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HHS track and field athletes  competed in two track meets in the last week — scheduling around the worst of spring’s inclement weather.

On Monday, the Burros competed at Concordia College in the Fargo Shanley American Legion meet. The event was to have been held last Friday but cold, windy, wet weather forced postponement.

In a meet dominated by Class A teams, two HHS athletes managed to place — senior Kiley Coles placed 6th in the 1600 meters with a state qualifying time of 5:26.87 and 7th in the 800 meters (2:26.01) and senior Maggie McLean earned 8th in the javelin with a throw of 96 feet 1 inch. 

Fargo South won the meet with 185.5 points, followed by Moorhead, Jamestown, Fargo North, Finley-Sharon-Hope-Page, Lisbon, Grand Forks Red River, Grand Forks Central, Wahpeton, Shanley, Valley City, Hillsboro and Minto-Midway.

On the boys side, runners Billy Otto, Tyler Anderson, Thomas Johnson, Gary Suchor and Oakly Zink competed. The group’s best finish was 9th in the 4×800 relay and earned the squad one team point.

Fargo South won the meet followed by Moorhead, Red River, Central, Lisbon, North, Valley City, Wahpeton, Oak Grove, Shanley, FSHP, West Fargo and Hillsboro.

A day later, the Burros headed north for the Red River Valley Conference meet in Larimore.

The girls finished 6th of seven teams. Griggs County Central outpaced all others with 261 points, followed by Larimore 84, Northwood-Hatton 83, Thompson 78, Nelson County 63, Hillsboro 58 and MPCG 8.

Coles placed in four events — 1st, 1600 meters, 5:50.23; 2nd, 800 meters, 2:34; 3rd, 400 meters, 1:06.31; and 4th, 100 meters, 0:13.99.

Freshman Rachel Meyer placed 3rd in the 1600 with a time of 6:08.89. Sophomore Calli Lemm placed 3rd in the 3200 meters with a time of 14:38.32.

Senior Maggie McLean added two 3rd placed ribbons — javelin, 95 ft. 3 in. and discus, 90 ft. 5 in.

For the Burro boys, senior Billy Otto placed 2nd in the 800 meters with a time of 2:12.91 and 3rd in the 1600 with a time of 5:00.63.

Thrower Bill Breen placed 7th in the shot put with a distance of 38 ft. 10 in. Jake McLean added a 7th finish in the discus with a throw of 105 ft. 11 in.

As a team, HHS placed 7th. GCC won the boys contest with 200 points followed by Thompson 112, Northwood-Hatton 89, MPCG 84, Nelson County 80, Larimore 67 and Hillsboro 25.