COLLEGEVILLE — Brenna Deason began her senior season just like she did her junior year.
The Brainerd Warrior broke her own school record by winning the 60-meter dash with a 7.9 Saturday, April 1, during the Central Lakes Conference Indoor Championship at St. John’s University.
Deason also won the pole vault with a 9-foot-6 effort of to lead the Warrior girls’ team to second place.
Ava Loney and Kate Stadum also landed spots in the Warriors Honor Roll for the 60 dash. Loney’s time of 8.42 placed her seventh in the race and sixth on the all-time list. Stadum’s 12th-place time of 8.48 has her eighth all-time.
Four Brainerd boys’ sprinters landed spots on the honor roll, but it was senior Dillon MacLaughlin who led the Warrior pack with a third-place 7.25 to help the Warrior boys to third.
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Isaak Malay’s 7.32 placed him fifth in the meet and seventh on the all-time list just ahead of Brandon Stark’s 7.43, which placed him 10th and tied him for ninth on the list. Dylan Gross and Charlie Pikula each ran a 7.52 good for 13th on the list.
Other honor roll performances for the girls came in the 60 hurdles where Violet Goodwin ran a second-place time of 9.96 for third all-time and Natalie Smith ran a fifth-place 10.62 for eighth all-time.
Hannah Drietz continued her dominance of the CLC by winning the 3200 in 11:47.15. Drietz won the conference cross-country title last fall.
Julia Rademacher placed fourth in the 3200. Annelise Baird finished fifth in the 800 run followed by Katelyn Kennedy in sixth. Madelyn Miller was fifth in the 1600 followed by Brooke Wenz in sixth.
Brainerd’s 4x800 relay of Emily Bastian, Kennedy, Baird and Miller posted a first-place 10:13.6.
Cora Clough finished second in the 200 dash with a 27.68 and Avery Duerr was second in the 400 dash with a 1:04.43. Bastian was third in the 400 and Kally Robetson placed seventh.
Stadum also collected a second-place in the high jump
MacLaughlin added a third-place finish in the 200 dash for the Warrior boys.
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Stark won the 400 dash with a 53.04 and Gavin Hoelzel won the pole vault with an 11-6 effort. Joe Smith finished second in the vault and 10th in the high jump.
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Nolan Thiesse secured a fifth-place showing in the 3200.
Gross finished second in the shot put with a 53-10 toss. Mitch Wind placed sixth with a 44-5.
Boys team scores: 1-Alexandria 128, 2-Rocori 127.5, 3-Brainerd 72, 4-Willmar 65.6, 5-Fergus Falls 63, 6-St. Cloud Tech 58, 7-Sauk Rapids 44, 8-St. Cloud Apollo 15, 9-Sartell 5
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