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BLOOMER — Although Elk Mound did not have an individual winner when their boys’ and girls’ track and field teams competed in the Dave Landgraf Invitational at Bloomer High School Tuesday, May 3, the squads did have several top finishers.
A second-place finish and five thirds helped the Mounder boys take third in the ten-team meet while the girls struggled a bit and placed ninth.
The Elk Mound boys compiled 99 points to finish behind champion Cumberland and runner-up Northwestern. The Beavers topped the team charts with 132 points and the Tigers tallied 116.5. In the ladies competition, host Bloomer easily won with 126 points with Baldwin-Woodville (90) and Northwestern (88.5) rounding out the top three. The Lady Mounders finished with 33 points.
Senior Alex Johnson led the boys as he placed high in three events. Johnson took second in the 110 meter high hurdles with a time of :17.81, a third in the 300 meter low hurdles with a run of :47.79, and fourth in the triple jump (36’ 1.5”).
Seniors Ethan Levra and Jack Gabert, junior Cason Pederson, and sophomore Aiden Schiferl each placed and scored points in two events. Levra was third in the 400 meters and eighth in the 200. Pederson ran third in the 100 meter dash and took sixth in the 800 meters. Schiferl was fourth in the 3,200 meters and sixth in the 1,600 meter run. Gabert was seventh in the 400 meters and eighth in the 110 meter high hurdles.
Sophomore Ian Hazen placed third in the 1,600 meters. Senior Braden Pederson was fourth in the long jump, and fifth in the shot put went to another senior, Aaron Heuer.
Sixth-place finishes were earned by seniors Spencer Wolf in the 100 meters, Antonio Meyer in the high jump, and sophomore Trae Schaefer in the 3,200 meter run.
The boys’ relays also did well with the 4×400 and 4×800 taking second, the 4×200 took third, and a fourth was garnered by the 4×100 team.
Senior Kennedy Pritchard had the highest finish – a third in the 100 meters (:13.85) – for the Mounder girls. Freshman teammate Lydia Levra also placed fourth in the 100 meters (:13.97).
Another freshman, Marley King, placed fifth in the 1,600 meter run. Junior Olivia Schreiber came in seventh in the long jump and sophomore Grace Roder scored points in two events, finishing sixth in the shot put and eighth in the discus.