By Morgan Rode sports@newmedia-wi.com
Leader Photo by Morgan Rode Shawano’s Gage Timm competes in the triple jump at the Bay Conference Relays at Xavier High School on Tuesday. Timm tied for fourth with a distance of 38 feet, 3.75 inches.
Leader Photo by Morgan Rode Shawano’s Alice Hoffmann competes in the 4x800 relay at the Bay Conference Relays at Xavier High School on Tuesday. The 4x800 relay came in second with a time of 10 minutes, 58.23 seconds.
Several Shawano Community High School track and field athletes turned in strong finishes while competing in the Bay Conference Relays at Xavier High School on Tuesday.
Behind a big night from Parker Pues, the boys team scored 63.3 points and took seventh. The girls team used strong efforts in the relays to tally 81 points and place fifth.
Pues won the long jump with a leap of 20 feet, 1 inch and took second in the triple jump (39-09.75).
The senior was also on the second-place finishing 800-meter sprint medley relay (1 minute, 41.73 seconds) — with Brayden Dickelman, Crede Timm and Elliott Lowney — and the third-place finishing 4x100 relay (45.64) — with Max Hanauer, Dickelman and Timm.
“A night like tonight gives a lot of confidence for the rest of the season,” Pues said. “Being the first meet (outside), it really sets the tone for times and measurements for the rest of the season.”
The girls 3x1,600 relay team of Odessa Arce, Alice Hoffmann and Lydia Beyer turned in a first-place finish in 17:19.32 to get things rolling for the girls team.
The girls distance medley relay quartet of Arce, Hoffmann, Beyer and Carrie Young also took first, posting a time of 14:02.54.
“My girls who I run with are very talented and they have taught me a lot,” said Arce of the Shawano girls distance runners. “Our bond is unbreakable. We are very competitive and push each other to our bests. We can always count on each other for support. If one of us is not feeling it one day, we can bring that person back because it is one of those we are all in this together type of things…”
Arce was also on the second-place finishing 4x400 relay (4:27.02). Young, Grace Beyer and Lydia Beyer rounded out the team.
The girls 1,600 sprint medley relay team of Isabel Roloff, Tori DePerry, Grace Beyer and Claire Guenther finished first with a time of 4:58.34.
The 4x200 team of Roloff, Rachel Reed, DePerry and Aubree Zastrow placed second in 1:56.59. Also placing second was the 4x800 relay (10:58.23) team of Young, Grace Beyer, Hoffmann and Guenther.
The quartet of Reef Anthony, Michael Klement, Gage Timm and Ethan Chelberg placed third in the 1,600 sprint medley with a time of 4:08.58.
Individually for the boys, Anthony tied for third in the pole vault (12-00). Gage Timm tied for fourth in the triple jump (38-03.75)
“The team performing tonight was something that is really good to see for our first outdoor meet,” Gage Timm said. “It’s a good building block for the season ahead. It will be really nice when it comes down to the conference meet to be able to see how much we improved with times and against others that we have competed against already.”
Individually for the Shawano girls, Morgan Weinig took fourth in the shot put (31-00.75). Coming in fifth was DePerry in the high jump (4-08).
The 3x100 Shawano girls throwers relay team of Elizabeth Dillenburg, Baylie Fisher and Weinig took fourth in 47.61. The boys throwers team of Nathan Krizan, Nate Neumann and Christopher Parker was fifth in 42.00.
Girls team scores: 1. West De Pere 142; 2. Xavier 89; 3. Green Bay East 87; 4. Green Bay West 83; 5. Shawano 81; 6. New London 56; 7. Menasha 52; 8. Seymour 48.
Boys team scores: 1. West De Pere 141; 2. Green Bay East 88.83; 3. Xavier 85.5; 4. Seymour 85; 5. Menasha 81.3; 6. New London 74; 7. Shawano 63.3; 8. Green Bay West 53.