Track and field athletes win several events in CFalls

Chilly weather didn’t hold back Whitefish track and field athletes from performing well at the Iceberg Invite in Columbia Falls on Saturday.

The Whitefish boys team took third place at the meet with 54 points, finishing behind Columbia Falls (128) in first and Hamilton (122) in second place.

Bulldog junior Carson Krack had a big day for Whitefish, winning in the triple jump with a mark of 41 feet, 1 inch. Krack also competed in the high jump for the first time ever and cleared 5 feet, 6 inches for fifth place. He then also PR’d in the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 42.22 for third place.

“Carson Krack had his best day of the year, kind of a day we’ve been waiting for him to have,” Whitefish boys coach Willie Roche said.

The Whitefish boys long relay team managed to hold off Eureka for first in the 4X400 relay with a time of 3:46.8. The boys distance crew also crushed again, with Mason Genovese, Simon Douglas and Ruedi Steiner taking third through fifth places respectively; each hit a season or personal record. In the 100 meter dash, Whitefish’s Morgan Kyle hit a season best of 12.16 for sixth place.

“We’re really young right now, but our youth is showing signs of competitiveness that I haven’t seen in the last few years… willingness to do what’s hard, willingness to do what’s right for the team, and I think that’s a big thing from our young kids,” Roche said.

The Whitefish girls team took second place overall with 75 points to Hamilton’s 123. The highlight for the girls team was Maeve Ingelfinger who ran the mile in a personal best time of 5:23.70 to nab first place. Her time is also now the best in Class A for the 1600 meter event and she hit her PR in someone else’s shoes as hers were hurting her that day.

“Out of nowhere she’s got the fastest time in the mile in Class A,” Roche recalled. “She’s not really much of a miler, she knocked 20 seconds off her time and she did it wearing one of the boys on our team’s shoes.”

Coaches believe Ingelfinger will be a big part of the success for the girls team.

Whitefish junior Brooke Zetooney won the 100 meter dash and junior teammate Hailey Ells won the 300 meter hurdles. In discus, Drew Steele threw a personal best of 92-11 for sixth place.

Whitefish was scheduled to compete at the Top 10 meet in Missoula on Tuesday after press time. Then on Saturday, the Bulldogs will host the annual Whitefish A.R.M. Invite starting at 10 a.m. at Whitefish High School.

The scoring places are below. More results can be found at athletic.net.

BOYS

Team scores — Columbia Falls 128, Hamilton 122, Whitefish 54, Libby 42, Conrad 37, Stevensville 33, Eureka 33, East Helena 27, Corvallis 24, Polson 10, Ronan 9, Browning 7.

100 — 1, Malaki Simpson, CF, 11.41; 2, Brinkley Evans, Con, 11.88; 3, Brogan Gard, Ste, 12.04; 4, Mauro Vazquez-Otero, Liby, 12.08; 5, Kasen Day, Lib, 12.14; 6, Morgan Kyle, Wfh, 12.16.

200 — 1, Malaki Simpson, CF, 22.59; 2, Brinkley Evans, Con, 23.87; 3, Max Cianflone, Ham, 24.05; 4, Trevor Held, EH, 24.43; 5, Maro Vazquez-Otero, Lib, 24.56; 6, Kasen Day, Lib, 24.61.

400 — 1, Finley Sundberg, CF, 53.82; 2, Kaden Sager, EH, 54.18; 3, Jack Phelps, CF, 54.18; , Cole Sartori, Eur, 54.46; 5, Joel Goodman, Lib, 54.76; 6, Simon Douglas, Wfh,56.26.

800 — 1, Brayden Lanser, Ham, 2:05.30; 2, Quinn Clark, CF, 2:09.00; 3, Oliver Kress, CF, 2:12.1-; 4, Bryson Poulsen, Ham, 2:12.90; 5, Tayen Edmo, Ron, 2:14.10; 6, Kilian Gustin, Wfh, 2:16.40.

1,600 — 1, Evan Bennett, Ham, 4:37.90; 2, Taylor Doleac, Ham, 4:39.80; 3, Mason Genovese, Wfh, 4:41.00; 4, Simon Douglas, Wfh, 4:48.00; 5, Reudei Steiner, Wfh, 4:55.9; 6, Tayen Edmo, Ron, 4:58.10.

