MCDONALD'S SWNEWS4U.COM GAME OF THE WEEK (May 13–20)
TRACK AND FIELD: SWAL Conference Championship Meet
By Jason Nihles, The Platteville Journal, Fennimore Times, Boscobel Dial
Fennimore sweeps SWAL track and field titles
BOSCOBEL — Following Monday’s SWAL Track & Field Championships Meet, members of the Fennimore boys and girls track and field teams posed together at midfield for a team photo.
Triumphantly raising the SWAL championship plaque, both Golden Eagle teams were commemorating their second straight sweep of the conference track and field titles.
The Fennimore girls won five evens and scored 145 points to capture their third consecutive conference title. The host Bulldogs finished a distant second with 113 points, while Cuba City (97) finished third in the girls’ standings
The Fennimore boys shined even brighter, winning nine events and scoring 165 points to win their second straight SWAL Conference Championship meet. The Golden Eagles needed every victory and every point to hold off a strong Cuba City team, which finished just 12 points back at 157. The Darlington boys finished third with 82 points.
Fennimore senior Isaac Henkel was named the Male Athlete of the Meet, while sophomore Brooklyn Ritchie took home the Female Athlete of the Meet honor. Henkel, a three-year WIAA State qualifier won the boys 400 in 50.94 seconds, and 800 in 2:05.56, and also ran the third leg of Fennimore’s winning 4x400 relay, combining with senior Matt Winch and sophomores Logan Koestler and Reece Kelley to post a time of 3:38.43.
Junior Madden Crubel also had a spectacular meet for the Eagles, contributing 30.5 teams points by winning boys’ shot put (52’4), discus (144’0”) and 4x100 relay, while placing second in the 100-meter-dash (11.58) behind sophomore teammate Jakob Kretschman (11.39).
Crubel and Kretschman teamed with Kelley and senior Brandon Seitz to capture gold in the 4x100 with a winning time of 44.85 seconds. The same quartet broke their own school record in the 4x100 at last Friday’s Boscobel “Sparky” Reynolds Memorial Invitational on the very same track with a blazing time of 44.01.
Sophomore Brody Roth added 30 points to the FHS boys’ team title by winning the triple jump (42’10.25”) and 300-meter hurdles (43.55), finishing second in the 110-meter hurdles (17.54) and fourth in the high jump (5’6”).
Ritchie won scored 32.5 points to lead the Fennimore girls by winning the 100 (12.87), 200 (27.02), long jump (16’2”) and the 4x100 relay (53.15), along with junior Peyton Lendosky, sophomore Katie Nelson and freshman Lola Hahn.
Junior Rhiannon-Nelson Hahn scored a team-high 34 points by winning the triple jump (33’6”) and finishing second in the 100 hurdles (16.39), 300 hurdles (52.69) and the high jump (4’10”).
Lendosky finished second in the 100-meter-dash (13.35) and long jump (15’9”), and fifth in the 200 (29.07). Sophomore Natalie Horsfall was the runner-up in the girls’ 800 meters at 2:28.65.
“It was great to achieve two conference championships with a 3-peat for the girls and repeat for the boys team,” said Fennimore head coach Gregg Davis. “Each athlete played their role to near perfection.”
Fennimore will return to action Tuesday at the WIAA Division 3 Kickapoo/La Farge Regional. The top four finishers in each event will advance to next Friday’s D3 Bangor Sectional.
SWAL Conference Meet
(from Monday, May 19 @ Boscobel)
(Boys)
Team scores — 1.Fennimore 169, 2.Cuba City 157, 3.Darlington 82, 4.Iowa–Grant 72, 5.Boscobel 43, 6.Southwestern 24, 7.Riverdale 4.
Fennimore top finishers (top 6)
100 — 1.Jakob Kretschman 11.39, 2.Madden Crubel 11.58. 200 — 2.Kretschman 23.30, 3.Brandon Seitz 24.11, 5.Grant Biba 24.66. 400 — 1.Isaac Henkel 50.94. 800 — 1.Henkel 2:05.56. 1,600 — 4.Ben Varela 4:55.86. 3,200 — 3.Varela 11:09.58. 110 hurdles — 2.Brody Roth 17.54. 300 hurdles — 1.Roth 43.55. 4x100 — 1.Fennimore (Crubel, Reece Kelley, Seitz, Kretschman) 44.85. 4x200 — 3.Fennimore (Logan Koestler, Seitz, Biba, Kelley) 1:36.95. 4x400 — 1.Fennimore (Koestler, Kelley, Henkel, Matt Winch) 3:38.43. 4x800 — 3.Fennimore (Varela, Orlando Bonilla, Teegan Griswold, Kobe Rosemeyer) 9:12.07. High jump — 3.Kretschman 5’8”, 4.Roth 5’6”, 6.Henkel J5’4”. Pole vault — 2.Winch J11’6”. Long jump — 4.Kelley 17’10.5”. Triple jump — 1.Roth 42’10.25”. Shot put — 52’4”. Discus — 1.Crubel 144’0”, 5.Winch 125’4”.
(Girls)
Team scores — 1.Fennimore 145, 2.Boscobel 113, 3.Cuba City 97, 4.Darlington 77, 5.Riverdale 60, 6.Iowa–Grant 33, 7.Southwestern 29.
Fennimore top finishers (top 6)
100 — 1.Brooklyn Ritchie 12.87, 2.Peyton Lendosky 13.35. 200 — 1.Ritchie 27.02, 4.Katie Nelson 28.16, 5.Lendosky 29.07. 400 — 4.Mayleigh Seitz 1:07.30, 5.Kamryn Loy 1:10.44. 800 — 2.Natalie Horsfall 2:28.65, 5.Keira Kartman 2:48.80. 1,600 — 5.Kartman 5:59.89. 100 hurdles — 2.Rhiannon Nelson-Hahn 16.39. 300 hurdles — 2.Nelson-Hahn 52.69. 4x100 — 1.Fennimore (Nelson, Lola Hahn, Lendosky, Ritchie) 53.15. 4x200 — 4.Fennimore (Eden Fry, Hahn, Trinity Boebel, Letecia Bonilla) 2:04.53. 4x400 — 3.Fennimore (Loy, Kaylie Czaplewski, Seitz, Horsfall) 4:30.23. 4x800 — 3.Fennimore (Horsfall, Czaplewski, Kartman, Kate Kenney) 11:04.17. High jump — 2.Nelson-Hahn 4’10”, 6.Kenney J4’6”. Pole vault — 3.Czaplewski J8’0”. Long jump — 1.Ritchie 16’2”, 2.Lendosky 15’9”. Triple jump — 1.Nelson-Hahn 33’6”. Shot put — 4.Nelson 30’6”. Discus — 4.Nelson 93’3”.
