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LA CROSSE – The Stratford boys earned a pair of medals Friday and a number of other area athletes are in line to grab some hardware Saturday after the first day of competition at the WIAA State Track and Field Championships at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Stratford pole vaulters Jake Griffith and Eli Temanson grabbed medals with top-six finishes on Friday in Division 3.
Griffith placed fourth with a vault of 13 feet, 6 inches, and Temanson was fifth with a vault of 13-0, to earn state medals.
Temanson also qualified for the finals in his other two events for the Tigers. Temanson was eighth in the 200 meters preliminaries (22.76 seconds) and he, along with Dylan Kell, Kellen Bornbach and Jake Guyer, qualified seventh in the 800-meter relay (1:33.26) for Saturday’s finals.
On the girls side, three area relay teams will compete in finals on Saturday after top-10 qualifying finishes on Friday.
The Marshfield Columbus Catholic relay team of Rachael Roehl, Hannah Stratman, Kayla Selz and Mariah Heiman finished fifth in the 400 relay (51.20) and sixth in the 800 relay (1:48.34) to move on to the finals.
Heiman also qualified individually in the 100 meters, taking 10th in 13.06 seconds.
Auburndale’s 3,200-meter relay team of Danica Harrison, Abby Bauer, Sam Karl and Emma Steines qualified seventh in a tight race. The team’s time of 10:00.79 was just 2.27 seconds behind fourth-place Wisconsin Rapids Assumption.
Harrison, who will run in the 1,600 meters on Saturday, finished eighth in the 3,200 in 11:38.47.
Columbus Catholic’s Elizabeth Manlick took 13th in the long jump (15-4).
Stratford’s 800 relay team of Brooke Schultze, Abby Bender, Josie Kolbeck and Tori Dietel, the only Tigers’ girls to reach the state meet, failed to qualify for Saturday’s finals after finishing 13th in qualifying with a time of 1:50.03.
Spencer’s Rachel Zastrow (pole vault), Harrison (1,600) and Stratford’s Jacob Zuelke (3,200) all will compete in their events on Saturday.