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Darlington boys, BSMS girls win team titles Cuba City Becker Invitational
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Darlington's Curtis Blosch hands off to Conrad Blosch during the third leg of the boys' 4x100 relay race at Friday's Cuba City Christopher Becker Invitational. The Redbirds finished third in the race.

CUBA CITY – The Darlington won two events and placed athletes in 15 of the 18 events to run away with the boys’ title and the Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg won three events and also placed competitors in 15 events to capture the girls’ crown at the 2016 Christopher Becker Memorial Track and Field Meet hosted at CCHS on Friday, April 29.

The Redbirds tallied up 129.5 team points to earn the boys’ title ahead of the BSMS tri-op (93) and Boscobel (92), while the Lady Zephyrs brought home the title with 141 points to easily outdistance the host Cubans (114) and the Lady Redbirds (85).

Darlington sophomore Grady Rielly won the boys’ 300-meter intermediate hurdles in a time of 44.05 seconds, and also joined with Jared Meister, Trevor Johnson and Kameron Blosch to finish first in the 800-meter relay race in 1:36.7.

Rielly added a second-place finish in the 110-meter high hurdles (16.28) for the ‘Birds.

BSMS senior Kyle Pulvermacher was also a dual-champion on the day after winning both the shot put (52’9”) and discus (157’2”) events during the boys’ meet, while placing second in the 400-meter relay race (46.18) with Ben Sigwarth, Lance Lierman and Brandon Erdenberger and adding a sixth in the 100 dash (11.65).

Benton senior Joel Fawcett won the boys’ pole vault (12’0”) and sophomore David Germaine won the 400-meter dash (51.85) for BSMS.

Sophomore Emma Lawrence won the two hurdle events for the BSMS girls’ team, taking the 100 highs in 16.32 seconds and the 300 lows in 49.7. She also was second in the triple jump (32’10.25”) at the meet.

The Zephyrs’ 800 relay squad of Paige Murphy, Trinity Law. Payton Bastian and Ally Jansen garnered another first in 1:51.17.

Darlington got a first-place finish from the 1,600 relay team of Meghan Douglas, Roxie Reuter, Kaylee Meyers and Carly Langkamp in 4:22.38.

Belmont took 10th in the girls’ meet with 20 points and tied for 11th in the boys’ meet with nine points.

All four area teams will compete at the Darlington Redbird Invitational on Monday, May 9, starting at 4 p.m. Belmont will also be in action at River Ridge (Bloomington) on Thursday, May 5 (4 p.m.) and at the River Valley Invitational (Spring Green) on Friday, May 6 (4:15 p.m.), while Darlington will be at the Deerfield Invitational on Friday, May 6 (4 p.m.) and join Southwestern at Cuba City for a SWAL Triangular on Tuesday, May 10 (4:30 p.m.).

 

CHRISTOPHER BECKER MEMORIAL INVITATIONAL

Boys Meet– Team Scores: Darlington 129.5, Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg 93, Boscobel 92, Cuba City 84.5, River Valley 83, Lancaster 70, Galena 40, Fennimore 35, Albany 32, Prairie du Chien 14.5, Belmont 9, Southwestern 9, Monticello 6.5. 

Other Top 3 Finishes: 800- 2- Conner Hackett, D, 2:09.00; 3- Blake Cwynar, D, 2:11.04; 3200- 2- Sean Barbee, D, 10:26.81; 3- Tanner Evenstad, D, 10:30.92; 110HH- 3- Mitchell Wagner, D, 17.12; 300IH- 3- Wagner, D, 45.86; 400R- 3- Darlington (Curtis Blosch, Kameron Blosch, Conrad Blosch, Jared Meister), 47.56; 3200R- 3- Darlington (Hackett, Cwynar, Barbee, Evenstad), 8:40.2; PV- 2- Alex Wright, BSMS, 11’0”; 3- Conrad Blosch, D, 10’0”; HJ- 3- Wagner, D, 5’10”; TJ- 2- Wagner, D, 40’3.5”. 

Girls Meet– Team Scores: Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg 141, Cuba City 114, Darlington 85, Boscobel 77.5, Lancaster 76, Albany 53, Fennimore 51, Southwestern 29, Prairie du Chien 27.5, Belmont 20, Monticello 14, Potosi 13. 

