Richter sets girls 3,200-meter record; boys second at Marshfield

MEDFORD TRACK & FIELD

In their last chance to build momentum heading into the track and field meets that matter most, that’s exactly what the Medford Raiders did Friday, making improvements across the board at the five-team Marshfield Invitational.

The girls took third and got another school-record effort from Meredith Richter. The junior, six days after setting a new school record in the 1,600-meter run, broke the mark in the 3,200-meter run while entering the event for the first time this spring and while basically competing by herself, winning in 11:19.51, a time that was 2:43.82 ahead of Mariam McKee of Marshfield.

Richter broke the record of 11:28 that had been held by 2005 graduate Holly Liske.

Ella Daniels also was a winner for Medford in girls competition. She took the 1,600-meter run in 6:01.46, comfortably ahead of Mosinee’s Jena Bartnik (6:22.15) and her best time of the spring by nearly six seconds.

Daniels, Lillie Gleichauf, Richter and Riley Clark got second-place points in the 3,200-meter relay at 10:54.62.

Jaylin Machon earned second in the pole vault and third in the 100-meter high hurdles. She was one of three vaulters to top out at 9 feet, 6 inches. Her seasonbest hurdles time of 17.44 seconds was 0.8 seconds behind winner Danielle Minsaas of Marshfield.

Freshman Aliyah Pilgrim lowered times in two races, taking third in the 200-meter dash in 29.13 seconds and third in the 400-meter dash at 1:05.72. Stacy Stolp dropped a half-second while taking fifth in the 200 (29.88), Autumn Cooley was fifth in the 400 at 1:12.08. Pilgrim’s first 100-meter dash of the eason produced a sixth-place time of 13.92 seconds. Alexis Zuleger was 10th at 15.0 seconds.

Gleichauf cut 12 seconds in the 800-meter run, finishing third in 2:40.49, while Amy Espinoza knocked off about 9.5 seconds while taking seventh in 2:59.76. Adalyn Dittrich took fifth in the 300-meter hurdles at 59.7.

Rachel Wesle had a big day, improving by almost 21 feet in the discus to take fourth at 82-8, just ahead of teammate Rivalee Stokes (82-4). Wesle set another personal-best by throwing the shot put 27-6.5, good for fifth, 2.5 inches ahead of Stokes. Cooley hit the 4-4 mark in the high jump for the first time this spring, good for fifth. Stolp was fifth in the triple jump at 29-4.5, while Wesle was ninth at 25-9. Daniels was fifth in the long jump at 14-1, Brenley Beran made a slight improvement to 13-5.5 to place eighth and Stolp was ninth at 13-4.5.

Zuleger, Stolp, Beran and Machon took third in the 400-meter relay in 54.78 seconds. The 800-meter team of Clark, Beran, Machon and Zuleger was fourth in 1:57.73. Marshfield’s top team won in 1:47.11.

Second place for boys

Medford won six events in an excellent showing on the boys side of Friday’s meet.

Sophomore Evan Paul was one of the meet’s most valuable athletes. He won the high jump at a personalbest height of 5-10, 2 inches ahead of Marshfield’s Ryan Donovan and won the triple jump at a personal-best 392. Paul added one more best, taking second in the long jump at 19-8.5.

Gage Losiewicz also hit a new height for Medford, clearing 13 feet for the first time in the pole vault. He won that event by 6 inches over Marshfield’s Vaughn Kolbeck. Also in the field events, Charlie Kleist took third in the shot put at 39-10.5, while Will Haavisto placed sixth with his best throw of the spring, 37-0.25. Jacob Rechtzigel was sixth with a personal-best distance of 97-4 in the discus.

On the track, Anakin Stokes won the 200-meter dash in his best time of 23.45 seconds. Jose Herrera was third in the 200 in his fastest time of 24.24 seconds, while Caleb Scoles was fifth at 25.2 seconds. Stokes, Cory Lindahl, Herrera and Kleist ran the 800-meter relay in 1:34.24, good for second just 0.37 seconds behind Marshfield’s top team. Paxton Rothmeier, Stokes, Kleist and Paul ran the 400-meter relay in 46.07 seconds, 1.33 seconds behind Spencer.

The 3,200-meter relay team of Josh Clark, Adyn Gripentrog, Zach Rudolph and Silas Wipf was a winner, handily taking its race in 8:21.27, which was easily the best time for a Raider team this spring. Marshfield was 32.56 seconds behind. Wipf was an individual winner, shaving off a few hundredths and taking the 800-meter run in 2:03.1, good for a 1.34-second margin over Marshfield’s Thomas Cashmer. Rudolph was fourth in 2:13.77.

The 1,600-meter run was a highlight. Clark took second in 4:43.94, 6.26 seconds behind Columbus Catholic’s Isaac Scheer. Lucas Borman turned in another big drop in time, placing fourth in 5:10.86 and Ervin Ulrich dropped to 5:18.14, good for sixth. Losiewicz cut about a second and a half and took second in the 400-meter dash at 55.33 seconds, Gripentrog was fourth at 56.35 seconds and Scoles was fifth at 56.45 seconds. Lindahl was third in the 100-meter dash at 12.4 seconds, followed by Jace Curran (12.55) and Rothmeier (12.6) in solid times.

Rothmeier was fourth in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles at 46.62 seconds. That was his first run in that race this spring. Hudson Briggs was seventh at 51.9 seconds. Will Daniels got the seventh-place points in the 110-meter high hurdles at 19.44 seconds.