Teams finally get perfect day at Quad

RIB LAKE NORTHWOODS QUAD

Rib Lake couldn’t have picked a much nicer day than Friday to host its lone track and field meet of the season, the Northwoods Quad, where the Redmen placed third in the combined team totals against their northern Marawood rivals Chequamegon, Prentice and Phillips.

The deepest of the four teams, Chequamegon, outscored the other three squads with 153 points. Phillips scored 131.5 to distance itself from the Redmen (107.5) and Buccaneers (74) on a day that featured bright sunshine and temperatures well into the 60s, a rarity for the spring of 2022.

Rib Lake won 11 events in front of the home fans, including eight on the girls’ side of the meet.

Olivia Lopez won two individual events, taking the triple jump at 30 feet even and the long jump at 13 feet, 2 inches. She won both by sizable margins. Lauren Pelnis won the shot put at 30-11.25, a new personal best, beating teammates Hannah Schuh (26-10.5) and Grace Artz (24-0.25), who were second and third. Artz set a new best distance as well. Schuh, meanwhile, won the discus with a throw of 69-7 that beat Chequamegon’s Audrina Morris by nearly 6 feet. Artz got the fifth-place point at 49-7, while Ziarra Schrader (48-- 6) and Ryanna Schrader (37-2) got off season-best throws as well.

The Yanko sisters each claimed an individual win. Amber sprinted to the 100-meter dash title in 13.92 seconds, beating Rylie Sidenbender of Phillips by 0.23 seconds. Ryanna Schrader lowered her time to 15.15 seconds. Megan won the first 300-meter low hurdles race she’s ever run for Rib Lake in a time of 56.19 seconds. She beat Chequamegon’s Kramah Shomila by 3.81 seconds. She also took second in the high jump by clearing the bar at 4-6. Elsa Schluter won the tiebreaker to win the event at the same height.

Finally able to fill teams for both sprint relays, Rib Lake won them both. Ryanna Schrader, Pelnis, Olivia Lopez and Amber Yanko won the 400-meter race in 57.15 seconds, beating Phillips (59.22) and Chequamegon (1:02.95). Megan Yanko, Pelnis, Lopez and Amber Yanko won the 800-meter race in 2:00, beating Phillips (2:04) and Chequamegon (2:14).

The 1,600-meter relay team of Megan Yanko, Pelnis, Kylee Goodrich and Amber Yanko finished in 4:47 to take second behind Phillips (4:40) and ahead of Chequamegon (5:15). Goodrich also scored in the 800-meter run by taking fourth with a season-best time of 2:51.44. Rib Lake’s Nadia Czahor (3:15) and Amy Espinoza (3:19) lowered their times while taking seventh and eighth and Sofia Fraschi also improved with her time of 3:56. Czahor (1:16) and Espinoza (1:17) lowered their times while placing sixth and seventh in the 400-meter dash.

The boys got individual wins from Donovan Sutherland and Theo Robisch, while Dominick Classen, Ben Petersen, Will Hartke and Sutherland finished the meet with a victory in the 1,600-meter relay. That race was tight throughout between Rib Lake and Phillips. Sutherland was able to maintain Rib Lake’s lead down the stretch as the team finished in 3:51.54 to beat the Loggers by 0.53 seconds. Chequamegon was third in 4:12.

Sutherland’s individual win came in the 800-meter run, an event he ran for the first time. He finished in 2:18, ahead of Hartke (2:20), Prentice’s Adam Granberg (2:23) and teammate Ryan Buehler (2:24.57). Elijah Scott of Rib Lake lowered his time to 2:36. Buehler earlier had gotten a fifth-place point in the 1,600-meter run at a season-best 5:15.

Robisch won the triple jump competition at 34-4, beating Prentice’s Alex Schantner by 2.5 inches, and he got the fifth-place point in the long jump at 15-6.75. Schantner won that event at 17-2. Robisch tied for fourth in the high jump by clearing 5 feet. Classen also cleared 5 feet, but fell short of scoring in the tie- breaker.

Classen sprinted to second place in the 200-meter dash in a time of 25.02 seconds, 0.43 seconds behind Chequamegon’s Zach Poezl. Rib Lake’s Jayden Thums lowered his time to 30.65 seconds in his heat. Brandon Heiser scored six points in the throws. The senior took second in the shot put ith a personal-best throw of 36-8, finishing behind Prentice’s Grant Cravaack (40-1.75). Rib Lake’s Peter Walters set a season-best with a throw of 24-11. Heiser was fourth in the discus with a throw of 87-2. Cravaack also won that at 104-8.

Ethan Keiser was third for Rib Lake in the 100-meter dash in 12.6 seconds. Poetzl won that race in 11.77 seconds. Rib Lake’s Damien Peterson was sixth in 13.09 seconds.

Hartke, Noah Wiitala, Petersen and Sutherland were second in the 800-meter relay in a time of 1:42, three seconds behind Chequamegon and 14 seconds ahead of Phillips. Petersen added a fifth-place point in the 400-meter dash, breaking the minute barrier at 59.69 seconds