BANGOR – State qualifiers from last Thursday night’s Division 3 Bangor Track & Field Sectional were few and far between, but in the end Dylan Johll of Cassville, and Franci Gates of River Ridge will be making the trip to La Crosse this Friday and Saturday.

While River Ridge had 12 individuals and three relays competing at Thursday’s Bangor Sectional, Gates was the only one to finish in the top four of her event and qualify for the WIAA State Championship.

Clearing a height of 8’9”, Gates finished fourth in the girls pole vault competition, after winning the regional meet at the same height.

Finishing fifth in the pole vault and just missing out on a repeat trip to state was River Ridge senior Sydney Bloom, who cleared 8’6” on Thursday night.

Bloom was the team’s only state participant last season, where she placed 16th in the pole vault with a leap of 8’0”, and held the school record until Gates broke it this season.

Gates’ personal best is 8’9”, which also is the existing school record in the event.

At 8’9”, Gates enters the field of 16 state vaulters seeded 13th, while Gabrielle Janke, a sophomore from Athens, holds the top seed with a height of 10’4”.

The Division 3 girls  pole vault competition gets underway at 10:30 Saturday morning with a starting height of 8’0”.

Cassville senior Dylan Johll will be making a return trip to the state championships in both the 100 and the 200.

Last season, Johll placed 12th in the 100 with a time of :11.53 and was seventh in the 200 at :23.35, just missing the medal stand by one place.

At last Thursday’s Bangor Sectional, Johll won the 100 with a time of :11.11 and placed second in the 200 at :22.78.

His sectional time is the third best of 18 competitors, and puts him in lane six of Friday’s first heat. The top seed belongs to Newman senior Jake Gajewski, who had a sectional time of :10.99.

In the 200, Johll is seeded sixth of 18 competitors, and will be running in lane four of Friday’s first heat. Independence senior Alex Grulkowski and Saint Mary’s Springs senior Sam Spranger share the top seed with identical times of :22.35.

The top 10 preliminary times in the 100 and 200, move on to race in Saturday’s finals.

Friday’s Division 2 and 3 state meet begins at 3:00, while all divisions start on Saturday at 10:30.

D3 Bangor Sectional

(from Thursday, May 26)

Boys

Team scores of interest - 1. Independence/Gilanton 63; 2. Boscobel 62; 3. Cuba City 54.5; 4. Darlington 52; 10. Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg 33; 12. Fennimore 28; T14. Cassville 19; T19. Riverdale 12; T24. Belmont 4; T26. River Ridge 3; T30. Wauzeka 1.5, Pecatonica/Argyle 1.5.

State qualifiers from Cassville 

100 - 1. Dylan Johll :11.11. 200 - 2. Dylan Johll :22.78. 

Other sectional participants from 

Cassville

400 - 8. Jared Kartman :53.75. 

Sectional participants from 

River Ridge 

100 - 10. Caleb Irish :11.62. 200 - 7. Caleb Irish :23.65. 400 - 10. Ivan Trautsch :55.04. 300 hurdles - 8. Jordan Kline :43.79. Shot put - 16. Bryan Maring 38’0”. Discus - 15. Shane Durns 107’4’. 

Girls

Team scores of interest - 1. Brookwood 59.5; 2. Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg 58.5; 4. Cuba City 49; T6. Fennimore 39, Darlington 39; 10. Boscobel 32; 13. Pecatonica/Argyle 24; 14. Wauzeka 22; T18. Southwestern 12; 21. River Ridge 11; T29. Belmont 1, Cassville 1, Black Hawk 1.

State qualifiers from River Ridge

Pole vault - 4. Franci Gates 8’9”. 

Other sectional participants from 

River Ridge 

400 - 9. Bridgette Myers 1:04.39; 10. Karli Jandro 1:05.75. 300 hurdles - 16. Taylor Cooley :57.11. 4x200 - 10. (Maria Breuer, Ashton marshall, Sammy Steiger, Allison Ploessl) 1:56.36. 4x400 - 7. (Bridgette Myers, Maria Breuer, Rachael Herrick, Karli Jandro) 4:26.79. 4x800 - 10. (Rachael Herrick, Taylor Cooley, Taylor Langmeier, Rebecca Breuer) 11:22.52. High jump - 13. Sammy Steiger 4’6”. Pole vault - 5. Sydney Bloom 8’6”; Rebecca Breuer NH. Long jump - 13. Bridgette Myers 13’11”.  

Sectional participants from 

Cassville

100 hurdles - 12. Bailie Becwar :18.13. 300 hurdles - 8. Bailie Becwar :50.99.