Around the Track:
Caden Dahl of Arcadia ran the first leg of the 3200-meter relay at last Tuesday’s MVC/Coulee track and field invitational at Holmen High School. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Sophomore Brielle Hansen of G-E-T leaped toward the pit during the long jump competition at the MVC/Coulee track and field invitational at Holmen High School last Tuesday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Multiple Trempealeau County athletes recorded top finishes at the annual Mississippi Valley Conference/Coulee Conference track and field invitational at Holmen High School last Tuesday.
Both Arcadia and Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau represented the Coulee Conference at the meet, one that saw the G-E-T girls finish fourth and the Raider girls place sixth. The Red Hawk boys took sixth with Arcadia taking ninth on the boys’ side.
Holmen won the team competition in both fields.
Arcadia won two events at the meet. Senior Casidi Pehler recorded the best leap on pole vault at 10 feet, six inches, and the Raiders’ boys 1600-meter relay team of Landan Bremer, Ted Teske, Joel Fernando and Cole Lockington took first place also. The Arcadia foursome outpaced Holmen’s relay team by two seconds.
Senior Kaylee Hauge brought G-E-T an individual victory, hers in the 400-meter dash. Hauge edged Katelyn Benish of Westby by about two seconds.
Teske earned points for the Raiders in multiple events, taking second in the 200-meter dash and third in long jump. Bremer placed third in the 200, and teammate Trey Lyga took second in boys’ discus.
Pehler also took second in the discus competition, while teammate and sprinter Jaylie Dahl took second in the 200 and third in the 100.
For G-E-T, Sawyer Smock found success in the boys’ pole vault, taking second with a leap of 12 feet. Carter Repaal also earned a second-place day in shot put with a toss of 45 feet, 2 inches, and girls’ teammate Adrianna Rotering was the county’s best distance runner on Tuesday with her 5 minute, 51.2 second performance in the mile being enough for second place.
Carter Giemza finished third in the boys’ 800 for G-E-T, whose boys’ 400-meter relay team of freshmen Isaiah Carroll and Mikah Vail as well as juniors Kyle Seiling and Max Knapmiller, also scored team points by taking third.
Senior Shelby Hass cracked the top five in girls’ shot put, her throw of 33 feet, 2 inches good for third on Tuesday. Teammate Cadence Simmons’ 31-foot, 8-inch throw placed sixth in the same event.
Arcadia was scheduled to visit Logan on Monday, and both county teams will compete in the Raiders’ home invitational this Thursday at Arcadia High School.
Boys track, MVC/Coulee Invite, April 9 at Holmen High School
Holmen 103.5, West Salem 97, Tomah 89, Central 79, Sparta 54, G-E-T 50.5, Luther 49, Aquinas 48, Arcadia 42, Westby 29, Onalaska 22, Viroqua 19, Holmen B 14, BRF 5, Holmen C 1
Arcadia top three finishers
Firsts—1600 relay (Bremer, Teske, Fernando, Lockington), 3:33.94.
Seconds—Teske, 200, 23.3; Lyga, discus, 151-5.
Thirds—Bremer, 200, 23.4; Teske, long jump, 19-10.
G-E-T top three finishers
Seconds—Smock, pole vault, 12-0; Repaal, shot put, 45-2.
Thirds—Giemza, 800, 2:10.51; 400 relay (Carroll, Seiling, Vail, Knampiller), 46.04.
Girls track, MVC/Coulee Invite, April 9 @ Holmen High School
Holmen 132, Westby 110, West Salem 90, G-E-T 57.5, Tomah 56, Arcadia 41, Viroqua 39, Luther 34.5, Onalaska 33, Aquinas 33, Central 24, Sparta 24, Holmen B 23, BRF 5
Arcadia top three finishers
Firsts—Pehler, pole vault, 10-6.
Seconds—Dahl, 200, 26.96; Pehler, discus, 108-2.
Thirds—Dahl, 100, 13.16.
G-E-T top three finishers
Firsts—Hauge, 400, 1:01.74.
Seconds—Rotering, 1600, 5:51.2.
Thirds—Hass, shot put, 33-2.
B-T girls fourth, boys sixth at Bangor meet
By Andrew Dannehy
Times Editor
Both of the Blair-Taylor track and field teams had first-place finishes as the girls team took fourth and the boys team was sixth at the Bangor Open last week Tuesday.
