Mounders compete at D-SC meet

MONDOVI — Elly Friberg won the long jump, Elizabeth Fasbender won the 1600m run and the 4 X 200 relay was also first as the Elk Mound girls placed fourth at the Dunn St. Croix Conference meet held May 20 at Mondovi High School. Jonah Bauer won the 100 and 200m dashes along with running a leg on the winning 4 X 200  relay as the boys were fifth in the standings. Top eight places scored team points in the meet which was won by St. Croix Central for both boys and girls.

Friberg leaped 15-04.50 in the long jump, Fasbender won the 1600 by just .8 of a second at 5:48.51 and McKenna McVey, Waive Melgaard, Kami King and Kaitlyn Baier teamed to win the relay in 1:54.35.

Friberg added a second in the high jump at 5-01, Fasbender was also a runner up in the 800m run in 2:34.37 and Alyssa Buros was second in the shot put at 34-09.75. Buros also tacked on a third in the discus at 98-00, Friberg
was third in the 100m dash in 13.64 and also third in the 200m dash in 27.92.

Placing fifth was Melgaard in the high jump at 4-08, Fasbender in the 400m dash in 1:06.04 and the 4 X 800 relay with Emily Finder, Kayla Black, Samantha Jain and Baier at 11:39.  Claiming  sixth place was Riley Radtke in the 300m hurdles in 52.66, as well as Hannah Flatness in the 1600m run at 5:58 and the 4 X 100 relay with King, Baier, Paxtyn Pavelski and McKenna McVey in 56.08.Seventh place came by Mikayla Solberg in the discus at 87-11, Flatness in the 400m run at 1:09.54 as well as Taylor DeLong in the shot put, tossing the ball 30-06.50. Flatness added a team point with an eighth place in the 800m run in 2:47.65.

Bauer continues to eat up the competition in the sprints, winning the 100 in 11.13 over Glenwood City’s Isaac Tuttle who ran an 11.29. Bauer also beat Tuttle in the 200 with a time of 22.87. Bauer ran with Adam Gottschalk, Noah Zurbuchen and Chase Morris in the winning 4 X 200, completing the race in 1:38.37. Ben Holzwarth finished second in the 3200m run at 10:38, Zac Doll collected a third in the high jump with a height of 6-00 and Holzwarth was fourth in the 1600m run at 4:46.57. (Sasha Maro of Mondovi won both of the distance runs).

Fifth places came from Holzwarth in the 800m run in 2:13.11 and the 4 X 100 relay consisting of Zurbuchen, Doll, Travis Nelson and Tyler Deutschlander in 48.69. Caleb Kruger placed sixth in the 800m run just behind Holzwarth in 2:13.68 and a pair of relay teams were both sixth including the 4 X 400 with George Friberg, Hunter Johnson, Aaron Maves and Morris in 3:55.04 and the 4 X 800 with Friberg, Johnson, Tyler Sahm and Chandler Schreiber in 9:46.In addition, Doll took seventh in the long jump at 19-01 as did Gabe Anderson in the discus at 116-00, and four individuals placed eighth including Schreiber in the pole vault at 9-00, Johnson in the 400 in 58.27, Kruger in the 1600 in 4:49.24 and Nelson in the triple jump at 38-04.75.

“Our athletes did great with most having their personal best times,” coach Jeff Mack said. “We knew that the conference was very balanced this year, especially on the girls’ side, so every single point mattered. Mondovi’s sight is unbelievable with one of the best venues in the conference and they ran the meet extremely efficient,” he added.

GIRLS TEAM SCORES: St. Croix Central 139, Colfax 118.5, Mondovi 104, Elk Mound 100, Glenwood City 80.5, Boyceville 56, Elmwood-Plum City 53, Spring Valley 43

BOYS TEAM SCORES: St. Croix Central 128, Mondovi 117, Glenwood City 100, Spring Valley 89, Elk
Mound 76, Elmwood-Plum City 67, Colfax 62, Boyceville 59