Eleva-Strum track teams do well in Early Bird Invite
CENTRAL - The Eleva-Strum Track & Field Team finished first in the girls team standings while the boys took second in the E-S Early Bird Invitational held Tuesday, April 14.
The team scores were as follows: (Boys) 1 Cadott 183, 2 Eleva-Strum 144, 3 Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran 117, 4. Lincoln 95, 5 Cumberland 62, 5 Chippewa Valley Lightning 62, 7 Granton 2
(Girls) 1. Eleva-Strum 137, 2. Cadott 128, 3. Lincoln 122, 4. Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran 108, 5. Chippewa Valley Lightning Bo 90, 6. Cumberland 61, 7. Granton 13
Forty of those points came from senior Aliza Kulig as she won the 100-meter high hurdles in 18:58; the 300-meter low hurdles in :53.94; the high jump at 4-10 and pairing with Annelyse Preston, Callan Skoug and Lydia Nicolet the 1600-meter relay in 4:47.86.
Also getting first places for the Cardinal girls were their 3200-meter relay team of Clara Christ, Lydia Nicolet, Ashlyn Hanson and Annelyse Preston in 11:43;; the 800-meter relay team of Mya Segerstom, Avery Spanberg, Sabrina Brantner and Brenley Bauer in 2:01.53 and the freshman Nicolet in the triple jump at 29-11.
Points for the Redbird girls also came from Lily Ross, fifth in the 100 hurdles; Spanberg, Tatum Koxlien and Segerstrom, third-seventh-eighth in the 100-meter dash; a second place in the 400-meter relay, Spanberg and Bauer, 5-8 in the 200-meter dash; Sydnee Hanner, fifth in the discus; Skoug, eighth in the shot put and fourth in the high jump; Koxlien, sixth in the long jump; Spagnberg, second in the pole vault; and Segerstrom and Ross, both tied for fourth in the pole vault.
Central senior Jaxon Rindal set a new meet and school record in the discus at 144 feet, 10 inches. He also finished second in the shot put. Also winning events for the E-S boys were junior Bo Windjue in the 110-meter high hurdles in :18.53; and senior Russell Heulett in the long jump at 18-6 along with the Cards' 800-meter relay team of Windjue, Luis Kinser, Brock Stendahl and Logan Resenweber in 1:42.
E-S boys also got points from a third in the 3200-meter relay; Brayden Nelson, eighth in the 110 hurdles; Kinser, eighth in the 100; Hulett, second in the 1600-meter run; fourth in the 400-meter relay; Segerstrom and John Kempf, 2-3 in the 400; Nelson and Gabe Wakefield, 5-6 in the 300-meter IM hurdles; Nolan McConnell, fifth in the 200; third in the 1600 relay; Alex Awe and Lucas Grangaard, 6-8 in the 3200-meter run; Wyatt Tucker and Landyn Windjue, 6-8 in the discus; Windjue, Roman Bates and Grangaard, fifth through seventh in the shot put; Bo Windjue and Resenweber, 2-3 in the pole vault; Hulett, third in the high jump and McConnell, eighth in the high jump and fourth in the triple jump.
Both E-S teams finished second in a six-team Dairyland Conference meet, their first outdoor meet of the season, back on April 9, also at Central. Whitehall swept both team titles. Also competing, the Osseo-Fairchild boys were fourth and girls fifth while both Augusta teams were sixth.
Top three placewinners from the Area in each event were as follows: E-S girls 3200-meter relay, first in 12:07; E-S boys 3200-meter relay, second; Augusta's Viola MacDionald, first in the 100-meter high hurdles in :17.88; Spangberg, first in the 100-meter dash in :13:59 with O-F freshman Naomi Hoffman second; Osseo-Fairchild's Dylan Fritz, second in the 100; Augusta sophomore Zale Pettis, first in the mile run with Hulett second; E-S and Augusta, 1-2 in the girls 800-meter relay; E-S boys, first in the 800-meter relay in 1:42.11; E-S boys, third in the 400-meter relay; E-S girls team of Spangberg, Koxlien, Bauer and Segerstrom, first in the 400 relay in :57.16 with O-F third; Osseo-Fairchild and Eleva-Strum 2-3 in the boys 400 relay; Kulig and MacDonald., 2-3 in the 300 hurdles; Wakefield and Nelson, 2-3 in the boys 300 hurdles; the Thunder's Hoffman, winner of the 200-meter dash in 29:04; Fritz, third in the 200; O-F senior Alyssa Burmesch, first in the 3200-meter run in 15:53; Augusta's Dasan Downey, first in the boys' 3200-meter run in 12:14 with O-F's George Clark third; the AHS girls team of Annabelle Goetz, Kinley Nelson, Stephanie Bergman, Zoey Guntner winning the 1600-meter relay in 4:44 with E-S second; E-S boys 1600-meter relay team first in 3:59; Rindal, first in the discus with a throw of 131-11 and second in the shot put; O-F senior Makaela Kiesow, third in the shot put; Kulig, first in the high jump at 4-8 with Guntner second and Jianna Scheffer opf O-F third; Hulett, second in the high jump with Osseo-Fairchild's Maddox Abramczak third; Segerstrom and Ross, tied for third in the pole vault; Hoffman, first in the long jump with a mark of 14-8; Abramczak, third in the long jump; Guntner and Nicolet, 2-3 in the girls' triple jump and the Thunder's Ty Hanson, second in the triple jump.
Fall Creek's first outdoor meet is this Thursday, April 13 in the Menomonie Invitational. E-S's own invite meet is next Tuesday, April 21 at 4 p.m. Besides Central, the following teams will be there: Altoona, Auburndale, Chippewa Valley Lightning Bolts, Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran, Elk Mound, Gilman, Granton, Lincoln and Stanley-Boyd. Next Thursday, April 23 is the Dairyland Conference Relays at Lincoln while FC will compete in the Arcadia Invitational the same day.
