RIB LAKE TRACK & FIELD - Three win events as Redmen get outside at Cornell-Lake Holcombe

RIB LAKE TRACK & FIELD

The Rib Lake Redmen were the first local track and field team to get outside last week, getting a third-place finish from the boys and a sixth-place finish from the girls in Friday’s eight-school Cornell-Lake Holcombe Invitational.

The boys got wins from Jed Henderson, Kaleb Scott and Gavin Zondlo to go along with four second-place finishes while amassing 103 points, two more than fourth-place Flambeau and four more than Marawood North rival Phillips. Unity won the meet with 160 points, while New Auburn scored 134 and Cornell-Lake Holcombe was sixth with 23 points.

Emma Tlusty led the girls, winning the 100-meter hurdles, taking third in the 300-meter hurdles and adding a fifthplace finish in the long jump. Hadassah Nelson nearly won the high jump. The Redmen, who were without one of their top scorers in Maddie Rademacher, scored 28 points to beat Cornell-Lake Holcombe (24) and Winter (23). Phillips won the meet with 172 points, beating Unity (141), Flambeau (61), New Auburn (57) and Butternut (37).

Henderson hit a new personal-best height of 6 feet, 2 inches and that was enough to give him the win in the boys high jump competition. He had hit 6-1 three times last season. Friday’s jump easily gave him first place by 8 inches over Cornell-Lake Holcombe’s Hunter Anders. Henderson added two seventh-place points by taking seventh in the first discus competition of the spring. His beat throw went 90-9.5. Scott won the 800-meter run in 2:09.3, finishing 3.49 seconds ahead of Unity’s Blake Patterson. The junior also took second in the 1,600meter run in 4:44.52, just 0.31 seconds behind Unity’s Oliver Gariepy. Scott accounted for 18 of Rib Lake’s points. Jackson Schutt scored three points with a sixth-place time of 2:18.39 in the 800, while Kylan Bartelt (2:38.66) was 12th. Truman Smith took sixth in the 1,600 at 5:08.77, while Connor Highfill got the seventh-place points in 5:10.32.

Zondlo’s win came in the 110-meter high hurdles where his time of 20.43 seconds beat New Auburn’s Josh Barker by 3.45 seconds. Zondlo made it an 18point meet by taking second in the 300meter intermediate hurdles in 50.91 seconds. He was 2.53 seconds behind New Auburn’s Stanley Lang.

Jack Regier had a solid day individually, taking second in the 3,200meter run at 11:10.35 and third in the 400meter dash at 56.8 seconds. Flambeau’s Dakota Nelson ran away with the 3,200 in 10:32.39, while New Auburn’s Chester Lang (52.91) and Nelson (55.71) were faster in the 400. Rib Lake’s Seamus Highfill was fifth at 1:00.35, Dene Zuleger took 10th at 1:04.87 and Ian Weber was 13th at 1:09.21.

Connor Highfill, Regier, Schutt and Scott teamed up for a second-place finish in the 3,200-meter relay. Their time of 8:39.13 was only beaten by Unity’s 8:34.64. Phillips was a distant third at 9:48.9. Smith, Schutt, Seamus Highfill and Connor Highfill were third in the 1,600-meter relay at 4:03.89, well ahead of Flambeau (4:41.67) and behind Unity (3:43.44) and Phillips (3:58.91).

Rylan Schaelzka-Lenz, Riley Johnson, David Pichea and Isaiah Hubbard gave Rib Lake fourth place in the 800-meter relay at 1:47.48. Flambeau won in 1:42.93. Jaden Briggs, Kevin Head, Jack Dananay and Johnson were fifth in the 400-meter relay at 58.1 seconds. Unity won that race in 45.2 seconds.

On the track, Hubbard added a point with an eighth-place time of 26.97 seconds in the 200-meter dash, just ahead of Gus Zuleger’s 27.46 seconds. Head was 15th in 30.09 seconds. Gus Zuleger as 0.01 seconds away from scoring as he took ninth in the 100-meter dash at 13.19 seconds. Dananay (14.76) and Briggs (17.94) were 13th and 15th.

In the field events, Lawson Carlson took sixth for the Redmen in the shot put with a season-best distance of 35-5 and Chris Krause got the eighth-place point at a season-best 29-7. Gus Zuleger got the eighth-place point in the long jump at 169.5, while Dene Zuleger was ninth at a season-best 15-2.5 and Schaelzka-Lenz improved to 14-8 while tying for 11th. Hubbard was ninth and Carlson was 10th in the discus with distances of 78-9 and 77-9.

Girls results

Tlusty, a junior, accounted for 20 of Rib Lake’s points in the girls meet with her three top-five finishes.

Her winning time in the 100-meter high hurdles was 19.02 seconds, 1.38 seconds ahead of runner-up Jaycee Pomeroy of Phillips. Her third-place time in the 300meter low hurdles was 57.38 seconds, 2.44 seconds ahead of Pomeroy. She trailed Elise Branville of New Auburn (53.17) and Addie Gabay of Phillips (54.81).

In the long jump, Tlusty’s best effort went 13-7, while teammates Ella Grzanna (10-7.5) and Lucia Nevarez (9-6.5) were 12th and 15th. Unity senior Addison McElhone won at 15-6.5.

Nelson did the rest of Rib Lake’s scoring. She cleared the bar at 4-6 in the high jump, which was her best of the young season and tied Unity’s Andrea Erickson. Erickson won the tiebreaker and was credited with first place. Nelson also placed 10th in the girls discus competition (47-6) and 11th in the 100-meter dash at 16.39 seconds. Grzanna (16.53), Nevarez (17.71) and Sydney Briggs (18.4) were 12th, 16th and 17th for Rib Lake.

Grzanna led Rib Lake with an 11thplace finish in the 200-meter dash at 34.31 seconds. Nevarez (37.52) and Briggs (38.51) were 13th and 14th.

Tuesday’s Stratford meet was canceled due to the cold and blustery weather. The Medford Raiders also were scheduled to be at that meet after they had their Early Bird Invitational canceled twice last week.

Rib Lake is at Gilman today, Thursday, for a meet that starts at 4:15 p.m.