Lake Mills boys’ shuttle hurdle relay team crowned champions

Published 4:23 pm Sunday, May 21, 2017

: Lake Mills’ Grant Fjelstad ran the third leg of the 4x110-meter shuttle hurdle relay in the rain on Saturday, which brought home a state title for the Bulldogs. Lory Groe/For the Albert Lea Tribune

Saturday marked the final day of the Iowa High School state track and field tournament, and Lake Mills took home a state title on the boys’ side.

In the 4×110-meter shuttle hurdle relay, the Bulldogs team of Alex Albert, Slade Sifuentes, Grant Fjelstad and Charlie Dugger took home first-place hardware with a finishing time of 59.48, edging out St. Ansgar, which finished with a time of 59.66.

Also on Saturday, Lexi Groe took third place in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15.90. She finished behind Sigourney’s Autum Barthelman (15.26) and Bedford’s Charissa Mogler (15.84).

The third-place finish for Groe came after she placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles on Friday.

In the 4×100-meter relay, Lake Mills’ group of Megan Groe, Lyv Arispe, Dana Baumann and Lexi Groe took seventh place with a time of 51.81.

Lake Mills hurdler Lexi Groe took third place at the state meet in the 100-meter hurdle on Saturday. She finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles on Friday.

In the boys’ 4×400-meter relay, the group of Parker Eaton, Luke Groe, Sifuentes and Dugger finished in eighth place with a time of 3:32.56.

Those finishes on Saturday were added to a long list of respectable finishes for the Bulldogs at the state meet.