ST. MICHAEL — Junior sprinter Ryan Koberoski will proudly signify each city within the Madelia/Truman/Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Martin Luther Jayhawks’ monitor and discipline program throughout as we speak’s Class A state 400-meter sprint finals in St. Michael.
The fleet-footed Koberoski crossed the end line in 50.7 seconds throughout the second warmth of the open 400 preliminaries on Thursday to put third general on the St. Michael-Albertville campus.
Zumbrota-Mazeppa’s RJ Sylak broke the tape in 50.12 to generate the quarter-mile race’s quickest qualifying time of the 9 finalists.
Koberoski and Sylak will be part of Cromwell-Wright County’s Roma Jacques (50.16), St. Croix Lutheran’s Will Olson (50.72), Winona Cotter’s Luke Gardner (50.84), Luverne’s Fortunate Dara (50.98), Minnewaska Space’s Maeson Tank (51.03), Barnesville’s Braeden Bredman (51.14) and Deer River/Northland’s Dylan Schwarz (51.33) in returning to the beginning blocks at 6:06 p.m. tonight to compete for the 400-meter’s gold medal and the esteemed title of Class A state champion.
Josiah DeMaris, Koberoski’s teammate from MTGHECML, completed in sixteenth place in Thursday’s Class A 3,200-meter run in St. Michael. DeMaris crossed the end line in a time of 10:36.66.
DeMaris’ finest 400-meter break up was a 1:11.41 throughout the preliminary stage of the 2-mile race.
Perham’s Bjorn Anderson captured the Class A 3,200-meter state championship by masking the space in a profitable time of 9:22.44.
Blue Earth Space’s 4×100-meter relay group of Nick Nelson, Gage Barker, Jack Norman and Jacob Grandgenett positioned sixteenth by buying and selling handoffs for a time of 45.08 to overlook qualifying for as we speak’s finals.
Minneapolis North’s Zelaun Black, Navier Jiles, J’Marion Sanders and Jaivon Hill exchanged the baton to the quickest 4×100 qualifying time of 42.84.
Minneapolis North and the opposite eight finalists will race for the 4×100 state crown at 11:13 a.m. as we speak again on the St. Michael-Albertville campus.