setting season-bests. Petersen was 22nd ….
setting season-bests. Petersen was 22nd in the 100-meter dash at 12.97 seconds and Schmittfranz (13.4) was 28th.
Stratford successfully defended its 2022 team title by scoring 138 points. The Tigers finished well ahead of Marathon (96.5), Edgar (96), Athens (82), Newman Catholic (53), Phillips (51), Auburndale (50), Abbotsford (49) and Chequamegon (37.5). Prentice was 12th with one point.
Lopez fifth in sprints
Lopez, a junior, scored eight of Rib Lake’s points in the girls meet by placing fifth in the 100- and 200-meter dash finals.
In the 100, Lopez had the third-fastest preliminary time at 13.31 seconds, but Newman’s Mel Severson and Marathon’s Grace Kahon slipped past her in the final. Assumption’s Bella Thomas won the final in 12.7 seconds, just ahead of Kahon (12.94) and Edgar’s Morgan Schnelle (12.95). Severson was fourth at 13.38 seconds and Lopez was timed at 13.4 seconds, 0.16 seconds ahead of Assumption’s Autumn Moon.
In the 200, Lopez had the fourth-fastest preliminary time at 28.08 seconds and improved on it in the final, finishing in 27.68 seconds. Thomas won the final again in 26.66 seconds, followed by Schnelle (26.69), Kahon (27.27) and Severson (27.58). Lopez was 0.68 seconds ahead of Edgar’s Malana Koehler.
Camryn Glenzer was 18th for Rib Lake in the 200-meter prelims (32.76) and Coralee Glenzer was 25th in the 100 (16.91).
Lopez got the eighth-place point in the triple jump. After going 30-3 in the preliminaries, she extended to 30-3.75 in the final, grabbing the last scoring spot ahead of Abbotsford’s Chloe Cihlar (29-9.25). Lopez held eighth place in the long jump after the prelims at 14-5. She didn’t beat that in the finals and wound up ninth, coming out on the short end of a tiebreaker with Edgar’s Brooke Imhoff. They were an inch behind seventh-place jumper Chloe LaValley of Marathon.
Schnelle won the long jump at 15-7.25, while Athens’ Katlyn Schreiner won the triple jump at 34-6. Rib Lake’s Isabelle Gumz tied for 13th at 13-10 and Emma Tlusty was 18th at 13-2 in the long jump.
Freshman Hadassah Nelson got a point as part of a three-way tie for seventh place in the high jump. She cleared 4-4 for the first time this spring, equaling Kayla Gillett of Prentice and Sydnie Button of Chequamegon. Madison Grzanna hit 4-2 for the first time and tied for 11th for Rib Lake. Evie Bates of Newman won at 5 feet.
Also in the field, Gumz was 8 inches shy of making the shot put finals, taking 10th at 28-10. Tessa Krause was 21st at 23-6 and Grace Artz was 23rd at 23-2. Ziarra Schrader improved to 70-9 in the discus, good for 18th. Molly Schmittfranz (50-10) and Artz (41-7) were 28th and 32nd.
Rib Lake’s final point came in the 400-meter relay. This was the first time the Redmen had put together a team in the outdoor season and Gumz, Grzanna, Nelson and Tlusty finished in 57.02 seconds, getting the last scoring spot by 0.97 seconds over Abbotsford. Marathon won in 52.61 seconds.
Tlusty was ninth in the 100-meter high hurdles, missing the final by 0.28 seconds with her time of 19.27 seconds. Gumz was 15th at 20.49 seconds. Tlusty was 10th in the 300-meter low hurdles at 57.43 seconds.
Newman Catholic ended Marathon’s two-year reign atop the conference by scoring 103.142 points, while Marathon totaled 95. Edgar was a close third with 93.1428, followed by Assumption (83), Phillips (65.1428), Athens (60), Abbotsford (57.2857), Stratford (57), Chequamegon (51.2857) and Auburndale (21).
Regional next
Rib Lake will return to Stratford Monday for the WIAA Division 3 regional meet. Facing many of the same Marawood teams, it won’t be easy to gain the topfour placements necessary to advance to the May 25 sectional at Marathon.
The teams in Monday’s meet include Rib Lake, Stratford, Abbotsford, Athens, Columbus Catholic, Edgar, Greenwood, Loyal, Marathon, Phillips, Prentice and Spencer.
