MEDFORD TRACK & FIELD INVITE - High placements for Raiders, Pirates at the Medford Invite

MEDFORD TRACK & FIELD INVITE

Meredith Richter, Jaylin Machon, Evan Paul and Gage Losiewicz were Medford’s winners and Gilman’s Bailey Angell took the girls shot put title during Tuesday’s 10team Medford Track and Field Invitational held at Raider Field.

Both the boys and girls meets were quite competitive with Wittenberg-Birnamwood scoring 107 points to edge Medford by 2.4 points to win a girls meet where six of the teams scored at least 60 points. Stanley-Boyd, led by 28 individual points from Madden Mahr, won the boys meet with 144 points, while Marathon (123) and Medford (118) weren’t far behind.

Gilman, which had its last two outdoor meets canceled due to weather and hadn’t competed since April 11, finished seventh in the boys meet and ninth on the girls side.

Machon and Avery Losiewicz were the top finishers in the girls pole vault, putting 18 points into Medford’s team total of 104.6. Machon cleared 9 feet and Losiewicz hit 8 feet, 6 inches on another breezy spring day in northern Wisconsin. Adalyn Dittrich was part of a 10-way tie for sixth at 6 feet, accounting for the 0.6 on Medford’s team total.

Machon, a senior, also took second in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.17 seconds, 0.37 seconds behind Wittenberg-Birnamwood’s Faith Resch. Losiewicz took fourth in the 300-meter hurdles at 52.47 seconds. Resch won in 48.25 seconds. Dittrich got the eighth-place point at 56.32 seconds and Machon (56.86) was 10th.

Richter entered two events and won both for Medford. Her time of 1:00.24 in the 400-meter dash won the event by 2.11 seconds over Lakeland’s Kieran Petrie. Aliyah Pilgrim added a point for Medford by taking eighth in 1:06.1. Richter handily won the 800-meter run in 2:24.91, 6.28 seconds ahead of Marathon’s Shilo Blake. Morgan Liske got the sixth-place points for Medford in a season-best 2:45.98 and Ella Dassow took ninth, lowering her time to 2:52.53.

Angell’s win for the Pirates in the shot put came with a throw of 33-10. She was a half-inch away from a 2-foot margin of victory over runner-up Ashley Gertschen of Marathon. Medford’s Rivalee Stokes took sixth at 28-4. Stokes took fourth in the discus competition with her best throw of the day going 93-6, an inch better than Angell.

Gilman got 14 points in the long jump with Claire Drier and Addy Vick placing second and third at 16-1.25 and 15-6.25 respectively. Both of those marks were season bests. Raider Toryn Rau was 10th with her best jump of the spring at 13-10.5 and Brenley Beran improved with a 12thplace jump of 13-3.75. Kirkland Williams of Northland Pines was 4.5 inches better than Drier.

Vick fell just shy of scoring in the high jump, but the freshman set a new best height of 4-6 while placing ninth. Drier also took sixth in the 100-meter high hurdles at 18.04 seconds, while teammate Rilla Syryczuk was 10th (20.12).

Other high-placing individuals in the girls meet included Medford’s Lindsay Kahn, who took third in the 3,200-meter run at 13:41.56 behind Tomahawk’s Lydia Shaney (13:02.1) and Robin Schmidt (13:04.43) and Pilgrim, who placed fourth in the 200-meter dash at 28.7 seconds. Carly Koski was ninth in that 3,200-meter race at 15:17.51. Medford’s Felicity Ziehlke (6:14.33) and Dassow (6:16.05) were fifth and sixth in the 1,600-meter run.

In relays, Pilgrim, Rau, Liske and Alexis Zuleger took second for Medford in the 1,600-meter race. They trailed Wittenberg-Birnamwood by 14.02 seconds. Gilman’s team of Aubrey Steinbach, Drier, Jaylen Copenhaver and Vick was third in the 800-meter relay at 1:54.47, just ahead of Medford’s team of Zuleger, Stokes, Losiewicz and Rau (1:54.79). Stanley-Boyd (1:52.76) and Abbotsford (1:53.14) were just a bit faster.

Liske, Ziehlke, Koski and Kahn took third in the 3,200-meter relay with an improved time of 10:57.77 that trailed Wittenberg-Birnamwood (10:27.41) and Tomahawk (10:46.31). Gilman’s Aubrey Mann, Vick, Patricia Kloss and Syryczuk were fourth in the 400-meter relay at 56.55 seconds, while Medford’s Beran, Ellie Eckert, Autumn Cooley and Lindsey Klapatauskas took sixth in 59.19 seconds. Northland Pines won that race in 53.15