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Runners star at Darlington Track & Field Invitational
GTF 100-dsah finals
BLACK HAWKS Jen Wellnitz (far right) won the 100-meter dash in 12.9 seconds on the way to the Female of the Meet honors. Darlingtons Carly Reilly (left) was fourth in the race (14.0).

     DARLINGTON – Area athletes turned in first-place performances in half of the running events and just one of the field events at the 2012 Darlington Track and Field Invitational held at DHS on Tuesday, April 3.
    No team scores were kept at the meet, but Darlington led the boys’ meet with six firsts and Southwestern commanded the girls’ meet with seven firsts.
    Southwestern senior Brady Wilkerson set a new meet record in the 100-meter dash (:10.9) and added first-place finishes in the 200 (:22.6), the long jump (20’9.5”) and as a member of the Wildcats’ winning 4x200-meter relay team (1:35.3) on the way to the Male Athlete of the Meet honors.
    Black Hawk sophomore Jen Wellnitz captured the Female Athlete of the Meet award after winning the 100 (:12.9) and 200 (:27.2) while placing third in the high jump (4’8”) and fourth in the long jump (14’2.75”) on the day.
    The host Redbirds got firsts from senior Brady McDaniel in the 400 (:57.6), sophomore Tyson Miehe in the 800 (2:06), junior Quinn Cullen in the 1,600 (4:43.4) and senior Destin Komprood in the 3,200 (10:35.2). Junior Christa Wamsley led the Lady Redbirds with a first in the 800 (2:36.8).
    McDaniel teamed with Storm Wiegel, Cedric Flesher and Mitchell Langkamp to take first in the 4x400 relay (3:41.5), and he joined with Komprood, T. Miehe and Kent Miehe to win the 4x800 relay (8:55.4) as well for the Redbirds.
    Wamsley, Amy Jorgenson, Tatum Evenstad and Harley Douglas won the 4x800 relay (10:44.8), while Evenstad, Alison Wedig, Claire Scott and Hannah Huffman banded together to win the 4x400 relay (4:26.8) for the Lady ‘Birds.
    Black Hawk added firsts from the boys’ 4x100-meter relay team of Jayden Rufenacht, Shawn Woodruff, Hayden Schliem and Dejay Warrell, (:47.3) and from senior Kate Quinn in the girls’ discus (100’4”).
    Senior Nate Carrier was second in the long jump (20’3”) and third in the 100 (:11.6), and added a third as a member of Shullsburg’s 4x100 relay team (:49.7) along with to Hervey Trejo, Nathan Houtakker and Cody Groskreutz to lead the Miners at the event.
    Darlington will compete at the Prairie du Chien Invitational on Monday, April 16, starting at 4:30 p.m.
    Black Hawk will be in action at Cassville on Friday, April 13, and with Shullsburg at River Ridge on Tuesday, April 17. Both meets are set to start at 4:15 p.m.

