tala was 12th by getting ….

tala was 12th by getting over at 4-10. The top four jumpers cleared 5-6 with Waupaca’s Andrew Hendrix getting first place.

In the shot put, Kaedyn Kopelke got off a throw of 33-7.5 to take 11th out of 23 entrants. Schmidtfranz was 15th at 30-3 and Xavier Johnson was 19th at 27-8. All three made significant improvements over their season-opening efforts at Marshfield. Wausau East’s Marcus Gruszynski was the only thrower to surpass 40 feet, getting to 40-7.5.

Wiitala (6.72), Keiser (7.03) and Jayden Thums (7.54) were 11th, 14th and 18th, in the 50-meter dash preliminaries.

Rib Lake will be back in Merrill today, Thursday, for the girls invitational at 4:15 p.m. Rib Lake’s full team will be at UW-Stevens Point for a Marawood indoor event Monday, starting at 3:30 p.m.