Other Top 3 Finishes: 100- 3- Carly Langkamp, D, 13.30; 400- 2- Sonja Townsend, BSMS, 1:02.34; 1600- 3- Taylor Reuter, Bel, 6:06.9; 100HH- 2- Katie Pingel, BSMS, 16.86; 300LH- 3- Pingel, BSMS, 53.08; 400R- 2- BSMS (Lindsey Walton, Paige Murphy, Payton Bastian, Ally Jansen), 51.09; 800R- 2- Darlington (Meghan Douglas, Langkamp, Kathleen Mathias, Kaylee Meyers), 1:52.03; 1600R- 3- BSMS (Bastian, Trinity Law, Pingel, Townsend), 4:26.79; PV- 2- Langkamp, D, 8’0”; 3- Hunter Weber, D, 7’6”; HJ- 3- Law, BSMS, 5’0”; LJ- 2- Murphy, BSMS, 16’4”; TJ- 3- Bastian, BSMS, 32’4.5”; SP- 2- Brianna Leahy, BSMS, 34’5.25”; D- 2- Kennedy Rankin, D, 108’7”; 3- Leahy, BSMS, 105’4”.

At Cuba City HS, on Friday, April 29

 

BOSCOBEL RELAYS

Boys Meet– Team Scores: Boscobel 98, Fennimore 92.08, Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg 83.74, North Crawford 80.75, Ithaca 43, Richland Center 42.75, Hillsboro 39, Riverdale 29, Belmont 19, Seneca 4, Fennimore 0.66. 

Area Placewinners: 300 Hurdle Relay- 4- BSMS (Jalen Phillips, Nathan Wagner, Lance Lierman), 2:34.16; 5- Belmont (Josh Adams, Seth Peters, Levi Kasten), 2:38.6; 4x100- 2- BSMS (Brandon Erdenberger, Lierman, Ben Sigwarth, Kyle Pulvermacher), 47.63; 4x200- 5- BSMS (Trevor Grate, Zach Wiegel, Sigwarth, Alan Montayne), 1:47.47; 4x400- 4- BSMS (David Germaine, Brendan Carlborg, Dane Tiedeman, Devon Jones), 3:54.63; 7- Belmont (Andrew Weber, Peters, Kasten, Jacob Wedib), 4:06.06; 4x800- 4- BSMS (B. Carlborg, Nic Davis, Monardo Faria, Ryan Krueger), 10:04.19; 4x1600- 2- BSMS (N. Davis, Aaron Pulvermacher, Josh Redfearn, Wagner), 21:37.8; 800 Sprint Medley- 4- Belmont (Adams, Jozef de Haan, Weber, Wedig), 1:49.39; 6- BSMS (Erdenberger, Wiegel, Sigwarth, Jones), 1:52.29; Distance Medley- 2- BSMS (Joel Fawcett, Germaine, A. Pulvermacher, Redfearn), 9:10.39; HJ Relay- 2tie- BSMS (Ben Davis, Phillips), 10’10”; LJ Relay- 3- BSMS (Lierman, Sigwarth, Jones), 49’11.25”; 7- Belmont (Adams, de Haan, Weber), 45’9”; TJ Relay- 3- BSMS (Phillips, Lierman, Grate), 102’11”; SP Relay- 1- BSMS (K. Pulvermacher, Kyle Wienen, Jacob Winslow), 114’8.5”; 6- Belmont (Wedig, Kasten, Peters), 86’0.5”; Disc Relay- 1- BSMS (K. Pulvermacher, Winslow, Shane O’Neill), 366’10”; 6- Belmont (Wedig, Adams, de Haan), 253’1”. 

Girls Meet– Team Scores: Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg 108, Fennimore 93, North Crawford 64, Boscobel 64, Richland Center 59, Hillsboro 29, Riverdale 28, Belmont 22, Ithaca 22, Fennimore 5, Seneca 2. 