DARLINGTON INVITATIONAL
Boys Meet
Other Area Results: 100- 4- Jayden Rufenacht, BH, 11.7; 6- Mitchell Langkamp, D, 11.9; 10- Bradley Sigwarth, S, 12.8; 12- Cody Groskreutz, S, 13.0; 13- Cole Whalen, D, 13.1; 14- Jeremy Wick, D, 13.2; 14- Adam Reeder, D, 13.2; 19- Tom Li, D, 14.3; 200- 6- Michael Ruf, D, 26.3; 7- Dane Siegenthaler, D, 26.6; 9- Wick, D, 26.9; 9- Groskreutz, S, 26.9; 9- Dejay Warrell, BH, 26.9; 12- Adam Wiederholt, D, 27.2; 13- Bret Doyle, S, 27.3; 14- William Lineberger, D, 27.4; 15- Reeder, D, 27.8; 16- Kyle Terhark, BH, 28.5; 18- Tomas Zander, D, 29.6; 400- 7- Brett Knautz, S, 1:03; 8- Wiederholt, D, 1:03.2; 9- Lineberger, D, 1:03.6; 10- Terhark, BH, 1:05.8; 12- Chase Kelly, S, 1:08.7; 800- 2- Dakota Meier, BH, 2:20; 3- Kyle Schulte, D, 2:20.1; 5- Joe Moseley, D, 2:45.9; 6- Kelly, S, 2:58.4; 7- Philip Roppe, D, 2:59; 1600- 2- Michael Sinclair, D, 4:45.8; 3- Garth Garrison, D, 4:49; 5- Chris Priebe, BH, 4:55; 5- Robert Martin, D, 5:17.2; 3200- 2- Thomas Shultz, D, 10:42.4; 4- Erik Zander, D, 11:41; 110HH- 3- Kyle Johnson, D, 17.1; 6- Sam Johnson, D, 18.9; 8- T. Zander, D, 22.6; 300IM- 2- Kyle Woodruff, BH, 44.0; 4- K. Johnson, D, 45.2; 7- S. Johnson, D, 48.1; 400R- 2- Darlington (Ruf, Siegenthaler, Cedric Flesher, Storm Wiegel), 49.1; 5- Shullsburg 2 (Bret Doyle, Reid Schwartz, Knautz, Sigwarth), 53.3; 800R- 2- Darlington (Flesher, Langkamp, Wiegel, K. Johnson), 1:37.1; 3- Black Hawk (Rufenacht, Shawn Woodruff, Warrell, K. Woodruff), 1:39.7; 6- Shullsburg (Groskreutz, Kelly, Houtakker, Sigwarth), 1:51; 1600R- 2- Darlington 2 (Tyson Miehe, Kent Miehe, S. Johnson, Quinn Cullen), 3:47.2; 4- Darlington (Martin, Schulte, Garrison, Sinclair), 4:00.6; 5- Shullsburg (Doyle, Trejo, Houtakker, Knautz), 4:08.8; 3200R- 2- Darlington 2 (Schulte, E. Zander, Cole Trumble, Martin), 9:51.7; PV- 3- Patrick Roche, D, 8’0”; 4- Siegenthaler, D, 8’0”; 5- Trumble, D, 7’6”; HJ- 2- Schliem, BH, 5’8”; 3- Flesher, D, 5’8”; 6- Tyler Peterson, BH, 5’0”; LJ- 3- Wiegel, D, 18’2”; 4- Tanner Sweeney, BH, 17’9.5”; 9- Wiederholt, D, 16’5’.5”; 11- S. Woodruff, BH, 15’9.75”; 13- Ryan Quinn, BH, 14’5”; 15- Lineberger, D, 13’11.5”; 18- Li, D, 13’1.75”; TJ- 3- Warrell, BH, 33’2”; 4- Trejo, S, 33’0.25”; 5- Houtakker, S, 32’8.5”; 6- S. Johnson, D, 29’8.5”; 7- Trumble, D, 29’5”; SP- 4- Cruz Bahena, D, 36’1”; 5- Ben Meligan, BH, 35’8.25”; 6- Cory Schultz-Lincicum, BH, 34’1.25”; 7- Schwartz, S, 33’9.75”; 8- AJ Coulthard, D, 33’1.5”; 9- Ruf, D, 33’1”; 12- Taime Paul, BH, 30’11”; 13- Jacob Teutschmann, S, 30’4”; 15- Reeder, D, 29’1”; 17- Jacob Boyle, D, 28’3”; 18- Austin Dickau, BH, 26’10.5”; 21- Jordan Coulthard, BH, 25’3.5”; 22- Zach Wolf, D, 24’11”; 22- James Morrissey, S, 24’11”; D- 4- Ruf, D, 101’0”; 7- Wolf, D, 83’9”; 8- Coulthard, D, 83’1”; 8- Paul, BH, 83’1”; 10- Schultz-Lincicum, BH, 82’6”; 12- Meligan, BH, 80’9”; 13- Bahena, D, 80’3”; 14- Sigwarth, S, 73’2”; 15- Schwartz, S, 72’9”; 16- Teutschmann, S, 68’1”; 17- Boyle, D, 66’11”; 20- Morrissey, S, 61’5”; 21- Coulthard, BH, 60’7”; 18- Myles Annis, BH, 59’4.

