Softballers go down... eventually

Results from the weekend…
SOFTBALL
Alexandria 6 Annandale 4
The Alex Cardinals needed to win the first game to keep their hopes alive of going to State and they did just that coming from four runs down to top Annandale 6 to 4. Things looked bleak but the Cardinals started a rally with two runs in the bottom of the fifth. A single by Jordan Tavierne, a walk to Brenna Burgau and Dani Bany loaded the bases with no one out. Mack West then singled scoring Kate Gearman pinch running for Tavierne. Burgau scored on a ground out which put us down 4 to 2 but that would be all the scoring in the fifth. Then in the sixth Alex scored four more runs. Ashley Holmes walked to lead off the sixth, and Teclaw singled to score Holmes. Tavierne walked and Burgau singled knocking in Teclaw to tie the game. After a sacrifice bunt by pinch hitter Gracie Bruzek, West singled in the go ahead runs as pinch runners Kate Gearman and Laine Hanson scored. The Cards held on to win. Bany pitched 7 innings giving up 9 hits, 4 runs, 2 walks and 6 strikeouts to pick up her 18th win of the season.

Annandale 6 Alexandria 4
Everything came down to this one game to go to State. Alex won the flip of the coin and was the home team. Annandale would come out and score a run in the top of the first but Alex answered immediately when Sam Dale hit a long homerun over the centerfield fence to tie the game 1 to 1. Alex would take their only lead of the game in the bottom of the second scoring a run to go ahead 2 to 1. A base hit by Teclaw and an RBI single by Bany scored that go ahead run. Then the disastorous 3rd inning hit when Annandale scored 5 runs on 6 hits and a walk to move ahead 6 to 2. The Cards would once again answer scoring 2 runs to close the gap to 6 to 4. After that neither team scored in the last four innings though Alex had three more scoring threats but just couldn't come up with the big hit. We battled to the end and never gave up but Annandale was able to hang on and win. Bany pitched 7 innings, gave up 12 hits, 6 runs, 2 walks, and 4 strikeouts. I am very proud of this team and what they have accomplished. They finished 18-8 overall, 3rd in the Conference, North Sub- Section Champions and Section runner-up. It was a fantastic season. Thanks to all the fans who supported us this season. It was much appreciated.
GIRLS TRACK
Lady Cards Perform at Section 8AA Track and Field
The Lady Cardinal Track and Field team sent 9 representatives to compete in 11 events at the Section 8AA meet on Saturday and they finished 7th out of 16 teams, scoring 39 points. I could not be more proud of this group of young ladies for their tremendous efforts and performances on Saturday! These ladies recorded 11 personal or season best performances out of 15 opportunities in this meet.
The Lady Cardinal track and field team will be sending Rosey Erickson to the State Meet on June 8 and 9 to represent their team in the 100m and 200m dash. Erickson placed 2nd in the 100m in a time of 12.88 and won the 200m in a time of 25.84, a personal best, to earn her way to the state meet for the second year in a row. Last year, Erickson raced in the 200m and placed 10th, just missing finals.
Annie Trebelhorn placed 4th in the 100 hurdles in a time of 16.83 and 6th in the 300 hurdles in a time of 47.10 and 10th in the High Jump clearing the bar at 5’ 00”, all three performances were personal bests for Trebelhorn. Kate Ellison placed 8th in the 800m run in a time of 2:27.60, a season best performance. Jamie Piepenburg placed 5th in the 3200m run in a time of 11:46.44, a personal best. Stealing the spotlight on the day was the 4x400 relay team of Annie Trebelhorn, Rosey Erickson, Katie Roos and Amy Briol. These four ladies went after the very fast relay team from St. Cloud Tech and challenged them for the top spot and the chance to go to the State Meet in the event. All four ladies ran personal best 400m splits and nearly ran down the talented team from Tech. Although they did not catch the team from Tech they did run a very fast 4:05.63 time in the 4x400m relay and that was good for 2nd place. The 400m splits for the ladies were Trebelhorn 62.16, Erickson 58.56, Roos 62.86 and Briol 62.05; awesome job ladies!
Katie Roos also recorded a personal best in the open 400m dash when she ran nearly 2 seconds faster then she has ever run before recording a 1:02.76 in that race.
The ladies performed incredibly well and did their team, school, and community proud!
BOYS TRACK
Section 8AA at Sauk Rapids

The Alexandria men’s track and field team competed at Sauk Rapids on Saturday at the section 8AA meet and captured 4th place overall, qualifying 3 to the state meet.
Sophomore Drew Paradis took 1st place for the Cards in the 3200m run with his outstanding time of 9:42.58. It was Drew’s personal best time by over 2 seconds and it will be his first trip to the state meet held at Hamline University.
Senior Ben Wilson ran to a season best time of 4:26.01 as he just missed being a section champion by 3/10th of a second. Ben challenged the lead and battled right down to the wire dropping 6.5 seconds off his season best. Ben will compete for the second straight year in the state meet 1600m run.
Junior Jack Trebelhorn qualified to the state meet with his last jump of the competition to recapture 2nd place by ½ inch. His jump of 42’ 3.5” was just enough to earn his first trip to the state meet.
Full results to the section meet can be found at www.isd47.org/track/results and going to the state high school league site www.mshsl.org and going to the track information will give you a time schedule of events and the seeds for the state meet at Hamline on Friday morning and Saturday morning.