Mounder thinclads compete in Bloomer, Stanley-Boyd

It was a busy week for the Elk Mound track and field squads as they competed in three meets in a four-day span.

Besides partaking in the Colfax Invitational last Thursday (see separate story), the Mounders boys’ and girls’ teams kicked off the week with a meet in Bloomer and ended it competing in Stanley-Boyd on Friday.

Both meets afforded Elk Mound the chance to measure themselves against several schools that they will face in the WIAA Division 2 track and field tournament that will get underway with regional competition in Colfax Monday, May 21.

The Elk Mound boys finished third at the May 1 meet in Bloomer with 104 points. The girls finished sixth with 54 points. Host Bloomer finished on top in both the boys’ and girls’ standings at the 11-team invitational.

The teams standings were identical following last Friday’s Mid-Season Invite held on Stanley-Boyd’s Henke Track at Orioles Park. The Mounder boys tallied 122 points to land in third place at the 7-team invite on May 4 with the Lady Mounders taking sixth after scoring 62 points. Again, the home squads, Stanley-Boyd’s boys and girls, took the team titles with scores of 179 for the boys and 142 for the girls.

Bloomer Invite

Seniors Tyler Brantner and Connor Mavis each scored a first as did junior Brady Redwine for the Elk Mounder as they opened May competition at the Bloomer Invite last Tuesday.

Brantner won the triple jump (42’ 1.5”) and took third in the high jump (5’ 9”). Redwine was crowned long jump champ with a leap of 19’ 8.75” and finished second in the 100 m (:12.07). Mavis threw the discus 136” 5” to win the event.

The boys’ relay team of Rian Flynn and Rian Mohr along with Brantner and Redwine placed first in both the 4×100 m and 4×200 m relay races.

Hannah Cedarblade placed in a pair of events for the girls. The senior hurdled to third in the 300 m low hurdles  (:55.23) and placed fifth in the 100 meters highs (:18.94).

Kristin Martinson  was third in 800 m run (2:40.03) and Kennedy Pritchard and Alana Plaszcz each grabbed a fourth in the  100 m and 1,600 m respectively.

The 4×800 m relay squad of Victoria Fasbender, Alana and Brooke Plaszcz and Kristin Martinson placed first.

The Lady Mounders also finished third in the 4×100 m and fourth in the 4×200 m relays.

Stanley-Boyd Mid-Season Invite

Connor Mavis picked up a pair of silver medals for the Elk Mound boys in the Stanley-Boyd Mid-Season Invite last Friday May 4. The senior heaved the shot put 39’ 11” to take second and did likewise in the discus with a throw of 115’ 11”.

Fellow senior Jake Johnson scored points in three events, placing third in the 300 m intermediate hurdles (:45.06), seventh in the 400 m and eighth in the 200 m.

Junior Brady Redwine picked up the boys’ lone win in the 200 m with a time of :23.39 and placed fourth in the 400 m.

The 4×400 m relay teams scored second-place finishes. The team was comprised of Brady Redwine, Rian Flynn, Tyler Brantner and Marquis Kasakaitas. The 4×100 teams were second and third, the 4×200 squad placed third and the 4×800 m team was fourth.

Senior Jared Strand also copped two places, taking fifth in the triple jump and sixth in the long jump.

Fourth-place finishes went to senior William Muszynski in the 110 m high hurdles and Marquis Kasakaitas in the 100 m, and junior Rian Flynn (400m) and freshmen Alex Johnson (300 m hurdles) and Keagan McKrea (3,200 m) each had fifth-place finish.

The girls’ 4×200 m relay team of Maddie Jenson, Chloe Jenson, Kourtney Zurbuchen and Sydney Simpson came in first with a time of 2:03.24. The quartet also took second in the 4×100 m relay, finishing in :56.92.

Freshman Kennedy Pritchard scored fourths in the 100 m and long jump and Paige Vanschoonhoven had double sixth-place showings in the 200 and 400 m.

Seniors Kayla Patterson and Claudia Paul each placed in an event. Patterson was fifth in the 1,600 m and Paul took sixth in the 800 m. Freshman Chloe Simpson finished sixth in the high jump.