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Ciana Stiefel wins pole vault

SPEARFISH — Ciana Stiefel only needed one leap to claim her inaugural Black Hills Conference title Tuesday afternoon at Lyle Hare Stadium. The Custer sophomore cleared 11 feet, 6 inches on her maiden voyage over the bar, then watched as Spearfish’s Reese Nida couldn’t quite lift herself as high, avenging…

‘I am 100 percent rooting for him’: Brayden Freitag, a pole vaulter at Eastern Washington, has chance to beat father’s collegiate personal best at Big Sky championships

A record-setting pole vaulter during his time at Eastern Washington, Todd Freitag watched his son develop an interest in cross country – and almost no interest in pole vaulting. But when Brayden Freitag busted his dirt bike during the summer after eighth grade, his father, who was also the high…