Leader Staff
Shawano freshman Parker Pues posted four top-10 finishes to help the Hawks to a seventh-place finish Friday at the 10-team Wausau West Warriors Boys Invitational in Wausau.
Pues had four top-10 finishes at the indoor meet: sixth as part of the 4x160 relay team, 10th in 55-meter dash, ninth in the long jump and eighth in the triple jump.
The Hawks were paced by their relay teams, two of which took fourth.
Shawano’s fourth-place finishing 24-lap relay team (Andrew Cardish, Griffin Bohm, Shawn King and Chase Lhotka) was 39 seconds off the pace set by Wausau West. The Hawks’ mile relay team, consisting of Crede Temm, Tyrell Hesse, Richard Johnson and Atty Wagner, also placed fourth, finishing in 4 minutes, 7.96 seconds.
The 4x160 lap relay team of Payden Buck, Kainen Halstead, Pues and Logan Stefl took sixth with a time 1:18.81, just over six seconds behind the winning team from Wausau West.
Chase Lhotka took sixth in the mile at 5:19.23; Bohm was 23 seconds behind him.
Junior Michael Mault placed eighth in the 200-meter hurdles with a time of 30.72. Mault added a 12th-place finish in the 55 hurdles. Sophomore Brandon Zoll had a team-best 9.68 seconds in the hurdles, good for ninth place.
Sophomore Dylan Mastrodanato ran the 3,2000 in 12:48.15 to place sixth.
Hesse added a sixth-place finish in the long jump.
Wagner and Johnson each reached 5 feet, 4 inches in the high jump, tying for 10th place.
Hesse took fifth place at 11-6 in the pole vault, while Buck finished in seventh at 11-0.
Wausau West won the invite with 181 points. Wittenberg-Birnamwood finished in last place with 5.5 points.