MARSHFIELD GIRLS INDOOR INVITE - Medford, Rib Lake girls get spring started at Marshfield Indoor meet

MARSHFIELD GIRLS INDOOR INVITE

Lindsay Kahn and Jordyn Grant of Medford and Maddie Rademacher were the top scorers for their teams Thursday during the season-opening Marshfield Tiger Indoor Track and Field Invitational.

Scoring wasn't easy for the local squads, both of whom are working with some lower roster numbers this year. The Raiders finished seventh out of 15 teams with 30.5 points and Rib Lake was 12th with eight points. The two teams found common ground with athletes who scored twice in jumping events.

For Medford, that was freshman Jordyn Grant, who had a strong debut with a fourth-place finish in the triple jump and sixth-place finish in the long jump. Rademacher took fourth for the Redmen in the long jump and eighth in the high jump. Grant's distance in the triple jump was 30 feet, 3.5 inches, just 7 inches behind winner Emily Rundle of Stratford. Owen-Withee's Cassidy Graski (30-7.5) and Marshfield's Abigail Cera (30-7) were second and third. In the long jump, Rademacher's best jump carried 13--9.75, leaving her 4 inches behind winner Kylee Beversdorf of Wittenberg-Birnamwood and 1.25 inches behind Marshfield's Olivia Sommers and Alana Schoen. Grant's sixth-place jump was 135.25, three-quarters of an inch behind Stevens Point's Riley Mueller. Raider Toryn Rau tied Colby's Veronica Mateer for 13th at 12-5.25.

Rademacher, a sophomore, didn't approach her best jumps of last year in Thursday's opener, but she got high enough at 4-4 to get the eighth-place point, winning a tiebreaker over Charlie Eichman of Wittenberg-Birnamwood and Emile Zuelke of Stratford. Medford's Autumn Cooley tied for 12th at 4 feet.

Grant added two more points with a seventh-place time of 31.34 seconds in the 220-yard dash and teammate Aliyah Pilgrim tied for eighth at 31.59 seconds with Stevens Point's Peyton Grosek. Raider Alexis Zuleger was 20th at 34.46 seconds.

Kahn, a junior, competed for Medford for the first time since her appearance in the WIAA Division 2 state cross country meet in the fall and placed second in the 880-yard run. She pulled away and won the first heat handily in 2:43.13 and that wound up being surpassed only by Pittsville's Reese Grimm at 2:40.47. Medford's Willow Dassow was 12th 3:03.29.

Both local schools scored in the fourlap relay. Medford's team of Bridget Wesle, Cora Semrau, Adalyn Dittrich and Cooley was fifth in 1:35.92, while Rib Lake's Rademacher, Ella Grzanna, Avelyn Schutt and Emma Tlusty got two points by placing seventh in 1:37.69. Marshfield won the race in 1:26.52, just 0.19 seconds ahead of Owen-Withee. Stevens Point (1:28.02) and Iola-Scandinavia (1:29.09) also finished ahead of Medford.

Winning their heat by 2.3 seconds, Medford's Grant, Zuleger, Rau and Pilgrim wound up second overall in the eight-lap relay in 3:18.96, 0.72 seconds ahead of Stevens Point. Marshfield was the overall winner in 3:10.32.

Rademacher competed in one more event for Rib Lake, taking 10th in the 60yard hurdles in 11.4 seconds, while Dittrich was 12th for Medford at 12.09 seconds. Medford's Ellie Eckert placed 10th in the 440-yard dash at 1:16.21. Medford's Rivalee Stokes tied for 12th in the 60-yard dash at 8.12 seconds, Tlusty was 14th for Rib Lake at 8.24 seconds and Rau was right behind her at 8.27 seconds. Medford's Carly Koski placed 11th in the mile run at 7:08.9.

Top 15 finishers in JV events included Tlusty and Grzanna, who tied for seventh in the high jump at 4 feet; Cooley, who was 13th in the 220-yard dash at 32.53 seconds, and Eckert, who was 15th in the long jump at 10-7.75.

Marshfield edged Stevens Point by a half-point, 124-123.5, to win the meet. Wittenberg-Birnamwood scored 49 points, 1.5 more than Owen-Withee, and Stratford got by Pittsville 44-42 for fifth. Athens was a half-point behind Medford. Iola-Scandinavia (21.5), Colby (12) and Columbus Catholic (9) were ninth through 11th. Greenwood and Abbotsford scored four points each and Granton scored three.