Bulldogs top Class A schools at A.R.M. invite

The Whitefish track team held its own at the A.R.M. Invitational on Saturday at home, finishing with two overall second-place finishes.

Both boys and girls took second behind Glacier at the meet, which included Valley schools as well as schools from the eastern half of Montana.

Head coach Derek Schulz said he was happy to see his team get a solid day out on the track.

“I think we had a really good day on the track and the weather cooperated. We had some excellent performances in the field and on the track,” Schulz said. “It was a meet that helped with a little bit of the catching up due to the cancellations and such.”

For the girls, a number of top three finishes led the way.

Lauren Schulz took second in the 400 (1:01.16), and Ella Greenberg notched a second in the 800 (2:32.83) and a third in the 1600 (5:32.98). Jessica Henson grabbed third in the 800 (2:33.16) and sixth in the 1600 (5:49.49) as well.

In the hurdles, Anna Cook had a solid day, taking third in the 300 (50.43) and sixth in the 100 (17.58).

In the relays, Whitefish took second in both the 4x100 and the 4x400 relays.

And in the field events, Alice Wilde took second in high jump (4-10) and Annie Robertson took second in long jump (16-02).

On the boys side, Lee Walburn led the way with a pair of firsts in the 110 high hurdles (15.62) and the 300 hurdles (41.61), and a pair of fourths in the long jump (19-07.50) and the high jump (5-08).

Jack Schwaiger (400 - 53.93), Sam Menicke (800 - 2:11.92) and Miles Vrentas (3200 - 10:53.84) all took fifth in their respective events.

Alex Barker took second in high jump (5-10), Keegan Wold took second in discus (123-05) and Dillon Botner added another silver in shot put (49-02).

Schulz said Walburn’s performances have been pleasing to see.

“He had a state qualifying time on both [hurdle events], that’s impressive, so that was a really neat thing for him. He’s worked hard,” he said.

Likewise, many of his top competitors qualified for state in the meet.

“We had numerous state qualifying marks, but we also just had all around good performances, personal bests from nearly everyone on the team, so it was exciting,” Schulz said.

Earlier in the week the team split up to head to either the Missoula Top 10 or the Eureka Top 8 on Tuesday.

In Missoula, Mikenna Els took third in the 400 (1:00.84).

Whitefish girls made a home of the podium in Eureka, with first place finishes coming from Schulz in the 100 (13.55) and 200 (28.44), Lydia Kryshak in the 400 (1:02.90), Greenberg in the 1,600 (5:35.56), Kennedy Grove in the 100 hurdles (17:57) and 300 hurdles (53.42), and Robertson in the long jump (15-05.25).

For the boys, Vrentas took first in the 3,200 (10:48.74) and Jack Eisenbarth won long jump (19-08).

Heading into the final stretch of the season, Schulz said he’s seeing things come together as a whole.

“I think our event coverage is really coming around for boys and girls,” he said. “I wouldn’t say we’re caught up to where we’d like to be, considering the obstacles we’ve had. Now we get ready for May and we just try to improve a little bit.”

This week the Dogs hosted Columbia Falls and Browning in the Ken Good Dog-Cat Dual on Tuesday after press time.

On Saturday they’ll head down to Legends Stadium for the Archie Roe Invitational.

“That’s a big meet in western Montana and one that we take a lot of pride in doing well at,” Schulz said.

Eureka ABC Top 8 Meet

Results

Girls

100 — 1, Lauren Schulz, Wfsh, 13.55. 4, Emily Buckmaster, Wfsh, 14.04. 5, Emily Gunlikson, Wfsh, 14.72.

200 — 1, Lauren Schulz, Wfsh, 28.44. 2, Annie Robertson, Wfsh, 29.03. 3, Lydia Kryshak, Wfsh, 29.09. 4, Emily Buckmaster, Wfsh, 29.97.

400 — 1, Lydia Kryshak, Wfsh, 1:02.90. 2, Annie Robertson, Wfsh, 1:04.53. 3, Jessica Henson, Wfsh, 1:05.03. 4, Braya Hobson, Wfsh, 1:05.98.

800 — 2, Jessica Henson, Wfsh, 2:36.05. 4, Amber Wilmot, Wfsh, 2:54.81. 5, Josephine Vardell, Wfsh, 2:59.74. 6, Ava Benedikt, Wfsh, 3:01.56.

1,600 — 1, Ella Greenberg, Wfsh, 5:35.56. 4, Josephine Vardell, Wfsh, 6:21.46. 5, Amber Wilmot, Wfsh, 6:24.34.