Area Placewinners: 300 Hurdle Relay- 1- BSMS (Emma Lawrence, Katie Pingel, Trinity Law), 2:33.43; 4x100- 4- BSMS (Lindsey Walton, Kaylee DuBord, Natalia Kmiec, Allysa Anderson), 57.88; 4x200- 1- BSMS (Payton Bastian, Ally Jansen, Paige Murphy, Walton), 1:51.92; 6- Belmont (Brooklyn Barth, Karsen Johnson, Ricca Varvil, Elsie de Haan), 2:09.58; 4x400- 1- BSMS (Bastian, Sonja Townsend, Brianna Mellenberger, Murphy), 4:23.48; 4x800- 3- BSMS (Kenzie Jones, Kristy Krueger, Julie Vinklova, Eve Notrott), 12:01.35; 4x1600- 2- BSMS (Jones, Krueger, Notrott, Abby Pahnke), 27:17.77; 800 Sprint Medley- 1- BSMS (Mellenberger, Walton, Jansen, Townsend), 2:01.93; 3x100 Shuttle Hurdle - 1- BSMS (Law, Lawrence, Pingel, Jadyn Meyer), 52.98; HJ Relay- 2- BSMS (Law, Lawrence), 9’6”; LJ Relay- 1- BSMS (Murphy, Jansen, DeBord), 42’9.75”; 4- Belmont (Taylor Foecking, Varvil, Johnson), 33’5”; TJ Relay- 1- BSMS (Pingel, Lawrence, Bastian), 96’1.5”; SP Relay- 2- Belmont (de Haan, Sasha Wrege, Jenna Richardson), 81’11”; 3- BSMS (Brianna Leahy, Anderson, Anna Stukenberg), 80’4.5”; Disc Relay- 3- Belmont (Wrege, de Haan, Richardson), 250’8”; 4- BSMS (Leahy, Anderson, Stukenberg), 243’5”.

At Boscobel HS on Monday, April 25

 

BLACK HAWK MEET

Boys Meet– Team Scores: River Ridge 203, Albany 116, Cassville 82, Pecatonica/Argyle 53, Monticello 32, Black Hawk 23, Potosi 18. 

BH Placewinners: 200- 6- Dameyune Sofran, 26.11; 800- 7- Caleb Novak, 2:38; 1600- 1- Novak, BH, 5:31; D- 2- Josh Quinn, BH, 99’10”. 

Girls Meet– Team Scores: River Ridge 179, Albany 117, Pecatonica/Argyle 71, Potosi 69, Cassville 61, Monticello 42, Black Hawk 41. 

BH Placewinners: 100- 2- Brianna Hagen, BH, 14.05; 200- 6- Hagen, BH, 31.08; 400- 1- Haley Gertsch, BH, 1:07; 800- 7- Gertsch, BH, 2:57; 100HH- 5- Megan Stephens, BH, 21.53; 400R-3- Black Hawk (Elizabeth Holland, Stephens, Gertsch, Hagen), 59.08; LJ- 2- Hagen, BH, 13’0”.

At Black Hawk HS on Monday, April 25

 

DARLINGTON SWAL TRIANGULAR

Boys Meet– Team Scores: Darlington 124, Cuba City 36, Riverdale 7. 

1st-Place Finishes: 100- 1- Trevor Johnson, D, 11.68; 200- 1- Grady Rielly, D, 24.54; 400- 1- Curtis Blosch, D, 57.18; 800- 1- Paul King, D, 2:20.71; 1600- 1- Tanner Evenstad, D, 4:56.69; 3200- 1- Trae Schilling, D, 11:10.94; 100HH- 1- Rielly, D, 16.27; 300LH- 1- Mitchell Wagner, D, 44.26; 400R- 1- Darl (Alexis Cruz, Carson Evenstad, Daniel Maurer, Alex Reuter), 53.79; 800R- 1- Darl (Conrad Blosch, Jared Meister, Dylan Perrin, Wagner), 1:41.67; 1600R- 1- Darl (Blake Cwynar, Michael Garcia, Connor Hackett, Mikey Morrone), 4:05.17; 3200R- 1- Darl (Cwynar, Garcia, Hackett, Morrone), 10:01.72; PV- 1- Co. Blosch, D, 9’6”; HJ- 1- Wagner, D, 6’1”; LJ- 1- Martin Shelliam, CC, 15’11.25”; TJ- 1- Rielly, D, 33’6”; SP- 1- Tyler Cummings, CC, 45’8.5”; D- 1- Cummings, CC, 136’4”. 

