10 feet. Colby’s Willow Oehmichen, ….

10 feet. Colby’s Willow Oehmichen, the regional champion, also finished at 9-6 and placed eighth.

Machon added a 10th-place time of 17.67 seconds in the 100-meter high hurdles preliminaries. Eight advanced to the final, which was won by Osceola freshman Elletta Uddin in 14.65 seconds.

Medford junior Lindsey Klapatauskas finished 11th in the triple jump competition at 31-0.25, a slight improvement from her regional distance of 30-11.5. Kirkland Williams of Northland Pines won with a jump of 34-0.75.

Medford’s 800-meter relay team of Aliyah Pilgrim, Riley Clark, Brenley Beran and Machon finished 13th in 1:55.05, beating Northland Pines (1:55.54), St. Croix Central (1:56.87) and Ellsworth (1:57.07). Osceola won in 1:46.15, while Rice Lake (1:46.49), La Crosse Aquinas (1:46.71) and Mosinee (1:46.81) also qualified for state. The Raiders’ 400-meter relay team of Klapatauskas, Stacy Stolp, Beran and Machon was 15th in 54.44 seconds, beating Northland Pines (56.13). Rice Lake won in 50.14 seconds, while Amery (50.48), Osceola (50.99) and Prescott (51.04) got state spots.

Osceola won the team championship with 103 points, while Rice Lake (78), Amery (57), Mosinee (47) and Northland Pines (44) filled out the top five.

Boys send two

Medford’s boys got the meet off to a good start with the 3,200-meter relay team’s second-place finish in the first race.

Seidel, Clark, Rudolph and Wipf entered the race as the top seed based on regional times and held the lead briefly midway through the race, but their time of 8:13.17 easily got them to La Crosse behind La Crosse Logan’s 8:12.67. Their time was 6.04 seconds faster than their regional time and was the best time by a Medford team in that race this spring.

Altoona (8:23.81) and Prescott (8:24.85) also qualified.

Medford’s team, which includes alternate Adyn Gripentrog, is seeded seventh in the state field of 16 and will run in the second heat. Green Bay Notre Dame is the top seed at 8:05.24.

Some of the Raiders’ relay runners also competed in individual races during Thursday’s meet. Wipf placed sixth in the 800-meter run at 2:03.01, while Gripentrog was 11th at 2:06.4. Wipf was 1.78 seconds behind fourth-place finisher Lucas Walker of Stanley-Boyd. La Crosse Logan’s Dominic Kreiling won at 1:59.92. Clark was ninth in the 1,600-meter run at 4:45.36. He missed the eighth-place point by 3.54 seconds as Rice Lake’s Carter Kucko got that spot. Lakeland’s Owen Clark won in 4:26.12. Owen Clark also qualified for state with a second-place finish in the 3,200-meter race.

Losiewicz, a sophomore, didn’t have his best day May 22 at the Colby regional and started Thursday with two misses at 11-6, but he hit his third vault and then battled his way to becoming one of the last two vaulters standing at the end of the competition. There were five left at 13-3, but only he and Mauston’s Eli Hallwood hit that height. That got Losiewicz past his previous best of 13 feet, set at Marshfield on May 12. Hallwood went on to finish at 14 feet to win the sectional title, while Ian Kalin of Northwestern and Carter Mika of Ashland emerged from the tie at 13 feet to advance to state. Zack Boes of Stanley-Boyd, a common opponent for Losiewicz during the season, wound up making it to state as well as an extra qualifier.

Losiewicz is the sixth seed in the state field of 18 vaulters, led by Hallwood and Big Foot’s Kaden Rambatt at 14 feet.

Medford also competed in the meet’s other three relays Thursday.

The 800-meter team of Anakin Stokes, Cory Lindahl, Jose Herrera and Charlie Kleist placed ninth in 1:33.29, 0.44 seconds behind eighth-place La Crosse Logan. Lakeland won the race in 1:31.21, while West Salem (1:31.56), Prescott (1:31.73) and Ellsworth (1:31.8) advanced. The 1,600-meter team of Kleist, Clark, Rudolph and Wipf was 10th in 3:35.34 and was 1.45 seconds behind eighth-place Altoona. La Crosse Logan won in 3:25.84, followed by Osceola (3:28.27), Prescott (3:28.45) and Lakeland (3:28.64).

The 400-meter team of Stokes, Evan Paul, Lindahl and Kleist was 14th in 45.59 seconds, beating Colby (45.61) and Ashland (45.84). Aquinas won in 43.14 seconds, followed by Northland Pines (43.76), Elk Mound (43.77) and West Salem (43.9).

Owen Stockwell, a junior, got a team point for Medford by placing eighth in the triple jump competition at 39-4.5. Paul, a sophomore, was 13th at 38-3. Both had snuck over 40 feet at the regional to get to the sectional meet. La Crosse Logan’s Avin Smith won at 43-0.75, while Northland Pines had two state qualifiers in runner-up Jack Gjovik (42-5.75) and fourth-place jumper Ryan Muench (4010).

Stokes, a senior, closed out his career with an 11th-place finish in the 200-meter dash preliminaries at 23.44 seconds, a personal-best time. He was 0.3 seconds away from making the final, won by Collin Conzemius of Aquinas in 21.72 seconds.

Sophomore Caleb Scoles was 12th in the 400-meter dash at 55.19 seconds, which is a new personal-best time. Osceola’s Addison Uddin won that race in 50.42 seconds. Sophomore Paxton Rothmeier was 12th in the 110-meter high hurdle prelims at 18.1 seconds. He was 1.76 seconds away from making the final, won by Logan’s Smith in 15.23 seconds.

La Crosse Logan took home the championship plaque by scoring 74.5 points. Lakeland was second with 60 points, followed by Osceola (52), Mauston (51) and Aquinas (47).