Staab closed out his prep career with a fifth-place finish in the discus, throwing a distance of 162-08. The Laker senior had also earned a state championship in the shot put a day earlier after throwing a first-place distance of 61-4.75 in the event to beat the runner-up by more than three feet.

“It felt really good just to see all that hard work pay off, it was a really good moment,” Staab said of his state title. “It means everything to me, just to see the improvement from last year to this year. It just means the world to me right now.”

Staab closes his prep career with four state medals after placing third in the shot put last year and sixth a year prior. He’s going to be continuing his track and field career with Minnesota State University next year.

Stensrud added yet another first-place finish at the state meet to his resume, this time in the wheelchair discus with a distance of 50-04 to win the event by 10 feet. He also won the wheelchair shot put by two feet a day prior, and he placed first in both events last year as well. Including his pair of runner-up finishes in the events as an eighth grader, Stensrud now has six state medals after his sophomore season.

Photo by Jake McNeill: Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd's Brynn Gloege anchors the Eagles' girls 4x400-meter relay team at the Class A state track and field championships, Friday in St. Michael.

Canby/Minneota’s quartet of Jordyn Jostock, Karlie Wollum, Brynn Kockelman and Taylor Ourada has taken home a seventh-place finish in the girls 4×200-meter relay before Friday’s thunder delays started, and they carried their momentum over once events resumed after the break. The group added to their medal count with a seventh-place finish in the 4×100-meter relay at 49.81.

Lac qui Parle Valley/Dawson-Boyd’s Makiah Pust, Chloe Gloege, Sadie Rosendahl and Brynn Gloege placed sixth in the girls 4×400-meter relay at 4:04.19.

Liz Morin qualified for the girls triple jump state championship for Wabasso but did not log a jump in the event.

RESULTS

Girls 4×100: 7-Canby/Minneota (Jordyn Jostock, Karlie Wollum, Brynn Kockelman, Taylor Ourada), 49.81. Girls 4×400: 6-LQPV/DB (Makiah Pust, Chloe Gloege, Sadie Rosendahl, Brynn Gloege), 4:04.19. Girls triple jump: DNP-Liz Morin (WAB), FOUL. Boys discus: 5-Jackson Staab (LAKE), 162-08. Boys wheelchair discus: 1-Broden Stensrud, 50-04. Boys 4Ö800: 11-MCC (Brayden Gilb, Beckett Stelter, Henry Carlson, Alexander Betz), 8:30.34; 15-Canby/Minneota (Owen Peterson, Brett Stoks, Kendon Knutson, Tallen Merritt), 8:50.86. Boys 110m hurdles: 9-Bowen Hesse (WWRR), 15.59. Girls 4Ö200: 7-Canby/Minneota (Jordyn Jostock, Karlie Wollum, Brynn Kockelman, Taylor Ourada), 1:45.16. Girls 1600m: 23-Mya Pesek (CM), 5:43.38. Girls pole vault: 13-Charley Holm (MCC), 8-06. Boys long jump: 22-Garrett Schafer (LAKE), 19-7.75. Wheelchair discus: 1-Broden Stensrud (LAKE), 50-04.