Colby sectionals
Continued from page 15 of Cadott. Rieck also picked up a second place finish, taking the runner-up spot in the shot put. Her best throw of 40 feet, 7.5 inches trailed only Athens’ Sy’Rih Hartwig on Tuesday.
Rolyn Hopperdietzel added a pair of top-three finishes for the Hornets. He grabbed second place in the high jump, tying with Neillsville’s Micah Ziebell for the spot by reaching a height of five feet, eight inches. Abbotsford’s Chase Boller won the event as the only athlete to clear a height of five feet, 10 inches. Hopperdietzel also had a third place finish in the long jump, posting a leap of 19 feet, 11.25 inches in the event.
The boys 4x200-meter relay team of Hopperdietzel, Chase Heeg, Danny Nunez and Xander Buchanan was the final entry to qualify for sectionals for Colby after taking fourth at the regional meet. The quartet of sprinters easily captured their spot by defeating Cadott’s fifth place relay by nearly 10 seconds, finishing with a time of 1:40.72.
Buchanan, Mateer, and Jacob Raatz all had sixth place finishes in Gilman. Buchanan’s came in the triple jump, where he posted an attempt of 34 feet, 4.75 inches. Mateer picked up another in the girls 100-meter hurdles, where she had a time of 20.07 seconds in the finals. Raatz’s sixth came in the 3200-meter run, where he had a time of 12:40.62. He also scored for the Hornets in the 1600-meter run, where his time of 5:25.68 earned him eighth place.
Other scoring performances for the Hornets included a seventh place finish for Adams in the girls 1600-meter run with a time of 6:21.57, a seventh place finish for Heeg in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.45 seconds and an eighth place finish for Isabelle Kloth in the 800-meter run, where she had a time of 2:50.40.
CURVING OVER THE BAR - Rolyn Hopperdietzel snakes himself over the bar at the five foot, six inch height during the sectional meet in Colby. He eventually reached a height of five feet, eight inches and took ninth overall in the competition.
STAFF PHOTO/NATHANIEL UNDERWOOD
