MARSHFIELD GIRLS INDOOR INVITE - RL’s Lopez wins both jumps in opening meet for Redmen, Raiders

MARSHFIELD GIRLS INDOOR INVITE

Olivia Lopez won the long and triple jumps to lead Rib Lake to a fifth-place team finish in Thursday’s season-opening Marshfield Tiger Girls Indoor Invitational, while a crew of mostly inexperienced Medford Raiders finished a point behind the Redmen in the team standings.

Lopez added a fourth-place finish in the 60-yard dash to account for 25 of Rib Lake’s 29 points. Medford had a couple of senior veterans entered in the meet. One of them, Jaylin Machon, placed third in the pole vault, just ahead of freshman Avery Losiewicz, who took fifth. The Raiders scored a good chunk of their 28 points in relays in their sixth-place finish. Marshfield easily won the meet with 129 points, beating D.C. Everest (87), Wittenberg-Birnamwood (86.5) and Stevens Point (72.8333). Colby was in seventh place with 27 points.

Lopez, now in her senior season with Rib Lake, got the win in the long jump with a leap of 15 feet, 9.5 inches that beat Stratford’s Brianna Sherden by 4 inches and Marshfield’s Hannah Ridgway by 8 inches. Rib Lake’s Emma Tlusty tied for 12th place at 13-9, Medford’s Ella Daniels was 15th at 13-2.5 and Rib Lake’s Isabella Gumz was 17th at 12-10.25. In the triple jump, Lopez got off a strong jump of 32-11 that gave her the win by 1 inch over Marshfield’s Ashley Grancorvitz. Marshfield’s Ella Allar was third at 31-8.5. Medford senior Lindsey Klapatauskas was 17th at 27-6.5.

Lopez’s fourth-place time in the 60-yard dash 7.78 seconds, not far behind Sherden, who won in 7.5 seconds. Ridgway (7.64) and Stevens Point’s Jada Seubert (7.68) were the only other sprinters to beat Lopez.

Rib Lake’s last four points came from sophomore Hadassah Nelson, who finished fifth in the high jump competition. She cleared the bar at 4-6, placing second out of four jumpers who topped out at that height. Wittenberg-Birnamwood’s Faith Resch won a tiebreaker at 4-10 over Ridgway to win the event.

Machon started her season by clearing 9-5 in the pole vault and getting the tiebreaker edge over Athens’ Ava Ford for third place. Malaina Telschow of Athens and Cheyenne Cornell of Stevens Point both cleared 10 feet with Telschow winning the tiebreaker. Losiewicz, in her varsity debut, cleared 8-6 for her fifth-place finish.

Machon added three more points by taking sixth in the 60-yard hurdles at 9.72 seconds, 1.1 seconds behind winner Megan Zemke of D.C. Everest. Tlusty just missed scoring for Rib Lake, taking ninth in 10.0 seconds, while Gumz was 12th in 10.59 seconds.

Alexis Zuleger was Medford’s other individual scorer, taking sixth in the 440-yard dash in 1:11.24. Her teammate, Addison Juedes, was 13th in 1:14.2, while Gumz was 14th at 1:15.97.

Medford’s team of Lindsay Kahn, Morgan Liske, Carly Koski and Felicity Ziehlke was fourth in the two-mile relay at 11:41.56, trailing Marshfield (11:20.37), Wittenberg-Birnamwood (11:27.33) and Colby (11:33.75). The four-lap relay team of Aliyah Pilgrim, Toryn Rau, Brenley Beran and Lindsey Klapatauskas was fifth in 1:31.71. D.C. Everest won in 1:25.55. The eight-lap relay team of Rachel Wesle, Pilgrim, Beran and Rau was sixth in 3:20.83. Marshfield won that race in 3:03.74.

Other performances that fell just shy of scoring for Medford included a 10th-place distance of 28 feet from Klapatauskas in the shot put and an 11th-place time of 31.34 seconds from Losiewicz in the 220yard dash. Lopez was 14th (31.69) and Kloey Paul was 15th (31.69) for Rib Lake in that race.

Gumz was 15th in the shot put at 26-8, Raider Rachel Wesle was 16th at 26-5 and Rib Lake’s Tessa Krause was 18th at 25-2.5.

Medford’s Rivalee Stokes got off a throw of 28 feet to take second in the JV shot put competition, while BridgetWesle was sixth at 24-6.25 and Rib Lake’s Camryn Glenzer tied for seventh at 23-11.5. Zuleger was fourth for Medford in the 220-yard dash at 31.46 seconds, Ellie Eckert was fifth in the 440-yard dash in 1:20.24 and the fourlap relay team of Juedes, Bridget Wesle, Rachel Wesle and Ady Dittrich placed fifth in 1:35.91. D.C. Everest won at 1:30.65.

A total of 17 teams competed in Thursday’s meet.