Chris Caporale, sports@wolfrivermedia.com
Leader Photo by Chris Caporale Shawano Community High School senior Alyssa Anker throws the shot put at the Hawks’ triangular meet Thursday at home. She finished in fourth with a distance of 26 feet, 11 3/4 inches.
Shawano Community High School senior Erika Dunnam won both the shot put and discus in the Hawks’ first outdoor meet of the season Tuesday in Shawano.
Shawano competed against Waupaca and Clintonville on the day, with Waupaca winning both the girls and boys meets, and the Shawano boys finishing in second and the girls in third.
Dunnam’s shot put distance of exactly 34 feet was over three feet farther than second place, while her discus throw of 88-8 was a full 10 feet clear of the closest competitor.
Senior Zeke Gueths also placed first in the discus (138-10), along with a fourth-place finish in the shot put (41-4).
The Hawks took first in five of the eight relays races. The boys 4x800 relay team won its race by 25 seconds over Waupaca.
“We put (Atty Wagner) in there as well last week, and ran him again today, and he kept up with them and did a nice job running,” coach Scott Smurawa said. “We’ll be excited about that.”
Smurawa expects many of the teams’ younger athletes to improve steadily as they catch on and gain experience.
“We don’t have as many returners as I expected from last year, but you have new ones coming out,” Smurawa said. “New younger ones, new freshmen, there’s a number of them.”
He pointed out Parker Pues, a freshman who has excelled in sprints and jumps, and junior Richard Johnson, who is competing in track for the first time. On Tuesday, Johnson won the 400 (54.62), ran in the 4x400 and 4x200 relays, and finished in third in the high jump.
Asked what he hopes to see from his team over the course of the season, Smurawa responded: “Just improve on their performances. Do a little better each and every time, and look for their best performance once we get to conference.”
Shawano Triangular Meet
Shawano Community Middle School
April 12
Boys
Team scores: Waupaca, 96; Shawano, 79; Clintonville, 10.
Local top 3 finishers
100 meters: 3, Anthony Pues, Clintonville, 11.87.
200: 2, Payden Buck, Shawano, 25.14.
400: 1, Richard Johnson, Shawano, 54.62; 3, Atty Wagner, Shawano, 58:72.
800: 1, Andrew Cardish, Shawano, 2:18.59; 2, Joshua Kutchenriter, Clintonville, 2:26.34; 3, Shawn King, Shawano, 2:26.59.
1,600: 3, Kutchenriter, Clintonville, 5:25.50.
3,200: 2, Chase Lhotka, Shawano, 11:03.26; 3, Griffin Bohm, Shawano, 12:09.34.
110 hurdles: 3, Brandon Zoll, Shawano, 19.00.
300 hurdles: 3, Michael Mault, Shawano, 44.72.
4x100 relay: 2, Clintonville (Anthony Pues, Noah Hartleben, Bailey Tate, Nick Raasch), 49.68.
4x200 relay: 1, Shawano (Buck, Johnson, Parker Pues, Crede Timm), 1:41.82.
4x400 relay: 1, Shawano (Mault, Tyrell Hesse, Johnson, Timm), 3:54.53; 3, Clintonville (Anthony Pues, Kutchenriter, Samuel Wittman, Tate), 4:12.64.
4x800 relay: 1, Shawano (Bohm, Andrew Cardish, Lhotka, Wagner), 9:05.09; 3, Clintonville (Cole Cotherman, Riley Hauser, Nathan Raasch, Yuki Shimizu), 10:25.16.
Discus: 1, Zeke Gueths, Shawano, 138-10.
High jump: 1, Hesse, Shawano, 5-8; 2, Wagner, Shawano, 5-4; 3, Johnson, Shawano, 5-4.
Pole vault: 1, Hesse, Shawano, 11-6; 2, Buck, Shawano, 11-6.
Long jump: 2, Mault, Shawano, 18-8.
Triple jump: 2, Parker Pues, Shawano, 36-10; 3, Timm, Shawano, 36-5.
Girls
Team scores: Waupaca, 89; Clintonville, 53; Shawano, 38.
Local top 3 finishers
100 meters: 2, Jessie Barker, Clintonville, 13.54; 3, Chelsey Birling, Clintonville, 14.09.
200: 2, Tori DePerry, Shawano, 29.47.
400: 2, Emma Weatherwax, Clintonville, 1:09.22; 3, Carrie Young, Shawano, 1:09.53.
800: 2, Allison Graper, Clintonville, 2:40.33;
1,600: 1, Kara Pyatskowit, Clintonville, 5:46.25; 2, Taylor Young, Clintonville, 5:56.25; 3, Allison Graper, Clintonville, 6:08.10.
3,200: 1, Pyatskowit, Clintonville, 12:28.69; 2, Kaylie Branstrom, Clintonville, 13:29.44; 3, Jordan Tellock, Clintonville, 13:36.84.
4x100 relay: 1, Shawano (Kendall Bricco, Autumn Braun, Onalee Siegfried, Hannah Wendorff), 57.78; 2, Clintonville (Allysin Booth, Allison Lenoble, Anne Pham Nguyen, Rebecca Van Asten), 58.69.
4x200 relay: 1, Shawano (Bricco, DePerry, Kristina Kurtz, Siegfriend), 1:58.38.
4x400 relay: 2, Clintonville (Jessie Barker, Taylor Young, Brooke Wespetal, Weatherwax), 4:32.64; 3, Shawano (Carrie Young, Kylie Guenther, Kurtz, Wendorff), 4:42.18.
4x800 relay: 1, Clintonville (Pyatskowit, Weatherwax, Wespetal, Taylor Young), 10:35.91; 2, Clintonville (Tellock, Graper, Kaylie Branstrom, Kelsey Keller), 11:44.44.
Shot put: 1, Erika Dunnam, Shawano, 34-0; 2, Lacey Jung, Clintonville, 30-8 1/2.
Discus: 1, Dunnam, Shawano, 88-8.
High jump: 3, DePerry, Shawano, 4-2.
Pole vault: 2, Wendorff, Shawano, 7-6.
Long jump: 2, DePerry, Shawano, 14-2.