Shows wins, locals excel

By MIKE KIEFER Chronicle Sports Writer

HELENA - Bryce Shows showed what was possible in Class B could also be done in Class C. The Ennis senior won both middle-distance state titles on the same day and he gave himself the opportunity for more today.

ELIZA WILEY/INDEPENDENT RECORD From left, Jordan Schlender and Matt Francis collide a the finish line in the boys 800-meter race in Helena, Friday. Shows led the Mustang boys to second place, two points behind Sheridan at the midpoint of Class AA-C track and field state meet at Helena’s water-logged Vigilante Stadium on Friday.

Shows finished the day with wins in the 400 and 800 meter runs as well as qualifying in the 100 and 200 dashes. Shows will also race in the sprint finals and the relays today at 9 a.m.

Meanwhile, Bozeman kept itself in the running as James Cole and Kirsten Tilleman finished first and second (Tilleman breaking a school record with a throw of 40 feet, 1¼ inches) in the Class AA shot put. Hawks distance runners Alex Brekke and Heidi Turner came in first and second in the 3,200 and 1,600 runs.

Gardiner’s Ford Smith and Harrison’s Shannon Young came in first and second in the Class C distance races.

Shows completed his marathon day qualifying for the 200, running the last heat at 4 p.m. He was already plenty tired by the final straightaway on his 400 by mid-afternoon.

“At least, I think it’s fun. Every stride on the last 120 meters, I was just telling myself, ‘heart.’ Over and over: ‘Heart.’” Shows said about his reserve of energy. He is signed to run for Montana State University next year. “I just go.”

Shows had won the 400 and the 800 last year in Class B before Ennis moved to Class C at the beginning of this season.

Also scoring points for the Mustangs was Taylor McNally, who won the girls shot put while Courtney Severeid finished third in the javelin. Gavin Owens finished sixth in the 3,200 with a time 10 minutes, 29.17 seconds..

“It’s state,” Shows said. “Everybody’s just got to step it up.”

In the Class AA team competition, Billings West’s near-invincible boys team jumped to a 32-point lead while its girls team finished Day 1 in a dead-heat with Missoula Big Sky. Bozeman’s teams finished in fourth, well within striking distance of the third-place Butte girls and Skyview boys.

Bozeman coach John Griffith gave his boys the benefit of the doubt in the race for second behind West. A particularly strong day for Missoula Big Sky’s girls may have opened the door for Bozeman.

“I know a lot of points are coming in tomorrow,” Brekke said after his 9:38 finish in the 3,200 run. “We’ve got a lot of kids in the (1,600).”

Brekke will also be the favorite in that event, leading a group of four Hawks. His best 1,600 is over four seconds faster than the next fastest Class AA time this year. The 2007 state cross country champion overcame a broken foot in the fall, but the old injury wasn’t a factor on Friday.

“I just try to stay the same n set a pace and try to match it as long as I can,” he said. “Effort-wise, it starts out pretty easy and at the end you feel like you’re kicking all out but you’re not going any faster.”

Gardiner’s Smith took an early lead and finished six seconds ahead of Joliet’s Ryan Ketterling, who had defeated Smith in last year’s state competition.

“My plan was just to draft him,” Smith said “When I saw him come around the corner behind me (on the last leg) and I thought ‘he’s fast. If he catches me, it’s over.’”

Gardiner’s long jumper Mary Cote finished third in the state title event after enjoying the best distance in the state for most of the season.

“You can’t jump well every day,” Cote said. “I guess the rain just really affected me.”

For Bozeman’s Cole, the rain didn’t make the throwing ring slick as he threw for the title and a new personal best by over a foot.

“I knew I was going to do pretty well this year because a lot of the best guys had graduated,” he said. “But you can never expect it because young kids can come up and have a great day.”

His teammate, Tilleman, on the other hand, had been a jumper and took up the shot two months ago while her knees healed from surgery in the fall. The future Oregon State basketball player competes today in the triple jump, in which she has won two state titles, and discus.

“Anything we asked her to do, she would automatically say yes to,” Griffith said. “Whatever she could do to help out the team.”

Other key points for Bozeman came from Coriann Clark who placed fifth in the javelin and sixth in the 300 hurdles. Meagan Davis finished third in the long jump, where freshman T.J. Leep was sixth on the boys side. Kelsey Ham came back from recurring injury and Chip Goodrich shook off a lingering case of the flu as both finished fourth in the 400.

