Marshfield track secures 27 sectional bids at WIAA Division 1 regional

The Marshfield girls won the team title at the WIAA Division 1 regional at Wausau West High School on Monday. (Submitted photo)

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WAUSAU – The Marshfield track teams combined for 27 sectional berths with top-four finishes at the WIAA Division 1 Track & Field Regional at Wausau West High School on Monday.

The top four in each event qualify for the sectional, which Marshfield will host at Heiting Community Stadium on Thursday. The top three finishers in each event at the sectional qualify for the 2022 WIAA State Track & Field Championships at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on June 3-4.

The Marshfield girls won just one event but earned the team regional title with 158.5 points, 11.5 ahead of D.C. Everest

Marshfield had 13 individuals qualify in 18 events, and two relay teams will also move on for the Tigers girls.

Aubri Brown captured the lone title for the Marshfield girls, winning the shot put with throw of 37 feet, 9½ inches. She also took third in the discus (110-4).

The Marshfield boys won two titles as the 3,200 relay of Henry Hoerneman, Jesse Messmann, Owen Hoerneman and James Ketterer won in 8:30.53, and Graham Lonsdale won the 800 in 1:59.32).

Ashley Grancorvitz will advance in three events as she was second in the long jump (15-8), and fourth in the 100-meter hurdles (18.03) and the 300 hurdles (50.63).

Also earning sectional berths for the Marshfield girls were Sophie Nikolay in the pole vault (second, 10-6), Lizzie Hanson in the 100 hurdles (second, 17.12), Olivia Page in the 200 (27.07), Michaela Dick in the 300 hurdles (second, 50.14), Eliana Kanitz in the 3,200 (third, 12:34.26), Dani Minsaas in the triple jump (third, 33-4), shot put (third, 34-9), and high jump (5-0), Abby Forst in the shot put (fourth, 34-1/2), Emma Ridgway in the high jump (third, 5-0), Natalie Kanitz in the pole vault (fourth, 8-6), Ayana Bousum in the long jump (fourth, 15-4.25), Meghan Jaeger in the 3,200 (fourth, 12:41.29), the 800 relay team of Page, Bousum, Ryann Kilty and Ellie Jensen (second, 14:8.95), and the 400 relay team of Alyssa Foemmel, McKenzie Holm, Kaylie Charron and Hanson (fourth, 53.44).

Trevor Foemmel earned three sectional berths for the Marshfield boys as he was fourth in the 110 hurdles (16.24), 300 hurdles (42.96) and discus (142-2).

Also moving on for the Marshfield boys are Henry Hoerneman in the 3,200 (third, 9:57.59) and Isaac Dagit in the shot put (fourth, 44-8).

WIAA Division 1 Track & Field Regional
May 23, at Wausau West High School
Girls
Team scores:
1. Marshfield 158.5; 2. D.C. Everest 147; 3. Stevens Point 109.5; 4. Wausau West 91; 5. Wisconsin Rapids 59; 6. Merrill 56; 7. Wausau East 51; 8. Rhinelander 28.
Boys
Team scores:
1. Stevens Point 173; 2. Wausau West 127; 3. D.C. Everest 110; 4. Marshfield 81; 5. Rhinelander 61; 6. Wausau East 57; 7. Wisconsin Rapids 55; 8. Merrill 38.

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