USC/AC’s Alexis AJ Arguijo, left, sprints towards the finish line to a third-place finish in the 100-meter dash. BEA’s Caden Juba, middle, finished fourth and the Bucs’ Omar Gomez, right, finished sixth.

Athletes and fans alike had to brave less than ideal conditions at the Viesselman True Team Track Meet hosted by United South Central High School in Wells on Tuesday, April 7.

Temperatures hovering around 40 degrees and blustery winds out of the south made it tough on those competing and for the people who were there to watch.

The host United South Central/Alden Conger Rebels, the Blue Earth Area Buccaneers, the Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton/Waterville-Eysian-Morristown Bulldogs and the New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva Panthers were the four teams competing at the meet.

BEA Girls Results

It was a close contest between three schools for the girls championship. In the end, JWP/WEM came out on top with 173.5 points to finish ahead of runner-up BEA who tallied 161 points. NRHEG was third with 158.5 points and USC/AC was fourth with 69 points.

The Bucs started off the day on a good note when the 4×800-meter relay team of Aubrey Woodwick, Emersen Weir Ella Swanson and Caitlin Eitzmann crossed the line in first place with a time of 11:45.81.

The 4×400-meter relay team also finished first with a time of 5:07.17. The four members who ran that relay were Ella Swanson, Sidney Eitzmann, Emersen Weir and Caitlin Eitzmann.

In the 4×100-meter relay, the Buccaneer team of Kloe McGowen, Amalla Harper, Parker Stallman and Breanna Hefner-Roggeman finished second in 59.49.

It was a third-place finish for the Bucs’ 4×200-meter relay team of Kyannah Brandt, Harper, Sidney Eitzmann and Hefner-Roggeman. Their time was 2:06.03.

Hefner-Roggeman finished third in the 100-meter dash in 15.44 and Grace Nelson was fifth in 15.87.

Brandt was third in the 200-meter dash with a time of 29.48.

Swanson was second and Amelia Weerts was third in the 400-meter dash. Swanson’s time was 1:14.67 while Weerts recorded a time of 1:16.23.

Woodwick’s time of 3:04.60 in the 800-meter run was good for third place.

Sakura Harding secured the top spot in the 3200-meter run with a time of 20:27.60.

In the 100-meter high hurdles, Brandt finished fourth in 19:34.

Taylor Ripley’s throw of 29-6 was good for first place in the shot put while Ada Ziegler was fourth with a mark of 27-2.

Ripley and Ziegler nabbed the top two spots in the discus. Ripley’s toss was 82-6 and Ziegler’s was 76-1.

The Bucs’ claimed another first place when Caitlin Eizmann won the high jump at a height of 4-8.

Brandt was fourth in the long jump with a leap of 14-0.5 while Stallman was sixth with a distance of 13-4.5.

Sidney Eitzmann was fifth in the triple jump with a mark of 26-4.5 and Jaydyn Volz was sixth with a distance of 22-7.25.

USC/AC Girls Results

Danyelle Dickson placed sixth in the 200-meter dash with a time of 31.35.

Eleanor Satre was fourth in the 400-meter dash in 1:21.29.

In the 800-meter run, Alexis Guenther turned in a time of 3:05.39 to finish in fourth place.

Guenther had a third-place finish in the 1600-meter run with a time of 6:37.83.

Sidney Sauke was third in the 100-meter high hurdles with a time of 19.19 while Elise Hanson was fifth in 22.21.

USC/AC’s 4×100-meter relay team of Becca Kruse, Leigha Tolzmann, Madison Meyer and Sauke placed fourth with a time of 1:00.16.

Kruse was fourth in the shot put with a distance of 27-2.5.

Jaelyn Stangler was fourth in the discus with a distance of 72-2.

Hanson placed third in the pole vault by clearing the bar at a height of 6-0

In the triple jump, Sauke was third with a distance of 29-2.5.

BEA Boys Results

The BEA boys finished in fourth place with 115 points. JWP/WEM was first with 186, USC/AC was second with 164 and NRHEG was third with 134.

Marcus Eckles brought home a couple of first place finishes for the Bucs. The senior crossed the line in 26.31 to win the 200-meter dash while also winning the 110-meter high hurdles with a time of 18.72.

Caden Juba was fourth and omar Gomez was sixth in the 100-meter dash. Juba’s time was 13.64 and Gomez had a time of 14.20.

Juba was fourth in the 200-meter dash in 28.24. He placed fifth in the 400-meter dash in 1:02.37.

In the 800-meter run, Hudson Prestegard was fifth in 2:51.08.

Oliver Ankeny was sixth in the 1600-meter run in 6:21.19.

Pablo Ozuna was third in the 110-meter high hurdles in 20.48. Eckles was second in the 300-meter low hurdles in 45.55.

Parker Stauffer, Gomez, Dane Sohn and Gus Ankeny finished third in the 4×100-meter relay in 53.53.

Stauffer, Ozuna, Gomez and Gus Ankeny were fourth in the 4×200-meter relay with a time of 1:52.45.

In the 4×400-meter relay, Oliver Ankeny, Simon Holland, Prestegard and Gus Ankeny placed third with a time of 4:39.21.

Chase Gambell was fourth in the shot put with a toss of 38-10.5 and Sohn was sixth with a mark of 35-6.5.

Sohn was also sixth in the discus with a throw of 96-4.

Holland placed sixth in the pole vault with a mark of 7-6.

Juba won the long jump with a leap of 18-10.5 and Eckles was fifth with a distance of 16-9.5.

USC/AC Boys Results

USC placed second with 164 points. JWP/WEM won the meet with 186 points.

Alexis AJ Arguijo was third in the 100-meter dash with a time of 13.31 and second in the 200-meter dash in 27.38. Jaiden Aranda was sixth in the 200-meter dash in 28.65.

Maxwell Schull placed second in the 400-meter run in 54.81 while Caleb Satre was sixth in 1:02.46.

It was a second-place finish for Dylan Bakkedahl in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:41.46.

Laken Faris was fourth in the 1600-meter run in 6:16.38.

Riley Krohnberg finished second in the 3200-meter run with a time of 13:36.15.

Jace Ignaszewski was second in the 110-meter high hurdles in 19.35. He won the 300-meter low hurdles in 44.40 while Jayden Barnick took fourth in the low hurdles in 50.97.

The Rebels finished second in the 4×100-meter relay with a time of 51.38. Members of the team were Arguijo, Aranda, Brayden Mithun and Maddex Niebuhr.

USC/AC’s team of Aranda, Satre, Bakkedahl and Niebuhr was second in the 4×200-meter relay in 1:50.68.

It was a first-place finish in the 4×400-meter relay for Ignaszewski, Mithun Barnick and Schull with a time of 4:08.21.

The 4×800-meter relay team of Farris, Joseph Ridler, Krohnberg and Aiden Edwards was second in 10:39.09.

Niebuhr was second in the shot put with a mark of 41-3.5 and Henry Beaver was fifth with a distance of 38-1.5.

Ezra Edwards threw the discus 124-5 to place second and Parker Lau had a throw of 108-11 to finish in third place.

Barnick was second in the high jump with a height of 5-10 and Parker Lau was fourth with a height of 5-4.

Noah Hartman was third in the pole vault. He cleared the bar at 8-0. Garret Lau was sixth at 7-6.

Mithun was sixth in the long jump wth a leap of 16-9 and Schull was third in the triple jump with a distance of 37-9.5.