Rademacher jumps to wins at Pittsville, boys rule distance runs

Maddie Rademacher won two events for the girls and Kaleb Scott won twice while leading high-scoring 1,600- and 800-meter events for Rib Lake at Monday’s Pittsville Invitational.

The boys placed third in the six-team meet, scoring 113 points and winning four events. The girls took fifth with 53 points, beating Port Edwards (9). Marathon edged Neillsville 158-148 for the team title, while Loyal squeaked by Pittsville 113-109 for third.

Rademacher, a sophomore, won the high jump competition by clearing 5 feet for a new personal-best height. That was enough to beat Loyal’s talented junior Addysen Wolf by 2 inches. Rib Lake’s Hadassah Nelson added six points with a third-place jump of 4 feet, 8 inches that was also a season-best.

Rademacher also won the long jump competition with her best jump going 154.5. That jump beat Marathon’s Maycie Myszka by 6 inches and was 1.5 inches off her season-best. This was a strong event for the Rib Lake girls with Emma Tlusty taking fourth at a season-best 14-2.5 and Roxy Goberville-Lopez (12-9), Ella Grzanna (12 feet) and Avie Schutt (10-8) all posting season-best distances while placing 12th, 17th and 21st.

Tlusty scored 12 points in the hurdles races with two third-place efforts. She was timed at 18.26 seconds in the 100-meter highs, 1.23 seconds behind winner Gracie Schoengarth of Neillsville. Her time of 57.21 seconds in the 300-meter lows was her best of 2025. Neillsville freshman Tayler Smith won in 53.24 seconds.

The rest of Rib Lake’s points came with fourth-place times in the sprint relays. Schutt, Goberville-Lopez, Nelson and Rademacher had a time of 59.85 seconds in the 400-meter relay, the best a Rib Lake team has done so far in the outdoor season. The Redmen trailed Neillsville (52.75), Loyal (53.6) and Marathon (53.87). Goberville-Lopez, Schutt, Nelson and Tlusty finished the 800-meter race in 2:09.07, also the best time a Rib Lake group has had so far. They trailed Neillsville (1:52.11), Marathon (1:58.34) and Loyal (2:04.61).

Grzanna was one place shy of scoring in the 400-meter dash, taking ninth in 1:16.24, 0.58 seconds out of eighth. Goberville-Lopez (15.07) and Rademacher (15.14) led Rib Lake in the 100-meter dash, placing 14th and 15th.

Distance dominance

Rib Lake did its usual damage in the distance events, where the Redmen scored the majority of their 113 points.

Limited to three scorers per event, Rib Lake got the maximum 24 points in the 1,600-meter run, led by Scott’s time of 4:50.3. Jack Regier and Truman Smith were second and third in 4:53.54 and 4:58.82, while Connor Highfill was fourth in 5:07.69, easily a new personal-best. Jackson Schutt was seventh in 5:18.73 and Dene Zuleger was 10th at 5:23.63. Both of those times were new bests.

Scott won the 800-meter run in 2:05.72, missing his personal record by 0.02 seconds. Regier lowered his time to 2:09.48 while taking second and Smith made it a 23-point event by taking fourth in 2:13.22 in his first open 800 of the spring. Seamus Highfill was right behind him in a new best time of 2:14.37.

The 3,200-meter relay team of Seamus Highfill, Connor Highfill, Schutt and Dene Zuleger won its race in 9:14.42, beating Marathon by 8.85 seconds. Regier, Scott, Smith and Seamus Highfill took second in the 1,600-meter relay at 3:46.5, 3.12 seconds behind the winning team from Marathon. A second team of Connor Highfill, Isaiah Hubbard, Schutt and Kylan Bartelt was fifth in 4:17.79.

Gavin Zondlo (20.16) and Bartelt (21.3) claimed the fourth- and fifth-place points in the 110-meter high hurdles, while Zondlo added a fifth-place time of 51.89 seconds in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles.

Rib Lake’s 400-meter relay team of David Pichea, Rylan Schaelzka-Lenz, Riley Johnson and Gus Zuleger set a season-best time of 52.07 seconds while placing third behind Marathon (45.44) and Neillsville (45.9). The 800-meter team of Johnson, Jed Henderson, Pichea and Zondlo was fourth in 1:47.41 behind Neillsville (1:36.96), Marathon (1:43.66) and Port Edwards (1:46.87).

Henderson continued his winning ways in the high jump. He was unchallenged in the competition by clearing 6 feet. He was 6 inches ahead of runner-up Micah Ziebell of Neillsville. Bartelt hit 5 feet to set a personal best, while Dene Zuleger and Pichea tied for sixth at 4-10.

Johnson went 31-1 to take fourth in the triple jump and Gus Zuleger got a point by taking ninth in the long jump at 17 feet even, a season-best. Dene Zuleger hit a personal-best 16-2.5 to take 10th, while Schaelzka-Lenz was 12th at 14-9.

Freshman Lawson Carlson improved to 94-11, good for 11th in the discus. Hubbard improved to 85-1 and took 13th, Henderson was 15th at 84-5 and Chris Krause set a new best at 80-8, good for 17th. Krause also improved again in the shot put, getting to 30-10 which put him in 12th place. Carlson took ninth at 32-7, coming up 17 inches shy of scoring.

Hubbard (1:02.73), Bartelt (1:05.91) and Ian Weber (1:08.27) were 11th, 12th and 14th in the 400-meter dash. Gus Zuleger was 12th in the 100-meter dash at a season-best 13.13 seconds and Johnson was 15th in the 200-meter dash (28.19).

Marathon dominated the boys meet with 225 points, well ahead of Neillsville

(158). Pittsville was fourth with 72 points, followed by Port Edwards (25) and Loyal

(22).

Rib Lake is next scheduled to compete at Phillips today, Thursday, and Merrill on Friday.