Given those numbers and Big Sky’s Day 1 lead, the stars seemed to have aligned for Griffith’s best-case scenario in today’s title race with Billings West girls team.

“This might actually help us,” he said. “It could be a four-way race coming down from tomorrow. We’re hoping. Some big points in the discus and the 32. We got a shot. We’ll be a lot closer.”

Class AA

Boys

Team scores - Billings West 64, Missoula Big Sky 32, Skyview 32, Bozeman 28, Flathead 23, Butte 20, C.M. Russell 20, Capital 20, Billings Senior 18, Missoula Sentinel 18, Great Falls 13, Missoula Hellgate 12, Helena 11, Glacier 1.

400 relay — 1, Billings West, 42.71; 2, Flathead, 43.10; 3. Billings Senior 43.46; 4, Helena 43.68; 4. Great Falls 43.68; 6, Captial 43.76.

300 hurdles — 1, Lane Hamilton, Big Sky, 39.70; 2, Seth Long, Capital 39.94; 3, Drew Owens Big Sky 40:03; 4, Logan Hodke, Great Falls, 40.21; 5, Dustin Hover, Hellgate, 40.33; 6, Taylor Hart, Glacier, 41.30.

800 — 1, Kaleob Palmer, Butte, 1:56.22; 2, Greg Bush, West, 1:58.30; 3, Cody Lund, Big Sky 1:58.63; 4, Kenny Hornung, Skyview, 2:00.17; 5, Matt Francis, Bozeman, 2:01.10; 6, Jordan Schlender, Bozeman 2:01.13.

Shot put — 1, James Cole, Bozeman, 55-11; 2, Beau Donaldson, Big Sky, 51-7 1/2; 3, Sean Thornton, Capital, 50-7; 4, Matt White, West, 50-5 1/2; 5, Tyler Thomas, Flathead, 48-4 1/2. 6, Louis Blood, Capital, 46-11.

Long jump — 1, Kurtis Parsons, CMR, 6-2; 2, Levi Frickle, Skyview, 6-2; 3, Lee Hardt, West, 6-2; 4, Kevin Mrray, West, 6-0; 5, Dan Miller, Big Sky, 6-0; 6, C.J. Manning, Flathead, 5-10.

100 — 1, Chris Wilson, CMR, 10.82; 2, Josh Pelczar, West, 10.94; 3, Aaron Booth, Great Falls, 11.01; 4, Brandon Pearce, Skyview, 11.12; 5, Justin Maes, Helena, 11.18; 6, Mike Kozlowski, Flathead, 11.24.

400 — 1, Josh Pelczar, West, 49.59; 2, Brandon Pearce, Skyview, 50.10; 3, Kaleob Palmer, Butte, 50.26; 4, Chip Goodrich, Bozeman, 50.42; 5, Casey Lamping, Capital, 50.71; 6, Sam Tedrow, Flathead, 50.98.

Javelin — 1, Ty Rogers, Sentinel, 181-8; 2, Brendan Gragg, Hellgate, 171-3; 3, Brian Schwartzkoph, West, 168-10; 4, Josh Swain, West, 167-1; 5, Kalob Smith, Senior, 165-7; 6, Justin Fersteter, Flathead, 158-5.

3,200 — 1, Alex Brekke, Bozeman, 9:38.69; 2, Rob Brooks, Sentinel 9:41.46; 3, Mike Barker, Helena, 9:48.79; 4, Ethan Shrader, Butte, 9:54.47; 5, Jake Roske, Hellgate, 10:00.56; Leif Castren, Flathead, 10:06.91.

Girls

Team results - Missoula Big Sky 52, Billings West 51, Butte 35, Bozeman 34, Missoula Hellgate 30, Billings Senior 22.5, Missoula Sentinel 17, C.M. Russell 14, Flathead 12.5, Billings Skyview 6, Glacier 3, Great Falls 2.

High jump — 1, Gwen Abbott, Butte, 5-2, 2, Kirsten Vaculick, Hellgate, 5-0; 3, Jessica Leslie, West, 5-0; 4, Jessie Gilligan, Big Sky 4-10, 4, Amy McLaughlin, Big Sky, 4-10; 6, Kylie Edinger, Senior, 4-10; 6, Ally Krautbauer, Flathead, 4-10.