DaVonne Turner won the long jump for the B-T boys while adding a second-place finish in the 200 and a third in the 100.
Riley McAdams had a pair of third-place finishes, taking bronze in the triple jump and running on the third-place 800 relay team with Collin Johnson, Connor Kruse and Clayton Woodard.
Paige Kelly won the 300 hurdles for the B-T girls.
The team also had near top finishes in distance events from two runners. Jadrean Borreson finished second in the 1600 and third in the 3200 while Kesey Lien was second in the 3200 and third in the 1600. Lien also took third in the triple jump as did Alley Samples in the 100 hurdles.
The B-T teams are scheduled to compete in a meet at Augusta on Thursday and White-hall this coming Monday.
Boys track, Bangor Open, April 9 at Bangor High School
La Crosse Logan 88 Bangor 72 De Soto 37.5 Mel-Min 27.5 Auburndale 19 B-T 18
B-T top three finishers
Firsts — Turner, long jump, 20-0.75
Seconds — Turner, 200, 23.94
Thirds — Turner, 100, 11.78; 800 relay (Johnson, Kruse, Woodard, McAdams), 1:39.77; McAdams, triple jump, 36-10.25
Girls track, Bangor Open, April 9 at Bangor High School
La Crosse Logan 101.75 Bangor 40.75 Auburndale 37.25 B-T 28 Mel-Min 26.25 De Soto 17
B-T top three finishers
Firsts — Kelly, 300 hurdles, 53.62
Seconds — Borreson, 1600, 6:41.5; Lien, 3200, 15:26
Thirds — Lien, 1600, 6:47.40; Borreson, 3200, 15:34; Samples, 100 hurdles, 21.03; Lien, triple jump, 29-09
I/G girls sixth, boys seventh at E-S meet
By Andrew Dannehy
Times Editor
The Independence/Gilmanton girls track team had two first-place finishers as it took sixth in its first outdoor meet of the season at Eleva-Strum last Tuesday.
Taylor Sylla had a hand in both of the top finishes as she won the 3200 run and ran on the 3200 relay with Sophia Kampa, Anna Kent and Kia Back.
The 1600 relay team of Jasmine Montalvo, Nora Schank, Shawnna Whitewater and Kent took third. Schank was also third in the high jump, while adding fifth-place finishes in the long jump and 200. Whitewater was fifth in the 400 as was Hannah Gierok in the triple jump.
Stanley-Boyd won both the boys and girls team competitions. The I/G boys finished seventh with a couple of second-place finishes.
The team took two of the top three spots in the shot put as Andrew Bragger was second and James Carillo-Taylor took third. Sam Marsolek was the runner-up in the pole vault.
The 3200 relay team of Grant Klimek, Zander Strain, Dawson Olson and Owen Gierok finished third. Klimek was also fourth in the 800 and on the fifth-place 1600 relay team with Strain, Gierok and Marsolek.
The Indees were set to return to Eleva-Strum for a meet on Tuesday of this week before competing at Alma Center Lincoln on Thursday and Whitehall this coming Monday.
Boys track, Eleva-Strum Early Bird Invitational, April 9 at Eleva-Strum High School
S-B 220 E-S 96 Cadott 82 ECIL 69 AC Lincoln 64 Augusta 47 I/G 43 Chippewa Valley Lightning Bold 38 Greenwood 2 Granton 2
I/G top three finishers
Seconds — Marsolek, pole vault, 8-6; Bragger, shot put, 35-10
Thirds — 3200 relay (Klimek, Strain, Olson, Gierok), 10:09.68; Carillo Taylor, shot put, 35-9.5
Girls track, Eleva-Strum Early Bird Invitational, April 9 at Eleva-Strum High School
S-B 144 Cadott 130 E-S 115.5 AC Lincoln 83.5 ECIL 66 I/G 52.5 Greenwood 25 Granton 24 Chippewa Valley 22.5 Augusta 4
I/G top three finishers
Firsts — Sylla, 3200, 11:56.33; 3200 relay (S. Kampa, Kent, Back, Sylla), 11:27.17
Thirds — 1600 relay (Montalvo, Schank, Whitewater, Kent), 4:51.10; Schank, high jump, 4-4
