Mounders’ track competes in Dunn-St. Croix/Lakeland Conference Challenge

by Samuel Ripp

BOYCEVILLE — The Elk Mound track team was in Boyceville on Thursday, May 12 to participate in the Dunn-St. Croix/Lakeland Conference Challenge. The Lady Mounders took last out of eight teams and the boys took third overall. Cornell/Lake Holcombe took first in the girls with 174.50 points and Unity took first for the boys with 179 points.

Girls

The girls took eighth on the afternoon with 35 points. They finished with a lone first place finish in the field events. It came from senior Taylor Deling in the shot put, Deling threw a distance of 30-09.00 feet.

The Lady Mounders also found points in the high jump and discus in the field events. Freshman Brynn McVey took fourth in the high jump, clearing a height of 4-04.00. Junior Kassandra Jain finished sixth in the discus throwing for a distance of 84-08 feet.

Elk Mound had two relay team bring home points for the team. The 4×800-meter relay team took fifth on the day with a time of 12:25.96. The team was made up of junior Meredith Hainstock, freshman Ciera Lind, sophomore Claudia Paul, and sophomore Kayla Patterson.

The 4×200-meter relay team took seventh in their event and the team consisted of junior Gracie Peterson, junior Jenna Storing, freshman Abby Kasper, and freshman anchor, Brynn McVey. The teams time was 2:10.25.

Scoring the remaining points for the Lady Mounders was sophomore Claudia Paul in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:10.58. Meredith Hainstock found herself in eighth place in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 1:02.17. Last was Ciera Lind in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:53.25 that was good enough for sixth place.

Boys

The boys team finished third out of eight teams in the meet with 82.50 points. The boys only had one first place finish on the afternoon, but a lot of others helped the team take third.

Their only first place finish came from the 4×200-meter relay team that was made up of senior Preston Eppers, senior Ben Mack, senior Chase Morris, and senior Teegan Peterson. This team finished with a winning time of 1:38.09.

Almost made up of the same team, the 4×100-meter relay team came in second on the afternoon with a time of 46.61. This team consisted of Preston Eppers, Ben Mack, Chase Morris, and junior George Friberg. The last relay team that brought home points was the 4×800-meter relay team. This team was built with senior Hayden Kohls, sophomore Aric Jenson, junior Matt McLaughlin, and sophomore Nate Lind. They finished fourth with a time of 10:00.18.

Teegan Peterson was busy on the afternoon in the 110 and 300-meter hurdles and taking fourth in both of the events. Peterson finished the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 18.78 and the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 46.54.

The rest of the points, the Mounders took home came from the field events. Elk Mound placed in the high jump, pole vault, triple jump, discus, and shot put.

Sophomore Tyler Brantner finished tied for fifth in the high jump, clearing a height of 5-06.00 and also took fifth in the triple jump with a distance of 36-04.25.

The Mounders then took second and fourth in the pole vault with junior Chandler Schreiber taking second jumping a height of 12-03.00 feet. George Friberg came in fourth with a height of 10-06.00 feet.

Senior Aaron Maves and sophomore Connor Mavis finished a couple spots away from each other in the discus and in the shot put to help the team. Maves finished second in the discus throwing 131-04 feet and Mavis was fourth with a distance of 114-08. The two boys were separated by two spots in the shot put as well. Maves took fifth in the event while throwing for 39-02.75 feet. Mavis was a few feet behind in seventh throwing a distance of 37-05.00. Sophomore teammate Bryce Kasper finished right behind Mavis in eighth with a distance of 36-07.00.

Elk Mound will be back in action on Tuesday, May 17 when they will travel to Glenwood City for the Conference Tournament. They will be looking to improve on their performance from Boyceville.