Angell gets throwing sweep at Bloomer Invitational

GILMAN TRACK & FIELD

Bailey Angell continued to dominate in discus and shot put and Gracie Tallier earned two second-place finishes to help the Gilman Pirates place fifth on the girls’ side of Thursday’s Bloomer Invitational.

Claire Drier also scored in three events as Gilman totaled 48 points in the girls meet and outscored sixth-place Thorp by 28. Cadott won the meet with 145 points, comfortably outscoring Stanley- Boyd (112), Bloomer (109) and Durand (80).

Angell got off her best discus throw of the still-young outdoor season at 115 feet, 6 inches, which no one else in the competition came close to challenging. Cadott freshman Haley Mathison was the runner-up at 95-3 and Cadott’s Lucy Lindeman was third at 91 feet.

Lindeman was Angell’s closest challenger in the shot put, but Angell comfortably won that too at 33-11. Lindeman’s top throw was 29-8.75, 3.5 inches better than Bloomer’s Faith Bowe.

Tallier ran into a friendly rival in the 100-meter dash, Kendall Hagness of Durand. Hagness got her in this race with a winning time of 12.53 seconds, while Tallier took second at 13.01 seconds. Gilman’s Jaylen Copenhaver got the sixthplace point at 14.31 seconds and Kyra Rabuck was 14th at 15.27 seconds, both improved times.

Tallier went 15-3.5 to place second in the long jump competition behind Cadott’s talented freshman athlete Izzy Sonnentag (15-8.5). Drier got four fourthplace points at 13-11.5 and Rabuck was 10th at a season-best 12-8.

Drier’s top placement was third in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 51.1 seconds that was her best in three outdoor meets thus far. She wasn’t far behind winner Lula Chwala of Stanley-Boyd (50.25) and runner-up Jaycee Stephens of Cadott (50.31). Drier got the sixth-place point in the 100-meter high hurdles at 19.09 seconds. Sonnentag won in 16.06 seconds.

Copenhaver was seventh in the high jump by clearing 4-2 and she was 12th in the 200-meter dash in an improved 30.47 seconds. Rabuck cut her time too while taking 17th in 31.45 seconds.

Gilman’s boys scored seven points in the meet with six of them coming in the 400-meter relay. Quintin Franzen, Brady McAlpine, Braeden Person and Sawyer Winger were timed at 50.77 seconds, good for third behind Thorp (46.77) and Bloomer (48.7). Cadott was fourth in 54.83 seconds and Stanley-Boyd’s team was disqualified.

Franzen got the other point by taking sixth in the 100-meter high hurdles at 20.59 seconds. Stanley-Boyd’s Nic Schmelzer won the race in 17.26 seconds. Franzen was 16th in the 200-meter dash at 25.95 seconds, while Person was 19th in 26.43 seconds.

Winger cleared 5 feet and fell one spot and 2 inches shy of scoring in the high jump, plus he was ninth in the long jump at 16-1.25. Mitchell Moran was 17th for Gilman at 11-8.75.

Caleb Marion also came up one spot shy of scoring in the discus competition. His season-best throw of 89 feet was 3 feet, 8 inches behind sixth-place scorer Wyatt Engel of Cadott. Marion also got off his best throw of the spring in the shot put, 33-1, which was good for ninth.

McAlpine was yet another seventhplace finisher, this time in the 800-meter run with his time of 2:29.4. He was 0.14 seconds behind sixth-place scorer Candin Yeager of Cadott. Moran was eighth in a season-best 2:42.67. Moran also took eighth in the 1,600-meter run at 6:30.45. Person was 10th for Gilman in the 400-meter dash at 1:00.54. McAlpine was 17th in the 100-meter dash (12.74).

Stanley-Boyd crushed the competition with 217.5 points, followed by Bloomer (127), Cadott (94), Durand (50.5) and Thorp (39).