NORTHERN BADGER-SMALL SCHOOLS - Copenhaver wins triple jump; Gilman girls, RL boys score well

NORTHERN BADGER-SMALL SCHOOLS

Jaylen Copenhaver won the triple jump to lead the Gilman girls to a ninth-place team finish and Kaleb Scott had two topfive finishes in distance races to lead Rib Lake’s boys to a ninth-place finish in Saturday’s Northern Badger Classic Small Schools indoor meet, held at UW-Stout.

The meet featured 32 teams from northcentral and northwest Wisconsin and Minnesota. It was Gilman’s first competition of the spring and the second for Rib Lake’s teams.

Copenhaver, a senior who didn’t triple jump last season, opened the new year with a top distance of 33 feet, 8 inches on her fourth and final attempt. That was good enough to beat Whitehall freshman Bria Pank by 9.5 inches for the event championship. The first-place finish accounted for 10 of Gilman’s 26 team points in the meet.

Copenhaver added a ninth-place in the 200-meter dash, one spot and 0.03 seconds shy of scoring, with her time of 28.62 seconds. Gilman teammates Addison Vick and Claire Drier were right behind her at 28.84 and 28.98 seconds. Copenhaver also was 14th in the 55meter dash preliminaries at 8.05 seconds. A topeight finish was needed to make the final. In that event, Gilman’s Brynn Komanec (8.75) was 47th, Shae Drier (8.8) was 49th, Kyra Rabuck (8.98) was 61st and Aspen Person (9.35) was 74th. Rib Lake’s Emma Tlusty was 44th in 8.7 seconds, Maddie Rademacher was 58th in 8.93 seconds and Avelyn Schutt was 86th in 9.86 seconds.

Claire Drier put six points on the board for Gilman with a third-place finish in the 55-meter hurdles. The senior had the third-best preliminary time at 9.92 seconds and held that place in final at 9.83 seconds, finishing behind Allie Robel of Elk Mound (9.58) and Hailey Wilmot of Ladysmith (9.76). Tlusty was 10th in the preliminaries at 10.38 seconds, while Gilman’s Rilla Syryczuk (11.43) and Aubrey Mann (12.13) were 21st and 26th. Drier scored four more points with a fifthplace finish in the long jump. Her best attempt carried 15-4.75. Cadott’s Iszy Sonnentag won it at 17-5.75.

Gilman sophomore Addison Vick took third in the high jump by clearing 4-10, 2 inches under Loyal’s Addysen Wolf and 4 inches under champion Lauren Pearson of Cameron. Rademacher was 14th for Rib Lake at 4-6 and Tlusty tied for 22nd at 4 feet. Vick was ninth in the long jump at 1410.25, an inch away from scoring. Rademacher was 13th at 13-8.5 and Rib Lake’s Ella Grzanna was 44th at 9-0.75.

Gilman’s 1,600-meter relay team of Shae Drier, Komanec, Rabuck and Vick was ninth in 4:46.62, 1.81 seconds behind eighth-place Prairie Farm. Cameron won in a meet-record time of 4:13.48.

Syryczuk was 18th in the shot put with a toss of 26-10.25. Rib Lake’s Kylie Schmidtfranz was 48th (18-9) and Gilman’s Autumn Zagorski was 52nd (16 feet). Mann was 23rd in the triple jump (26-7). In the 200-meter dash, Rabuck was 69th (32.59), Person was 80th (33.92), Schutt was 92nd (36.08) and Grzanna was 99th (37.2).

Cameron won the girls team championship with 77 points, well ahead of St. Charles, Minn.’s 39 points. Ladysmith (34), Cochrane-Fountain City (32) and Athens (31) filled out the top five.

Boys results

In the boys meet, Rib Lake scored 21 points with high placements in three distance events and one field event.

Scott, a junior, took third in the 800meter run with a time of 2:06.58. He was 1.68 seconds ahead of fourth-place Dakota Nelson of Flambeau and only trailed Owen-Withee’s Colton Paczkowski (2:05.9) and Eddie Burlingame of St. Charles (2:06.04) in the 49-runner event. Rib Lake’s Jackson Schutt was 18th in 2:21.83.

Scott added a fifth-place time of 10:55.69 in the 3,200-meter run, a race won by Liam Caldwell of Minnesota Math and Science Academy in 10:05.81.

Rib Lake senior Jack Regier scored six points with a third-place finish in the 1,600-meter run. His time was 4:45.14, putting him 1.93 seconds ahead of fourthplace Gavin Stewart of Ladysmith. Nelson won in 4:44.33, while Paczkowski was second in 4:44.96. Smith was again 18th for Rib Lake at 5:17.29.

Jed Henderson had the high field placement for the Redmen, taking fourth out of 33 high jumpers that had at least one successful attempt. Henderson cleared 5-10 as did Gilman’s Sawyer Winger. Ladysmith’s Ashton Clark won the event easily at 6-5, but with the next seven jumpers clearing 5-10 and their places determined by their number of misses in the competition.

Gilman scored eight points in the meet and placed 18th in team competition. Senior Trevor Vick scored six of them with a third-place finish in the triple jump. He got to 39-10 for a personal-best jump that was beaten only by Christopher Hilton of St. Charles (41-11.5) and Brody Tarman of Turtle Lake (40-11.5). Logan Halida got Gilman’s last point with an eighth-place time of 57.29 seconds in the 400-meter dash. Pirate Brady McAlpine was right behind him at 57.3 seconds. Rib Lake’s Connor Highfill (1:02.76) and Seamus Highfill (1:04.97) were 29th and 37th.

Gilman’s Max Ustianowski was 12th in the 55-meter hurdle preliminaries at 9.71 seconds. He was 0.55 seconds away from making the final.

In the sprints, Gilman’s Chad Konsella was 16th in the 55-meter dash at 7.02 seconds and 23rd in the 200-meter dash at 24.98 seconds. McAlpine was 23rd (7.09) and Halida was 36th (7.23) in the 55. Gilman’s James Wojcik was 54th in the 55 at (7.41), while Rib Lake’s Isaiah Hubbard (7.72), David Pichea (7.86) and Riley Johnson (7.99) were 75th, 83rd and 90th. Vick was 51st in the 200 at 26.54 seconds, Pichea was 61st (26.96), Wojcik was 63rd (27.08), Ustianowski was 67th (27.12), Hubbard was 70th (27.43) and Rib Lake’s Kylan Bartelt was 87th (28.61).

Gilman’s team of Winger, Halida, McAlpine and Konsella took 11th in the 1,600-meter relay at 3:58.36. Bruce got the last scoring spot, taking eighth in 3:53.24. Rib Lake’s team of Regier, Connor Highfill, Smith and Jackson Schutt was 18th in 4:12.63.

Winger placed 17th in long jump competition at 17-11, while Konsella was 21st at 17-4.5 and Rib Lake’s Dene Zuleger was 45th at 14-8.75. Rib Lake’s Lawson Carlson was 25th in the shot put with a throw of 34-6. Gilman’s Elijah Madlon was 53rd (26-10.75) and Hubbard was 56th (26-0.5).

St. Charles was the team champion with 76.5 points. Prescott (60.5), Owen-Withee (49.5), Ladysmith (36.5) and Flambeau (30.5) rounded out the top five.

Rib Lake has one more indoor meet left, the Marawood Conference meet at UW-Stevens Point set for Monday. Gilman opens outdoor competition at Eleva-Strum April 15 before hosting its own meet two days later.