MOORHEAD – Perham senior Levi Richter wasted no time in breaking his own pole vault record this season.
Richter cleared 14-feet in the Heart-O'Lakes indoor meet at Concordia-Moorhead on Tuesday. His previous mark of 13-feet, 10-inches was the previous school record set last season. Richter’s first-place pole vault and third-place 55-meter dash (6.97) helped lead Perham to a third-place team finish. The Yellowjackets collected 94 points to finish behind East Grand Forks (132) and Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton (121). Aiden Kennedy was right behind Richter in the 55-meter dash in fifth place with a time of 7.10 seconds. He also took fourth in the 200-meter dash at 24.84 seconds.
Connor Kostynick won the shot put competition with his personal record of 46-feet, 11-inches. The senior did not compete last season because of an injury.
Jakob McCleary started his path towards defending his state championship in the 800-meter run. He took first with a time of 2:03.67. Dylan Guck took second in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 11:24.42.
HEART O’LAKES INDOOR MEET BOYS TEAM SCORES- 1- East Grand Forks 132, 2- Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 121, 3- Perham 94, 4- Barnesville, 5- Park Christian 53.5, 6- Pelican Rapids, 7- United North Central 35, 8- Thief River Falls, 9- Ashby-Brandon-Evansville 19.5, 10-Crookston 6
PERHAM BOYS TOP EIGHT FINISHES- 55M DASH- 1st- Braeden Bredman (Barnesville) 6.85, 3rd- Levi Richter 6.97, 5th- Aiden Kennedy 7.10
200M DASH- 1st- Joshua Finseth (DGF) 23.62, 4th- Aiden Kennedy 24.84
800M RUN- 1st- Jakob McCleary (Perham) 2:03.67
1600M RUN- 1st- Chandler Gray (GDF) 4:49.69, 3rd- Carter Flatau 5:09.74, 6th- Caeden Doll 5:15.10
3200M RUN- 1st- Chandler Gray (DGF) 11:01.54, 2nd- Dylan Guck 11:24.42
4x400M RELAY- 1st- EGF 3:50.64, 5th- Jakob McCleary, Caeden Doll, Blake Swenson, Jack Nielsen 3:59.37
4x800M RELAY- 1st- DGF 9:14.18, 2nd- Caeden Doll, Carter Flatau, Bjiorn Anderson, Blake Swenson 9:15.10
POLE VAULT- 1st- Levi Richter (Perham) 14’0”, 3rd- Noah Novotny 11’0”, 7th- Noah Thompson 8’6”
LONG JUMP- 1st- Joshua Finseth (DGF) 20’ 4.5”, 5th- Gordy Enyart 17’11.5”
SHOT PUT- 1st- Connor Kostynick (Perham) 46’11”, 2nd- Teagan Bennett 41’9”