Javelin — 1, Ali Christensen, Flat, 118-3; 2, Meghan Eisenmann, Sentinel, 117-6; 3, Tracy Barrett, Senior, 117-0; 4, Rebecca Robinson, Butte, 116-7; 5, Coriann Clark, Bozeman, 115-4; 6, Kalli McCloskey, Butte, 113-9.

Long jump — 1, Jessica Leslie, Billings West, 2, Lindsey Hall, Big Sky, 16-11 1/2; 3, Meghan Davis, Bozeman, 16-9 3/4; 4, Danielle Muri, West, 16-6 1/4; 5, Ally Krautbauer, Flathead, 16-5 1/4; 6, Callie Muri, Billings West, 16-4 3/4.

400 relay — 1, Billings West, 49.45; 2, C.M. Russell 49.93; 3, Misosula Big Sky 50.44; 4, Bozeman 50.45; 5, Butte, 50.67; 6, Missoula Senitnel 50.83.

300 hurdles — 1, Lindsey Hall, Big Sky 45.92; 2, Sarah McGree Butte, 47.14; 3, Sawyer Ferguson, Skyview, 47.17; 4, Caitlyn Lower, Hellgate, 47.99; 5, Jayme Hill, CMR, 48.30; 6, Coriann Clark, Bozeman, 48.51.

1,600 — 1, Alexa Aragon, Senior, 5:02; 2, Heidi Turner, Boz, 5:05; 3, Keli Dennehy, Butte, 5:10; 4, Auriele Fain, Senior, 5:13; 5. Heather Fraley, Glacier 5:18; 6, Elizabeth Spartas, Bozeman, 5:18.

Shot put — 1, Kiandra Rajala, Hellgate, 40-7; 2, Kirsten Tilleman, Bozeman, 40-1 1/4; 3, Jessica Sharbono, West, 40-0; 4, Bri Holland-Stergar, Butte, 39-6; 5, Kristina Teasly, Great Falls, 37-10 1/2; 6, Emilee Hashley, Glacier, 37-1.

400 — 1, Melissa Jenkins, Big Sky, 57.57; 2, Chantelle Grey, Missoula Sentinel, 58.02; Lauryn McKay, West, 58.08; 4, Kelsey Ham, Bozeman, 49.87; 5, Alexa Aragon, Senior, 1:00.59; 6, Jessica Leslie, West, 1:00.93.

200 — 1, Melissa Jenkins, Big Sky, 25.56; 2, Bobbi Furrer, Hellgate, 3, Lauren McKay, West, 25.72; 4, Kate Steipe, CMR, 26.04; 5, Morgan Braby, Big Sky, 26.08; Jessica Leslie, West, 26.24.

Class C

Boys

Team Scores - 1, Sheridan 23; 2, Ennis 21; 3, Joliet 16; 4, Alberton, 14; 4, Centerville, 14; 6, Drummond 10; 6, Gardiner 10; 6, Geraldine, 10; 6, Victor, 10; 10, Harlowton, 9; 11, Clubertson, 8; 11, Fairview, 8; 11, Scobey, 8; 11, Stanford, 8; 15, Chester-Joplin-Inverness, 6; 15, Hinsdale/Saco 6; 15, Nashua, 6; 15, Park City, 6; 19, Bainville, 4; 19, Hysham 4; 19, Lambert, 4; 22, Augusta 2; 22, Charlo, 2; 22, Reedpoint/Rapelje 2; 22, Winnett/Grass Range 2; 26, Absarokee 1; 26, Bridger 1; 26, Melstone, 1; 26, Superior, 1.

400 — 1, Bryce Shows, Ennis, 51.86; 2, Chad Wilson, Culbertson, 52.43; 3, Justin Stein, Nashua, 53.21; 4, Lane Diercks, Park City, 53.28; 5, JP Toussaint, Charlo, 53.61; 6, Aaron Nelson, Melstone, 53.98.

300 hurdles — 1, Tel Reynolds, Drummond, 40.35; 2, Dylan Solberg, Scobey, 40.92; 3, Caleb Dick, Harlowton, 41.05; 4, Chris Weber, Bainville, 41.22; 5, Ben Southworth, Park City, 41.35; 6, Brian Bennett, Harlowton, 41.40.

800 — 1, Bryce Shows, Ennis, 1:57.20; 2, Ryan Ketterling, Joliet, 1:58.23; 3, Chris Mai, Victor, 1:58.24; 4, Joel Buyan, Sheridan, 2:02.49; 5, Drew Galahan, Harlowton, 2:03.11; 6, Rhett Rosenthal, Sheridan, 2:03.72.

