STANLEY-BOYDT&FOPEN - Gilman girls, Rib Lake boys post winning efforts at Stanley

STANLEY-BOYD T&F OPEN

In just their second outdoor meet of the season, the Rib Lake Redmen took third in the boys standings at Friday’s Stanley-Boyd Open led by their strong distance crew. Meanwhile, the Gilman Pirates, in their second meet in four days, were fifth in the girls standings, highlighted by 19 points apiece from Jaylen Copenhaver and Claire Drier in individual events.

Copenhaver was the lone local outright winner in the girls meet, where Gilman scored 77 points and Rib Lake finished with 12.5, good for eighth place out of 10 teams. The Pirate senior, who had missed the team’s meet in Medford April 22 due to illness, won the triple jump competition with her best jump of the meet covering 31 feet, 11.25 inches. That was good enough to beat Stratford senior Emily Rundle by 14.5 inches. Gilman’s Addison Vick was third at 30-6.75, 2 inches behind Rundle, giving the Pirates 16 points in the event. Gilman’s Patricia Kloss was ninth at 27-6.5.

The long jump was another big event for Gilman with 14 points scored. Copenhaver took third at 15-9.25 in her first long jump competition of the spring.

Vick shared the girls high jump championship with Loyal’s Addysen Wolf as both cleared the bar at 4-8, 2 inches higher than Tegan Hatlestad of Owen-Withee and Alexis Meyer of Loyal. Rib Lake’s Maddie Rademacher shared fifth place with Stanley-Boyd’s Grace Schmidt as both cleared 4-4. Rib Lake’s Hadassah Nelson got the eighth-place point at 4 feet and Ava Webster of Gilman took ninth by clearing 3-10.

Drier put up 14 of her points in the hurdles, led by a second-place time of 52.45 seconds in the 300-meter lows, 2.62 seconds behind winner Kendall Weiler of Owen-Withee. Drier was third in the 100meter highs at 18.4 seconds, while Rib Lake’s Emma Tlusty was fifth in 19.46 seconds. Both were chasing Sydney Marx of Eau Claire Regis, who won in 17.57 seconds. Drier was 0.23 seconds behind runner-up Cassidy Graski of Owen-Withee. Tlusty scored the eighth-place point in the 300 at 1:00.63.

Copenhaver added a sixth-place finish in the 100-meter dash at 14.35 seconds, while Kloss just missed scoring, taking ninth at 14.55 seconds. Rademacher led Rib Lake in 18th place (15.74).

Gilman did some damage in the relays too. Copenhaver, Kloss, Vick and Drier were second in the 800-meter relay at 1:55.39, just 0.39 seconds behind Stanley-Boyd and 2.01 seconds ahead of thirdplace Stratford. Kennedy Buske, Shae Drier, Brynn Komanec and Webster were third in the 1,600-meter relay at 4:58.77, well ahead of Stanley-Boyd. Stratford (4:46.96) and Owen-Withee (4:54.79) were the top two teams.

Both local teams scored in the 400meter relay. Gilman’s team of Buske, Shae Drier, Aspen Person and Kyra Rabuck took fourth in 59.89 seconds, and Rib Lake’s Roxy Goberville-Lopez, Maria Bisco, Nelson and Rademacher placed sixth in 1:04.65. Loyal won the race in 54.68 seconds.

Gilman’s Rilla Syryczuk tacked on three points to her team’s total with a sixthplace finish in the shot put competition. Her best throw went 27-11. She added a 10th-place throw of 66-11 in the discus, her best distance in three meets this season.

Among other notable finishes, Webster and Komanec were 10th and 11th in the 400-meter dash (1:13.15 and 1:13.72) and Rib Lake’s Ella Grzanna was 15th (1:19.61); Komanec (30.77), Buske (31.0) and Shae Drier (31.4) were 11th, 12th and 14th in the 200-meter dash; Tlusty (13-1), Rademacher (13-0.5) and Rabuck (126.75) were 13th through 15th in the long jump.

Stanley-Boyd edged Owen-Withee 117.5-113 to win the girls team title. Stratford was third with 105 points and Regis scored 80.5 to squeak past Gilman’s 77 points. Loyal scored 75.5 points, followed by Colby (54), Rib Lake (12.5), Cornell-Lake Holcombe (12) and Prentice (9).

Boys highlights

In the boys meet, Rib Lake locked down a pair of victories with Kaleb Scott barely winning the 800-meter run and the 3,200-meter relay team starting the day on the track with a win by nearly eight seconds.

