nior Ella Daniels placed 15th ….

nior Ella Daniels placed 15th in 6:08.12.

Machon’s height in the pole vault trailed only Kelly Fern of Amery, who cleared the bar at 10 feet. Ella Dick of North Branch, Minn. tied Machon. Gabbie Neumann of Osceola also hit 9-6 but finished fourth. Machon finished eighth in the 55-meter hurdles final at 10.05 seconds. She qualified seventh out of 55 hurdlers in the preliminaries with a time of 9.991 seconds. Lily Joyce of Tomah won the final in 8.77 seconds.

Richter, Aliyah Pilgrim, Brooke Rudolph and Lillie Gleichauf teamed up for Medford’s sixth-place finish in the 1,600-meter relay at 4:32.75. They were ahead of scoring teams from Rochester Mayo, Minn. (4:35.35) and Chippewa Falls (4:35.41).

Rudolph gave Medford four points with a solid fifth-place finish out of 40 entrants in the shot put competition. Her best throw went 30-5. Lindsey Klapatauskas was 9.5 inches away from scoring, taking ninth at 28-4.5. Eau Claire North’s Bernie Barnhardt won at 33-1.

Ella Dassow was just 0.88 seconds away from getting the eighth-place point in the 3,200-meter run. She finished in 13:57.74, just behind Rochester Mayo’s Katarina Larsen. Lindsay Kahn was 10th for Medford in the 800-meter run at 2:42.86, just 0.45 seconds out of eighth place, while Daniels added a 14th-place time of 2:47.74.

Freshman Autumn Cooley went 30-7 in the triple jump to place 10th, while Stacy Stolp was 22nd at 28-2.75. Stolp was an inch off her personal-best distance from last year in the long jump when she took 16th at 13-8. Brenley Beran was 23rd for Medford at 12-10.75. Cooley cleared 4-3 to place 21st in the high jump competition.

Pilgrim (1:10.2) was 18th and Riley Clark (1:15.29) was 38th in the 400-meter dash. Bryn Fronk (8.2) was 27th, Klapatauskas (8.21) was 31st and Rachel Wesle (9.01) was 68th in the 55-meter dash. Alexis Zuleger (32.585) was 58th, Wesle (33.34) was 61st, Adalyn Dittrich (33.45) was 62nd and Beran (34.51) was 67th in the 200-meter dash.

Osceola won the girls meet with 73 points, while Amery (61), Chippewa Falls (50), Holmen (41) and Bloomington Jefferson (36) rounded out the top five.

The majority of Medford’s 9.5 points in the boys meet came from senior distance runners Silas Wipf and Josh Clark.

Wipf took fifth in the 800-meter run at 2:10.49. He was just 0.45 seconds behind fourth-place runner Mason Howard of Chippewa Falls. Rochester Mayo’s Lucas Olson won in 2:01.85. Clark ran the 3,200 meters in 11:12.35 to place fifth as well.

Gage Losiewicz was Medford’s third scorer, tying Stanley-Boyd’s Zack Boes for seventh place in the pole vault by clearing 11-6, well ahead of the 10 feet he hit at Marshfield three days earlier. D.C. Everest’s Matt Nielsen easily won the event by vaulting 15-3.

Clark added a 14th-place time of 5:07.54 in the 1,600-meter run, while Adyn Gripentrog was 16th in 5:12.04. Losiewicz added a 23rd-place time of 58.79 seconds in the 400-meter dash, while Will Daniels was 34th in 1:01.14. Naut van Meurs was 33rd in the 800 at 2:31.38.

Anakin Stokes was 19th in the 200-meter dash (24.81) and 28th in the 55-meter dash (7.084). Cory Lindahl (25.45), Paxton Rothmeier (25.55) and Caleb Scoles (26.0) followed Stokes in the 200 by placing 29th, 31st and 40th. Evan Paul was 48th in 7.387 seconds and Jake Dassow was 52nd in 7.47 seconds in the 55-meter dash. Rothmeier was 23rd in the 55-meter hurdles at 9.94 seconds. Paul was 19th in the long jump at 17-7.75, while Lindahl was 27th at 17-2.5. Paul tied for 22nd in the high jump at 5-3, while Lindahl tied for 27th at 5 feet.

Owen Stockwell went a much-improved 35-1.5 to place 20th while Vincent Seidel went 34-0.5 in the triple jump. Will Haavisto led Medford in the shot put with a 30th-place throw of 33-10, while Jonathan Bartnik was 38th at 29-6.

Medford’s 1,600-meter relay team of Stockwell, Losiewicz, Gripentrog and Seidel placed 14th in 4:02.67.

Rochester Mayo won the boys title with 67.5 points, two ahead of D.C. Everest. New Richmond (51), Menomonie (50) and River Falls (47) filled out the top five.