Plenty of success for Rib Lake and Gilman Monday in Edgar

DR. H.A. SCHULZ INVITATIONAL

While no one was going to catch Edgar’s teams Monday in the Wildcats’ Dr. H.A. Schulz Invitational, the Rib Lake boys put together a solid outing to place third out of seven teams, while the Gilman girls won five events in their fifthplace team finish.

Gilman’s Lady Pirates got their usual wins from Bailey Angell in the shot put and discus and Gracie Tallier in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and freshman Claire Drier picked up the fifth in the 300-meter low hurdles. Rib Lake finished sixth in the team standings and ended the meet with a win in the 1,600-meter relay.

Angell was pushed in her second straight meet in the discus competition by Flambeau’s Anna Crick. Angell’s best throw was her last in the finals and it carried 106 feet, 4 inches to push her past Crick’s top effort of 103-3. That followed Angell’s personal-best throw of 39-8 in the shot put that won the competition by 5 feet, 7 inches over Edgar’s Sophia Larson. Rib Lake’s Lauren Pelnis was fifth with a throw of 30-9.5 that was an inch off her personal-best toss from three days earlier and her teammate, Hannah Schuh was 10th at 26-6.

Schuh set a new personal-best distance in the discus, earning the eighthplace point at 80 feet even. Gilman’s Emma Grunseth also set a new record for herself with a pretty throw of 84-7 in the finals. She also placed 12th in the shot put at 24-9.

Tallier handily won the 100-meter dash in 12.93 seconds, 0.24 seconds ahead of Edgar’s Morgan Schelle, who was named the meet’s Most Valuable Athlete on the girls’ side. Tallier later pulled away from Schnelle by a 0.27-second margin and won the 200-meter dash in 26.3 seconds.

Claire Drier was fourth for Gilman in the 100 at 13.95 seconds, while older sister Ellie Drier was 11th in 15.41 seconds. Ellie was 0.31 seconds away from scoring in the 200, taking 10th in 32.05 seconds. Claire’s victory in the low hurdles came with a new personal-best time of 51.32 seconds, 0.35 seconds ahead of Abbotsford’s Sydney Falteisek.

Megan Yanko, Pelnis, Kylee Goodrich and Amber Yanko teamed up to give Rib Lake its 1,600-meter relay win in 4:41.95, a 5.05-second improvement from the Rib Lake Quad three days earlier. They beat Edgar Monday by 4.09 seconds. The Yankos, Pelnis and Olivia Lopez were third in the 400-meter relay at 54.52 seconds, while Gilman’s team of the Driers, Grunseth and Tallier was fourth in 55.52 seconds. Edgar won in 53.78 seconds, just ahead of Wisconsin Rapids Assumption (54.23). The Yankos, Pelnis and Lopez also took fourth in the 800-meter relay at 1:58.85. Assumption won in 1:55.37.

Goodrich and Lopez placed twice individually for Rib Lake. Lopez took third in the triple jump at 30-8.25, less than a foot behind winner Brooke Imhoff of Edgar, and she was fourth in the long jump at 15-0.25, a new personal best. Schelle won that at 15-4.75, an inch ahead of Claire Drier, who was a quarter-inch ahead of third-place jumper Rachel Schneider of Edgar. Tallier was seventh at 14-4.25.

Goodrich took third in the 800-meter run at 3:00.94, while teammates Amy Espinoza (3:16.15) and Nadia Czahor (3:20.21) were seventh and ninth. Goodrich added a fourth-place time of 6:31.02 in the 1,600-meter run. Czahor was sixth in the 400-meter dash at 1:17.75, Espinoza got the eighth-place point at 1:18.77 and Sofia Fraschi was 11th at 1:31.57.

Megan Yanko tied her personal-best height of 4-8 and took fourth in the high jump.

Girls team scores were: 1. Edgar, 184; 2. Wisconsin Rapids Assumption, 105; 3. Abbotsford, 102; 4. Flambeau, 78; 5. Gilman, 72; 6. Rib Lake, 59; 7. Columbus Catholic, 21.

