GILMAN TRACK & FIELD - Drier wins long jump, Konsella 2nd in Gilman’s shortened outing at Colby

GILMAN TRACK & FIELD

The Gilman Pirates got a few solid placements posted Tuesday before leaving the rainy and very lengthy 12-team Colby Track and Field Invitational early, following the 400-meter relay.

Before departing, Gilman got a win from Claire Drier in the girls long jump and a second-place finish from Chad Konsella in the boys long jump for the majority of the team’s scoring. Drier added a seventh-place finish in the 100-meter high hurdles.

Gilman’s girls scored 22 points, good for 11th place ahead of Mosinee (10.5 points). The boys were 12th with 13.

Drier’s long jump win came with a leap of 16 feet even. She got 2 inches farther than Rice Lake’s Madilyn DeLawyer. Addy Vick was 14th for Gilman at 14 feet. Drier’s time in the hurdles was 18.78 seconds, while teammate Rilla Syryczuk was 12th at 20.12 seconds. Rice Lake’s sophomore standout Adaline Sheplee won the race in 16.58 seconds.

Vick scored three points by taking sixth in the high jump competition. She cleared the bar at 4 feet, 6 inches and had the highest placement in the tiebreaking process over five other girls who also hit 4-6. One of them was Jaylen Copenhaver, who set a personal-best height with her jump. She was credited with 10th place. Sheplee won that event too at 5-2.

Patricia Kloss scored three points as well by placing sixth in the triple jump at 29-2, which was just 1.5 inches off her season-best. Syryczuk was 10th at 26-7.5. Hayward’s Avery Poppe won at 32-6.

Gilman scored in both of the sprint relays. The 800-meter team of Copenhaver, Drier, Kloss and Vick took sixth in 1:55.5, just 0.37 seconds behind fifth-place Mosinee. Hayward won at 1:52.55. Kylee Copenhaver, Aubrey Mann, Syryczuk and Kyra Rabuck were eighth in the 400-meter relay at 57.67 seconds. Stratford won in 52.57 seconds.

Jaylen Copenhaver (14.3) and Kloss (14.76) were 13th and 19th in the 100-meter dash. Syryczuk was 19th in the shot put at 25-7.5, which beat her throw in Gilman’s previous meet by 7.5 inches.

Rice Lake squeaked by Hayward 139136 to win the team title. Northwestern was a distant third with 69.5 points, just ahead of Colby (65) and Stratford (63).

Konsella’s leap of 18-8.5 accounted for eight of Gilman’s points in the boys meet. The only jumper better was Stanley-Boyd’s Madden Mahr, who went 20-1. Konsella beat Hayward jumpers Lucas Hansen and Alex DePew by 1.5 inches for that spot. Logan Halida was 26th for Gilman at 141.5.

Gilman’s other scoring entry was the 400-meter relay team of Brady McAlpine, Logan Halida, Sawyer Winger and Konsella, which won its heat and took fourth overall in 48.46 seconds, trailing Stratford (43.89), Rice Lake (45.54) and Elk Mound (46.15). Abbotsford was fifth, 0.43 seconds behind the Pirates. The 800-meter team of Trevor Vick, Max Ustianowski, Wyatt Orth and Quintin Franzen was 10th in 1:48.59, beating Stanley-Boyd (1:51.76). Stratford won the race in 1:33.64.

Franzen was 11th in the 110-meter high hurdles in 18.96 seconds. Konsella was 14th in the 100-meter dash in 12.31 seconds, while McAlpine (12.53) and Halida (12.97) were 18th and 25th. Mitchell Moran was 26th in the 1,600-meter run at 6:14.89 and 25th in the triple jump at 29-1.

Taydyn Angell placed 17th in the shot put at 37-6.5 and 22nd in the discus at 945. Caleb Marion was 23rd (92-9) and Elijah Madlon was 35th (46-7) in the discus.

Stratford won the meet with 120 points, outscoring contenders Hayward (107) and Rice Lake (106.5). Stanley-Boyd outscored Elk Mound 75-68 for fourth.

Gilman is set to compete at the Cadott Invitational Friday before returning to Colby Tuesday for the Eastern Cloverbelt Conference championships, which will get underway that day at 4 p.m.