Girls Meet
Other Area Results: 100- 4- Carly Reilly, D, 14.0; 7- Blaire Lutes, S, 14.1; 9- Angel Paul, BH, 14.3; 9- Haleigh Sonsalla, D, 14.3; 13- Shai Rowe, D, 14.5; 14- Taylor Werren, BH, 14.6; 16- Courtney King, D, 14.8; 18- Kari Thompson, D, 14.9; 24- Emily Jones, BH, 15.4; 26- Meghan Weber, D, 15.9; 30- Mandy McKillip, D, 17.2; 200- 2- Alison Wedig, D, 28.1; 3- Michelle Flanagan, BH, 28.7; 4- Rebecca Mathias, D, 29.5; 8- Shannon McDaniel, D, 30.7; 11- Lutes, S, 31.3; 16- Ilka Clausen, D, 34.9; 400- 6- Harley Douglas, D, 1:11.8; 14- Clausen, D, 1:19.8; 15- Kourtney Hull, BH, 1:22.3; 16- Devra Komprood, D, 1:25; 18- Elizabeth Martin, S, 1:33.8; 800- 6- Kristen Walters, BH, 2:56.9; 7- Shae Johnson, D, 3:08; 1600- 2- Hannah Robiolio, D, 5:54.6; 4- Johanna Meister, D, 6:34.2; 6- Katie Powers, BH, 6:49.2; 3200- 2- Cheyenne Wolf, D, 13:17.8; 3- Claire Cullen, D, 13:58; 100HH- 7- Alix Brandt, D, 19.9; 10- Shauna Volkening, D, 26.1; 300IM- 2- Olivia Holland, BH, 50.7; 5- Amy Jorgenson, D, 54.3; 6- Kate Quinn, BH, 54.7; 8- Brandt, D, 57.1; 400R- 2- Darlington 1 (Tatum Evenstad, Hannah Huffman, McDaniel, Reilly), 56.0; 4- Black Hawk (Jones, Sigafus, Paul, Werren), 57.9; 9- Darlington 2 (Kaitlyn Coulthard, McKillip, Volkening, Weber), 1:05.7; 10- Shullsburg (Lutes, Martin, Shayla Curran, Morgan McComish), 1:09; 800R- 2- Darlington 1 (Mathias, Claire Scott, Huffman, Reilly), 1:57.2; 5- Darlington 2 (Rowe, Sonsalla, Darby Fitzsimons, King), 2:05.5; 1600R- 4- Darlington 2 (Jorgenson, Robiolio, Christa Wamsley, Meister), 4:39; 6- Darlington 3 (Johnson, Fitzsimons, Brandt, Mathias), 5:02.8; 3200R- 2- Black Hawk (Powers, Brittany Klemm, Holland, Walters), 12:16.8; PV- 3- Thompson, D, 7’0”; 4- Rowe, D, 6’6”; 5- Fitzsimons, D, 6’0”; HJ- 4- Abigail Merriam, D, 4’6”; 6- Brandt, D, 4’6”; 11- Casi Dubel, BH, 3’10”; LJ- 6- Lutes, S, 13’11.5”; 7- Huffman, D, 13’10”; 10- King, D, 13’2”; 17- Clausen, D, 11’9.75”; 19- Sonsalla, D, 11’4”; 24- Coulthard, D, 10’7”; TJ- 4- Scott, D, 29’5.5”; 9- Merriam, D, 25’9.25”; SP- 3- Hailey McGowan, D, 32’2.75”; 4- Brianna Reichling, D, 31’0”; 6- Kelsey Wiegel, D, 30’6.5”; 9- Teresa Wamsley, D, 28’5.75”; 11- Mallory Busch, D, 27’3.5”; 12- Meghan Vieth, D, 26’5.25”; 13- Kaitlyn Wall, D, 25’9.25”; 20- Alexa Hardyman, D, 22’6.5”; 30- Carla Moldenhauer, S, 17’5.5”; 31- Shayla Curran, S, 17’4.25”; D- 4- McGowan, D, 93’9”; 5- B. Klemm, BH, 93’8”; 9- Reichling, D, 78’6”; 11- Hardyman, D, 75’0”; 13- Wall, D, 74’1”; 15- Brittany Kloepfer, BH, 72’1”; 16- Busch, D, 70’8”; 18- T. Wamsley, D, 69’10”; 20- Wiegel, D, 67’4”; 24- Taylor Klemm, BH, 61’3”; 30- Vieth, D, 57’0”; 31- Sigafus, BH, 56’0”; 33-  Curran, S, 53’9”; 40-  Moldenhauer, S, 46’2”; 41- Martin, S, 45’8”.

