Orysen 61st at state race
time. At the mile, just 8.2 seconds separated 50th place (6:21) from 70th (6:29.2).
A split of 7:13.4 in the second mile dropped Orysen slightly to 63rd place, but she picked up a couple of spots in the third mile-plus to get up to the 61st position. She was 2.8 seconds ahead of Colby’s Willow Oehmichen and one second behind 60th-place finisher Isabel Baker of Fond du Lac St. Mary’s Springs.
“She did awesome,” Hawks coach Lynn Granberg said. “I am so proud of her.”
Addy Duellman, a freshman from Cochrane-Fountain City, won the individual championship in Division 3 at 18:58.1 and led her team to the state championship. The Pirates totaled 132 points to beat Oshkosh Lourdes Academy by six points. Valders was third with 151 points, followed by Dodgeland (155) and Lancaster (165). Marawood Conference champion Wisconsin Rapids Assumption was 10th in the standings with 227 points. Sectional champion Phillips was 12th at 286 points and sectional runner-up Chequamegon was 15th with 300. Colby, the runner-up in the Athens sectional, was 13th with 292 points.
Boscobel’s Nora Jillson was second individually at 19:08.4. Marawood champion Autumn Michalski of Chequamegon was third in 19:12.7, while Assumption’s Lucy Dolan was fourth in 19:23.5, just ahead of Dodgeland’s Ava Raasch (19:27.2).