Boys results

Rib Lake’s third-place finish in Monday’s boys meet included four top-four finishes in the relays and a fairly even distribution of scoring in most other areas that totaled 84 points, enough to beat Abbotsford (62), Columbus Catholic (53), Gilman (42) and Flambeau (33). Edgar crushed the competition with 256 points and Assumption was second with 94.

Will Hartke, Dominick Classen, Donovan Sutherland and Ryan Buehler teamed up for Rib Lake’s lone win, which came in the 3,200-meter relay. The Redmen finished in 9:08.74 to easily beat Edgar (9:29.26). Classen, Ben Petersen, Hartke and Sutherland finished the meet with solid run in the 1,600-meter relay, posting a time of 3:42.69 that was about nine seconds faster than its race on Friday. The Redmen were 1.92 seconds behind Edgar. Gilman’s team of Braeden Person, Troy Duellman, Quintin Franzen and Brady McAlpine was third in 4:14.19.

Hartke, Noah Wiitala, Petersen and Classen ran the 800-meter relay in 1:40.71 to take second behind Edgar (1:37.18) and ahead of Assumption (1:41.75). Gilman’s team of Duellman, Max Ustianowski, Branden Ustianowski and Franzen was fourth in 1:48.52.

Ethan Keiser, Noah Wiitala, Damien Peterson and Sutherland took third for Rib Lake in the 400-meter race at 48.3 seconds, finishing behind Edgar (46.37) and Assumption (47.88) and well ahead of Abbotsford (51.37). Gilman made things interesting in the 400-meter weight throwers relay to end the meet. Gabe Brunner tripped when taking the baton from Zack Marion in the first exchange, but Caleb Marion and Branden Ustianowski made up ground and the Pirates finished in 52.0 seconds to just trail Edgar’s time of 51.98 seconds.

Rib Lake’s Theo Robisch cleared 5-4 to earn second place in the high jump, 2 inches behind the meet’s Most Valuable Athlete, Ayden Weisenberger of Edgar. Classen was fifth at 5 feet and Wiitala was sixth at 4-8. Robisch added a fifth-place distance of 36-4.25 in the triple jump, his best of the spring, Peterson was seventh at 32-11, his best of the year as well and Xavier Johnson was ninth at 29-6.25.

The Redmen got more points in the long jump with Hartke placing sixth at a personal-best 17-4.25, Robisch taking seventh at 16-5 and Sutherland taking eighth at 16-2.75. Peterson was 10th at 15-9, just ahead of Gilman’s McAlpine (14-11) and Max Ustianowski (14-1.75).

Buehler got key points for Rib Lake with a third-place time of 5:09.97 in the 1,6000-meter run, another personal best, and he took fourth in the 800-meter run at 2:20.74. Teammate Elijah Scott was sixth in the 1,600 at 5:50.61 and eighth in the 800 at 2:36.17. Petersen was sixth in the 200-meter dash at 26.33 seconds, while Keiser (12.65) and Wiitala (12.85) were sixth and seventh in the 100-meter dash. McAlpine (13.25), Peterson (13.26) and Duellman (13.41) were ninth through 11th.

Gilman got 13 points from its hurdlers. Branden Ustianowski lowered his time by 0.12 seconds to 45.03 seconds and took second in the 300-meter intermediates, while Franzen was fourth in a personal- best 50.97 seconds. The rest of the Pirates’ scoring took place in the throws. Bryce Chovan set a personal record for the second straight meet, taking third in the discus at 111-6, just ahead of Branden Ustianowski, who set a personal record at 110-8. Zack Marion set a new best at 97-1, while Caleb Marion threw 94-4 as they were seventh and eighth. Zack Marion was fourth with a throw of 36-7.5 in the shot put, while Rib Lake’s Brandon Heiser was 10th at 32-11.

Rib Lake will now prepare for the Marawood Conference championships to be held Monday at Marathon. Gilman is at Cadott Friday before attending the Eastern Cloverbelt Conference championships in Colby on Tuesday.

Gilman’s Gracie Tallier starts to open up a lead over Edgar’s Morgan Schnelle in a battle between area standouts in the 200-meter dash Monday in Edgar. Tallier won the race by 0.27 seconds in a time of 26.3 seconds.MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS