RIB LAKE NORTHWOODS QUAD - Girls get team win in their home meet

RIB LAKE NORTHWOODS QUAD

The infield may not have dried out from the previous day’s soaking rain, but the sun was out, the wind was down and the track was dry, creating another fun, laid-back atmosphere at Friday’s Rib Lake Northwoods Quad.

A victory for the home team certainly helped the mood as well.

Led by three wins from Olivia Lopez and two from Isabelle Gumz, Rib Lake put up 91 points and outscored their Price County rivals from Phillips, Prentice and Chequamegon to win that half of the meet. In all, the girls won eight events, which was just enough to get them by the Loggers, who scored 83 points. They easily outscored the lineups presented by Prentice (38) and Chequamegon (33).

Rib Lake’s boys got three event wins, but their side of the meet was dominated by Chequamegon, who scored 107 points and ran by Phillips (79), Rib Lake (47) and Prentice (16).

In the girls meet, Lopez got her wins in the 100- and 200-meter dashes as well as the triple jump. Her quest for four wins was stopped by freshman teammate Maddie Rademacher, who got her first career win in the long jump.

In the 100, Lopez was clocked at 13.0 seconds, right there with her best times of the spring. She was ahead of two Phillips sprinters, Journee Wood and Kiana Zierer by 1.1 and 1.3 seconds. Rib Lake’s Kloey Paul was one spot and onetenth of a second away from scoring, taking sixth at 14.9 seconds and Anna Martin was 10th at 16.1 seconds, which also were season-best times.

Lopez comfortably won the 200-meter race in 27.9 seconds, earning a 1.5-second margin over Phillips’ Jessica Morrone in the third heat. With seasonbest times, Paul got two points by taking fourth in 30.6 seconds, Rademacher got the fifth-place point at 30.9 seconds and Martin was eighth in 33.5 seconds.

Lopez’s win in the triple jump came with a distance of 30 feet, 10 inches that easily beat runner-up Ella Weinberger of Chequamegon, who went 27-9. Rademacher’s win in the long jump came with a leap of 14-6.75, while Lopez hit 14 feet even to take second. Emma Tlusty (12-7) and Martin (10-0.5) were fifth and 12th for Rib Lake.

Gumz continued to emerge as a pointscorer for the Redmen with her two firsts and two seconds in the meet. She tied her best throw of the season in the discus, winning that at 86-4 ahead of teammates Camryn and Coralee Glenzer, who took second and third with throws of 67-8 and 62-11. Camryn Glenzer’s throw was a season-best as was Tlusty’s. She took seventh at 58-3. Tessa Krause was ninth at 55-10 and Hadassah Nelson was 15th at 48-10.

Krause was the shot put winner. The Rib Lake senior got off a throw of 27-7.5 to edge Gumz by 1.25 inches and Camryn Glenzer, who took third at 25-11, an improvement of her personal-best by a half-inch. Coralee Glenzer was seventh at 22-10.

Gumz also won the 300-meter hurdles in 53.5 seconds, while Tlusty was next at 55.7 seconds. Those two flipped spots in the 100-meter high hurdles. Tlusty won that in 17.5 seconds, followed by Gumz (18.7) and Rademacher (18.9). Those times all ranked as their bests of the spring.

Nelson won a close high jump competition by being able to clear the bar at 4-7. That got her past Prentice’s Kayla Gillett by an inch. Rademacher took third as she also cleared 4-6 and Paul got the fifthplace point at 3-10.

The most exciting race of the day was the boys 3,200-meter run. In a rarity for that event, three runners went into an all-out battle to the finish with Rib Lake’s Kaleb Scott finding that last push to win it in 11:08.5, four-tenths ahead of teammate Jack Regier and Maverick Hoogland of Phillips. Regier was credited with second place. Henry Regier was fourth for Rib Lake in 11:23.1 and Elijah Scott was sixth in 12:15.4.

Kaleb Scott came up just short of another win earlier in the meet. He finished the 400-meter dash in 55.6 seconds, but Prentice’s Matthew Schmidt was a hint faster at 54.7 seconds. Elijah Scott was fourth in 1:01.3, Jack Regier (1:03.9) and Henry Regier (1:04.4) were sixth and seventh and Riley Johnson was ninth for Rib Lake at 1:06.6.

It didn’t rank as one of their best times of the season, but the Scotts and Regiers did win the 3,200-meter relay in 9:27.7, well ahead of Phillips (9:46.6) and Chequamegon (10:19.7). Rib Lake’s Demetrio Garelli, Seamus Highfill, Isaiah Hubbard and Gus Zuleger took second in the 400-meter relay at 51.8 seconds. They were behind Chequamegon’s A team (50.4) and ahead of the Screaming Eagles’ B team (53.0).

Jed Henderson was Rib Lake’s other boys winner. He cleared 5-10 in the high jump to finish a foot higher than Chequamegon’s Jarrett Heckendorf.

Zuleger scored well in the field, placing second in the triple jump at 31-11 and third in the long jump at 14-5. Seamus Highfill was fourth in the triple jump at 29-4.5 and seventh in the long jump at 13-4.25, just ahead of teammates Johnson (13-3.25) and Allan Head (11-1). Jonathan Parker of Phillips won both events with jumps of 33-5 and 16-7.

Henderson added a fifth-place point in the discus competition with his seasonbest throw of 83-7. Hubbard was 10th at 69-1, Johnson was 12th at 55-6 and Clinton Peterson was 15th at 47-11. Hubbard (237.75) and Peterson (21-7) were 10th and 11th in the shot put.

Back on the track, Truman Smith and Connor Highfill weren’t far from scoring in the 800-meter run, taking sixth and seventh in 2:39.2 and 2:40.4. They added seventh- and eighth-place times of 5:41.2 and 5:41.7 in the 1,600-meter run.

Garelli led Rib Lake’s 200-meter crew with an eighth-place time of 26.1 seconds. Seamus Highfill (26.7) was 10th, Henderson (27.8) was 12th, Johnson (28.8) was 13th, Head (30.0) was 15th and Ryley Schatz (32.5) was 16th. In the 100-meter dash, Zuleger led the Redmen in ninth place at 12.9 seconds, while Garelli (13.0) was 10th, Hubbard (13.4) was 12th, Schatz (13.4) was 13th and Head (13.8) was 14th.

The Marathon Invitational originally scheduled for Tuesday was pushed back to Wednesday to avoid potential storms. That meet served as Rib Lake’s last tuneup before the Marawood Conference Championships, which are set for Monday and will complete the regular season. Competition is set to start at 3:30 p.m. at Abbotsford.