Javelin — 1, RJ Clark, Geraldine, 168-3; 2, Kevin Kirby, Stanford, 161-1; 3, Jerry Brovold, Alberton, 160-8; 4, Kyle Stricklin, Hysham, 159-6; 5, Greg Hardy, Fairview, 158-10; 6, Jeff Royce, Absarokee, 158-4.

Shot — 1, Nick Clark, Sheridan, 53-8; 2, Justin Clark, Sheridan, 48-11; 3, Greg Hardy, Fairview, 48-11; 4, Michael Vaira, Lambert, 48-1 1/2; 5, Derek Marsh, Reedpoint/Rapelje 47-10 1/2; 6, Weston Super, Superior, 47-2 1/2.

Long jump — 1, Craig Halko, Centerville, 21-8 1/2; 2, Jordan Johnson, Alberton, 20-11; 3, Derek Canen, Hinsdale/Saco, 20-9 1/2; 4, Dallas Koke, Centerville, 20-5 3/4; 5, Chase Young, Augusta, 20-3 1/4; 6, Jacob Williams, Bridger, 19-11 3/4.

3,200 — 1, Ford Smith, Gardiner, 9:51.71; 2, Ryan Ketterling, 9:57.71; 3, John Faurbach, CJI, 10:15.66; 4, Chris Mai, Victor, 10:22.20; 5, Shy Iverson, Winn/GR; 6, Gavin Owens, Ennis, 10:29.17.

Girls

Team Scores - 1, Big Sandy, 28; 2, North Star 20; 3, Absarokee 18; 4, Ennis 16; 5, Ennis, 16; 6, Dutton/Brady 10; 6, Winnett/Grass Range 10; 8, Geraldine, 8; 8, Harrison, 8; 8, Hinsdale/Saco 8; 11, Charlo, 6; 11, Chester-Joplin-Inverness 6; 11, Denton, 6; 14, Gardiner, 5; 14, Stanford, 5; 16, Custer, 4; 16, Granite, 4; 16, Noxon, 4; 16, Peerless, 4.

1,600 — 1, Tristany Browning, Winn/GR, 5:25.03; 2, Shannon Young, Harrison, 5:28.20; 3, Echo Thurston, Denton, 5:29.92; 4, Arica Myhre, Custer, 5:30.00; 5, Mackenzie O’Dore, Joliet, 5:34.69; 6, Hannah Reid, Circle, 5:36.54.

400 — 1, Amberlie Williams, Absarokee, 59.10; 2, Kourtney Danreuther, Big Sandy, 59.72; 3, Carissa Stone, Dutton/Brady, 1:00.22; 4, Shelby Snare, Peerless, 1:01.53; 5, Hannah Fields, Lincoln, 1:01.97; 6, Sara Lawson, Melstone, 1:02.00.

300 hurdles — 1, Kourtney Danreuther, Big Sandy, 45.44; 2, Teagan McKinlay, Geraldine, 46.76; 3, Daina Kolstad, CJI, 47.37; 4, Kim Moore, Noxon, 47.59; 5, Amy Bergan, White Sulphur, 48.79; 6, Melanie Walter, Judith Gap, 48.83.

Shot — 1, Taylor McNally, Ennis, 43-9; 2, Natasha Dyrland, North Star, 38-1 1/2; 3, Stephanie Murphy, Charlo, 37-7; 4, Breanna Dahlman, Dutton/Brady, 34-9 1/2; 5, Jenna Kapperud, North Star, 34-6 1/2; 6, Katie Hardy, Fairview, 33-10 1/2.

Long jump — 1, Kourtney Danreuther, Big Sandy, 16-7; 2, Christina Mogan, Hinsdale/Saco, 16-0; 3, Kari Taylor, Stanfor, 15-8; 4, Mary Cote, Gardiner, 15-8; 5, Jordan Pfau, Arlee, 15-6 3/4; 6, Maria Sundsted, Westby, 15-3.

Javelin — 1, Natash Dyrlan, North Star, 126-1; 2, Jessie Studiner, Absarokee, 117-0; 3, Courtney Severeid, Ennis, 116-10; 4, Addie Lepley, Granie, 114-8; 5, Rachel Semansky, Highwood, 114-5; 6, Marisa Braaten, Nashua, 108-11.

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