, William Lundberg, first place, state qualifier, 45.69.

4×200-meter relay: Tatum Risovi, Jove Risovi, Ramsey, Levi Lundberg, seventh place, 1:52.63.

4×800-meter relay: Klein, Green, Kirchofner, Ramsey, seventh place, 9:37.71.

Shot put: Brody Schneibel, eighth place, 39 ft. 6.0 in.; Austin Schneibel, 35 ft., 0 in.; Cole Anderson, 31 ft. 2 in.; Hudson Hjelden, 29 ft. 10.0 in.; Levi Lundberg, 22 ft. 11.0 in.

Discus: Klein, sixth place, 109 ft. 7 in.; Anderson, 95 ft. 9.0 in.

Javelin: Brody Schneibel, second place, state qualifier, 157 ft. 5 in.; Ty Schmitt, 131 ft., 6 in.; Anderson, 114 ft., 8 in.; Hjelden, 90 ft. 10 in.; Levi Lundberg, 89 ft. 1 in.

High jump: Erik Foster, second place, 6.0 ft.; Caleb Schaan, 5 ft. 2 in.; Tucker Volk, 5 ft. 2 in.; Kasen Halvorson, 4 ft. 10 in.; Eli McNeff, 4 ft. 6 in.

Pole vault: Deplazes, second place, 10 ft. 6 in.; Jove Risovi, third place, 9 ft. 6 in.; Schmitt, fourth place, 9 ft. 0 in.; Austin Schneibel, 7 ft. 6 in.

Long jump: Deplazes, sixth place, 20 ft. 4 in.; Foster, 19 ft. 3 in.; Volk, 17 ft. 1.5 in.; Bryant Bohl, 16 ft. 4 in.

Triple jump: Foster, third place, 38 ft. 9 in.; Deplazes, fifth place, 38 ft. 2 in.; Schaan, eighth place, 35 ft. 5.5 in.; Schmitt, 34 ft. 4 in.; Jove Risovi, 34 ft. 4 in.

Girls’ Results:

100-meter dash: Peyton Hauck, 13.44 seconds; Ashley Martodam, 13.82; Rylah Hager, 14.21; Haley Mayer, 14.49; Savannah McCall, 15.05; Brooke Kleespie, 15.06; Jozie Tofte, 15.32; Mari Melgaard, 15.33; Jaclyn Duchscher, 15.52; Ava Wurgler, 16.05.

200-meter dash: Peyton Hauck, 29.33; Hager, 29.63; Brekkyn Thompson, 30.20; Kleespie, 31.42; Alyssa Peterson, 32.24; Mayer, 32.27; Melgaard, 32.93; Duchscher, 33.28; Wurgler, 33.74.

400-meter dash: Brooklyn Bartsch, second place, state qualifier, 1 minute, 1.39 seconds; Hager, 1:07.20; Thompson, 1:08.88; Kleespie, 1:10.90; Melgaard, 1:12.68; Tofte, 1:16.19; Wurgler, 1:19.85.

800-meter run: Hannah Senechal, first place, state qualifier, 2:24.60; Jaelyn Lunde, seventh place, 2:42.62; Mikaylee Livedalen, eighth place, 2:43.03; Mya McNeff, 2:52.09.

1600-meter run: Lunde, eighth place, 6:13.66; Mauvlyn Kirchofner, 6:22.64; Kathryn Kuntz, 6:29.81; Ashlyn Dibble, 6:53.16.

3200-meter run: Kirchofner, third place, 14:12.44.

100-meter hurdles: Quinn Walker, sixth place, 18.04 seconds.

300-meter hurdles: Walker, 55.56.

Long jump: Hallie Hauck, second place, state qualifier, 17 ft. 2 in.; Peyton Hauck, third place, 16 ft. 4.5 in.; Martodam, seventh place, 5 ft. 0 in.; Joran Jundt, 15 ft. 0 in; Walker, 14 ft. 8.5 in.; Janikka Miller, 14 ft. 8.0 in.; Lacie Deplazes, 14 ft. 1 in.; Taylor Pritschet, 14 ft. 1 in.; McCall, 14 ft., 1 in.; Harlie Volk, 14 ft. 0 in.; Kaedyn DeMontigny, 13 ft. 9 in.; Katie Sullivan, 13 ft. 7 in.; Brylee Amyotte, 13 ft. 6 in.; Livvy Johnson, 13 ft. 5 in.; Peterson, 13 ft. 2.5 in.; McNeff, 13 ft. 0.5 in.; Jesse Wolf, 12 ft. 8.0 in.; Amber Houim, 11 ft. 3.5 in.; Annie Risovi, 10 ft. 11.5 in.

Triple jump: Deplazes, second place, 32 ft. 3.5 in.; Joran Jundt, fourth place, 31 ft. 11.25 in.; Miller, fifth place, 30 ft. 6. 25 in.; Walker, sixth place, 30 ft. 5.0 in.; Pritschet, eighth place, 30 ft. 0.75 in; Peterson, 28 ft. 6.0 in.; DeMontigny, 28 ft. 4.5 in.; McNeff, 28 ft. 0.75 in.; Volk, 27 ft. 10.5 in.; Risovi, 24 ft. 3.75 in.

High jump: Miller, first place, state qualifier, 5 ft. 2 in.; McCall, fifth place, 4 ft. 8 in.; Deplazes, sixth place, 4 ft. 6 in.; Sullivan, 4 ft. 2 in.; Hager, 4 ft. 2 in.; Volk, 4 ft. 0 in.; Johnson, 3 ft. 10 in.

Pole vault: Sam Blessum, first place tie, 7 ft. 6 in.; Mayer, third place, 7 ft. 6 in.; Duchscher, fourth place, 7 ft. 6 in.; Deplazes, sixth place tie, 6 ft. 6 in.; Wolf, 5 ft. 6 in.

Shot put: Riley Bonebrake, first place, 35 ft. 5 in.; Haylee Jundt, third place, 32 ft. 11 in.; Mirylyn Migler, seventh place, 31 ft. 1 in.; Jaslyn Mitzel, 28 ft. 0 in.; Christine Mahle, 23 ft. 6 in.; Trina Adam, 16 ft. 6 in.

Discus: Haylee Jundt, first place, 97 ft. 8 in.; Bonebrake, seventh place, 86 ft. 1 in.; Migler, 84 ft. 5 in; Mitzel, 80 ft. 2 in.; Mahle, 60 ft. 9 in; Adam, 43 ft. 7 in.

Javelin: Joran Jundt, third place, 100 ft. 6 in.; DeMontigny, 76 ft. 8 in.; Pritschet, 66 ft. 9 in.

4×100-meter relay: Blessum, Migler, Hallie Hauck, Peyton Hauck, third place, 53.00.

4×200-meter relay: Blessum, Migler, Hallie Hauck, Martodam, second place, 1:51.86.

4×400-meter relay: Senechal, Blessum, Hallie Hauck, Bartsch, second place, state qualifier, 4:14.01.

4×800-meter relay: Livedalen, Lunde, Thompson, Kuntz, fourth place, 11:14.88.