ORIOLE INVITATIONAL - Record-breaking night for Gilman’s sprint relays

ORIOLE INVITATIONAL

The Gilman Pirates’ girls 800-meter relay team came close to breaking its own school record at home on May 6. On Friday, the foursome broke that record, plus another at the the Stanley-Boyd Oriole Invitational.

Jaylen Copenhaver, Addison Vick, Patricia Kloss and Claire Drier won the 800-meter relay in 1:50.49 and took second in the 400-meter race at 52.69 seconds, highlighting Gilman’s eighthplace finish in the 12-team meet.

Their 800 time smashed the time of 1:52.21 they set at last May’s WIAA Division 3 sectional at Cameron and easily beat Abbotsford in Friday’s meet by 5.23 seconds. Two events later, while running the 400-meter race for the first time together, their time wasn’t quite enough to win the race as they fell 1.11 seconds behind Stanley-Boyd’s team. But they broke a long-standing school record of 53.84 that had been on the books since 1996. The Pirates beat third-place Cadott by 0.11 seconds.

Vick also won the high jump competition in Friday’s meet, clearing the bar at 5 feet to finish 2 inches higher than McDonell Central’s Anne Siegenthaler. Copenhaver added a second-place finish in the triple jump competition. Her best just covered 32 feet, 4.75 inches and put her just 1.25 inches behind Flambeau’s Ashley Lawton. Vick was seventh at 3011.75 and Kloss was 10th at 28-10.75.

Drier wasn’t done putting points on the board either. The senior was fourth in the long jump with a best jump of 15-1 and she took fifth in the 100-meter high hurdles in a season-best time of 17.46 seconds. Freshman Shae Drier scored two points in the long jump at a season-best 14-4.25, while Copenhaver was ninth at 14-3.5 and Kyra Rabuck was 14th at 13-1. Rilla Syryczuk also scored two points by taking seventh in the shot put competition with her toss of 28-6.5. She was 22nd in the discus too at 70-9.

Brynn Komanec came close to scoring on several occasions. She was ninth in the 400-meter dash at 1:11.49, 0.78 seconds out of eighth place. Rabuck (1:13.47) and Aubrey Steinbach (1:14.17) were 10th and 11th. Komanec cleared 4 feet to tie her season best and take 10th in the high jump, finished 12th in the 100-meter dash at 14.35 seconds and was 13th in the 200meter dash (29.8). Shae Drier was 14th (14.75) and Rabuck was 16th (15.02) in the 100, while Drier was 15th (30.29) and Aspen Person was 20th (32.46) in the 200.

Stanley-Boyd won the girls meet with 110 points, while McDonell Central nudged past Neillsville 90.5-88 for second place. Ladysmith had 65 points and outscored Athens by one and Cadott by two for fourth place. Bloomer had 52.5 points, 1.5 more than Gilman, who outscored Abbotsford (44), Flambeau (40), Fall Creek (13) and Thorp (5).

Ninth for boys

Scoring was tough for the Gilman boys, but the Pirates found ways to do it in the hurdles, jumps and relays while finishing ninth in Friday’s meet.

Max Ustianowski got 14 of Gilman’s 37 points in the two hurdles races. He took second in the 300-meter intermediates at 47.22 seconds, 1.29 seconds behind Neillsville’s Micah Ziebell and 0.27 seconds ahead of Cadott’s Brenton Faber. Ustianowski was third in the 110-meter highs at 18.3 seconds, while teammate Trevor Vick was sixth in 19.56 seconds, an improvement of 3.2 seconds since his last entry in this race. Ladysmith’s Timmy Meltz won in 16.94 seconds, while McDonell’s Owen Elstran (17.51) was second.

Vick went a personal-best 18-9.25 to finish fourth in the long jump and he got to

38-1.5 to place fifth in the triple jump. Ustianowski got the eighth-place point in the high jump at 5-4, while Vick was ninth, also at 5-4. Sawyer Winger tied for 11th

(18-1.5) and Chad Konsella was 13th (18--

0.25) in the long jump. Mitchell Moran was 12th in the triple jump at 32-2.5, his best jump of the spring.

Taydyn Angell was 10th in the discus with his best throw going 107-4.

Logan Halida, Konsella, Brady McAlpine and Winger teamed up to take third in the 800-meter relay with a time of

1:40.6. They fell behind Ladysmith

(1:32.75) and Abbotsford (1:36.49). The same group took fifth in the 400-meter relay at 47.24 seconds. Stanley-Boyd had the fastest team, finishing in 43.46 seconds, while Ladysmith (44.22) was second.

Halida (12.19) was 11th, James Wojcik

(12.47) was 15th and Wyatt Orth (12.67) was 17th in the 100-meter dash. Moran was 16th in the 800-meter (2:32.78) and

1,600-meter (6:13.06) runs.

Neillsville won Friday’s boys team championship with 118 points. Ladysmith

(98) won a close competition for second over McDonell Central (93) and Stanley-Boyd (92). Abbotsford was fifth with 53 points, followed by Cadott (47), Flambeau

(45), Athens (43), Gilman (37), Bloomer

(31), Fall Creek (22) and Thorp (14).