Girls Meet– Team Scores: Darlington 113, Cuba City 25, Riverdale 7. 

1st-Place Finishes: 100- 1- Carly Langkamp, D, 12.86; 200- 1- Langkamp, D, 27.9; 400- 1- Kennedy Rankin, D, 1:15.21; 800- 1- Cheyenne Schuetz, D, 3:15.08; 1600- 1- Ilse Mendez, D, 6:13.86; 3200- 1- Bailey McDonald, D, 15:57.69; 300LH- 1- Lauren Longhenry, CC, 1:13.26; 400R- 1- Darl (Gabrielle Steiner, Reagan Crist, McKenna Leuchtenmacher, Hunter Weber), 59.44; 800R- 1- Darl (Meghan Douglas, Sadie Fitzsimons, Kathleen Mathias, Molly McDaniel), 1:57.53; 1600R- 1- Darl (McDaniel. Hop Francis, Reghan Komprood, Mathias), 4:55.54; 3200R- 1- Darl (Emma Crist, Komprood, Jaci Moseley, Paige Schilling), 11:21.89; PV- 1- Langkamp, D, 7’6”; HJ- 1- Mathias, D, 4’0”; LJ- 1- Francis, D, 13’10”; TJ- 1- Fitzsimons, D, 27’5”; SP- 1- Camry Fields, CC, 31’11”; D- 1- K. Rankin, D, 101’7”.

At Darlington HS, on Tuesday, April 26

 

FENNIMORE INVITATIONAL

Boys Meet– Team Scores: Bosocbel 129, Cuba City 121, Fennimore 107, Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg 96, Prairie du Chien 83, Cassville 48, River Ridge 42, Wauzeka-Steuben 40, Belmont 17, BSMS JV 9, Fennimore JV 3. 

Area Placewinners: 100- 2- Kordell Stillmunkes, CC, 11.65; 6- Lance Lierman, BSMS, 12.45; 200- 6- Anthony Zilliox, CC, 24.68; 400- 1- David Germaine, BSMS, 52.64; 800- 3- Josh Redfearn, BSMS, 2:10.99; 3- Ryan Krueger, BSMS JV, 2:24.95; 1600- 3- Redfearn, BSMS, 4:52.38; 6- Aaron Pulvermacher, BSMS, 5:07.17; 3200- 2- Weston Morley, CC, 11:15.81; 5- Levi Kasten, Bel, 12:29.28; 400R- 1- CC (Zilliox, Tyre Hall, Jacob Paquette, Stillmunkes), 46.06; 2- BSMS (Ben Sigwarth, Lierman, Brandon Erdenberger, Kyle Pulvermacher), 47.81; 6- BSMS JV (Devon Rozic, Alan Montanye, Zach Wiegel, Alex Wright), 50.42; 800R- 2- CC (Zilliox, Mitch Splinter, Keane Holzemer, Hall), 1:36.90; 4- BSMS (Sigwarth, Lierman, Jalen Phillips, Joel Fawcett), 1:42.02; 7- BSMS JV (Brett Cargill, Trevor Grate, Devon Jones, Montanye,), 1:45.77; 1600R- 2- CC (Hall, Paul Burrows, Holzemer, Paquette), 3:40.92; 3- BSMS (Fawcett, Germaine, Jones, Nathan Wagner), 3:42.08; 6- BSMS JV (Brendan Carlborg, Ben Davis, Krueger, Dane Tiedeman), 4:06.36; 3200R- 2- CC (Quinn Allbee, Preston Bousley, Morley, Ben Bertjens), 9:46; PV- 1- Joey Fawcett, BSMS, 13’0” (Meet Record); 2- Wright, BSMS, 11’6”; 4- N. Davis, BSMS, 7’6”; HJ- 4- Paquette, CC, 5’6”; 5- B. Davis, BSMS, 5’6”; 6- Holzemer, CC, 5’4”; 8- Jalen Phillips, BSMS, 5’2”; LJ- 1- Stillmunkes, CC, 20’8”; 3- Hall, CC, 19’2”; 5- Phillips, BSMS, 17’9”; 7- Lierman, BSMS, 17’8”; TJ- 1- Holzemer, CC, 39’2.75”; 4- Braydon Barth, CC, 36’4.5”; 5- Casey Kieler, CC, 35’0”; 7- Josh Adams, Bel, 34’5.5”; SP- 3- K. Pulvermacher, BSMS, 48’10.5”; 2- Tyler Cummings, CC, 46’2.5”; 3- Jacob Wedig, Bel, 45’1”; 7- Ben Burkholder, CC, 42’1”; 8- Nick Schaal, CC, 38’8.5”; D- 1- K. Pulvermacher, BSMS, 149’8”; 2- Cummings, CC, 140’10”; 3- Burkholder, CC, 136’9”; 4- Wedig, Bel, 129’10”. 

