Gilman gets last prep meet in at Cadott
GILMAN TRACK & FIELD
The Gilman Pirates prepped Friday for their biggest meets of the track at Cadott’s DeJung Invitational.
Bailey Angell led the girls with two winning performances in the shot put and discus, while Gracie Tallier went up against some strong athletes in the sprints and tied her own school record from last year of 26.09 seconds in the 200-meter dash. That time gave her second place in Friday’s meet, just behind Eau Claire Regis sophomore Carly Borst, who was timed at 25.92 seconds. Tallier’s second-place 100-meter time of 12.69 seconds was her best of the spring by one-hundredth of a second.
Tallier lowered her school record time to 1:02.1 in the 400-meter dash in Gilman’s previous meet at Spencer.
Angell held off a challenge from Cadott freshman Haley Mathison in the discus by getting off a winning throw of 106 feet, 3 inches. Mathison’s best went 104-11. Things were not as close in the shot put. Angell’s winning toss there went 38-3 to beat Bloomer’s Isabel Rubenzer by 7 feet. Gilman’s Kaylee O’Malley just missing scoring, tying for ninth with a throw of 26-11 that left her 4 inches away from scoring a point.
Claire Drier placed second in the 300-meter hurdles at 49.46 seconds. Drier took fourth in the 100-meter high hurdles at 17.52 seconds. Tallier added a third-place finish in the long jump at 16-1, while Drier was fifth at 15-1 and Gilman’s Kyra Rabuck was 29th (11-7.75).
It all added up to an eighth-place finish for the Pirates with 59 points. Thorp (8.25) and the Chippewa Valley Lightning Bolts (2) were ninth and 10th. Fall Creek won easily with 174 points, followed by Cadott (96.25), Bloomer (88.25), Loyal (80), Eau Claire Regis (61), Mc-Donell Central (60) and Stanley-Boyd (59.25).
Gilman’s boys were led by a fourth-place finish from Quintin Franzen in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles. Franzen finished in 48.31 seconds in a race won by Stanley-Boyd’s Nic Schmelzer in 44.34 seconds. Sawyer Winger scored two points by clearing 5-2 and placing seventh in the high jump. Brady McAlpine got the eighth-place point in the 200-meter dash at 25.34 seconds, a season-best. He was 0.2 seconds ahead of teammate Braeden Person for the last scoring spot.
With their eight points, Gilman beat the Lightning Bolts by four and finished ninth. Fall Creek completed the sweep of the team title with 166 points, just ahead of Stanley-Boyd (156.5). Bloomer was third with 82 points, followed by McDonell Central (68.5), Eau Claire Regis (66), Loyal (62), Cadott (51) and Thorp (22).
Person added a 10th-place time of 59.14 seconds in the 400-meter dash, Franzen was 11th in the 110-meter high hurdles at 20.14 seconds and Mitchell Moran was 14th in the 800-meter run (2:37.11), 15th in the 1,600-meter run (6:03.43) and 31st in the long jump (12-1.25). Caleb Marion was 13th in the discus with his best throw of the spring at 98-8 and he tied for 21st in the shot put at 32-1.
