Mounders complete busy week in track and field
The Elk Mound track and field teams didn’t let the cold and snow outside bother them as they competed in three indoor meets last Tuesday, March 25 with the Chippewa Falls McDonell Invite, the girls placed second in a field of 12 teams while the boys were 11th.Two days later they allowed another group of athletes to get some competition under their belts at the UW-Eau Claire Indoor Classic held at McPhee Center where both teams were ninth out of nine teams. And finishing out the week with a Saturday meet, the boys finished fourth of 24 teams while the girls were eighth of 22 teams in the Northern Badger Classic (Small Division) at UW-Stout.
McDonell Invite
With the top eight competitors scoring team points, the Mounder girls were paced by a pair of firsts as McKenna McVey took the 200m dash at 28.83 while the 4 X 200 relay team also won with a time of 1:59.79.Second places came from Elizabeth Fasbender in the 800m run at 2:44.26 and Alyssa Buros in the shot put with a heave of 32-08. Hannah Flatness also added points in the 800 run with a third place at 2:49.86, Waive Melgaard earned a fourth in the 55m dash at 8:34, and taking fifths were Kami King in the high jump at 4-06 and Taylor Deling in the shot put at 28-03.Emily Finder was the third Mounder to score points in the 800 run, placing seventh at 3:01.80 and Paxtyn Pavelski also took seventh in the triple jump with a leap of 25-11. Kathleen Simmons added more points from the shot put with an eighth place at 26-08 while Mariah Rud was also eighth in the high jump at 4-04.
The best finish for the boys came with a third place by the 4 X 800 relay team with Ben Holzwarth, Lucas Winter, Justin Fedie and Caleb Kruger in a time of 9:30.71. Zac Doll moved from the basketball court to the high jump pit to place sixth at 5-06 and seventh places came from Erik Strand in the pole vault at 7-06 and the 4 X 200 relay with a time of 1:48. Four others all earned single points by placing eighth including Noah Zurbuchen in the high jump at 5-02, George Friberg in the pole vault at 7-06, Adam Gottschalk in the long jump with a leap of 17-03 and Gabe Anderson threw the shot put 36-04.
GIRLS TEAM SCORES: Cornell-Lake Holcombe 79, Elk Mound 71, Fall Creek 66, Flambeau 65, Whitehall 60, Prairie Farm 44, Colby 41, McDonell 32, Cameron 32, Gilman 29, Bruce 26, Clear Lake 24
BOYS TEAM SCORES: Flambeau 107, Fall Creek 88, Colby 62, McDonell 61, Cameron 58, Prairie Farm 55, Whitehall 45, Clear Lake 34, Gilman 26, Cornell-Lake Holcombe 23, Elk Mound 17, Bruce 9
UW -Eau Claire Invite
Points were hard to come by as the competition consisted of virtually the whole Big Rivers Conference, resulting in two points for the girls with eighth place finishes by the 4 X 200 relay team at 2:14.83 and Mikayla Solberg in the high jump at 4-02. Placing in the top 15 spots were Emily Larrabee (10th pole vault, 5-06), Jasmine Johnson (10th shot put, 23-07), Kaitlyn Baier (11th pole vault, 5-00), Sarah Sweeney (14th 200m dash, 32.63) Solberg (14th 55m dash, 12.46) and Baier (15th 200m dash, 32.67).
The boys scored 13 of their 18 team points in the pole vault as Strand took second at a height of 8-06, Bradley Carlson was sixth at 8-00 and Friberg was seventh also at 8-00. Adding team points were Aaron Maves (seventh 200m dash, 27.75), the 4 X 200 relay (seventh 1:54.54) and Tyler Sahm (eighth triple jump, 30-05.50). Top 15 finishers included Ben Mack (ninth 200m dash, 27.97, 11th shot put, 31-03, 13th 55m dash, 7.86), John Lien (12th high jump, 4-10), Teegan Peterson (13th 200m dash, 28.71, 13th 55m hurdles, 11.29), Hunter Johnson (14th 1600m run, 6:17, 15th high jump, 4-08) and Sahm (15th long jump, 15-06.50).
GIRLS TEAM SCORES: Menomonie 120, Eau Claire North 111, Rice Lake 77.50, Chippewa Falls 65, Arcadia 57, Hudson 54.50, Eau Claire Memorial 43, Cadott 43, Elk
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BOYS TEAM SCORES: Rice Lake 137, Menomonie 116, Chippewa Falls 82.50, Hudson 66, Eau Claire North 65, Arcadia 46, Eau Claire Memorial 30, Cadott 18.50, Elk Mound
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Northern Badger Classic
Jonah Bauer and Holzwarth were both individual winners for the Mounders on opposite ends of the spectrum as Bauer won the shortest distance race, the 55m dash at 6.61 while Holzwarth won the longest one, the 3200m run at 10:42. Bauer added a third in the 200m dash at 24.17 while the 4 X 200 relay was fourth at 1:41.47 as was Doll in the high jump after improving on his previous height to 5-10.
The girls were led by Buros with a second place in the shot put at 32-00.50 and the 4 X 200 relay finished third with a time of 1:55.83. Deling added a fifth place in the shot put with a toss of 28-10.50 and three girls placed seventh including McVey in the 200m dash at 28.91, Fasbender in the 800m run at 2:43.16 and Elly Friberg in the high jump, leaping 4-06.
GIRLS TEAM SCORES: Arcadia 84, Byron 48, Athens 42, West Salem 39, Bloomer 36, St. Croix Falls 29, Colby 27, Elk Mound 26, Prescott 26, Elmwood-Plum City 25, Durand 24, Cadott 23, Somerset 20, Bangor 16, Blair-Taylor 13, Frederic-Luck 10, St. Croix Central 10, Boyceville 10, Flambeau 9.50, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser 7.50, Barron 6, Cornell-Lake Holcombe 5, Abbortsford 5, Turtle Lake-Clayton 5
BOYS TEAM SCORES: Chetek-Weyerhaeuser 68, Arcadia 53.50, Somerset 44, Elk Mound 36, West Salem 38, Bangor 30, Byron 27, Colby 27, Cameron 26, Turtle Lake-Clayton 25, St. Croix Falls 23, Prescott 20, Boyceville 20, Athens 20, Flambeau 18, Bloomer 17, Elmwood-Plum City 14, Cadott 14, Durand 9, Abbotsford 8.50, Blair-Taylor 8, Frederic-Luck 3, Cornell-Lake Holcombe 3, Barron 1