Tigers first in five events

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

MERRILL — The Marshfield girls track team won five events and had 19 top-five finishes to take the team title at the 2017 Otto Bacher Invitational on Friday at Merrill High School.

Marshfield racked up 145 points with Wausau East coming in second with 106.5 points. Lakeland won the boys team title. Marshfield did not participate in the boys meet.

Stephanie Rhodes won the high jump with a leap of 5 feet 2 inches; Meg Bryan won both the triple jump with a jump of 34-3½ and the 200 meters in 27.01 seconds; Alexa Aumann won the 400 in 2:27.36; and the 800-meter relay team of Gracie Holland, Bryan, Kaydee Johnson, and Maddie Nikolai won in 1:49.60 for Marshfield’s five victories.

The Tigers’ 1,600 relay team of Aumann, Madysen Bohman, Mariah Goeppinger, and Johnson finished second in 4:20.46.

(Hub City Times Sports Reporter Paul Lecker is also the publisher of MarshfieldAreaSports.com.)

Otto Bacher Invitational

May 5, at Merrill High School

Girls

Team scores: 1. Marshfield 145; 2. Wausau East 106.5; 3. Lakeland 99.5; 4. Medford 71; 5. Mosinee 61; 6. Merrill 58.5; 7. Antigo 56.5; 8. Mercer 43; 9. Three Lakes 40; 10. Rhinelander 10; 11. Tomahawk 8; 12. Crandon 1.

Winners and Marshfield finishers

High jump: 1. Stephanie Rhodes (MAR) 5-2; 5. Shantel Nienast (MAR) 4-8.

Pole vault: 1. Daisy Campbell (TL) 10-0; 3. Gracie Holland (MAR) 9-0.

Long jump: 1. Kiana Pugh (MOS) 15-10.25; 4. Brooke McGrath (MAR) 14-8.75.

Triple jump: 1. Meg Bryan (MAR) 34-3.5; 4. Nienast (MAR) 32-4.5.

Discus: 1. Sydney Thompson (MER) 113-11; 3. Jamila Ougayour (MAR) 97-2; 4. Nadia Ougayour (MAR) 96-6.

Shot put: 1. Thompson (MER) 42-4; 6. N. Ougayour (MAR) 31-11; 7. Molly Meyers (MAR) 31-11; 8. Katie Osinski (MAR) 31-8.

3,200 relay: 1. Lakeland (Aubrey Anderson, Ashley Peterson, Riley Mauzer, Stephanie Balas) 9:53.37; 5. Marshfield (Sadie DeGrand, Lilly O’Brien, Abby Voss, Sophia Schrodi) 11:09.40.

100 hurdles: 1. Enne’ Burton (WE) 15.96; 5. Maddie Nikolai (MAR) 17.32.

100: 1. Sarah Heinrich (WE) 13.37; 3. Holland (MAR) 13.45; 6. Carly Brickley (MAR) 13.68.

1,600: 1. Katie Phillips (MED) 5:40.08.

800 relay: 1. Marshfield (Holland, Bryan, Kaydee Johnson, Nikolai) 1:49.60.

400: 1. Dalie Thomas (MER) 1:01.40; 4. Alexa Aumann (MAR) 1:03.20; 5. Madysen Bohman (MAR) 1:03.66.

400 relay: 1. Mosinee (Jayde Sitko, Kiana Pugh, Natalee VanBrocklin, Iris Schira) 52.02; 3. Marshfield (Brickley, McGrath, Mariah Goeppinger, Rhodes) 55.57.

300 hurdles: 1. Burton (WE) 47.03; 5. Nikolai (MAR) 51.52; 13. DeGrand (MAR) 55.56; 16. Voss (MAR) 58.32.

800: 1. Aumann (MAR) 2:27.36; 5. O’Brien (MAR) 2:41.32.

200: 1. Bryan (MAR) 27.01; 3. Johnson (MAR) 28.22.

3,200: 1. Mariah Haight (WE) 11:22.48; 3. Schrodi (MAR) 12:34.37.

1,600 relay: 1. Wausau East (Bruton, Libby McDonald, Quinn Lodholz, Hailey Koehler) 4:18.34; 2. Marshfield (Aumann, Bohman, Goeppinger, Johnson) 4:20.46.

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Boys

Team scores: 1. Lakeland 145; 2. Medford 128.5; 3. Merrill 120.5; 4. Wausau East 75.5; 5. Antigo 67; 6. Three Lakes 41.5; 7. Mosinee 41; 8. Rhinelander 32; 9. Tomahawk 23; 10. Mercer 16; 11. Crandon 11.