Viking girls, Mounder boys are victorious at Colfax Track Invite
COLFAX — The Colfax girls won their own home track and field invitational last Thursday while Elk Mound captured the boys’ team title.
Deuces were wild for the Vikings’ girls who took a pair of firsts, seconds, thirds and fifths and three fourths in the May 3 meet to nip Glenwood City by a single point and come out on top of the 11-team standings. The Colfax girls finished with 84.50 points and Glenwood City tallied 83.50 to place second. Altoona was third with 72 points, Mondovi had 70 and Elmwood/Plum City totaled 69 to round out the top five.
Elk Mound’s girls team did not have a top finish but recorded a pair of second- and fourth-place finishes along with a third and three fifths to place ninth with 55 points.
Eau Claire Regis pushed the Elk Mound boys through out the competition but the Mounders, who racked up eight first-place finishes and four thirds, were able to hold off the Ramblers for the title, 144.5 to 131. Durand came in third with 84 points, Mondovi finished with 71 and Colfax posted 67 points to take fifth powered by four first-place finishes.
Both Colfax and Elk Mound, who also ran in Mondovi on Monday (May 7), wrapped up their regular-season schedules yesterday competing in a large invitational at Colfax. The squads will then spend the rest of the week preparing for the Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet to be held in Mondovi next Tuesday, May 15.
Colfax
Sophomore Morgan Jensen and the 4×200 m relay team scored the Lady Vikings only first-place medals but it was enough to help carry Colfax to the top of the girls’ final team standings as they scored several second through fifth place finishes.
Jensen continued to dominate in the discus throw. She flung the discus 113’ 4” at last Thursday’s home meet to best second-place finisher Paulina Weinke of Boyceville by more than four feet.
The Colfax girls also won the 4×200 m relay event in 1:53.22 and took a second in the 4×100 m and third in the 4×800 m relays.
Two other members of the Lady Vikings’ talented sophomore class, Morgan Schleusner and Kameri Meredith captured second and third respectively in the 300 m low hurdles and 100 m high hurdles. Schleusner was clocked with a time of :50.90 in the 300s and Meredith posted a :18.22 in the 100 m event.
Jayna Bowe and Teagan Field, also part of the Class of 2020, placed in a pair of events. Bowe finished fourth in both the 200 m and long jump with Field taking home a fourth in the 400 m and a sixth in the 200.
Junior Emma Hurlburt placed fifth in the discus.
Jeremy Artist and Ed Hydukovich each earned an individual first while two of the Viking boys’ relay teams captured first as well.
Artist won the 100 m dash in :11.66 and Hydukovich took a first place in the discus throw, flinging the object 122’ 9”.
Colfax won the 4×400 m and 4×800 m relays and finished fourth in the 4×100 m and 4×200 m races.
Adam Pretasky, a senior sprinter, took fourth in the 100 m while sophomores Trey Hovde placed fourth in the 800 m and Noah Albricht finished fifth in the discus.
Elk Mound
For the second time in about a week, the Elk Mound boys ran and jumped their way to eight first-place finishes at the Colfax Invitational, a feat they achieved the previous week in Boyceville.
Senior Jake Johnson won both hurdling events, junior Brady Redwine sprinted to a win in the 100 m, sophomore Cade Hanson was the first boy across the finish line in the 800 m, freshman Javon Pinley leaped to first in the triple jump, senior Tyler Brantner soared to first in the high jump and the Mounders’ 4×100 m and 4×200 m relay squads both captured gold.
In addition, Hanson copped the boys’ lone second in the 1,600 m run, Redwine (long jump), Nate Lind (800 m), and sophomores Seth Hazen (3,200 m) and Galen Young (pole vault) are finished third in the aforementioned events. Pinley also placed fourth in the high jump and Hazen was sixth in the 400 m.
Senior Bryce Kasper placed fourth in the shot put, sophomore Andrew Pathos was fifth in the 1,600 and 6th in the 800 meters, and junior Rian Flynn finished sixth in the 200 m.
Senior Maddie Jenson and junior Alana Plaszcz led the way for the Elk Mound ladies.
Jenson scored second in the high jump at 4’ 10” and Alana Plaszcz run a 13:04.96 to come in second in the 3,200 m run.
Sophomore Kristin Martinson took third in the 1,600 meters. Senior Hannah Cedarblade score a fourth in the 100 m high hurdles.
Fifths went to senior Brooke Plaszcz (800 m) and sophomore Paige Vanschoonhoven (200 m).
The Lady Mounders 4×100 m relay was fourth with the 4×200 m and 4×400 m relays placing fifth and seventh respectively.