100 Hurdles — 1, Kennedy Grove, Wfsh, 17.57. 2, Natasha Abramchuk, Wfsh, 17.71.

300 Hurdles — 1, Kennedy Grove, Wfsh, 53.42. 2, Natasha Abramchuk, Wfsh, 54.46.

4x100 Relay — 1, Whitefish, 52.90. 2, St. Ignatius, 55.60. 3, Noxon, 58.00. 4, Browning, 58.70.

4x400 Relay — 1, Whitefish, 4:21.70. 2, Thompson Falls, 4:43.29. 3, Eureka, 4:52.62. 4, Noxon, 4:58.32.

Pole Vault — 3, Emily Gunlikson, Wfsh, J7-09. 4, Serena Hemmingson, Wfsh, 6-09. 4, Kaiah Moore, Wfsh, 6-09.

Long Jump — 1, Annie Robertson, Wfsh, 15-05.25.

Triple Jump — 3, Natasha Abramchuk, Wfsh, 31-06.

Shot Put — 2, Marlee Bender, Wfsh, 31-01. 3, Annisa Brown, Wfsh, 30-02.

Discus — 3, Annisa Brown, Wfsh, 93-05.50. 7, Marlee Bender, Wfsh, 78-10.

Boys

100 — 2, Jack Schwaiger, Wfsh, 12.28.

200 — 2, Jack Schwaiger, Wfsh, 24.44.

400 — 3, Josh Dudley, Wfsh, 55.42. 4, Josiah Holien, Wfsh, 55.45.

800 — 4, Josh Weller, Wfsh, 2:09.79. 5, Sam Menicke, Wfsh, 2:11.81. 6, Casey Schneider, Wfsh, 2:12.45. 8, Josiah Holien, Wfsh, 2:24.60.

3,200 — 1, Miles Vrentas, Wfsh, 10:48.74. 9, Ian Lacey, Wfsh, 12:05.56.

110 Hurdles — 3, Joseph Abramchuk, Wfsh, 18.63. 4, Max Shestak, Wfsh, 18.83.

300 Hurdles — 3, Joseph Abramchuk, Wfsh, 46.15.

4x100 Relay — 1, Eureka, 45.55. 2, Browning, 46.85. 3, Whitefish, 47.58. 4, St. Ignatius, 48.93. 5, Noxon, 48.93.

4x400 Relay — 1, Whitefish, 3:40.02. 2, Thompson Falls, 3:53.34. 3, Noxon, 4:00.19. 4, S. Ignatius, 4:06.22. 5, Eureka, 4:12.21.

High Jump — 3, Alex Barker, Wfsh, 5-10.25.

Pole Vault — 3, Josh Dudley, Wfsh, 10-03. 5, Dillon Muth, Wfsh, 8-09. 6, Max Grimes, Wfsh, 8-03

Long Jump — 1, Jack Eisenbarth, Wfsh, 19-08. 5, Jack Schwaiger, Wfsh, 19-01.25.

Triple Jump — 2, Sam Menicke, Wfsh, 40-04.

Shot Put — 3, Dillon Botner, Wfsh, 45-00.

Discus — 6, Dillon Botner, Wfsh, 111-06.

Javelin — 1, Logan Drown, Wfsh, 153-08. 5, Dillon Muth, Wfsh, 135-10.

Whitefish ARM Invitational

Saturday

Girls

Team scores — Glacier 115, Whitefish 86, Bigfork 79, Columbia Falls 72, Polson 51, Havre 49, Cut Bank 30, Thompson Falls 24, Browning 13, Ronan 7, Shelby 1.

200 — 6, Lydia Kryshak, WF, 28.40.

400 — 2, Lauren Schulz, WF, 1:01.16*. 3, Lydia Kryshak, WF, 1:02.72. 6, Mikenna Els, WF, 1:04.38.

800 — 2, Ella Greenberg, WF, 2:32.83. 3, Jessica Henson, WF, 2:33.16.

1600 — 3, Ella Greenberg, WF, 5:32.98. 6, Jessica Henson, WF, 5:49.49.

100 hurdle — 6, Anna Cook, WF, 17.58.

300 hurdles — 3, Anna Cook, WF, 50.43. 5, Kennedy Grove, WF, 52.11.