3,200 — 1, Quinn Clark, CF, 10:59.4; 2, Lucas Peterson, CF, 10:59.8; 3, Jeffery DeRoche, Brw, 11:26.80; 4, Brandt Heninger, Pol, 11:42.2; 5, Mason Colliander, CF, 11:52.0; 6, Raider reed, Cor, 11:55.0.

110 hurdles — 1, Adam Schrader, CF 16.65; 2, Jacob Buckingham, Eur, 17.70; 3, Spencer Cruse, Ham, 17.73; 4, Bryce Dunham, CF, 17.97; 5, Bowdrie Krack, Wfh, 18.12; 6, Hayden Mohr-Mead, CF, 19.18.

300 hurdles — 1, Adam Schrader, CF, 40.73; 2, Spencer Cruise, Ham, 41.97; 3, Carson Krack, Wfh, 42.22; 4, TJ Brown, Ste, 44.55; 5, Marin Masar, Ste, 44.93; 6, Jacob Buckingham, Eur, 45.51.

400 relay — 1, Hamilton 45.34; 2, Conrad 46.19; 3, Stevensville 46.24; 4, Whitefish 46.36; 5, Eureka 47.14; 6, Browning 48.64.

1,600 relay — 1, Whitefish 3:46.8; 2, Eureka 3:47.5; 3, Polson 4:01.7; 4, Corvallis 4:01.8; 5, Hamilton 4:11.02.

Discus — 1, Andrew Burrows, Ham, 157-1; 2, Lane Voermans, CF, 145-7; 3, Isaac Stoker, Cor, 136-2; 4, Drew Lewis, Cor, 125-9; 5, Ryder Mende, CF, 125-1; 6, Tad Tackes, Ste, 123-10.

Javelin — 1, Hunter Loesch, Cor, 153-0; 2, Bryce Dunham, CF, 146-7; 3, Tristan Anderson, Liby, 142-7; 4, Slade Olson, EH, 140-7; 5, Jesse Day, Eue, 139-3; 6, Roscoe Shaw, Con, 139-3.

Shot put — 1, Andrew Burrows, Ham, 52-2.5; 2, Lane Voermans, CF, 48-7; 3, Hunter Gum, Ste, 48-0; 4, Cy Stenson, Lib, 47-3.5; 5, AJ McGoldrick, Ham, 44-2; 6, Trevor Lewis, Ham, 43-3.

High jump — 1, Tristan Andersen, Lib, 5-10; 2, TJ Brown, Ste, 5-10; , Hudson Bain, Ham, 5-8; 4, Traigen Lindquist, Ron, 5-6; 5, Carson Krack, Wfh, 5-6; 6, Scott Dalen, Wfh, 5-4.

Long jump — 1, Trevor Held, EH, 19-7.5; 2, Tristan Andersen, Lib, 19-6; 3, Brinkley Evans, Con, 19-5.75; 4,Kanen Brickert, CF, 18-11.5; 5, Taigen Lindquist, Ron, 18-8.75; 6, Hudson Bain, Ham, 18-8.25.

Triple jump — 1, Carson Krack, Wfh, 41-1; 2, Tommy Bender, Ham, 38-11; 3, Hudson Bain, Ham, 38-3.75; 4, Jaxon Spencer, Ham, 37-11.5; 5, Casey Rusdal, Lib, 32-6.5; 6, Uriah Bache, Lib, 32-5.75.

Pole vault — 1, Taylor Searle, Ham, 15-0; 2, Caleb Utter, Eur, 11-6 3, Zach Durnell, Con, 11-6; 4, Bowdrie Krack, Wfh, 11-6; 5, Mason Bates, CF, 10-6; 6, Trevor Held, EH 10-6.

GIRLS

Team scores — Hamilton 123, Whitefish 75, Conrad 58, Columbia Falls 56, Stevensville 44, Libby 43, East Helena 25, Eureka 21, Browning 18, Polson 14, Corvallis 11, Ronan 1.

100 — 1, Brooke Zetooney, Wfh, 13.05; 2, Claire Hutchison, Ste, 13.10; 3, Hailey Ells, Wfh, 13.30; 4, Rachael Wilmot, Wfh, 13.52; 5, Nadia Bruno, Ham, 13.55; 6, Taylor Evans, Con, 13.66.

200 — 1, Clair Hutchison, Ste, 26.67; 2, Jenna Ellis, Ham, 27.80; 3, Rylee Boltz, Lib, 28.19; 4, Taylor Evans, Con, 28.71; 5, Sophia Hutchison, Ste, 29.71 6, Ayslin Jessop, Ham, 30.19.

