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Janesville Craig boys second in regional track meet

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WIAA Division 1 regional track and field meet

WIAA Division 1 regional track and field meet at Monterey Stadium in Janesville

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JANESVILLE — The WIAA Division 1 regional track and field meet brought out the best in the Janesville Craig High boys team.

The Cougars, thanks to individual wins from Matt McDonald and JoJo Pregont, finished a narrow second to Verona in the nine-team field. Craig scored 106.5 points, while the Wildcats had 113.5.

Janesville Parker was fourth with 89 points, and got wins from Cody Speaker in the pole vault and Nick Cahill in the triple jump, along with another strong outing from the 1,600 relay team.

Big Eight Conference champion Sun Prairie won the girls team title with 140, while Parker was third with 101 and Craig fourth with 74.5.

Defending state champion Shelby Demos won two events for the Vikings, and teammate Kelsey Jones won the 200. Craig’s Caroline Shea won the 400.

The Cougar boys used a balanced lineup to pick up the silver trophy. Craig coach Jeff Deininger said his team is peaking at the right time,

“Just a great, great effort for this team tonight,” Deininger said. “We’ve really come on over the last couple of weeks and it continued tonight.

“I’ve said all along that in a meet like this, our depth will allow us to score some points. Hopefully, we can keep building on this heading into the sectional meet.”

The four qualifiers in each event advanced to Friday’s sectional meet at Burlington.

The Parker boys, despite losing two of their top performers to injuries in the last 10 days, still managed a productive night.

In the last event of the meet, the state-ranked 1,600 relay team of Speaker, Ryan Shelton, Dan Treinen and LaVell Hewlett coasted to victory with a time of 3:28.46.

Longtime Parker boys coach Joe Dye said injuries this late in the season are difficult to overcome, but was pleased with his team’s performance.

“No one’s going to feel sorry for you, that’s for sure,” Dye said of the season-ending injuries to thrower Calvin Nauer and sprinter Adam Vesterfelt. “But they sure came at a bad time.

“All tonight was about was trying to survive to compete another day. And we’ve got a lot of kids that will be competing on Friday.”

Craig High girls coach Mark Marsden was also pleased with the way his team ran.

“In a meet like this, there are always surprises. Some good, and some not so good,” Marsden said. “And that was certainly the case for us tonight.

“Caroline and Katherine (Bagley) finishing 1-2 in the 400 was a real nice surprise. But there were a couple of other events where I thought we might get someone through, and we didn’t.”

Fort Atkinson senior Spencer Agnew won the 1,600 and the 3,200.

BOYS TEAM SCORES

Verona 113.5, Janesville Craig 106.5, Beloit Memorial 99, Janesville Parker 89, Sun Prairie 69, Milton 64, Oregon 57.5, Stoughton 51.5, Fort Atkinson 51.

INDIVIDUAL AND RELAY RESULTS

100—1. Tha Trinh (BM), 11:05. 2. Hank McIvor (Mil), 11:21. 3. Jason Davis (SP), 11:28. 4. Exavian Rice (SP), 11:36.

200—1. Rodney Miller (BM), 22.51; 2. Andy Bartels (BE), 22.76; 3. Norvell Mohammed (SP), 23.25; 4. Keegan Kelly (JC), 23.5.

400—Ben Farrell (Ve), 51.58. 2. Brian Ironmonger (Or), 51.92. 3. Jake Roso (St), 52.13. 4. Joe Miggins (SP), 52,38.

800—1. Matt McDonald (JC), 2:01.05; 2. Bill Goss (SP), 2:01.11; 3. Jake Enslin (SA), 2:01.14; 4. Dan Thoresen (BE), 2:01.16.

1,600—1. Spencer Agnew (FA), 4:32.66. 2. Ryan Ahrens (JC), 4:37.77. 3. Thomas Neister (HJC), 4:39.0. 4. Riley Olson (ST), 4:40.47.

3,200—1. Spencer Agnew (FA), 9:55.99; 2. Ryan Ahrens (JC), 10:03.12; 3. Matt Misdorf (Or), 10:11.56; 4. Eric Gudgeon (JC), 10:11.59.

110 high hurdles—1. David Vo (Ve), 15:35. 2,. Josh Werling (BM), 15:44. 3. auston Llloyud (JP), 15.7. 4. Alex Smith (St), 15.96.

300 intermediate hurdles—1. David Beers (Or), 41.16; 2. Garrett O’Brian (BE), 41.23; 3. Josh Werling (BM), 41.24; 4. Jordan Adams (St), 41.27.

400 relay—1. Beloit 43.66. 2. Parker, 43.76. 3. Milton, 43.93. 4. Sun Prairie, 44.14.

800 relay—1. Beloit, 1:30.49. 2. Parker, 1:30.84. 3. Sun Prarie, 1:32.12. 4. Milton 1:34.21.

1,600 relay—1. Parker (Cody Speaker, Ryan Shelton, Dan Treinen, LaVell Hewlett), 3:28.46; 2. Verona, 3:32.0; 3. Milton, 3:32.59; 4. Oregon, 3:38.13.

