Durand ends Elk Mound boys D-SC track and field reign
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CLOSE RACE — Elk Mound’s Kennedy Pritchard (left) found herself in a tight 100m finals race with fellow sophomore Marie Garcia of Glenwood City. Garcia went on to edge Pritchard by just over two-tenths of a second to win the conference championship. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
By Amber Hayden
DURAND — For the first time in three seasons, the Dunn-St. Croix boys’ track and field championship will not reside in Elk Mound.
After finishing second to Elk Mound a year ago, Durand, hosts of this year’s Dunn-St. Croix Conference Track and Field Championships, unseated the three-time defending champion Mounders in last Tuesday’s 2019 conference meet held at the state-of-the-art Bauer Built Sports Complex, replete with a rubberized track and artificial turf inside which was put to use for the discus events.
The Panthers led for much the May 14th meet which featured the eight conference schools. But the Mounders tied the host at 126 points each with just a few events left to run.
One of those was the boys’ 3,200 meters. As fate would have it, Durand had the top two finishers and three of the top four to score 23 points in that event alone. Elk Mound was able to break up a top three sweep as junior Cade Hanson finished third and Andrew Pathos was fifth which gave the Mounders a ten-point tally in the long distance run.
But it was not enough to overcome the Panthers haul which, in the end, translated to a ten-point championship win for host Durand, who finished with a top tally of 156.5 compared to the Elk Mound final score of 146.5. Colfax was the only other school to score in triple digits, finishing with a 116.5 for third place.
The Lady Mounders came in fifth in the 8-team meet after posting 54 points. Mondovi and Colfax finished one and two once again while Glenwood City placed third. The Buffaloes took a second straight D-SC girls’ championship with 170.5 points while the Vikings and Hilltoppers battled for second with Colfax taking the silver by a 136 to 134 count.
Despite all the points the Mounder boys put up and high place finishes it garnered (three second place finishes, eight thirds and 15 third- and fourth-place showings), Elk Mound won just one event in last Tuesday’s conference meet.
That lone victory was turned in by senior Rian Flynn in the 400 meters where he won gold with a run of :52.61.
Flynn and fellow senior speedster Brady Redwine participated in the 100 meter and 200 meter dashes where Flynn finished in third place in both events with times of :11.39 and :23.53 and Redwine finished fourth in both events with times of :11.58 and :23.86.
Redwine also took part in the long jump event and had a distance of 20’02” to finish in second place while Flynn picked up a fifth in the high jump (5’6”) to score points in his fourth event of the competition.
Junior Cade Hanson handled the distance races for Elk Mound as he finished in second place in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:09.01, third in the 3,200 meter run with a time of 10:44.99 and was fourth in the 1,600 meters.
ELK MOUND SPEEDSTERS — Mounder senior Rian Flynn (front right) and Brady Redwine competed in a heat of the boys’ 200 meter dash at the Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet held last Tuesday, May 14 in Durand. Flynn and Redwine went one, two respectively in the heat. Flynn later finished third in the finals while Redwine came in fourth.
—photo by Shawn DeWitt
Hurdler and jumper Alex Johnson also scored points in four events for Elk Mound. Johnson took third in the 110 m high hurdles and was fourth in the 300 m intermediate hurdles. He also was sixth in the triple jump and seventh in the long jump.
Junior Andrew Pathos scored three, fifth-place finishes in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 meter events that he competed in alongside running mate Cade Hanson.
Marquis Kasakaitas finished with fifths in the long and triple jumps.
The Mounder boys’ relays were second in the 4x400m, third in the 4×100 and 4×800 and fourth in the 4x200m.
Kennedy Pritchard found her way back into the top five in the 100 meter dash when she finished in second place with a time of :13.29 for the Lady Mounders’ top finish in the meet. Pritchard was also part of the 4×200 meter relay team that finished in third place and then in second place for the 4×100 meter relay team with a time of :54.14.
Taking part in the distance runs for Elk Mound was Alana Plaszcz and Victoria Fasbender. Plaszcz finished in fourth place in the 800 meter and 3,200 meter runs with times of 2:38.63 and 13:38.73, while Fasbender finished in eleventh place in the 1,600 meter run with a time of 6”33.03 and in eighth place in the 3,200 meter run with a time of 14:15.78.
Olivia Schreiber placed fourth in the triple jump (31’ 0.75”) and Lizzy Lindquist finished fifth in the pole vault with a vault of 7’.
The girls also placed second in the 4x100m relay, third in the 4x200m, fourth in the 4x800m and sixth in the 4x400m relays.
The Mounders traveled to Bloomer this past Monday, May 20, and competed in the WIAA Division 2 regional. The top four finishers in each competition will advance to this Thursday’s sectional meet in Mosinee for the chance to move on to state meet in LaCrosse on May 31 and June 1.
