Local athletes among the elite at Friday indoor invitational

UW-STOUT ELITE INDOOR

Gilman’s Gracie Tallier and Bailey Angell and Medford’s Meredith Richter and Marlee Perrin put themselves among the region’s best athletes with high-placing efforts at Friday’s UW-Stout Elite Indoor Invitational.

Tallier won the 200-meter dash and extended her school long jump record while placing in three events and Angell beat 32 other shot putters to win that event. Their efforts led Gilman to a fourth-place tie in the team standings.

Richter led the Raiders with a secondplace finish in the 400-meter dash and Perrin, in just her second high-school meet, took third out of 36 high jumpers.

The Raiders tied Wausau West for 14th place out of 26 scoring teams.

Tallier’s 200-meter title came with a time of 27.0 seconds. Running in the final heat of 10 and the fastest, she got to the finish line just ahead of Durand’s Kendall Hagness (27.23) and Norah D’Almeida (27.42) of Bloomington Jefferson, Minn., who were second and third overall. Medford’s Sophie Brost (28.69) and Gilman’s Claire Drier (28.72) were 15th and 16th.

Tallier was timed at 7.63 seconds in the 55-meter dash preliminaries to reach the final in that event, where she took fourth out of eight sprinters in 7.57 seconds. She was 0.01 seconds ahead of D’Almeida and trailed Brooklyn Sandvig of Chippewa Falls (7.05), Hagness (7.49) and Kamryn McNally of Holmen (7.56). Perrin (7.88) and Brost (8.0) were 14th and 18th in the preliminaries.

Tallier’s new best mark in the long jump is 16 feet, 4.25 inches, which put her third behind Sandvig (17-6) and Bloomer’s Alexa Post (16-8.75). Tallier had gone 15-10 late last season and her best distance indoors this year had been 15-8.75. Ladysmith’s Allison Clark was fourth at 15-8, just ahead of Drier (15-3).

Angell’s win in the shot put came with a throw of 37-2.5 that beat her previous best throw of six days earlier by just over 2 feet. The sophomore finished 6 inches ahead of Colby’s Malayna Rieck and 6.5 inches ahead of Ladysmith’s Tori Thorpe. Raider Lindsey Klapatauskas was 18th with a personal-best throw of 29-7.75.

Richter, a sophomore, covered the 400-meter race in 1:03.03 to beat thirdplace finisher Grace Albee of Wausau West by 1.34 seconds. Sandvig won in an outstanding time of 56.72 seconds, while Raider Alyssa Brandner was 11th 1:07.11.

Perrin was one of three high jumpers to clear 5-2, but she came out third in the tiebreaking process. Holmen freshman Alexa Szak was the winner, while Teagen Becker of Stanley-Boyd was second. Perrin got 2 inches higher than she did at Stout a week earlier.

Brost got an eighth-place point in the triple jump at 29-8.5, while Jaylin Machon got one in the pole vault by clearing 8-6 to equal her best vault of the indoor season. Hannah Fleegel (25-5.5) and Stacy Stolp (24-5.25) were 27th and 28th in the triple jump, while Brooke Rudolph (12-5.5) and Stolp (11-7) were 30th and 33rd for Medford in the long jump.

Back on the track, Machon scored the eighth-place point in the 55-meter hurdles. She qualified for the final with an eighth-place time of 9.83 seconds and ran the final in 10.11 seconds. Mauston’s Brie Eckerman won in 9.05 seconds. Raider Brenley Beran was 33rd in the preliminaries at 11.57 seconds.

Medford’s 1,600-meter relay team of Richter, Rudolph, Brandner and Perrin was eighth in 4:34.36 in a race won by Osceola in 4:20.17. Rudolph was 12th in the 800-meter run at 2:41.02 and Ella Daniels was 19th in the 1,600-meter run at 6:17.59. Holmen and Bloomington Jefferson tied for the team championship with 39 points each, a half-point ahead of Ladysmith. Gilman, Colby and Osceola tied for fourth with 35 points. Medford and Wausau West had 18 points apiece.

Sullivan scores twice

Medford senior Joe Sullivan was the only local athlete to score in the boys meet, collective five points for the Raiders. They tied Ladysmith for 23rd out of 28 scoring teams.

Sullivan placed sixth in the 800-meter run at 2:08.74, while teammate Zach Rudolph was 17th in 2:15. Durand’s Parker Schneider won the race in 1:59.17, while Osceola’s Quinn McDonald was second in 2:00.83.

Sullivan ran the 1,600 meters in 4:41.27 to place seventh, while Medford’s Vincent Seidel (5:09.91) and Silas Wipf (5:20.49) were 23rd and 32nd. Schneider won that race too in 4:29.22 and McDonald was again second in 4:32.74.

Gilman’s Dominic Franzen nearly scored twice. He was ninth in the 200-meter dash at 24.3 seconds, just 0.04 second behind the eighth-place sprinter, David Malin of La Crosse Aquinas. Franzen was 10th in the 55-meter dash preliminaries at 6.92 seconds, about a tenth of a second away from qualifying for the final.

Medford’s Jake Seifert took 14th in the shot put with a personal-best throw of 41-7.75, beating his outdoor best of 40-8 from last year. Cory Lindahl was 18th with his best leap of the year in the long jump at 17-4.5, while Evan Paul was 20th at 16-10.5 and Jose Herrera was 26th at 16-2.5. Seidel was 21st (30-9) and Josh Clark was 22nd (30-0.5) in the triple jump.

Rudolph, Sullivan, Gage Losiewicz and Anakin Stokes teamed up to place 12th in the 1,600-meter relay at 3:57.55. Osceola was the fastest team at 3:41.49. Losiewicz also placed 25th in the 400-meter dash in a seasonbest 58.77 seconds.

Both local programs are scheduled to be in action today, Thursday. Medford is at the Great Northern Conference Indoor championships at Northland Pines. Weather permitting, Gilman was scheduled to be outdoors at Augusta.

Marlee Perrin