3,200 relay—1. Fort Atkinson, 8:14.76. 2. Verona 8:18.71 3. Craig, 8:19.79 4. Sun Prairie 8:33.86

Shot put—1. Drex Jackson (Ver), 48-1; 2. Miles Schneider (Mi), 47-5; 3. Ethan Bachinski (Mi), 47-4; 4. Ethan Malofsky (Ver), 43-11.

Discus—1. Ethan Malofsky (Ver), 150-10; 2. Ethan Bachinski (Mi), 148-2; 3. Jacob Ninneman (Or), 143-4; 4. Brett Moore (SP), 131-2.

Long jump—1. JoJo Pregont (JC), 20-7; 2. Nick Cahill (JP), 20-1; 3. Joey Kennedy (JC), 19-9; 4. Jake Roso (St), 19-8.

High jump—1. Robert Douglass (BM) 6-2. 2. Jake Roso (St), 6-0. 3. Jason Davis (SP), 6-0. 4. JoJo Pregont (JC), 6-0.

Triple jump—1. Nick Cahill (JP), 43-6; 2. JoJo Pregont (JC), 42-3; 3. Cy Badertscher (JC), 42-2; 4. David Maurizzi (BM), 41-5.

Pole vault—1. Cody Speaker (JP), 13-6; 2. Eric Sawyers (St), 11-6; 3. Hans Wagenpfeil (FA), 11-6; 4. Daniel Jones (Or), 11-6.

GIRLS TEAM SCORES

Sun Prairie 140, Verona 117.5, Janesville Parker 101, Janesville Craig 74.5, Stoughton 70, Beloit Memorial 63, Oregon 61, Fort Atkinson 37, Milton 35.

INDIVIDUAL AND RELAY RESULTS

100—1. Felicia Carlson (BM), 12.31. 2. Latifah Bryant (SP), 12.75. 3,. Ally Wirkus (JC), 13.08, 4. Kiana Golden (BM), 13.09.

200—1. Kelsey Jones (JP), 25.64; 2. Tiffany Ketney (Sp), 25.71; 3. LaBraya Johnson (BM), 26.59; 4. Chelsea Williams (Or), 27.05.

400—1. Caroline Shea (JC), 1:01.82. 2. Katherine Bagley (JC), 1:02.63. 3. Caitlin Craighead (SP), 1:03.41. 4. Lizzy Bartow (SP), 1:04.33.

800—1. Taylor McMillan (St), 2:21.9; 2. Kayla Anderson (Ve), 2:24.55; 3. Taylor Bauer (FA), 2:24.58; 4. Janna Wise (Ve), 2:25.9.

1,600—1. Liz Berkholtz (SP), 5:20.12. 2. Amanda Walker (SP), 5:21.03. 3. Cassidi Running (JC), 5:24.07. 4. Annie Hiefner (Or), 5:30.43.

3,200—1. Kiah Ehrke (St), 11:17.29; 2. Liz Berkholtz (St), 11:39.84; 3. Amanda Walker (Sp), 11:44.74; 4. Cassidi Running (JC), 11:46.06.

100 high hurdles—1. Shelby Demos (JP), 15:43. 2. Cassie Niles (JP), 16:47. 3. Caylie O’Neil (Ve) 16:67. 4. Sydney Stiener (SP), 16.90.

300 low hurdles—1. Caylie O’Neil (Ve), 48.62; 2. Sydney Steiner (SP), 48.98; 3. Kim LeRoy (SA), 49.45; 4. Amanda Belden (JP), 49.9.

400 relay—1. Beloit Memorial, 50.22. 2. Parker, 51.2. 3. Sun Prairie, 51.39. 4. Craig, 52.21.

800 relay—1. Sun Prairie, 1:45.12. 2. Parker, 1:46.28. 3. Beloit, 1:46.47. 4. Verona, 1:48.23.

1,600 relay—1. Sun Prairie, 4:08.22; 2. Stoughton, 4:09.95; 3. Craig, 4:14.99; 4. Milton, 4:16.02.

3,200 relay—1. Verona, 10:07.53. 2. Stoughton, 10:08.0. 3. Oregon, 10:12.01. 4. Sun Prairie, 10:16.65.

Shot put—1. Leah Devries (Mi), 38-0; 2. Alyssa Chase (St), 36-6; 3. Kaylyn Funk (JC), 34-5; 4. Amanda Spencer (Ve), 33-1.

Discus—1. Alyssa Chase (SP), 118-11; 2. Amanda Spencer (Ver), 113-3; 3. Erika Moen (JP), 111-6; 4. Leah Devries (Mi), 109-9.

High jump—1. Demos (JP), 5-4. 2. Kari Hanson (Or), 5-2. 3. Brooke Richardson (Ve), 5-2. 4. Eva Greenwalt (Ve), 5-2.

Long jump—1. Brianna Bower (St), 16-6; 2. Ashley Bartow (SP), 16-3; 3. LaBraya Johnson (BM), 15-11; 4. Eva Greenwalt (Ver), 15-10.

Triple jump—1. Latrice Pritchard (BM), 34-7; 2. Brianna Bower (St), 34-6; 3. Ashley Bartow (SP), 34-1; 4. Niquisha Kenerson (JP), 34-0.

Pole vault—1. Rachel Walsh (Or), 9-0; 2. Hilary Carpenter (Or), 8-3; 3. Kristin Zeilinger (JP), 8-3; 4. Kate Perkins (JP), 8-0.