Connor Highfill, Seamus Highfill, Truman Smith and Jackson Schutt took that relay in 9:17.53 with Stratford being the only other team close at 9:25.23. Regis was a distant third at 9:57.19.

Scott’s 800-meter run came in a near photo finish with Owen-Withee’s Colton Paczkowski. Scott was credited with the win by 0.01 seconds with a time of 2:05.7. Rib Lake’s Jack Regier wasn’t far behind, taking third in 2:10.21, 0.28 seconds ahead of Stratford’s Cooper Bosmans. Gilman’s Mitchell Moran was a place away from scoring with his ninth-place time of 2:44.08.

Regier and Scott put 14 points on the board for Rib Lake earlier in the meet in the 1,600-meter run. Regier took second in 4:45.41, just behind Paczkowski (4:44.67), while Scott was third in 4:48.03. Connor Highfill added a point with his eighth-place time of 5:15.22 and Rib Lake freshman Dene Zuleger was 10th in 5:28.96.

The Redmen got 14 more distance points in the 3,200-meter run. Smith was second in 11:22.97 and Schutt was third in 11:25.08. They were chasing Dominic Santine of Regis, who won in 11:04.26. Smith tacked on a seventh-place time of 57.48 seconds in the 400-meter dash, right in between Gilman’s Chad Konsella (56.94) and Logan Halida (57.88).

The Pirates were led by Max Ustianowski, who fell just shy of a win in the 110-meter high hurdles. His time of 17.74 seconds was 0.13 seconds behind winner Kaeden Schill of Stratford. Trevor Vick was sixth for Gilman at 22.76 seconds and Kylan Bartelt got the seventh-place points for Rib Lake (23.14). Ustianowski took third in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 46.95 seconds behind Xander Curtice (44.26) and Garrett Zuelke (44.31) of Stratford.

Vick got past the 40-foot mark in the triple jump for the first time this spring at 40-1.25 and that put him in third place just behind Stratford’s Connor Kreft (40-11.75) and Brandon Knetter (40-6.75). Moran was 11th at 31-7. Ustianowski tied teammate Sawyer Winger and Stanley-Boyd’s Jesse Allard for sixth place in the high jump. They all hit 5-4. Rib Lake’s Jed Henderson was one of five jumpers to clear 5-8. He was credited with a secondplace tie with Curtice in the tiebreaking process behind Owen-Withee’s Mason Gay. Vick tied for ninth at 5-2.

Pirate Taydyn Angell placed sixth in the discus at 100-9, while Rib Lake’s Lawson Carlson was seventh in the shot put at 3411. Rib Lake’s Chris Krause was 12th, improving to 29-11. Carlson was 13th in discus at 79-10, just ahead of teammate Isaiah Hubbard (76-6).

Gilman’s long jumpers took four of the five places between seventh and 11th. Konsella (17-11.75) and Winger (17-11.5) scored by taking seventh and eighth. Vick (17-1.5) and Halida (17-1) were 10th and 11th.

Back on the track, Konsella was fifth (25.31) and Brady McAlpine (25.56) was seventh for Gilman in the 200-meter dash, while Halida (26.1) and Winger (26.28) were 11th and 13th. McAlpine added a fifth-place time of 12.44 seconds in the 100-meter dash, while Konsella was ninth (12.63).

Rib Lake scored in two more relays. Regier, Connor Highfill, Scott and Seamus Highfill took third in the 1,600-meter race behind Stratford (3:38.03) and Owen-Withee (3:46.52) in 3:59.6. David Pichea, Rylan Schaelzka-Lenz, Riley Johnson and Gus Zuleger were fifth in the 400-meter relay in 53.31 seconds. Stratford (44.19) won that race.

Gilman was third (59.12) and Rib Lake fourth (59.58) in the exhibition mixed 400-meter relay, won by Stanley-Boyd in 56.77 seconds.

Stratford won the boys team title with 189.5 points and was followed by Owen-Withee (134.5), Rib Lake (78), Stanley-Boyd (64.5), Eau Claire Regis (63), Gilman (47), Colby (36), Cornell-Lake Holcombe (22.5), Loyal (22) and Prentice (8).

Both Rib Lake and Gilman are scheduled to be at Bloomer today, Thursday. The Gilman Invitational is scheduled for Tuesday.

Gilman’s Max Ustianowski and Stratford’s Kaeden Schill push to the finish line after clearing the last hurdles in the 110-meter race Friday at Stanley-Boyd. Schill edged Ustianowski by 0.13 seconds to win it in 17.61 seconds. NATHANIEL UNDERWOOD/TRIBUNE-PHONOGRAPH