Competing without ace distance runner Morgan Gehl, who was rested for her next day’s high-caliber competition at the Minnesota Elite Meet at Hamline University in St. Paul, the Heron Lake-Okabena / Fulda girls finished sixth at the nine-team Worthington Invitational high school track and meet last Thursday, April 25.
Gehl, who normally scores 20 points in each meet with a pair of victories on the track, did not participate at Worthington as she opted for the chance to run Friday (April 26) at Hamline. See the details of her day there in a separate story.
At Worthington, the Coyote girls were led by young hurdlers Sam Untiedt and Anna Fest, who each placed up among the leaders in both hurdles races and produced 24 of HL-O / Fulda’s 56 points in those two events.
Untiedt, a seventh-grader, blazed a near personal-record time of 17.82 to place second (eight points) in the 100-meter high hurdles and later clocked a third-place time of 54.12 in the 300-meter lows, giving her 14 individual points on the track.
Fest, an eighth-grader, clipped a personal-record (PR) time of 18.31 for six third-place points in the 100 highs and scored four more points for the Coyotes by finishing fifth in the 300 low hurdles, clocked at 55.71.
Untiedt completed a fine all-around day with a team-leading 18.25 points as she leaped a PR distance of 14-2 for sixth (three points) in the long jump and ran the third leg on HL-O / Fulda’s fourth-place 4 x 100-meter relay (splitting five points four ways). Running with Untiedt for the Coyotes on the 4 x 100, who ran a season-best time of 55.95, were freshman Faith White (leadoff), seventh-grader Irish Hollahan (second) and eighth-grader Maddie Schumacher (anchor).