ELK MOUND GIRLS’ INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: 4x800M Relay- 1. Mondovi 10:59.24, 4. Elk Mound 11:18.31 (Alana Plaszcz, Kristin Martinson, Victoria Fasbender and Kyra Hadenfeldt); 100M Dash- 1. Marie Garcia (GC) :13.02, 2. Kennedy Pritchard :13.29, 7. Paige Vanschoonhoven :13.87 ; 4x200M Relay- 1. Glenwood City 1:56.87, 3. Elk Mound 1:58.93 ( Paige Vanschoonhoven, Kennedy Pritchard, Olivia Schreieber and Sydney Simpson) ; 400 M Dash- 1. Bella Rassbach (GC) 1:04.40, 9. Regan Jenson 1:14.67; 4×100 M Relay- 1. Glenwood City :54.00, 2. Elk Mound :54.14 (Paige Vanschoonhoven, Sydney Simpson, Kennedy Pritchard and Olivia Schreieber); 800M- 1. Katie Feuker (EPC) 2:31.57, 4. Alana Plaszcz 2:38.63, 9. Olivia Schreiber 2:50.69; 1600M- 1. Karley Everson (M) 5:41.25, 7, Kristin Martinson 6:13.85, 11. Victoria Fasbender 6:33.03; 3200M- 1. Erica Kallstrom (C) 13:02.08, 4. Alana Plaszcz 13:38.73, 8. Victoria Fasbender 14:15.78; 4x400M Relay- 1. Glenwood City 4:31.20, 6. Elk Mound 5:07.00 (Regan Jenson, Isabella Harmer, Melanie Balts and Amanda Sahm); Pole Vault- 1. Megan Hintzman (BV) 8’09”, 5. Lizzy Lindquist 7’00”; Triple Jump- 1. Brooke Polzer (D) 34’06”, 4. Olivia Schreieber 31’.75”, 10. Sydney Simpson 27’4.5”; Discus- 1. Morgan Jensen 119’00” (C), 12. Hannah Simpson 70’00”, 16. Bryanna Troutz 51’10”; Shot Put- 1. Yasmin Mendez 34’1.5” (GC), 13. Abby Kasper 24’11.75”, 19. Bryanna Troutz 18’4.5”.
GIRLS’ TEAM SCORES: 1. Mondovi 170.5, 2. Colfax 136, 3. Glenwood City 134, 4. Durand 79.5, 5. Elk Mound 54, 6. Spring Valley 49, 7. Boyceville 33, 8. Elmwood/Plum City 28.
ELK MOUND sophomore Alex Johnson (center) cleared a hurdle during the finals of the 110 meter highs at the Dunn-St. Croix Conference meet in Durand on Tuesday, May 14. Johnson placed third after running the event in :17.52. Johnson also pointed in the 300 intermediate hurdles (3rd), the triple jump (6th) and the long jump (7th). — photo by Shawn DeWitt
ELK MOUND BOYS’ INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: 4×800 M Relay- 1. Durand 9:04.17, 3. Elk Mound 9:24.73 (Seth Hazen, Lukas Wagner, Mitchell Hainstock and Jack Gabert); 110 M Hurdles- 1. Dylan Bosshart (SV) :15.45, 3. Alex Johnson :17.52; 100M Dash- 1. Jeremy Artist :11.30 (C), 3. Rian Flynn :11.39, 4. Brady Redwine :11.58; 4x200M Relay- 1. Spring Valley 1:37.68, 4. Elk Mound 1:41.58 (Dominic Hall, Spencer Wolf, Luke Hanson and Logan Schultz); 400 M Dash- 1. Rian Flynn :52.61, 3. Brady Redwine :54.74, 5. Seth Hazen :56.25; 4×100 M Relay- 1. Mondovi :47.19, 3. Elk Mound :48.15 (Dominic Hall, Luke Hanson, Spencer Wolf and Ethan Levra); 300 M Hurdles- 1. Luke Heidorn :44.71(C), 4. Alex Johnson :48.25, 4. Logan Schultz :48.67; 800M- 1. Isaac Wegner (D) 2:08.82, 2. Cade Hanson 2:09.01, 5. Andrew Pathos 2:14.30; 200M Dash- 1. Hadin DeSmith (GC) :22.99, 3. Rian Flynn :23.53, 4. Brady Redwine :23.86; 1600M- 1. Isaac Wegner (D) 4:40.64, 4. Cade Hanson 4:46.00, 5. Andrew Pathos 4:59.12; 3200M- 1. Isaac Wegner (D) 10:22.22, 3. Cade Hanson 10:44.99, 5. Andrew Pathos 11:00.81; 4x400M Relay- 1. Colfax 3:42.87, 2. Elk Mound 3:44.80 (Seth Hazen, Logan Schultz, Marquis Kasakaitas and Ethan Levra); High Jump- 1. Hadin DeSmith (GC) 6’00”, 5. Rian Flynn 5’06”, 8. Corbin Verdon 5’02”, 8. Antonio Meyer 5’02”; Pole Vault- 1. Colton Bee (M) 11’06”, 5. Luke Hanson 9’00”; Long Jump- 1. Colton Bee (M) 20’3.5”, 2. Brady Redwine 20’02”, 5. Marquis Kasakaitas 18’05”, 7. Alex Johnson 17’3.5”; Triple Jump- 1. Will Eggert (GC) 38’09”, 5. Marquis Kasakaitas 36’06”, 6. Alex Johnson 35’8.5”; Discus- 1. Ed Hydukovich 131’00” ( C ), 8. Marquis Kasakaitas 106’08”; Shot Put- 1. Justin Rykal 40’1.5” (M), 6. Gabe Moschkau 33’4.75”.
BOYS’ TEAM SCORES: 1. Durand 156.5, 2. Elk Mound 146.5, 3. Colfax 116.5, 4. Mondovi 90, 5. Spring Valley 69, 6. Glenwood City 57.5, 7. Boyceville 34, 8. Elmwood/Plum City 26.