4x100 — 1, Havre ‘A’ (Taylor Torgerson, Loy Waid, Katie Wirtzberger, Jessalyn Chvilicek), 52.92. 2, Whitefish ‘A’ (Lydia Kryshak, Emily Gunlikson, Emily Buckmaster, Lauren Schulz), 52.95. 3, Polson ‘A’ (MaryGold Houk, Shayla Olson, JaNessa Taylor, Mikaela Ducharme), 53.11. 4, Cut Bank ‘A’ (Portia Taylor, Kamdyn Molenda, Katelynn Larson, Falon Big Spring), 55.38. 5, Columbia Falls ‘A’ (Paige Burger, LaKia Hill, Alexis Purcell, Josie Windauer), 55.51. 6, Thompson Falls ‘A’ (Kacey VanZanten, Haley Morgan, Gabriella Pallister, Maya Stiles), 55.74.

4x400 — 1, Bigfork ‘A’ (Jordan Nelson, Bryn Morley, Shae Anderson, Haile Norred), 4:10.03*. 2, Whitefish ‘A’ (Mikenna Els, Annie Robertson, Lydia Kryshak, Lauren Schulz), 4:17.61. 3, Havre ‘A’ (Katie Wirtzberger, Jessalyn Chvilicek, Taylor Torgerson, Loy Waid), 4:19.29. 4, Polson ‘A’ (Mikaela Ducharme, Molly Sitter, Addy Day, JaNessa Taylor), 4:27.95. 5, Cut Bank ‘A’ (Katelynn Larson, Falon Big Spring, Abbi Fitzpatrick, London Raemaker), 4:28.86. 6, TFls ‘A’ (Josey Neesvig, Jody Detlaff, Sierra Hanks, Haley Morgan), 4:45.12.

High jump — 2, Alice Wilde, WF, J4-10.

Long jump — 2, Annie Robertson, Whitefish, 16-02*.

Triple jump — 4, Natasha Abramchuk, WF, 31-04.50.

Javelin — 4, Serena Hemmingson, WF, 106-02.

Boys

Team scores — Glacier 261, Whitefish 75, Columbia Falls 70.1, Polson 34.5, Thompson Falls 21, Bigfork 21, Havre 16, Cut Bank 13, Ronan 10, Browning 7.

400 — 5, Jack Schwaiger, WF, 53.93.

800 — 5, Sam Menicke, WF, 2:11.92.

3200 — 5, Miles Vrentas, WF, 10:53.84.

110 hurdles — 1, Lee Walburn, WF, 15.62*. 6, Joseph Abramchuk, WF, 18.66.

300 hurdles — 1, Lee Walburn, WF, 41.61*.

4x100 — 1, Glacier ‘A’ (Drew Deck, Mark Estes, Drew Turner, Ethan Larson), 43.01*. 2, Columbia Falls ‘A’ (Drew Morgan, Daniel Henjum, Easton Sempf, Kaedan Clewien), 45.51. 3, Bigfork ‘A’ (Jacob Herd, James Kerr, Luke Schmit, Logan Taylor), 46.34. 4, Cut Bank ‘A’ (Jaxon Ray, Jonathan Growing Thunder, Cody Racki, JR Seewald), 46.75. 5, Havre ‘A’ (Cole Watson, Ivar Aageson, Brock Nystrom, Andrew Boucher), 47.37. 6, Whitefish ‘A’ (Jack Schwaiger, Dillon Botner, Josh Dudley, Xander Burger), 47.39.

4x400 — 1, Glacier ‘A’ (Danny Anderson, Dyllyn Stabler, Jake Smith, Cole Crosby), 3:36.36*. 2, Columbia Falls ‘A’ (Easton Sempf, Zackary Pletcher, Tucker Salmonsen, Drew Morgan), 3:36.87. 3, Whitefish ‘A’ (Lee Walburn, Jack Schwaiger, Josh Weller, Josh Dudley), 3:37.65. 4, Bigfork ‘A’ (James Kerr, Chase Chappuis, Michael Bedford, Logan Taylor), 3:43.45. 5, Browning ‘A’ (Justin Anderson, Preston Racine, Derek Sharp, Phillip Sun Rhodes), 3:52.30.

High jump — 2, Alex Barker, WF, 5-10. 4, Lee Walburn, WF, J5-08.

Long jump — 4, Lee Walburn, WF, 19-07.50. 6, Jack Schwaiger, WF, 19-01.

Triple jump — 4, Sam Menicke, WF, 40-03.75.

Shot put — 2, Dillon Botner, WF, 49-02*.

Discus — 2, Keegan Wold, WF, 123-05. 5, Aalec Pace, WF, 116-02.

Javelin — 5, Logan Drown, WF, 150-05.