Flathead rallies to win Swede Dahlberg Invite

The Daily Inter Lake

BUTTE - All the other teams had left.

The Helena Capital Bruins were headed home Saturday with what they thought was a slim victory over the Flathead Braves at the Harry "Swede" Dahlberg Track Meet here.

Flathead was the last team left in the parking lot.

That's when Flathead pole vault coach Leon Wilcox approached Braves head coach Dan Hodge and said he thought there was an error in the pole vault results.

"We were getting ready to leave," Hodge said.

"We thought we were in second place. All the teams were gone," he said.

But Wilcox suggested "'we might check the pole vault results because I'm almost positive (Chris) Ruby was fourth and not sixth.'"

Off the bus they went. They found Butte coach Charlie Merrifield, who graciously pulled the pole vault card.

Sure enough, Ruby was fourth - and those points put the Braves in front of Capital.

Flathead finished with 115 1/3 points. Capital had 113 1/2 and Helena High finished with 71 points.

"That's why you have assistant coaches. Things like that happen accidentally," Hodge said.

That was just the final lift Flathead got on Saturday.

With four events - 200, triple jump, shot put and 1,600 relay - to go, the Braves trailed Capital by 14 points.

Charlie Dotson and Ian Damon went 1-2 in the 200 to score 18 points, Josh Harris beat out Big Sky's Beau Danielson and Capital's Louie Blood to win the shot, Sam Tedrow placed second in triple jump, and the 1,600 relay team (Michael Gallagher, Seth Svennungsen, Tedrow, Andrew Edsall) edged out Capital.

"Probably my hero of the day would be Sam Tedrow," Hodge said.

Tedrow scored 23 of Flathead's points. He was a leg of both winning relays, won the long jump (20-9) and was second in triple jump.

"He had to run triple jump immediately after running his leg of the 1,600 relay. He had no break. Really nice performance by him in not such nice conditions," Hodge said.

Three teams pulled out of the meet - both Great Falls schools and Bozeman.

"I think tomorrow they'll be sorry," Hodge said.

"We had just a little of (snow), but other than that, it was cool, but it wasn't wet.

"Butte runs a beautiful track meet. It was nice for everybody because we completed a full track meet with a lot of good competition."

Harry "Swede" Dahlberg Track Meet

at Charlie Merrifield Track

Team scores - Kalispell Flathead 115 1/3, Helena Capital 113?, Helena 71, Missoula Big Sky 71, Butte 67 1/3, Missoula Sentinel 52?, Missoula Hellgate 26, Butte Central 6 1/3, Kalispell Glacier 4.

100 - 1, Mike Kozlowski, Flathead, 11.41. 2, Kaleob Palmer, Butte, 11.58. 3, Chris Vanhorsen, Helena, 11.59. 4, Ian Damon, Flathead, 11.60. 5, Charlie Dotson, Flathead, 11.83. 6, Dylan Lang, Helena, 11.85.

200 - 1, Charlie Dotson, Flathead, 23.05. 2, Ian Damon, Flathead, 23.16. Chris Vanhorsen, Helena, 23.19. 4, Nick Trapp, Helena, 23.82. 5, Jeff Baldwin, Capital, 24.17. 6, Steve Rominger, Sentinel, 24.25.

400 - 1, Kaleob Palmer, Butte, 50.85. 2, Casey Lamping, Capital, 51.47. 3, Andrew Hawe, Butte, 52.66. 4, Nick Retz, Capital, 53.12. 5, Dustin Williams, Capital, 53.37. 6, Jake Glasman, Glacier, 53.70.

800 - 1, Kaleob Palmer, Butte, 2:03.55. 2, Jacob Kearney, Helena, 2:04.45. 3, Rob Brooks, Sentinel, 2:05.69. 4, Brett Nelson, Capital, 2:07.01. 5, Matt Bacon, Capital, 2:08.84. 6, Alec Surynt, Flathead, 2:09.37.

1,600 - 1, Jake Roske, Hellgate, 4:41.28. 2, Rob Brooks, Sentinel, 4:44.73. 3, Ethan Shrader, Butte, 4:44.96. 4, Seth Svennungsen, Flathead, 4:45.79. 5, Mike Barker, Helena, 4:54.12. 6, Matt Bacon, Capital, 4:58.54.

