MEDFORD TRACK & FIELD - Richter, Machon are event champs at UW-Stout Elite meet

MEDFORD TRACK & FIELD

Meredith Richter won the 800-meter run and Jaylin Machon captured the pole vault title to lead the Medford girls to a sixth-place team finish in Thursday’s UWStout Elite indoor track and field meet.

Richter placed in two events to account for 15 of Medford’s 32 points scored in the meet, which attempts to bring many of northern and western Wisconsin’s athletes together for indoor competition.

Richter won the 800-meter race in 2:27.28, winding up with a comfortable final margin of 4.38 seconds over runnerup Marisa Cogan, a junior from Prescott. Turtle Lake junior Megan Hoffman was third in 2:32.72. Medford had two more entries in that event with Lindsay Kahn placing 13th in 2:41.7 and Ella Daniels finishing 30th in 2:50.94.

Richter added a fourth-place time of 5:22.89 in the 1,600-meter run, well ahead of fifth-place runner Aliya Hartman (5:33.17), a freshman from Bloomer. Nora Gremban of Northland Pines won in a meet record time of 4:59.95, while Bloomer freshman Ciara Hartman was second in what also would have been a meet-record time of 5:04.76. Kahn was 14th for Medford at 6:01.88.

Machon’s pole vault win came with a vault of 10 feet, her top height of the indoor season thus far. She got 6 inches higher than runner-up Gabbie Neumann of Osceola. Raider freshman Avery Losiewicz tied Bloomer’s Makaiah Kempe at 8 feet, 6 inches and was credited with fourth place.

Machon also competed in the 55-meter hurdles, taking 12th in the preliminaries at 10.01 seconds. She was 0.27 seconds away from making the top eight and reaching the final. Losiewicz was 16th in the 400-meter dash at 1:06.98 and Raider Aliyah Pilgrim was 18th at 1:07.19. Pilgrim added a 28th-place time of 29.56 seconds in the 200-meter dash while Medford senior Brenley Beran was 44th in 31.59 seconds.

Medford’s last two points were earned by the 1,600-meter relay team of Morgan Liske, Losiewicz, Pilgrim and Toryn Rau, which placed seventh in 4:34.35, 0.04 seconds ahead of eighth-place Chippewa Falls. Prescott won the race in 4:21.51, while Bloomer (4:25.92) and Osceola (4:28.69) were second and third. Stanley-Boyd got the sixth spot ahead of Medford in 4:31.96.

Also for Medford’s girls, Daniels tied for 22nd in the long jump at 13-7.5, while Beran was 29th at 12-9.5, Lindsey Klapatauskas was 23rd in the triple jump at 28-7 and Rachel Wesle was 24th in the shot put at 27-4.5. Rivalee Stokes tied for 22nd in the 55-meter dash at 8.22 seconds, while Klapatauskas was 43rd in 8.52 seconds.

Bloomer won the meet with 74 points, 14 ahead of Holmen. Chippewa Falls (53), Osceola (43) and Cadott (41) rounded out the top five.

Boys results

In the boys meet, Medford junior Evan Paul led the way, scoring in the triple and long jumps to account for 11 of the Raiders’ 16 points. Medford placed 12th out of 21 scoring teams.

Paul took third in the triple jump competition with his best jump going 39 feet, 6.5 inches, a half-inch ahead of fourthplace jumper Tanner Winker of Mauston. Logan Gitzen of Turtle Lake won the event at 41-1.5 and Osceola’s Teagan Viebrock was 2 inches ahead of Paul. Medford’s Owen Stockwell placed 15th at 36-9.5.

Paul placed fourth in the long jump at 19-7.75, 2.25 inches ahead of fifth-place jumper Ted Teske of Arcadia. Webster’s Nathan Jackson won at 21-1, followed by Jack DeMoe of Osceola (19-11.75) and Madden Mahr of Stanley-Boyd (19-9.5). Logan Gubser was 15th for Medford at 183.5.

Both of Paul’s distances were his best of the young season. He also finished 14th in the high jump by clearing 5-6.

Gage Losiewicz was part of a three-way tie for fourth place in the pole vault competition as he tied his early-season best height of 13 feet. Adam Kowalski tied for 14th by clearing 9-6.

Hudson’s Hayden Bergman won with a meet-record height of 14-6, while Mauston’s Eli Hallwood got 13-6. Collin Clary of Chippewa Falls got third place at 13 feet, while Losiewicz tied Prescott’s Ethan West and Colby’s Seth Hopperdeitzel.

Medford’s last point came from its 1,600-meter relay team of Gubser, Caleb Scoles, Hayden Koester and Isaac Kautzer, which took eighth out of 17 teams at 3:49.56. The Raiders got the last point by 0.56 seconds over Bloomer. Hudson won in 3:35.72, just ahead of Osceola (3:36.49).

Gubser took 11th in the 400-meter dash at 54.58 seconds, just 0.89 seconds away from a top-eight scoring finish. Losiewicz was 19th in 55.78 seconds and Scoles was 33rd in 58.61 seconds.

Adyn Gripentrog had a solid day, placing 10th in the 800-meter run at 2:12.63 and 12th in the 1,600-meter run at 4:52.84. In the 800, he was 2.69 seconds away from eighth place. Stockwell took 12th in the 800 at 2:13.99 and Anthony Seidel was 37th in 2:41.39. Seidel also was 36th in the 1,600 at 5:47.75.

Raider Paxton Rothmeier was 14th in the 55-meter hurdle preliminaries at 9.276 seconds while Will Daniels was 17th at 9.48 seconds. A time of 8.85 seconds was needed to reach the final. Kautzer was 28th in the 200-meter dash with his time of 24.66 seconds, while Rothmeier was 45th (25.45). Kautzer was 43rd in the 55-meter dash at 7.15 seconds.

Hudson won the boys meet with 86 points. Chippewa Falls (69), Osceola (48.4), Webster (32) and Prescott (31.2) rounded out the top five.

Medford wraps up the indoor portion of its season today, Thursday, at the Northland Pines Invitational. The Medford Early Bird Invitational is scheduled for April 11.