COLFAX INVITATIONAL
Girls’ Team Results: 1. Colfax 84.50, 2. Glenwood City 83.5, 3. Altoona 72, 4. Mondovi 70, 5. Elmwood/Plum City 69, 6. Durand 67, 7. Boyceville 64.5, 8. Eau Claire Regis 58, 9. Elk Mound 55, 10. St. Croix Central 36.5, 11. Spring Valley 30
Girls’ Individual Results (Colfax and Elk Mound through 10th Place): 100 m – 5. Kennedy Pritchard (EM), :14.00; 10. Samantha Pretasky (Colfax), :14.30; 200 m – 4. Jayna Bowe (Colfax), :29.46; 5. Paige Vanschoonhoven (EM), :29.78; 6. Teagan Field (Colfax), :30.08; 400 m – 4. Teagan Field (Colfax), 1:07.10; 8. Alana Plaszcz (EM), 1:09.06; 8. Emma Hurlburt (Colfax), 1:09.06; 10. Brooke Plaszcz (EM), 1:10.18; 800 m – 5. Brooke Plaszcz (EM), 2:46.25; 1,600 m – 3. Kristin Martinson (EM), 5:57.67; 5. Mackenzie Jensen (Colfax), 6:09.72; 8. Victoria Fasbender (EM), 6:23.77; 3,200 m – 2. Alana Plaszcz (EM), 13:04.96; 7. Kristin Martinson (EM), 15:29.07; 100 m High Hurdles – 3. Kameri Meredith (Colfax), :18.22; 4. Hannah Cedarblade (EM), :18.66; 300 m Low Hurdles – 2. Morgan Schleusner (Colfax), :50.90; 4×100 m Relay – 2. Colfax, :53.41; 4. Elk Mound, :55.37; 4×200 m Relay – 1. Colfax, 1:53.22; 5. Elk Mound, 2:03.72; 4×400 m Relay – 7. Elk Mound, 5:02.39; 4×800 m Relay – 3. Colfax, 11:31.14; High Jump – 2. Maddie Jenson (EM), 4’ 10”; 7. (tie) Chloe Simpson (EM), 4’ 4”; Pole Vault – 9. Lizzy Lindquist (EM), 6’ 6”; 10. Danielle Wagner (EM), 5’ 6”; Long Jump – 4. Jayna Bowe (Colfax), 15’ 2”; 9. Kameri Meredith (Colfax), 14’ 1.5”; 10. Kennedy Pritchard (EM), 14’ 1”; Shot Put – 7. Emma Hurlburt (Colfax), 28’ 7.5”; 8. Abby Kasper (EM), 28’; 10. Morgan Jensen (Colfax), 27’ 7”; Discus – 1. Morgan Jensen (Colfax), 113’ 4”; 5. Emma Hurlburt (Colfax), 95’ 10”.
Boys’ Team Results: 1. Elk Mound 144.5, 2. Eau Claire Regis 131, 3. Durand 84, 4. Mondovi 71, 5. Colfax 67, 6. Glenwood City 64, 7. Spring Valley 34, 8. Boyceville 28, 8. St. Croix Central 28, 10. Altoona 21.5, 11. Elmwood/Plum City 16
Boys’ Individual Results (Colfax and Elk Mound through 10th Place): 100 m – 1. Jeremy Artist (Colfax), :11.66; 4. Adam Pretasky (Colfax), :12.22; 200 m – 1. Brady Redwine (EM), :23.82; 6. Rian Flynn (EM), :24.61; 400 m – 6. Seth Hazen (EM), :56.04; 7. Trey Hovde (Colfax), :56.96; 8. Nate Lind (EM), :57.00; 800 m – 1. Cade Hanson (EM); 2:07.78; 3. Nate Lind (EM), 2:12.56; 5. Trey Hovde (Colfax), 2:18.81; 6. Andrew Pathos (EM), 2:18.90; 1,600 m – 2. Cade Hanson (EM), 4:47.47; 5. Andrew Pathos (EM), 5:08.88; 10. Brady Lawrence (Colfax), 5:24.70; 3,200 – 3. Seth Hazen (EM), 11:34.47; 110 m High Hurdles – 1. Jake Johnson (EM), :15.35; 9. William Muszynski (EM), :19.00; 300 m Intermediate Hurdles – 1. Jake Johnson (EM), :42.47; 4×100 m Relay – 1. Elk Mound, :45.69; 4. Colfax, :46.83; 4×200 m Relay – 1. Elk Mound, 1:34.61; 4. Elk Mound “B”, 1:39.63; 5. Colfax, 1:39.65; 4×400 m Relay – 1. Colfax, 3:49.76; 7. Elk Mound, 4:13.63; 9. Elk Mound “B”, 4:31.46; 4×800 m Relay – 1. Colfax, 9:48.72; High Jump – 1. Tyler Brantner (EM), 6’ 2”; 4. Javon Pinley (EM), 5’ 6”; 7. (tie) Ed Hydukovich (Colfax) and William Muszynski (EM), 5’ 2”; Pole Vault – 3. Galen Young (EM), 10’ 6”; 6. Jack Emberson (EM), 8’; Long Jump – 3. Brady Redwine (EM), 19’ 7”; 8. Luke Heidorn (Colfax), 17’ 3.25”; 10. Luke Hanson (EM), 16’ 9.75”; Triple Jump – 1. Javon Pinley (EM), 40’ 1”; 6. Andrew Benson (EM), 36’ 7.75”; 10. Trevor Rothbauer (Colfax), 35’ 1.25”; Shot Put – 4. Bryce Kasper (EM), 39’ 3.5”; Discus – 1. Ed Hydukovich (Colfax), 122’ 9”; 5. Noah Albricht (Colfax), 108’ 9”.