GILMAN TRACK & FIELD - Winger’s long jump win highlights Cadott meet

GILMAN TRACK & FIELD

In their final tune-up before conference and post-season competition, the Gilman Pirates got a long jump win from Sawyer Winger, a handful of top-three finishes and good marks from athletes trying some events for the first time this season during Friday’s Cadott Invitational.

Winger’s win with a height of 5 feet, 8 inches highlighted a fourth-place finish for Gilman’s boys in the 10-team meet. He was 2 inches off his season-best height, but he was 2 inches better than four jumpers, who topped out under him at 5-6. Gilman’s Max Ustianowski tied for sixth at 5-4 and Trevor Vick got a point by taking eighth at 5-2.

Winger also scored in the long jump, where Pirate Chad Konsella went a personal-best 20-6.75 to place second, 3.75 inches behind Thorp’s Daniel Mathison. Winger was fifth at 19 feet and James Wojcik was 11th at 16-2.5 while entering the event for the first time.

Elsewhere in field events, Taydyn Angell’s strong throw of 38-0.5 put him third in the shot put competition behind Fall Creek’s Bo Vollrath (42-0.5) and Isaac Steinke (40-2.75). Caleb Marion was seventh for Gilman at 34 feet. Marion also took seventh in the discus with a throw of 105-4. Angell’s personal-best 102-11 gave him 10th place. Trevor Vick got an eighthplace point in the triple jump with his best effort going 34-11.75. Mitchell Moran was 12th at 28-10.75.

Gilman scored 12 points with two third-place relay finishes. The 800-meter team of Logan Halida, Konsella, Brady McAlpine and Winger finished in 1:39.65, trailing Fall Creek (1:35.7) and McDonell Central (1:37.72) while beating Bloomer (1:45.78) and Cadott (1:55.85). The 400-meter team of Vick, Ustianowski, Wyatt Orth and Quintin Franzen finished in 50.69 seconds to trail Eau Claire Regis (44.39) and McDonell (49.29) and beat Cadott (55.59) and the Chippewa Valley Lightning Bolts (57.2).

Franzen was fourth in the 110-meter high hurdles in 19.01 seconds, while Vick was seventh in an improved 21.29 seconds. Ustianowski was fifth in his first 300-meter intermediate hurdles race of the spring with a time of 47.69 seconds, while Franzen was seventh in 49.29 seconds.

Konsella led Gilman with a seventhplace time of 12.02 seconds in the 100-meter dash. McAlpine (12.44) was 12th. Moran got the eighth-place point in the 800-meter run in 2:35.84 and he was 13th in the 1,600-meter run (6:18.89). Wojcik was 14th in the 200-meter dash (27.23).

Boys team scores were: 1. Fall Creek, 180; 2. McDonell Central, 130; 3. Bloomer, 80; 4. Gilman, 67.5; 5. Eau Claire Regis, 62.5; 6. Cadott, 56; 7. Loyal, 51; 8. Thorp, 19; 9. Chippewa Valley, 15; 10. Osseo-Fairchild, 4.

Claire Drier had the top finish for Gilman’s girls, taking second in the 300-meter hurdles in a time of 50.19 seconds. McDonell’s Elyse Bushman wasn’t going to be caught, finishing in 47.08 seconds. Drier also took sixth in the 100-meter high hurdles at 17.78 seconds, while Pirate Rilla Syryczuk was ninth in a new best time of 19.62 seconds.

Drier also led Gilman in the long jump competition, taking sixth at 15-5.5, a foot better than teammate Addy Vick, who finished seventh.

Jaylen Copenhaver, Drier, Patricia Kloss and Vick gave Gilman a third-place finish in the 800-meter relay. Their time of 1:56.58 trailed Eau Claire Regis (1:47.5) and McDonell Central (1:50.74). The Pirates were ahead of Loyal (1:57.44) and Fall Creek (2:03.9). Kylee Copenhaver, Aubrey Mann, Syryczuk and Kloss were sixth in the 400-meter relay at 58.08 seconds. Fall Creek won that race in 52.15 seconds.

Syryczuk got the eighth-place point in the shot put with a season-best toss of 258.25. Mann threw the discus for the first time and took 15th at 65-11, two spots ahead of Kylee Copenhaver, who threw a season-best 63-5. Vick led Gilman in the triple jump, a new event for her, taking 13th at 30-0.5. Jaylen Copenhaver tied for eighth place in the high jump by clearing 4-2. She also was 12th in the 100-meter dash at 14.13 seconds, while Vick was 14th at 14.21 seconds in her first open 100 of the spring. Kyra Rabuck was 13th in the 200-meter dash at 31.77 seconds.

Girls team scores were: 1. Fall Creek, 181; 2. Bloomer, 131; 3. Cadott and McDonell Central, 100.5; 5. Eau Claire Regis, 68; 6. Loyal, 48; 7. Gilman, 26.5; 8. Thorp, 12.5; 9. Chippewa Valley, 8; 10. Osseo-Fairchild, 0.