EM girls second, boys fifth at Larry Z. Invite

BOYCEVILLE — The Elk Mound track teams managed to squeeze a meet in last week after several days of rain when they traveled to Boyceville to compete in a meet named for long time track and field official Larry Zirgibel May 1.

The girls’ team placed second behind two individual winners and a first place 4 X 200 relay team while the boys had one individual winner and finished fifth. Every team in the Dunn-St. Croix Conference, with the exception of Mondovi, participated in the meet. The top eight places earned team points in the meet.

Elizabeth Fasbender won the 800m run in 2:34 and Elly Friberg was the high jump winner at 4-10 while the 4 X 200 crew of Kami King, Friberg, Waive Melgaard and McKenna McVey were first with a time of 1:57. Fasbender was second in the 400m run in 1:05 and McVey also took second in the 200m dash in 28.97. Alyssa Buros claimed a pair of thirds in the throwing events, tossing the discuss 92-08 and the shot put 30-10.50, and fourths were earned by Friberg in the long jump at 13-03.75 and the 100m dash in 13.36, Riley Radtke in the 100m hurdles at 19.5, Hannah Flatness in the 1600m run in 6:17 and the 4 X 100 relay with Emily Larrabee, Kaitlyn Baier, Sarah Sweeney and Paxtyn Pavelski in 57.72.

Radtke added a fifth place in the 300m hurdles at 56.04, along with Kayla Black in the 3200m run at 15.33 and the 4 X 800 relay consisting of Emily Finder, Black, Samantha Jain and Corrine Zimmer in 12:25. Another 4 X 200 relay team with Baier, Larrabee, Pavelski and Radtke was sixth in 2:05 while Melgaard placed seventh in the high jump at 4-04. Sweeney was also seventh in the triple jump with a leap of 26-11.50, along with the 4 X 400 relay with Baier, Finder, Fasbender and Flatland with a time of 5:00. Final team points came from McVey in the 100m dash in 14.22, King in the high jump at 4-02 and Pavelski in the long jump at 12-05, all in eighth place.

Jonah Bauer continues to display his speed by winning the 100m dash in 11.59, while taking second in the 200m dash at 23.55 and running a leg of the second place 4 X 200 relay with Noah Zurbuchen, Adam Gottschalk and Chase Morris in 1:41.20. Third places came from Justin Fedie in the 3200m run at 10:53, Zac Doll in the high jump at 5-10, the 4 X 100 relay with Gottschalk, Tyler Deutschlander, Zurbuchen and Doll with a time of 48.52 and the 4 X 800 relay with Ben Holzwarth, Fedie, Caleb Kruger and Lucas Winter in 9:28. Kruger was fourth in the 800m run in 2:17 as was Travis Nelson in the triple jump at 37-09.

Sixth places came by way of Winter in the 800m run at 2:21, Gottschalk in the long jump at18-04.75, Gabe Anderson in the shot put with a heave of 35-11 and the 4 X 400 relay with Morris, Hunter Johnson, George Friberg and Aaron Maves in 4:05. Johnson took a seventh in the 400m dash in 1:00.32, Teegen Peterson was also seventh in the 300m hurdles in 50.93 and Friberg and Bradley Carlson tied for seventh in the pole vault at 8-00. Gottschalk added a team point in the 100m dash in 12.37 along with Nelson in the long jump at 17-07.25, the second 4 X 200 relay with Maves, Ben Mack, Anthony Hayden and John Yang in 1:51 and the 4 X 100 relay consisting of Mack, Hayden, Eric Walling and Yang at 53.73.

GIRLS TEAM SCORES: St. Croix Central 168, Elk Mound 114, Glenwood City 102, Elmwood-Plum City 99.5, Spring Valley 64, Boyceville 58, Colfax 46.5, Prairie Farm 38

BOYS TEAM SCORES: St. Croix Central 142.5, Glenwood City 114.5, Spring Valley 89, Boyceville 86, Elk
Mound 81.5, Elmwood-Plum City 74, Prairie Farm 56.5, Colfax 56