COLBY TRACK & FIELD INVITE - Vick breaks long-standing long jump record Tuesday


COLBY TRACK & FIELD INVITE
A Gilman track and field school record fell for the second straight meet Tuesday with sophomore Addison Vick getting this one in the high jump competition at the Colby Invitational.
Vick, who was part of both recordbreaking 400- and 800-meter relays at Stanley-Boyd Friday, cleared the bar at 5 feet, 3 inches Tuesday to easily win the event by 5 inches over Cadott’s Adrianna Goodman. It was just part of a big meet for Vick, who scored in all four of her events and won two of them.
Overall, the girls scored 74 points to place seventh out of nine teams. The Pirates finished ahead of Bruce (43) and Colby (30). Stanley-Boyd won the meet with 114.5 points, followed by Neillsville (96), Cadott (87.5), Athens (87), Owen-Withee (85) and Phillips (80).
Vick’s mark in the high jump beat the previous school record of 5-2 originally set in 1982 by Melodie Konsella and tied in 1989 by Fawn Podolak. Vick also set a personal record by going 33 feet even in the triple jump. She won that by 2 inches over teammate Jaylen Copenhaver, who she beat for the first time this season. Gilman’s Patricia Kloss was ninth with her season-best jump of 29-3.
Senior Claire Drier was fourth in the long jump at 15-4.5, while Vick was fifth at a season-best 15-4.25 and Copenhaver was seventh at 14-10.25. Vick finished the meet by placing sixth in the 200-meter dash in another season-best mark of 28.05 seconds, while Kloss got the eighth-place point at 28.68 seconds.
Drier lowered her time to 48.71 seconds while taking third in the 300-meter hurdles. She was just 0.69 seconds behind winner Kendall Weiler of Owen-Withee. Drier was fifth in the 100-meter high hurdles at 18.05 seconds. Cadott’s Iszy Sonnentag won that in 16.44 seconds.
Copenhaver finished third in the 100meter dash in 13.45 seconds, 0.32 seconds behind winner Kaylee Lawrence of Neillsville. Kloss was 11th at 14.51 seconds.
The rest of Gilman’s points in the girls meet came in relays. The 800-meter team of Kennedy Buske, Shae Drier, Ava Webster and Brynn Komanec took third in 1:59.4, 0.47 seconds ahead of fourth-place Phillips. Stanley-Boyd (1:47.67) and Neillsville (1:54.53) were first and second. Kyra Rabuck, Webster, Aubrey Steinbach and Shae Drier were fourth in the 1,600meter relay at 4:48.91. Neillsville won in 4:25.86. Buske, Shae Drier, Aspen Person and Rabuck were fifth in the 400-meter race at 58.23 seconds. Cadott won it in 52.17 seconds.
Steinbach, who returned to the lineup last week, was ninth in the 400-meter dash at 1:13.34, 0.08 seconds away from scoring, and 12th in the 800-meter run (3:01.62). Rilla Syryczuk was ninth in the shot put at 29-11.25 and 12th in the discus at 79-5.
Three winners
Gilman had three event winners while placing sixth in the boys meet Tuesday. The Pirates’ 71.6 points put them ahead of Bruce (56.6), Cadott (52.1) and Colby (40.5). Owen-Withee won handily with 139.5 points. Athens was second with 89 points followed by Stanley-Boyd (85), Neillsville (78.1) and Phillips (72.6).
Senior Trevor Vick extended his personal record to 41-2.75 and easily won the triple jump competition as Neillsville’s Landon Rakestraw was a distant second at 38-7.5. Mitchell Moran got the eighthplace point for Gilman at a personal-best 32-8.75.
Max Ustianowski dropped his time to 17.05 seconds and won the 110-meter high hurdles by 0.92 seconds over Brock Beaty of Athens, while Brady McAlpine took third in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles at 44.93 and Ustianowski was fifth at 46.0 seconds. Both of those times were season bests. Owen-Withee’s Mason Gay won in 41.5 seconds.
Sawyer Winger got his win in the high jump by tying his season-best height of 510. He was 4 inches higher than Eli Schaer of Athens. Vick was part of a four-way tie for seventh at 5-4. Vick added a fourthplace distance of 18-8.75 in the long jump. Teammate Logan Halida (16-11) was 11th.
McAlpine was second in the 100-meter dash at 12.23 seconds, 0.55 seconds behind Owen-Withee’s Brandon Geldernick. Halida took third in the 200meter dash at 24.74 seconds, while James Wojcik was 10th in 26.07 seconds. Geldernick (22.91) won that sprint too.
Mitchell Moran got the eighth-place point in the 3,200-meter run at 14:32.63 and Taydyn Angell was eighth in the discus at 99-1. Wyatt Orth wasn’t far behind, taking 12th at 90-4.
In relays, Gilman’s 800-meter team of Halida, McAlpine, Winger and Wojcik was fourth at 1:43.26 in a race won by Stanley-Boyd in 1:33.64. Wojcik, Orth, Angell and Halida took fifth in the 400-meter race at 49.23 seconds. Stanley-Boyd sprinted to victory in that race in 43.88 seconds.
The Pirates are scheduled to compete in Cadott Friday, then they’ll cap the regular season with the Eastern Cloverbelt Conference championships, which will be held in Gilman Tuesday starting at 4 p.m.