3,200 - 1, Rob Brooks, Sentinel, 10:01.4. 2, Jake Roske, Hellgate, 10:08.8. 3, Seth Svennungsen, Flathead, 10:19.0. 4, Ethan Shrader, Butte, 10:20.1. 5, Mike Grey, Capital, 10:24.7. 6, Mike Barker, Helena, 10:33.5.

110 hurdles - 1, Matt Miller, Capital, 15.44. 2, Kyle Beto, Capital, 15.64. 3, C.J. Manning, Flathead, 15.69. 4, Jared Hunt, Capital, 15.69. 5, Lane Hamilton, Big Sky, 15.69. 6, Dustin Hover, Hellgate, 15.71.

300 hurdles - 1, Lane Hamilton, Big Sky, 39.89. 2, Seth Long, Capital, 40.33. 3, Drew Owens, Big Sky, 41.05. 4, Josh Stuberg, Helena, 41.39. 5, Duncan Aylor, Flathead, 41.69. 6, Matt Miller, Capital, 41.99.

400 relay - 1, Flathead (Sam Tedrow, Mike Koslowski, Ian Damon, Charlie Dotson), 43.14. 2, Helena, 43.21. 3, Capital, 43.84. 4, Big Sky, 44.30. 5, Missoula Sentinel, 44.45. 6, Butte, 44.47. 7, Butte Central, 45.45.

1,600 relay - 1, Flathead (Michael Gallagher, Seth Svennungsen, Sam Tedrow, Andrew Edsall), 3:32.65. 2, Capital, 3:32.77. 3, Butte, 3:40.64. 4, Helena, 3:41.58. 5, Glacier, 3:44.31. 6, Big Sky, 3:46.89.

Long jump - 1, Sam Tedrow, Flathead, 20-9 1/4. 2, Thayne Palmer, Big Sky, 20-7 1/4. 3, Charlie Hoving, Capital, 19-6 1/2. 4, Dylan Grady, Butte, 19-5 1/4. 5, Brandon Barnett, Butte, 19-2 3/4. 6, Shane Freese, Glacier, 18-10 3/4.

Triple jump - 1, Mike Devlin, Big Sky, 41-4. 2, Sam Tedrow, Flathead, 40-2 1/4. 3, Colton Haeffner, Butte, 40-1 1/4. 4, Blake Cohlhepp, Butte, 39-3 1/2. 5, Thayne Palmer, Big Sky, 38-3. 6, Brendan Gragg, Hellgate, 38-2 3/4.

High jump - 1, Brandt Montelius, Big Sky, 5-10. 2, Garrett Mitchell, Helena, 5-10. 3 (tie), C.J. Manning, Flathead; Travis Johns, Big Sky; and Dan Miller, Big Sky, 5-8. 6 (tie), Zach Bolton, Butte; Pat Burt, Butte Central; and Mike Vanarendonk, Flathead, 5-8.

Pole vault - 1, Kelly Wardell, Capital, 14-0. 2, Justin Maes, Helena, 12-6. 3, Jon Orthmeyer, Capital, 12-6. 4, Chris Ruby, Flathead, 12-0. 5, (tie) Marc Wilkison, Helena and Tate Strom, Capital, 12-0.

Javelin - 1, Ty Rogers, Sentinel, 170-6. 2, Corbin Knight, Capital, 168-11. 3, Brendan Gragg, Hellgate, 156-4. 4, Josh Dirks, Capital, 152-8 1/2. 5, Eric Denault, Big Sky, 151-9. 6, Justin Kersteter, Flathead, 151-4 1/2. 7, Scott Lacey, Butte, 151-4 1/2.

Discus - 1, Brian Maus, Sentinel, 156-8. 2, Josh Leonard, Helena, 149-3. 3, Sean Ferriter, Butte Central, 148-0. 4, Ryan Ewing, Flathead, 146-6. 5, Brandon Weis, Helena, 144-5. 6, Calder Morrison, Flathead, 143-7.

Shot put - 1, Josh Harris, Flathead, 48-2 1/4. 2, Beau Donaldson, Big Sky, 48-1/2. 3, Louie Blood, Capital, 47-11 3/4. 4, Eric Grimsrud, Sentinel, 46-4 1/2. 5, Logan Nathe, Capital, 44-10 3/4. 6, Joe Tredik, Sentinel, 44-5.