fifth. In the final, she ….

fifth. In the final, she took sixth in 28.99 seconds, 0.51 seconds away from advancing.

Klapatauskas, a sophomore, took fifth in the shot put competition with a throw of 28-6, but she was well behind fourthplace finisher Bekah Bouton of Mosinee (30-10.75).

Beran, a sophomore, placed seventh with a new best distance of 15-0.5 in the long jump, while Rudolph split the eighth-place point with Stratford’s Billie Hoffman at 14-5.

Also competing for Medford were Stacy Stolp who was 11th in the triple jump at 28-6.75; Riley Clark, who was 14th in the 200-meter dash in a personal-best 30.76 seconds, and Hannah Fleegel, who was 14th in the long jump at 11-10.

Boys place fourth

Northland Pines edged past Lakeland 128.5-123 to win the boys team championship Monday, while Stratford scored 102 points to get past Medford’s total of 90.5 for third. Mosinee (88.5), Wittenberg-Birnamwood (68), Antigo (49) and Tomahawk (38.5) rounded out the final standings.

Joining Sullivan as the team’s only seniors, Jake Seifert had a solid day in the throws to earn another meet. First, Seifert placed second in the discus at 118-10, beating Mosinee’s Wyatt Cherek (115-9) and Isaiah Samuelson of Northland Pines (114-4) for that spot. Later, Seifert got off a throw of 42-7 to place third in the shot put behind Mosinee’s Walker Beyerl (47-6.25) and Stratford’s Koehler Kilty (43-5.25). Wittenberg-Birnamwood’s Jacob Tomlinson (42-1.25) also advanced. Beyerl added the discus title to his day with a throw of 135-2.

Raider sophomore Logan Kawa got off a personal-best throw of 40-2.5 to earn the seventh-place points in the shot put, while Will Haavisto tied for 12th at 34-1, also a new best distance. Kawa was 12th at 90-9 in the discus, while Jude Stark was 15th with a season-best throw of 88-1.

Freshman Gage Losiewicz had a big day in the pole vault, exceeding his previous best height by a foot and placing second at 11-6. Lakeland’s Jacob Hayes won the tiebreaker to win the event at the same height. Raider Adam Kowalski added two points with a personal-best vault of 9 feet. The toughest competition in that event today could come from the Osceola regional qualifiers, all of whom went 12-6 or higher Monday, led by Osceola’s Luke Haase at 14-3.

Three Raiders earned fourth-place finishes to advance to Rice Lake individually.

Junior Anakin Stokes turned a thirdplace time of 24.52 seconds in the 200-meter dash preliminaries into a time of 24.56 seconds in the final. He advances along with Lakeland’s Bo Peterson (23.49), Antigo’s Wes Ebel (23.89) and Wittenberg-Birnamwood’s Alex Centeno (24.45). Raider Cory Lindahl was sixth in the prelims at 25.14 seconds and seventh in the final at 25.89 seconds.

Junior Jose Herrera got off a personalbest leap of 18-8.25 to place fourth in the long jump and advance along with Wittenberg- Birnamwood’s Simon Schairer (20-8.5), Jack Gjovick of Northland Pines (20-0.5) and Lakeland’s Brayden Wiczek (19-6.5). Raider freshman Evan Paul wasn’t far behind, tying Mosinee’s Evan Utphall for fifth at 18-1.25 and Lindahl was seventh at 18-1.

Paul, a freshman, qualified for the sectional in the high jump by clearing 5-8. He moves on with Lakeland’s Maverick Metzger (5-10), Tomahawk’s Micah Arnott (5-9) and Emmett Smith of Northland Pines (5-8).

The Raiders will send two relay teams to Rice Lake. The 3,200-meter team of Zach Rudolph, Vincent Seidel, Josh Clark and Wipf lowered its time by about 12 seconds and placed third in 8:35.09, easily beating Northland Pines (9.57.64) and trailing Antigo (8:30.31) and Stratford (8:32.51). The 800-meter team of Itsael Medina, Lindahl, Herrera and Stokes took third in 1:38.09. They beat Stratford by 1.07 seconds and trailed Northland Pines (1:33.91) and Lakeland (1:35.1). Medford is seeded seventh in the 3,200 relay today and 10th in the 800.

The Raiders fell one spot short in the 400-meter relay, taking fifth in 47.63 seconds. Medina, Isaac Kautzer, Herrera and Stokes were 1.95 seconds behind fourth-place Lakeland. The 1,600-meter team of Lindahl, Rudolph, Herrera and Losiewicz was seventh in 3:55.41.

Clark got a point by taking eighth place in the 800-meter run at 2:11.75, right at his personal-best pace. Vincent Seidel was ninth at 2:16.63 and Anthony Seidel was 12th at a season-best 2:25.97.

Also for Medford, Lucas Borman was 10th in the 400-meter dash at 1:01.2, while Gatlin Piller was 13th in 1:03.3, Paxton Rothmeier was 11th in the triple jump at 30-11, Kautzer was 13th in the 100-meter dash prelims at 12.74 seconds.