Elk Mound boys and girls place fourth at Dunn County Invite

By Marlys Kruger

MENOMONIE – Elk Mound track coach Jeff Mack took full advantage of the unlimited entry rule at the Dunn County Invitational held at the Menomonie High School Fieldhouse April 8 as he had plenty of his athletes compete in several events. Led by individual winners Elly Friberg in the high jump with a leap of 5-02 and Jonah Bauer in the 40m dash at 4.9, both the girls and boys teams placed fourth of six teams in the meet.

The top six places were awarded team points as Kami King picked up points with a third in the 300m dash at 48.5 and was also sixth in both the 40m dash at 5.9 and the high jump at 4-06. Alyssa Buros tossed the shot put 34-02 for fourth place and the 4 X 400 relay was also fourth in 5:17 with Kayla Black, Emily Finder, Nevada LaPointe and Emily Larrabee.

Others finishing in the top ten were Riley Radtke with a pair of sevenths in the 50m high hurdles at 9.5 and the 50m low hurdles at 9.0. Eighth places came from Jamie Solem in the 50 high hurdles at 10.01, LaPointe in the 400m run at 1:18 and Friberg in the long jump leaping 14-06. Black was ninth in the 400 run with a time of 1:20 as was Solem in the 50 low hurdles at 9.7 and Taylor Deling in the shot put with a heave of 26-03. Mariah Rudd placed tenth in the low hurdles at 9.9 and Kathleen Simmons was also tenth in the shot put at 26-01.50

For the boys, Bauer added a third in the 300 run at 42.0 and Chase Morris took a third in the 400 run with a time of 1:03. Adding team points were Noah Zurbuchen with a fourth in the 300 run at 42.2 and the 4 X 400 relay with George Friberg, Aaron Maves, Hunter Johnson and Morris racing around the short track in 4:33. Fifth places were taken by Teegen Peterson in the 50 high hurdles at 10.0, Adam Gottschalk in the 40m dash in 5.2, Maves in the 400 run at 1:04 and Zac Doll in the high jump, leaping 5-10. Final points were tacked on with sixth place finishes by John Lein in the 50 high hurdles at 10.06, Zurbuchen, high jump at 5-04, Gabe Anderson, shot put at 38-02 and the second group of the 4 X 400 relay with Lien, Chandler Schreiber, Noah Stamm and Erik Strand at 4:58.

Finishing in the 7-12 spots were Peterson, seventh in the low hurdles at 8.6 and the third 4 X 400 relay with Casey Capozzi, Bradley Carlson, Dakota Feilbach and Anthony Hayden at 5:0, also seventh. Eighth places came by way of Friberg in both the 400 run in 1:07 and the pole vault at 8-00 and Travis Nelson in the long jump at 18-03.50. Filling the ninth spots were Josh Hall in the 400 run at 1:08, Feilbach, 50 low hurdles at 9.2 and Bauer, high jump, 5-02. And in tenth place were Lein, 50 low hurdles in 10.0 and Peterson,Carlson and Strand all soared 7-00 in the pole vault.