The Crookston Pirate Girls Track team finished third place out of 10 teams and the Pirate Boys Track team finished 10th out of 10 teams at the Heart of Lakes indoor track meet at Concordia College in Moorhead on Tuesday evening. Perham won the girl’s division, while East Grand Forks won the boy’s division. Both Crookston teams had skeleton teams in the first meet of the year.
GIRLS
The Pirate Girls were led by one of the top runners in the state, as Breanna Kressin cruised to three first-place finishes to score 30 of the team’s 78 points. Kressin won the 55-meter dash with an impressive time of 7.67 seconds. She won the 55-meter hurdles with another solid time of 8.88. Kressin won the 200 dash with a time of 27.85 seconds. Kressin was impressive in the three races with great starts and races.
The girls also had two second-place finishes with the 4×200 relay team of Cassie Solheim, Isabelle Smith, Carly Thode, and Hayden Winjum having a solid first race of the year. Hayden Winjum also finished second place in the 400-meters to round out the top two finishes for the Pirates.
BOYS
The Boys only brought 10 Pirates to compete and they were only able to gather six points in the last-place finish. The top Pirate placer was Thor Harbott with a sixth-place finish in the 1600-meters (one mile) to score three team points, which were half of the team’s points.
Crookston will return to Concordia College on Monday, April 4 to compete in another indoor meet starting at 5:00 p.m.
| GIRLS TEAMS | BOYS TEAMS | |
| 1. Perham 126 | 1. East Grand Forks 132 | |
| 2. Barnesville 84 | 2. Dilworth-Glyndon-F 121 | |
| 3. Crookston 78 | 3. Perham 94 | |
| 4. Park Christian 69 | 4. Barnesville 58 | |
| 5. East Grand Forks 66 | 5. Park Christian 53.5 | |
| 6. Thief River Falls 49 | 6. Pelican Rapids 41 | |
| 7. Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton 39 | 7. United North Central 35 | |
| 8. Brandon-Evansville 31 | 8. Thief River Falls 24 | |
| 9. Pelican Rapids 19 | 9. Brandon-Evansville 19.5 | |
| 10. United North Central 17 | 10. Crookston 6 |
| PIRATE (Top 6 places) | Event | Result | Place |
| Breanna Kressin | 55 meters | 7.67 | 1st |
| Breanna Kressin | 55 hurdles | 8.88 | 1st |
| Breanna Kressin | 200 meters | 27.85 | 1st |
| Cassie Solheim, Isabelle Smith, Carly Thode, Hayden Winjum |
4×200 Relay | 2:00.53 | 2nd |
| Hayden Winjum | 400 meters | 1:05.95 | 2nd |
| Chloe Boll | 1600 meters | 16:13.06 | 4th |
| Isabelle Smith | 55 hurdles | 10.33 | 5th |
| Naomi Olson | 1600 meters | 16:18.07 | 5th |
| Thor Harbott | 3200 meters | 12:11.00 | 6th |
| Isabelle Smith | High Jump | 4’4 | 6th |
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