Posted: 6/9/05
Milesko earns trip to state in 100 meters
By Luther Dorr
Junior sprinter Grady Milesko earned a trip to the state track meet during last Saturday's Section 7AA track meet in Cambridge.
He placed second in the 100-meter dash and will run in the prelims at the National Sports Center in Blaine on Friday at 11:20 a.m.
He also anchored two relay teams to second-place finishes, one of the teams just missing a trip to state by placing second.
When all was said and done, coach Darin Laabs was happy with the team's eighth-place finish.
"I was very pleased," he said. "Everybody ran well. We took those shots in the two relays [in which Princeton placed]. We thought those were our best chances to make it to state."
Ryan Lindberg was fourth in the 200 and Devon Soule sixth in the 400. Both also ran on the second-place relay teams.
Ryan Cross was fourth in the discus and Tyler Koebnick, with a good lean at the finish line, was eighth in the 1,600-meter run by 3/100 of a second. Cross had a personal best of 139'8".
Laabs and assistant Tom Ostroot, named section assistant coach of the year for the third consecutive season, thought the 4x200 team had a chance to win that event.
The team of Lindberg, Ryan Fay, Soule and Milesko was put together just for that meet. But they didn't know much about all the Duluth East sprinters, seeded eighth, and the Greyhounds won the race by more than a second.
The 4x100 team of Lindberg, Alex Geithman, Soule and Milesko ran a half second faster than the Princeton team did last year, when it advanced to state, but finished 34/100 of a second behind St. Francis.
Soule was seeded fourth in the 400 after the prelims, with a time of :51.62, but ran a :52.12 in the finals, with not much time to rest after the 4x100 relay.
Distance runner Dylan King, a sophomore, just missed scoring by placing ninth in the 3,200-meter run and 11th in the 1,600.
Milesko's chances
Milesko will be in Lane 2 of the first heat Friday and has the ninth-fastest time among 16 at the state meet.
The top two finishers from each of two heats advance to the finals and the fastest five times of those remaining make it to the finals.
"Right now it looks like he has a chance to make it to finals," Laabs said Monday after a workout with Milesko.
Milesko planned to practice at the National Sports Center on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
Team totals: Elk River/Rogers/Zimmerman, 118, Forest Lake 86.5, St. Francis 76, Chisago Lakes 66, Anoka 66, Duluth East 63.5, North Branch 58, PRINCETON 38, Hibbing 35, Duluth Central 33, Grand Rapids 22, Cambridge-Isanti, 18, Duluth Denfeld 16, Cloquet 6.
(Princeton placers listed in boldface.)
100-meter dash - 1. 1. Gallagher, St. Francis, :10.98, 2. Milesko, :11.32. 200-meter dash - 1. Gallagher, :22.47, 4. Lindberg, :23.39. 400-meter dash - 1. Ott, Duluth East, :50.56, 6. Soule, :52.12. 800-meter run - 1. Dery, Chisago Lakes, 1:59.16. 160-meter run - 1. Brownell, Hibbing, 4:31.04, 8. Koebnick. 4:42.7. 3200-meter run -?1. Mach, Forest Lake, 9:57.11. 100-meter hurdles - 1. Skalicky, Elk River/Rogers/Zimmerman, :15.42. 300-meter hurdles - 1. Carlson, Elk River/Rogers/Zimmerman, :40.94. 4x100 relay - 1. St. Francis, :44.17, 2. PRINCETON (Lindberg, Geithman, Soule, Milesko), :44.51. 4x200 relay - 1. Duluth East, 1:31.07, 2. PRINCETON (Lindberg, Fay, Soule, Milesko), 1:32.52 (breaks school record of 1:32.9 by Gronli, Johnson, Milesko and Soule, 2003). 4x400 relay - 1. Anoka, 3:26.41 (new section record). 4x800 relay - 1. North Branch, 8:13.83. High jump - 1. Clauer, Elk River/Rogers, Zimmerman, 6'5". Pole vault - 1. Lofboom, North Branch, 14'. Long jump - 1. Fredrickson, Elk River/Rogers, Zimmerman, 20'10". Triple jump - 1. Moore, North Branch, 42'1". Shot put - 1. Oehlers, North Branch, 54' 21/2". Discus - 1. Kleinhuizen, Forest Lake, 149'9", 4. Cross, 139'8".
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