sectional and took sixth at ….

sectional and took sixth at state. She is still going to state as Thursday’s discus champion.

Angell took second at state last year with a throw of 38-6.25, and enters Saturday’s state competition as the fifth seed in a field of 16, based on her sectional distance. Ozaukee’s Page Kurlinski is the top seed with a sectional throw of 39-10. She was fifth in last year’s state competition at 38-1.25.

Angell, who was sixth last year at 11211 and fourth as a freshman at 110-10, did not qualify for a third state appearance in the discus. She finished fifth Thursday at 104-9, which was 9 inches behind fourth-place thrower Grace Mangelsen of Siren. Hydukovich won at 125-5, while Drummond junior Nora Skoraczewski (120-1) and Webster senior Marissa Dearbin (108-6) took second and third.

Gilman sophomore Claire Drier had a good day at Cameron Thursday, setting two personal records in her events. Drier took seventh in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 49.24 seconds, beating her previous best from earlier this year by 0.22 seconds. Her regional time was 50.09 seconds. The state qualifiers were Ava Washburn of Webster (45.37), Elyse Bushman of McDonell Central (46.97), Emma Lechleitner of Cornell-Lake Holcombe (47.21) and Thill (47.24).

Drier went 16-4 in the long jump to extend her record by 1.75 inches and placed eighth out of 16 jumpers. The state qualifiers were Washburn (18-11.5), Alena Sanfelippo of Fall Creek (18-0.5), Lauren Pearson of Cameron (17-5.25) and Emerson Clark of Ladysmith (17-3.25).

Gilman placed 11th in the 1,600-meter relay. Drier, Jaylen Copenhaver, Kyra Rabuck and Tallier had a time of 4:26.53 that easily beat its regional time of 4:32.75 and was well ahead of 12th-place Ladysmith (4:30.78). Turtle Lake-Clayton won in 4:12.12, followed by Prairie Farm (4:14.47), Cadott (4:15.36) and Grantsburg (4:15.68).

Gilman scored 32 points to place ninth in the team competition. They were just five points away from the top five, which consisted of Fall Creek (93.5), Webster (54.5), Ladysmith (42.5), Chequamegon (38), Colfax (37) and Cadott (37).

Gilman had one entry in the boys meet Thursday. Junior Quintin Franzen was 14th in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles with a personal-record time of 46.72 seconds. He beat Robert Schienebeck of Chequamegon (47.28) and Tarver Sellwood of Solon Springs (47.44) and beat his previous best time of 47.19 seconds, which he set at the May 22 Flambeau regional. The state qualifiers were Dominick Ricci of Webster (39.71), Luke Ashworth of Webster (41.77), Jarod Falkner of Mondovi (42.04) and Tyler Rassbach of Prairie Farm (42.09).

Fall Creek also won the boys team title with 57, edging Glenwood City by four points. Webster (51), Grantsburg (47) and Chetek-Weyerhaeuser (41) rounded out the top five.