GILMAN TRACK & FIELD - Winger jumps to two wins; Pirates have solid outdoor start

GILMAN TRACK & FIELD

Tuesday’s temperatures in the low 40s weren’t ideal, but that didn’t stop the Gilman Pirates from putting up some solid numbers in their first outdoor track and field meet of the spring.

Both the girls and the boys teams finished fourth in the nine-team Eleva-Strum Cardinal Invitational and both, coincidentally, were also one point away from third place when the final standings were revealed.

The girls got wins from Jaylen Copenhaver in the triple, their 800-meter relay team and three top-three finishes individually from Addison Vick while scoring 100 points, one behind Eau Claire Immanuel Lutheran. Stanley-Boyd outscored Eleva-Strum 142.5-118.5 to win it.

Sawyer Winger won the boys high jump and long jump competitions and Trevor Vick added a triple jump win as the Pirates scored 88 points in the boys meet, also one behind Immanuel Lutheran. Eleva-Strum took the team title with 150 points, 15 more than Stanley-Boyd.

Girls scoring

Gilman’s scoring in the girls meet was well distributed among running and field events.

The triple jump was the team’s highestscoring event with three Pirates finishing in the top four to give them 23 points. Copenhaver didn’t have her best jump, but she still won it at 31 feet, 10.75 inches, while Addison Vick hit 30 feet even to place second and Patricia Kloss was fourth at 29-2 while entering the event for the first time this spring.

Vick cleared the bar at 4-6 to place second in the high jump, 6 inches behind Eleva-Strum’s Liza Kulig. Kyra Rabuck scored two points with a seventh-place distance of 12-10 in the long jump. In the throws, sophomore Rilla Syryczuk put one out 25-10.25 to place second out of 20 entrants in the shot put competition. Eleva-Strum’s Olivia Caponigro was the only one better at 29-5.5. Pirate Jazmyn Robinson got the fifth-place points at 235.75 and Emalee Rivera was 17th at 17-0.5. Syryczuk got another point by placing eighth in the discus at 65 feet. Rivera (502) and Robinson (46-2) were 16th and 18th.

On the track, the all-freshman 800meter relay tam of Kennedy Buske, Shae Drier, Brynn Komanec and Ava Webster won comfortably in a time of 2:01.7. They were 2.8 seconds ahead of Eleva-Strum and 5.73 seconds ahead of third-place Augusta. That same quartet finished the meet by taking second in the 1,600-meter relay at 4:51.6. Eleva-Strum won in 4:40.24.

Vick took third in the 200-meter dash at 28.72 seconds, Copenhaver was fifth in 29.14 seconds and Kloss took sixth in 29.45 seconds to give Gilman 13 more points. Immanuel’s Audrey Arndt won in 26.86 seconds, while Alma Center Lincoln’s Felicity Frey was a half-second ahead of Vick. Copenhaver added a fourth-place time of 14.36 seconds in the 100-meter dash, 0.4 seconds ahead of the fifth-place Kloss. Rabuck (15.51) was 12th.

Webster and Rabuck got the fourthand fifth-place points in the 400-meter dash at 1:15.22 and 1:17.39. The 400meter relay team of Buske, Drier, Komanec and Aspen Person was fourth in 59.02 seconds behind Eleva-Strum (55.8), Alma Center Lincoln (55.87) and Immanuel Lutheran (57.84).

Alma Center Lincoln was fifth in the team standings with 85 points, followed by the Chippewa Valley Lightning Bolts (39), Augusta (33), Granton (6) and Altoona (2).

Boys results

In the boys meet, Gilman had just four scoring efforts in field events, but all four produced big points.

Winger and Chad Konsella scored 18 points by finishing first and second out of 25 entrants in the long jump. Winger won it at 18-4.75, while Konsella wasn’t far behind at 17-11.5. Mitchell Moran added a 13th-place jump of 14-1.5. Winger also cleared 5-6 in the high jump and won the tiebreaker over Eleva-Strum’s Russell Hulett, who also cleared 5-6, and got the 10 first-place points.

Trevor Vick’s win in the triple jump came with a distance of 38-9.25. He easily outjumped runner-up Jesse Cornish of Immanuel Lutheran by 33.25 inches. Moran was 10th at 26-8.75.

Max Ustianowski was Gilman’s top scorer on the track with second-place finishes in both hurdle events. In the 100meter highs, he finished in 19.96 seconds, 0.59 seconds behind winner Jesse Allard of Stanley-Boyd. Vick was fifth at 22.21 seconds. Allard also won the 300-meter intermediates at 46.98 seconds, while Ustianowski was next at 47.81 seconds.

Brady McAlpine had a strong outing as well, led by a second-place time of 25.09 seconds in the 200-meter dash. Konsella (25.44) and Winger (25.76) were fourth and fifth behind Eleva-Strum’s Brennan Hanner (25.29). Alma Center Lincoln’s Jay Stetzer won in 24.53 seconds.

McAlpine and Konsella nearly tied for third in the 100-meter dash. McAlpine got the edge at 12.337 seconds, while Konsella was clocked at 12.34. Moran got two seventh-place points in the 1,600-meter run at 6:17.28 and he was 11th at 2:42.82 in the 800-meter run.

Alma Center Lincoln was fifth in the boys standings with 76 points, followed by Augusta (53), Chippewa Valley (28), Altoona (20) and Granton (6).

Gilman is scheduled to host a 12-team meet today, Thursday, with field events starting at 4:15 p.m. The Pirates are at the Medford Invitational Tuesday.