Pierz's Solinger headed for state

COLLEGEVILLE -- Pierz's Zach Solinger won the 1600-meter run with a time of 4:25.98 in the Section 5, Class 1A track and field meet Wednesday at St. John's University.

Solinger's time was a school record and qualified him for the 1A state meet June 6-7 at the National Sports Center in Blaine.

Pierz's 4x100 relay of Craig Luberts, Bryan Virnig, Tony Andres and Mark Poepping was runner-up.

For the Pierz girls, Jamie Talberg placed third in the 1600 with a school-record time of 5:20.3. Kaitlyn Jensen's time of 16.43 in the 100 hurdles also was a school record.

Boys' team scores -- 1-Annandale 63, 2-St. Cloud Cathedral 59, 3-Foley 57, 4-Melrose 53, 5-Albany 52, 6-Mayer-Lutheran 50, 7-Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 46, 7-Delano 46, 9-Pierz 39, 10-Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 28.5, 11-Holdingford 23, 11-New London-Spicer 23, 13-Upsala/Swanville 19, 14-St. John's Prep 18, 15-Milaca 16, 16-Becker 15.5, 17-Sauk Centre 15, 18-Rockford 14, 19-Paynesville 13, 20-Holy Family Catholic 12-21-Lester Prairie-HL-W-W 11, 22-Watertown-Mayer 9, 23-Royalton 8, 24-Norwood-Young America 5, 24-Holy Trinity 5, 26-Maple Lake 2.

100 dash -- 1-Todd Novak (Foley) 11.22, 8-Mark Poepping (Pierz) 11.64.

4x800 relay -- Albany 8:11.69, 7-Pierz (Benny Andres, Dan Maurer, Jon Andres, Ben Durheim) 8:59.42

1600 run -- 1-Zach Solinger (Pierz) 4:25.98

4x100 relay -- 1-Foley 45.03, 2-Pierz (Craig Luberts, Bryan Virnig, Tony Andres, Poepping) 45.47

800 run -- 1-Nick Salay (SCC) 1:59.96, 7-Eli Solinger (Pierz) 2:08.68

4x200 relay -- 1-Annandale 1:32.53, 3-Pierz (Luberts, Josh Otremba, T. Andres, Poepping) 1:34.13

3200 run -- 1-Micah Jarnot (Albany) 9:59.64, 4-Z. Solinger (Pierz) 10:09.72

Long jump -- 1-Dan Miller (U-S) 21-5 1/2, 8-Poepping (Pierz) 19-7 1/4

High jump -- 1-Mike Drew (ML) 6-2, 4-Danny Kimman (Pierz) 6-0

Girls' team scores -- 1-Mayer Lutheran 133.5, 2-St. Cloud Cathedral 124, 3-Delano 69.5, 4-Sauk Centre 39, 5-Becker 34, 6-Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 31, 6-Maple Lake 31, 8-Milaca 30, 9-Annandale 28, 10-Watertown-Mayer 26, 11-Albany 23, 12-Paynesville 19.5, 13-Holy Family Catholic 19, 14-Holdingford 16, 15-Pierz 15, 15-Lester Prairie/HL-W-W 15, 17-Long Prairie-Grey Eagle 14, 17-New London-Spicer 14, 19-Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 7.5, 20-Eden Valley-W/K 5, 20-Norwood-Young America 5, 22-Upsala/Swanville 2, 23-Royalton 1.

100 hurdles -- 1-Abby Lien (SCC) 15.79, 4-Kaitlyn Jensen (Pierz) 16.43

1600 run -- 1-Rachel Stangler (Albany) 5:15.10, 3-Jamie Talberg (Pierz) 5:20.33

4x100 relay -- 1-St. Cloud Cathedral 50.42, 5-Pierz (Theresa Gross, Rachael Maurer, Tiffany Loidolt, Kaitlyn Jensen) 52.99

300 hurdles --

800 run -- 1-Kayla Karnes (NL-S) 2:22.26, 15-Kaley Jensen (Pierz) 2:39.96

3200 run -- 1-Beth Tacl (SCC) 11:18.31, 9-J. Talberg (Pierz) 12:33.45

Discus -- 1-Liz Bauman (Delano) 130-4 1/2, 13-Lauren Dauphinias (Pierz) 98-2

Triple jump -- 1-Ashley Spolarich (Maple Lake) 34-0 1/4, 14-Nicole Kasper (Pierz) 30-7 1/4

High jump -- 1-Vanessa Schwanke (Mayer Lutheran) 5-6, 11-Kaitlyn Jensen (Pierz) 4-8, 12-Stephanie Bleichner (Pierz) 4-8

Next meet -- Class 1A state meet, National Sports Center, Blaine, June 6-7.