Elk Mound’s Hazen, Schiferl and Schiszik to run in state cross country tournament
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IN JUST HER first year of high school cross country competition, Elk Mound freshman Ellie Schiszik is shown finishing the sectional cross country meet in Rice Lake last Saturday to qualify for state.
—photo by Cara Dempski
RICE LAKE — A trio of Elk Mound cross country runners punched their tickets to the state cross country championships during last Saturday’s sectional meet in Rice Lake.
Juniors Ian Hazen and Aiden Schiferl and freshman Ellie Schiszik all earned individual state berths following their races at the WIAA Division 2 Rice Lake Sectional meet held October 23 and will compete in the state championship to be held this Saturday, October 30 in Wisconsin Rapids.
Hazen finished third and Schiferl was eighth to lead the Mounder boys to a fourth-place finish out of 14-complete teams while Schiszik, in her first season of high school cross country racing, placed fifth as the Elk Mound girls came in ninth out of 13 teams.
Ian Hazen ran a 16:40.14 in Rice Lake last Saturday to finish with the bronze medal while Schiferl ran a 17:09.49.
Another Mounder junior, Trae Schaefer, just missed the state cut as he crossed the finish in 17:53.72 to take 15th.
The boys’ other four sectional competitors (a maximum of seven runners are allotted each school for sectional and state competitions) were senior Cason Pederson and sophomores Caleb Beskow, Tyler Gagner, and Jesse Moyer.
Beskow finished 38th in 18:52.26, Pederson was 43rd with a 19:05.28, followed closely by Ganger who took 44th in 19:07.33, and Moyer came in 50th with a time of 19:18.03. There were 95 runners in the boys’ race.
The Elk Mound boys finished with 105 points.
Claiming the state team berths were Osceola, who won the meet with a 55, and Northwestern, who edged out Prescott by a point, 85 to 86, took second. Prescott senior Tyler Loucks won the individual sectional crown in a time of 16:12.14.
Hazen and Schiferl will be the first to compete in this Saturday’s state championships at the Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids with the boys’ division 2 race slated to begin at high noon.
ELK MOUND’S Trae Schaefer, a junior, placed 15th at last Saturday’s sectional cross country meet in Rice Lake.
—photo by Cara Dempski
Once again, Ellie Schiszik was the clear cut leader on the Elk Mound girls’ team. She clocked the Rice Lake course in 20:19.08 to take fifth in a field of 91 girls. Schiszik’s state run is set for 3:05 p.m. this Saturday, October 30.
Marley King was the next Mounder gal to cross the finish line, taking 55th in 23:24.99.
King was followed by sophomore Madisyn Mohr and senior Lilly Tanula who took 71st and 72nd, respectively, with times of 24:35.99 and 24:37.18; senior Kyra Hadenfeldt placed 75th in 24:46.86; junior Aleya Hadenfeldt finished 79th with a time of 25:34.34; and sophomore Carly Mohr rounded out the squad by taking 87th in 26:32.68.
The Mounder girls finished with score of 268.
Fran Peterson, a junior from Barron, won the girls’ race in 18:52.16. Rice Lake claimed the girls’ team championship after scoring 52 points with Amery coming in second with a 68. Both schools qualified for state.