Girls Meet– Team Scores: Benton/Scales Mound/Shullsburg 118, Cuba City 115, Bosocbel 104.5, Fennimore 95.5, River Ridge 70, Wauzeka-Steuben 65, Prairie du Chien 55, Belmont 22, BSMS JV 19, Cassville 17, Fennimore JV 5. 

Area Placewinners: 100- 1- Paige Murphy, BSMS, 13.00; 2- Mykenzie Vaassen, CC, 13.10; 3- Brinley Wood, CC, 13.59; 7- Lindsey Walton, BSMS, 14.02; 200- 1- Kaitlyn Kaiser, CC, 27.19 (Meet Record); 2- Ally Jansen, BSMS, 27.81; 3- Payton Bastian, BSMS, 28.43; 5- Sonja Townsend, BSMS, 29.35; 6- Trinity Law, BSMS JV, 29.76; 400- 2- Elizabeth Misky, CC, 1:06.29; 6- Kaylee Pitzen, CC, 1:09.0; 8- Taylor Reuter, Bel, 1:09.35; 800- 5- Reuter, Bel, 2:50.68; 7- Brianna Mellenberger, BSMS, 2:53.14; 1600- 5- Reuter, Bel, 6:09.55; 3200- 3- Eve Notrott, BSMS, 15:29.69; 100HH- 1- Emma Lawrence, BSMS, 16.78; 300LH- 3- Maizee Splinter, CC, 53.88; 6- Gabrielle Weber, CC, 57.56; 400R- 1- BSMS (Walton, Murphy, Bastian, Jansen), 52.10 (Meet Record); 2- CC (Wood, Misky, Vaassen, Kaiser), 53.0; 800R- 1- BSMS (Murphy, Bastian, Jansen, Lawrence), 1:49.37 (Meet Record); 2- BSMS JV (Kaylee DuBord, Law, Katie Pingle, Townsend), 1:55.6; 4- CC (Splinter, Pitzen, Drea Droessler, Camry Fields), 1:59.44; 1600R- 4- CC (Pitzen, Cassie Murray, Droessler, Weber), 4:47.26; 7- BSMS (Kenzie Jones, Natalia Kmiec, Kristy Kruger, Julie Vinklova), 5:03.38; 3200R- 6- BSMS (Jones, Kruger, Notrott, Vinklova), 11:24.77; 8- CC (Droessler, C. Murray, Lauren Longhenry, Kayla Churchill), 12:02.89; PV- 4tie- Mellenberger, BSMS, 7’0”; HJ- 1- Splinter, CC, 5’0”; 2- Law, BSMS JV, 4’10”; 4- Keisha Cummings, CC, 4’8”; 5tie- Lawrence, BSMS, 4’6”; 7- Misky, CC, 4’4”;LJ- 1- Kaiser, CC, 16’10”; 2- Vaassen, CC, 16’6”; 3- Murphy, BSMS, 15’11.5”; 4- Wood, CC, 14’11”; 5- DuBord, BSMS, 14’7”;TJ- 1- Bastian, BSMS, 31’11.5”; 8- Pitzen, CC, 27’5”;SP- 1- Brianna Leahy, BSMS, 36’6.5”; 3- Fields, CC, 34’3.5”; 6- Jenna Richardson, Bel, 30’9.5”; D- 2- Leahy, BSMS, 103’7”; 3- Elsie de Haan, Bel, 101’7”; 5- Sasha Wrege, Bel, 94’11”; 6- Fields, CC, 89’0”; 7- Payton Kopp, CC, 88’10”.

At Fennimore HS, on Monday, May 2