Teams travel to conference meet in Edgerton Saturday
By Dan Truttschel
Correspondent
The East Troy boys and girls track teams made their presence felt in slightly different ways at Friday’s Beloit Daily News Invitational.
But the end results were the same – a pair of team championships.
The East Troy boys scored big points in the distance events en route to their title, while the girls hammered the competition in the field events to finish first as well.
East Troy’s boys finished with 380 points, well ahead of Brodhead-Juda’s 212, Beloit Turner’s 210, Clinton’s 209 and Delavan-Darien’s 145.
Rounding out the team scores were Parkview with 105, South Beloit with 53, Palmyra-Eagle with 44 and Home School Eagles with 32.
On the girls’ side, East Troy had 334 points to finish ahead of Brodhead’s 278 and Turner’s 251.
Finishing outside the top three were Clinton with 148, Parkview with 139, Delavan with 90, Palmyra-Eagle with 74, Home School Eagles with 46 and South Beloit with 12.
The boys won 10 events, while the girls were first in nine.
Jacob Wendt led the boys were victories in the shot put (54-1) and the discus (153-4). Other individual winners were Evan Harding in the 800 (2:00.78); Nathan Mack in the 1,600 (5:01.06); Nolan Dallas in the 3,200 (11:02.76); Billy Dominski in the 110-hurdles (15.6); and Allen Olson in the triple jump (39-6 ¾).
The Trojans also won three relay events.
Finishing first were the 800-team of Olson, Jake Dessart, Dominski and Dawson Kruse (1:33.03); the 1,600-team of Dominski, Harding, Eli Leising and Jake Remsza (3:32.66); and the distance medley team of Kelyce DeMara, Harding, Leising and Remsza (11:21.5).
M.E. Dodge and Katrina Santos led the girls’ effort with victories in the shot put (34-6 ¾) and the discus (125-4) and the high jump (5-1) and the triple jump (34-7), respectively.
Also placing first were Tori Miller in the 100-hurdles (17.18); Hannah Buccholtz in the pole vault (9-0); Callie Vogel in the long jump (15-10 ½); the 800-relay team of Dodge, Rachel Bottum, Taylor Schmitt and Hope Schneider (1:49.85); and the 1,600-team of Santos, Morgan Bartlett, Bottum and Dodge (4:10.37).
Other top-five efforts
Several Trojans also scored for their teams with top-five efforts.
Finishing second for the Boys were Mike McCarthy in the 100 (12.14); Truman Kent in the 110-hurdles (17.19); Leising in the 300-hurdles (44.56); and Olson in the long jump (19-6).
Other top-five finishes were turned in by Olson, third in the 200 (24.07); Ethan Sweet, third in the 400 (54.02); Kent, third in the 300-hurdles (44.88); Kruse, third in the high jump (5-8); the 400-relay team of Mason Malzahn, Sean Cox, Dessart and Owen Goedland, ; (48.11); McCarthy, third in the long jump (17-10 ¼); Malzahn, fourth in the 110-hurdles (18.83); Kruse, fifth in the 100 (12.45); and Sean Cox, fifth in the pole vault (10-0).
Second-place efforts for the girls were recorded by the distance medley relay team of Amanda Bustillos, Bottum, Madison Rosin and Santos (14:12.96) and Michaela Evans in the pole vault (8-9).
Also placing in the top five were Vogel, third in the triple jump (31-0) and fifth in the 200 (29.18); Haley Sheperd, fourth in the 100 (14.54); Sami Mudlaff in the 100-hurdles (18.53); Heather Vivian, tied for fourth in the high jump (4-10); Schmitt, fourth in the triple jump (30-2); Brianna Fridley, fifth in the 3,200 (14:11.17); and the 400-relay team of Mudlaff, Evans, Schmitt and Sheperd, fifth (56.41).
East Troy began a busy stretch Tuesday at the Elkhorn Invitational. The Trojans also traveled to the Homestead Invitational Wednesday and to Clinton Thursday.
The week concludes Saturday at the Rock Valley Conference Meet at Edgerton.
