Glacier ties for 1st at tight Dahlberg meet

BUTTE — Six points separated the top five teams at the Harry “Swede” Dahlberg Invitational track and field meet Friday, and two of them were from Kalispell.

Glacier tied with Helena Capital for the top spot, each scoring 58 points in the all-boys event. Flathead was fifth with 52; Gallatin (56) and Helena (55) were in between, suggesting the State AA meet in five weeks could is anyone’s ball game. 

All 16 Class AA teams competed, and Glacier made a statement with Owen Thiel winning the 1,600 in 4 minutes, 26.27 seconds, Ethan Anderson running a season-best 39.13 while winning the 300 hurdles and Dylan Smith finishing second in both the discus and shot put — while hitting his personal record in the shot of 52 feet, 5 inches.