Tallier, Angell are multi-event winners; Pirates 3rd, 5th at home

GILMAN TRACK & FIELD

Gracie Tallier sprinted and jumped to three event victories Tuesday, leading the Gilman girls to a third-place finish in the eight-team Gilman Track and Field Invitational.

Tallier’s wins in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the long jump, as well as Bailey Angell’s wins in the shot put and discus accounted for 50 of Gilman’s 92 points as the Pirates outscored Spencer (64), Cadott (46.5), Lake Holcombe (29), Bruce (20) and Owen-Withee (7). Colby nudged past Loyal 167-158.5 to win the girls title.

Gilman got a win from Andrew Hecker in the high jump while tying Lake Holcombe for fifth place in the boys meet. Those two teams clipped Spencer by a half-point. Bruce was eighth with 40 points. Colby completed the team title sweep with 171 points, easily outscoring Cadott (99), Loyal (84) and Owen-Withee (65.5).

Tallier’s time of 13.17 seconds won the 100-meter dash by 0.23 seconds over Loyal’s standout senior runner Savannah Schley and 0.85 seconds over Spencer junior Leah Zastrow. The Gilman sophomore sprinted to a winning time of 27.6 seconds in the 200-meter dash, beating Colby sophomore Hayden Willner by 1.04 seconds and Lake Holcombe’s solid junior Brooke Lechleitner by 1.1 seconds.

She capped her big night with a leap of 14 feet, 11 inches in the long jump. She won that competition by a 10.25-inch margin over Willner.

Angell, who placed second in both throws at Medford April 29, threw the discus 89-9 to easily win that competition by 7 feet, 2 inches over Loyal’s Haven Peroshek. Gilman’s Brooke Fryza was third at 74-3 and Emma Grunseth got the eighth-place point at 67-1, improving by more than 7 feet over the Medford meet.

The shot put results were much closer. Angell’s second-best throw of the night won the tiebreaker over Colby’s Katrina Gosse. Their tie was at a distance of 29-8. Fryza scored again, taking fifth at 25-10 and Kaylee O’Malley improved to 25-2 to take sixth.

Junior Ava Gunderson cleared 4-4 to take second in the high jump. Loyal’s Alyssia Zvolena won it with an impressive jump of 4-10. Gunderson added a third-place finish in the 400-meter dash at 1:06.97, a 1.79-second improvement over last Thursday. Sophia Drier was sixth at 1:12.11 in a race won by Schley in 1:01.61. Drier added a third-place time of 2:50.02 in the 800-meter run, which Schley won in 2:37.15. Gilman’s Abby Krug was 10th in 3:17.29. Krug scored five points with a fourth-place time of 7:29.66 in the 1,600-meter run.

In the boys meet, Hecker won the high jump by clearing 5-8, a 4-inch improvement over last week, and he won the tiebreaker for first place over Owen-Withee’s Logan Amacher. Blackhawk Tyler Weaver was third at 5-6. Gilman’s Branden Ustianowski cleared 4-10 and was part of a three-way tie for ninth, falling just short of scoring. Ustianowski did score in the long jump, winning the second-place tiebreaker over Lake Holcombe’s Daniel Person. Both went 16-1.5 to trail Colby’s Caden Healy, who jumped 18-3.

Hecker added a fourth-place time of 59.99 seconds in the 400-meter dash, won by Spencer’s Noah Schultz in 58.01 seconds.

Gilman senior Dominic Franzen had a nice night, taking second in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes as well as the triple jump, where he went 34-8 to finish 2.5 feet behind Bruce’s Tyler Hoyt. Pirate Adam Draeger (25-5.75) was ninth. Franzen’s 100-meter time of 11.8 seconds put him 0.19 seconds behind Healy. Gilman freshman Troy Duellman was seventh in 13.08 seconds. Healy clipped Franzen again in the 200-meter dash, this time by 0.45 seconds. Franzen finished in 24.35 seconds. Duellman (26.93) was eighth and Quintin Franzen (27.53) was ninth.

Zack Marion was fourth in the shot put and discus. He improved by 9 inches in the discus, getting to 87-2. Caleb Marion just missed scoring with his ninthplace throw of 71-2. Zack Marion’s fourthplace toss in the shot put went 33-8, while Bryce Chovan took sixth at 27-11 and Caleb Marion was again ninth at 26-5.5.

Duellman cleared 8 feet to take ninth in the pole vault, while Quintin Franzen was 12th at 6 feet.

Gilman is back in action Friday at the Stanley-Boyd Invitational, which starts at 4:15. The Pirates will have a quick turnaround early next week, visiting Edgar on Monday.