GILMAN TRACK & FIELD - Drier, Angell lead Gilman at Bloomer; jumpers have success

GILMAN TRACK & FIELD

Claire Drier scored 18 points in three individual events and Bailey Angell did her usual damage in the throws in the Gilman girls’ seventh-place finish at Thursday’s Bloomer Invitational.

Angell won the shot put and took second in the discus, Drier took second in the long jump and ran to two fourth-place finishes and the Pirates tacked on some sprint points in the nine-team meet.

The boys placed eighth, led by a third- and fourth-place finish from Chad Konsella and Sawyer Winger in the long jump, 10 points from two sprint relays and two scoring runs in the hurdles from Quintin Franzen.

For the girls, Angell’s shot put win was earned with a throw of 35 feet, 4.5 inches. She beat Abbotsford’s Margo Pogodzinski by 13.75 inches, while Cadott’s Haley Mathison was third at 33-9. Mathison, though, won the discus competition with a throw of 110-8 that beat Angell’s best throw of the spring by 7 inches. Pogodzinski was third at 104-6.

Drier and freshman teammate Addy Vick had their best distances of the season in the long jump and took second and third. Drier went 16-5.25 and Vick went 163. They trailed Fall Creek’s Rebecca Sturz (17-5). Pirate Kyra Rabuck also had her best jump of the spring, going 13-3.25 to take 17th. Rabuck was 13th in the 400-meter dash at 1:15.1.

Vick wasn’t done there. She set a new personal-best in the high jump, clearing the bar at 4-8 to finish fourth. Steinbach hit 4-2 and placed ninth, 2 inches away from potentially scoring.

Drier ran the 100-meter high hurdles in a season-best 17.77 seconds, good for fourth place in a race won by Bloomer’s Makaiah Kempe in 16.65 seconds. Rilla Syryczuk was 11th for Gilman in 19.82 seconds.

In the 200-meter dash, Drier led a long list of Pirates by taking fourth in 28.61 seconds. Jaylen Copenhaver got a point by taking eighth in 29.03 seconds, just ahead of Vick (29.08). Patricia Kloss was 12th in 29.78 seconds. Sturz won in 26.19 seconds.

Copenhaver and Kloss put points on the board in the 100-meter dash as well. Copenhaver took sixth in 14.03 seconds and Kloss was right behind her at 14.14 seconds. Aubrey Steinbach was 15th for Gilman in 14.88 seconds. Sturz (12.83) won that event too, adding to her big night.

Gilman’s team of Copenhaver, Drier, Steinbach and Vick tacked on six points with a third-place run in the 800-meter relay. They finished in 1:54.16 to trail Eau Claire Regis (1:51.81) and Stanley-Boyd (1:52.03). Abbotsford was 1.2 seconds behind.

Konsella went nearly 2 feet further than he had with any jump this season with his third-place long jump distance at 20-1.5, while Winger also got further, finishing fourth at 19-6.25. The only jumpers better than them were Stanley-Boyd’s Madden Mohr (21-4) and Abbotsford’s Christian Fuentes (20-8). Pirate Wyatt Orth was 14th at 16-9.

Trevor Vick had jumping success too, taking fifth in the triple jump at 36-11 and fifth in the high jump at 5-4. Winger and Ustianowski also cleared 5-4 to take sixth and eighth. Abbotsford’s Chase Boller was the champion at 5-8. In the triple jump, Ustianowski was seventh at 35-4 and Mitchell Moran was ninth at 29-8.5. Fall Creek freshman Koen Tumm won that event with a jump of 41-8.

Taydyn Angell was Gilman’s final scorer in the field, taking fifth in the shot put competition with a toss of 36-9.5. Fall Creek’s Bo Vollrath was the winner and only entrant to surpass 40 feet at 40-11. Caleb Marion took 13th for Gilman in the discus at 109-3, easily his best throw of the still-young season.

Franzen placed fourth out of six entrants in the 110-meter high hurdles with a time of 18.83 seconds. He lowered his time slightly to 47.4 seconds in the 300-meter intermediates and took sixth out of 10 hurdlers. Fall Creek’s Isaac Steinke won both in times of 15.99 and 42.32 seconds.

Franzen, Vick, Ustianowski and Angell were third in the 400-meter relay at 49.0 seconds, trailing Fall Creek (46.17) and Abbotsford (48.63). Regis was 0.21 seconds behind the Pirates. Logan Halida, Brady McAlpine, Konsella and Winger took fifth in the 800-meter relay at 1:42.05, beating three other teams. Regis won in 1:37.63.

Konsella was 11th in the 100-meter dash (12.34), Ustianowski was 19th in the 200 (26.45) and Moran was 20th in the 1,600 (6:07.58).

Girls team scores were: 1. Bloomer, 155.5; 2. Fall Creek, 127; 3. Durand, 77; 4. Abbotsford, 71; 5. Stanley-Boyd, 67; 6. Cadott, 58.5; 7. Gilman, 58; 8. Eau Claire Regis, 56; 9. Thorp, 7.

Boys team scores were: 1. Stanley-Boyd, 161.5; 2. Fall Creek, 138.5; 3. Abbbotsford, 73; 4. Eau Claire Regis, 70; 5. Cadott, 56.5; 6. Durand, 55; 7. Bloomer, 48; 8. Gilman, 47; 9. Thorp, 16.5.