Gopher Conference Track Meet held in Mapleton
The United South Central/Alden Conger track teams participated in the Gopher Conference Track Meet on May 11, at Maple River High School in Mapleton.
Girls Results
Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton won the girls’ title with 129.5 points. Finishing in second place with 99 points was New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva. USC/AC tallied 50 points to finish in eighth place out of 11 teams competing.
Earning All-Conference honors for the Rebels was Chloe Lutteke in the discus. She placed first in the event with a personal-record throw of 112-11.
Lutteke also had a 10th place finish in the shot put with a toss of 30-2.75.
Madison Passer, Hannah Warmka and Jaelyn Stangler all had top-10 finishes in the high jump. Passer placed fourth with a mark of 4-08, Warmka was seventh at 4-06 and Stangler was ninth, also clearing a height of 4-06.
Antoinette Dickson was 12th in the pole vault and cleared the bar at a height of 7-00.
In the running events, the 4×800-meter relay team of Clare Kruse, Emma Johnson, Warmka, and Alexis Guenther placed third with a personal-record time of 12:05.76.
Sylvia Sauke placed sixth in the 100-meter high hurdles with a time of 18.05 just edging her teammate Passer who placed seventh with the same time as Sauke.
Guenther completed the 1600-meter run in 5:59.46 to finish in sixth place.
Danyelle Dickson crossed the finish line in the 400-meter run in 1:06.01 to finish in fourth place.
Chloe Bullerman had a time of 51.96 to finish in fourth place in the 300-meter hurdles.
A time of 28.28 by Antoinette Dickson in the 200-meter run was good for eighth place in the event.
In the last event of the meet, Bullerman, Kruse, Guenther and Danyelle Dickson completed the 4×400-meter relay in 4:38.27 to finish in third place.
Boys Results
The host Maple River Eagles won the Gopher Conference crown with 164 points while JWP finished second with 145.
Ten teams competed in the men’s division and USC/AC finished in eighth place with 44 points.
The 4×800-meter relay team of Riley Krohnberg, Garret Lau, Benjamin Schwartz and Samuel Treptow placed sixth with a time of 11:13.63.
Jace Ignaszewski, Aidan Rath, Joseph Ridler and Jaiden Aranda had a time of 1:52.87 in the 4×200-meter relay to finish in sixth place.
In the 4×100-meter relay, Aranda, Angel Dejesus, Rath and Brant Blosser finished in fifth place in 48.79.
The 4×400-meter relay team of Jayden Barnick, Isaac Hartman, Maxwell Schull and Blosser finished fifth in 4:05.20.
Isaac Hartman placed eighth in the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 46.6.
Laiken Farris ran the 800-meter run in 2:36.76 to finish in eighth place.
Ezra Edwards was fifth and Henry Beaver was sixth in the shot put competition. Edwards had a throw of 40-08 and Beaver’s toss was 40-02.
Edwards was sixth in the discus with a throw of 113-10 while Hayden Chandler finished eighth with a mark of 108-07.
Dejesus placed seventh in the long jump with a distance of 18-06.75.
Barnick cleared the high jump bar at a height of 5-08 to place fifth in the event.
Joshua Brooks was ninth in the pole vault with a successful try at 9-06.