RIVER RIDGE TRIANGULAR
Girls Meet
Team Scores: River Ridge 104, Black Hawk 56, Shullsburg 6.

Top Area Results: 100- 1- Jen Wellnitz, BH, :13.29; 4- Blaire Lutes, SH, :14.74; 200- 1- Wellnitz, BH, :27.49; 2- Michelle Flanagan, :30.09; 3- Lutes, SH, :32.64; 400- 5- Kourtney Hull, BH, 1:23.44; 800- 1- Kristen Walters, BH, 3:10.03; 4- Hull, BH, 3:36; 5- Shayla Curran, SH, 4:02.75; 1600- 1- Katie Powers, BH, 6:45.41; 300IH- 1- Olivia Holland, BH, :52.22; 3- Kate Quinn, BH, :58.15; 400R- 1- Black Hawk (Emily Jones, Mikayla Sigafus, Angel Paul, Taylor Werren), :59.03; 3200R- 1- Black Hawk (Powers, Brittany Klemm, Holland, Walters), 12:15; HJ- 1- Wellnitz, BH, 4’10”; LJ- 3- Lutes, SH, 12’3”; TJ- 2- Wellnitz, BH, 29’5.5”; D- 1- Quinn, BH, 96’4”; 3- B. Klemm, BH, 80’11”; 4- Curran, SH, 65’8”.

Boys Meet
Team Scores: River Ridge 105, Black Hawk 54, Shullsburg 20.

Top Area Results: 100- 3- Jayden Rufenacht, BH, :12.18; 5- Nathan Houtakker, SH, :12.88; 200- 3- Nate Carrier, SH, :26.05; 4- Cory  Groskreutz, SH, :28.05; 5- Kyle Terhark, BH, :29.62; 400- 2- Hervey Trejo, SH, 1:01.13; 3- Terhark, BH, 1:05.69; 4- Chase Kelly, SH, 1:06.17; 800- 1- Dakota Meier, BH, 2:23.65; 5- Kelly, SH, 2:52.12; 1600- 1- Chris Priebe, BH, 4:57.12; 5- Houtakker, SH, 6:55.19; 3200- 1- Priebe, BH, 11:00.31; 300IH- 1- Kyle Woodruff, BH, :45.22; 400R- 2- Black Hawk (Hayden Schliem, Dejay Warrell, Rufenacht, Shawn Woodruff), :48.69; 800R- 1- Black Hawk (Warrell, Rufenacht, Schliem, K. Woodruff), 1:45.48; 1600R- 2- Shullsburg (Bret Doyle, Trejo, Brett Knautz, Kelly), 4:20.59; HJ- 2- Schliem, BH, 5’2”; 3- Tyler Peterson, BH, 5’0”; LJ- 1- Carrier, SH, 18’1”; 2- Tanner Sweeney, BH, 17’2”; 5- Houtakker, SH, 15’7”; SP- 1- Cory Schultz-Lincicum, BH, 38’11”; 2- Ben Meligan, BH, 36’8”; 3- Reid Schwartz, SH, 36’3”; 5- Taime Paul, BH, 31’5”; D- 2- Schultz-Lincicum, BH, 82’4”; 3- Paul, BH, 82’2”; 4- Meligan, BH, 78’3”.