Sullivan wins 3,200; Raiders get what they can at UW-Stout

MEDFORD TRACK & FIELD

A small crew from Medford competed Friday at UW-Stout’s Northern Badger Large School Indoor Classic with four of those athletes scoring points for the Raiders.

Senior Joe Sullivan was the only scorer on the boys side, but he brought home a victory in the 3,200-meter run. In his first distance race of the season, Sullivan finished in 10:30.37 to comfortably finish ahead of New Richmond’s Konrad Knutson (10:52.76), PJ Lasota of Eastview, Minn. (11:00.07) and Logan McCoy (11:00.27) of Menomonie.

Those 10 points put Medford in a three-way tie for 12th place out of 18 scoring teams with Eau Claire North and Tomah. Rochester Mayo, Minn. won the meet with 70.5 points, just ahead of Menomonie (65) and La Crosse Logan (60.5).

Sullivan also cleared 5 feet, 6 inches to place 13th in the high jump competition, won by Menomonie’s Jayden Williams at 6-6.

Gage Losiewicz finished 16th in the 400-meter dash with a much-improved time of 59.49 seconds compared to his first meet on March 17 and he tied for 16th in the pole vault by clearing 8-6. Zach Rudolph placed 17th in the 800-meter run at 2:17.52, while Anthony Seidel was 34th at 2:30.24. Jake Seifert was 19th in the shot put with a throw of 38-7, while Logan Kawa was 28th at 33-8.75. Both throws were season bests. The 1,600-meter relay team of Rudolph, Cory Lindahl, Jose Herrera and Losiewicz also made the top 15, placing 13th out of 17 teams at 4:04.7. River Falls won the event in 3:40.22.

Lindahl was 21st in the long jump at 17-2 and 31st in the 55-meter hurdles at 10.68 seconds. Vincent Seidel took 22nd in the 1,600-meter run in a time of 5:24.88, while Silas Wipf was right behind him at 5:26.3. Seidel also was 24th in the triple jump at 32-6.

Anakin Stokes finished 23rd in the 200-meter dash at 25.2 seconds, while Lindahl was 37th in 26.23 seconds and Isaac Kautzer was 42nd at 26.73 seconds. Stokes (7.18) was 32nd in the 55-meter dash preliminaries, while Herrera and Kautzer tied for 47th at 7.499. Herrera added a 28th-place finish in the 400-meter dash at 1:02.45 and a 28th-place finish in the long jump at 15-7.25.

Sophomore Jaylin Machon and freshman Marlee Perrin each jumped to second-place finishes for Medford in the girls meet.

Machon got hers in the pole vault by equaling her season-best height of 8-6. She was 6 inches behind champion Alexis Anderson of Menomonie. Machon also placed seventh and scored two points in the 55-meter hurdles final with her time of 10.33 seconds. Hattie Fox of Osceola won at 9.29 seconds. Machon qualified for the final with an eighth-place preliminary time of 10.28 seconds.

Perrin made her debut in the high jump and cleared 5 feet to place second, just 2 inches behind La Crosse Logan’s Kalli Knobel. Perrin got ahead of six jumpers who topped out at 4-10.

Perrin also got off to a nice start in the 55-meter dash preliminaries with a fifthplace time of 7.76 seconds. Unfortunately, a false start took her out of the final, which was won by Brooklyn Sandvig of Chippewa Falls in 7.0 seconds.

Junior Alyssa Brandner added two points in the 400-meter run with her time of 1:07.61. She was just ahead of New Richmond’s Vivian Roberts (1:08.18). Dyllan Powers, also of New Richmond, won the race in 1:04.04. Raider Riley Clark was 25th at 1:14.78.

Brooke Rudolph just missed the top 10 in the 800-meter run, placing 11th at 2:49.01. She was 25th in the long jump (12-4.75), while teammate Brenley Beran was 27th at (12-2). Beran was 27th in the 55-meter hurdles at 11.62 seconds and 32nd in the 200-meter dash at 31.11 seconds.

Hannah Fleegel (26-5) and Beran (25-7) were 18th and 19th in the triple jump competition. Letizi Baldi was 27th in the 200-meter dash (30.47), while Ashley Hernandez was 49th (36.74). Clark (9.02) and Kenya Mann (9.3) were 51st and 52nd in the 55-meter dash.

The 20 points earned by the Raiders put them in 11th place out of 18 scoring teams. Osceola edged La Crosse Logan 50.5-49.5 to win the meet, while River Falls was right there too with 49 points. Amery (48) and New Richmond (46) and Menomonie (43.5) rounded out a very close top six teams.

Medford will have some entries at UW-Stout’s Elite Invitational this Friday. The boys are at Wausau West Tuesday and the full squad will compete at the Great Northern Conference Indoor meet April 7 at Northland Pines.