Mounder boys place second, girls third in Dunn-St. Croix Conference track meet
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CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS — Aleya Hadenfeldt (left) handed the baton to Lydia Levra in the girls’ 4×100 meter relay during the conference track and field meet in Colfax June 8. The pair, along with teammates Olivia Schreiber and Kennedy Pritchard, helped the Elk Mound girls win the event and claim their only conference championship. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
by Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
With the temperature in the nineties all week, including last Tuesday, June 8, when the 2021 Dunn-St. Croix Conference track and field meet was held, all eight teams gathered at the Lee Bjurquist Sports Complex in Colfax and ran and jumped in hopes of taking home a conference title.
The Elk Mound boys’ team had been one of the favorites to win after dominating in most of the meets this year, but Mondovi snuck up on everyone and won the meet while the Mounders were second. Mondovi also won the girls’ competition with Elk Mound placing third. The top eight places were counted for team points.
The Mounder boys finished with just one conference champion – the 4×800 meter relay team – and finished with a trio of second, third, and fourth-place showings as it tallied 123.5 to finish as the runners-up to the Buffaloes who collected 145 points.
The Elk Mound girls single conference gold also came in a relay event, the 4×100 meters. The Lady Mounders finished with 81 points.
THE MOUNDERS’ Ian Hazen (left) and Aiden Schiferl finished second and fourth, respectively, in the boys’ 1600 meter run at the conference track and field meet in Colfax June 8. —photo by Shawn DeWitt
The Elk Mound team of Ian Hazen, Aiden Schiferl, Trae Schaefer, and Cason Pederson ran to gold in the boys’ 4×800 meter relay as it finished first in 9:19.58. The Mounder boys also placed in the other three events taking seconds in the 4×200 and 4×400 meter relays and a fifth place in the 4×100.
The Lady Mounders 4×100 meter relay squad of Aleya Hadenfeldt, Lydia Levra, Olivia Schreiber, and Kennedy Pritchard ran to a win with a time of :52.82, besting the Glenwood City team by a mere two-hundredths of a second. The ladies 4×200 and 4×400 meter relay teams both placed fourth.
Second place finishes went to senior Alex Johnson in the 110 meter high hurdles (:17.54), junior Olivia Schreiber in the triple jump (30’ 1”), and sophomores Ian Hazen in the 1,600 meter run (5:04.4) and Trae Schaefer in the 3,200 meter run (11:23.19).
Bronze-medal finishes were taken by freshman Lydia Levra in the 200 meter dash, junior Katie Mohr in the high jump, sophomore Ian Hazen in the 800 meters, and junior Korbin Verdon in both the 200 meters and high jump.
Alex Johnson also placed sixth in the triple jump and 7th in the 300 meter intermediate hurdles while fellow senior Jack Gabert was fourth in the 110 meter high hurdles, fifth in the 300 meter intermediate hurdles, and seventh in the triple jump.
The Elk Mound teams competed Monday in the WIAA Division 2 regional held in Bloomer. The top four place winners in each event will advance to this Thursday’s sectional meet in Osceola. The D2 state championship will be held Friday, June 25 at UW-LaCrosse’s Veterans Memorial Stadium.
D-SC Boys’ Team Scores:
1. Mondovi 145, 2. Elk Mound 123.5, 3. Durand 111, 4. Spring Valley 89, 5. Glenwood City 82, 6. Colfax 78, 7. Elmwood/Plum City 47.5, 8. Boyceville 14.
Elk Mound boys’ results:
4×800 relay – 1,(Ian Hazen, Aiden Schiferl, Trae Schaefer, Cason Pederson) 9:19.58; 110m hurdles – 2. Alex Johnson 17.54, 4. Jack Gabert 19,58; 100m dash – 5. Braedon Pederson 11.88, 6. Spencer Wolf 12.04; 1600m run – 2. Hazen 5:04.40, Schiferl 5:16.01; 4×200 relay – 3. (B. Pederson, Korbin Verdon, Wolf, Logan Schultz) 1:39.80; 400m dash – 7. Antonio Meyer 56.43, 8. AJ Miller 56.96; 4×100 relay – 5. (Cooper Reese, Alex Woodford, Logan Schultz, Ethan Levra) 48.41; 300m hurdles – 5. Gabert 47.90, 7. Johnson 48.50; 800m run- 3. Hazen 2:16.34, C. Pederson 2:20.38, 7. Carter Sundeen 2:23.50; 200 m dash –
3. Verdon 24.07, 6.B. Pederson 24.65, 7. Wolf 25.52; 3200m run – 2. Trae Schaefer 11:23.19, 4. Jesse Moyer 12:01.96, 8. Schiferl 14:50.19; 4×400 relay – 3. (Meyer, Levra, Miller, Schultz) 3:48.51; High jump – 3. Verdon 5-08; Pole vault – 5. Tobey Westcott 8-00; Long jump – 5. B. Pederson 18-11.75; Triple jump – 6. Johnson 37-00.50, 7. Gabert 36-11, 8. Will King 36-10.
D-SC Girls’ Team Scores:
1. Mondovi 163.5, 2. Glenwood City 138.5, 3. Elk Mound 81, 4. Durand 70, 5. Colfax 66, 6. Boyceville 55, 7. Elmwood/Plum City 52, 8. Spring Valley 37.
Elk Mound girls’ results:
4×800 relay – 3. (Madison Lehman, Mercede Rothbauer, Kyra Hadenfeldt, Kayden Nielson) 12:53.34; 100m hurdles – 7.Kate Mohr 22.04; 100m dash – 6. Kennedy Pritchard 13.67, 7. Aleya Hadenfeldt 13.69; 1600m run – 8. K. Hadenfeldt 7:10.14; 4×200 relay – 4. (Carly Mohr, K. Mohr, Ava Jenson, Caroline Gabert) 2:11.36; 400m dash – 8. Gabert 1:12.13; 4×100 relay – 1. (A. Hadenfeldt, Lydia Levra, Olivia Schreiber, Pritchard) 52.82; 300m hurdles – 7. K. Mohr 1:01.76; 800m run – 6. Marley King 2:40.31; 200 m dash – 3. Levra 28.00, 5. A. hadenfeldt 28.70; 3200m run – 7. King 16:07.95, 8. K. Hadenfeldt 16:27.01; 4×400 relay – 4. (Rothbauer, C. Mohr, Lehman, Jillian Schlewitz) 5:17.13; High jump – 3. K. Mohr 4-04; Long jump – 6. Levra 14-05.50, 7. Pritchard 14-01.50, 8. Schreiber 13-08.50; Triple jump – 2. Schreiber 30-01, 8. C. Mohr 24-10; Discus – 6. Grace Roder 79-10; Shot put – 5. Roder 28-05.50.