400 — 1, Taylor Lewis, Con, 63.88; 2, Teslin Trombley, Brw, 64.60; 3, Lily Apedaile, Ham, 65.05; 4, Michaela Cary, EH, 65.60; 5, Aubrey Korst, Ham, 65.73; 6, Mya Badger, CF, 66.00.

800 — 1, Teslin Trombley, Brw, 2:36.50; 2, Margaret Pulsifer, Wfh, 2:38.7; 3, Gianna Ruprecht, Ste, 2:42.2; 4, Kellie Klepper, Wfh, 2:43.4; 5, Morgan Grube, Wfh, 2:46.5; 6, Haidyn Guckenberg, Eur, 3:01.0.

1,600 — 1, Maeve Inglefinger, Wfh, 5:23.7; 2, Ashtyn Wagner, Pol, 5:45.1; 3, Morgan Grube, Wfh, 5:54.5; 3, Sierra Berry, Ham, 5:56.6; 5, Courtney Hoerner, CF, 5:57.3; 6, Nina Badger, CF, 6:00.9.

3,200 — 1, Siri Erickson, Cf, 11:53.7; 2, Kigna Kari, Ham,, 13:12.4; 3, Isabel Seeley, Pol, 13:14.8; 4, Mya Badger, CF, 13:43.8.

100 hurdles — 1, Aurora Smith, Lib, 17.20; 2, Courtney Hussion, F, 17.82; 3, Julia Siefert, Ham, 18:58; 4, Tabith Vermulm, Con, 18.70; 5, Bergen Fortner, Lib, 18.75 6, Remmi Stanger, Eur, 18.76.

300 hurdles — 1, Hailey Ells, Wfh, 47.71; 2, Aurora Smith, Lib, 51.01; 3, Haideyn Guckenberg, Eur, 51.78; 4, Bergen Fortner, Lib, 52.45; 5, Ally Sempf, CF, 52.96; 6, Tabith Vermulm, Con, 54.21.

400 relay — 1, Hamilton 51.85; 2, Stevensville 53.37; 3, East Helena, 54.08; 4, Conrad 54.22; 5, Eureka 54.55.

1,600 relay — 1, Corvallis 4:30.6; 2, Hamilton 4:33.0; 3, Whitefish 4:34.4; 4, Eureka 5:25.1.

Discus — 1, Mya Winkler, Ham, 114-5; 2, Tyanna Jessop, Ham, 105-0; 3, Ayda Griffin, Ham, 102-10; 4, Ellie Stutsman, CF, 101-3; 5, Milynn Lucey, Eur, 94-9; 6, Drew Steele, Wfh, 92-11.

Javelin — 1, Mya Winkler, Ham, 122-3; 2, Kara Stanger, Eur, 101-4; 3, Scarlett Gard, Ste, 100-2; 4, Jailyn McConnell, Cor, 99-5; 5, Kylie Fetui, Ron, 97-3 6, Ayla Marsh, Eur, 91-8.

Shot put — 1, Mya Winkler, Ham, 34-3.5; 2, tyanna Jessop, Ham, 33-2; 3, Rori Schoenfield, EH, 31-9; 4, Ellie Stutsman, CF, 31-9; 5, Elaina Lewis, Ham, 31-5; 6, Teagan Wigen, EH, 31-4.

High jump — 1, Claire Hutchison, Ste, 5-2; 2, Hailey Els, Wfh, 5-0; 3 (tie), Rylee Boltz, Lib, and Remmi SStanger, Eur, 4-10; 5, Montana Pierson, EH, 4-8; 6, Maddy Illig, Ron, 4-8.

Long jump — 1, Breauna Erickson, Con, 15-8.25; 2, Bergen Fortner, Lib, 15-6.5; 3, Soli Bullemer, CF, 15-2.25; 4, Chesnee Lawerence, Ham, 14-10; 5, Mia Faulk, Ham, 14-7; 6, Tia Baker, CF, 14-6.

Triple jump — 1, Breauna Erickson, Con, 32-7; 2, Mia Faulk, Ham, 31-8; 3, Montana Pierson, EH, 31-3; 4, Courtney Hussion, CF, 31-2; 5, Erica Burguiere, CF, 30-6; 6, Emma McAllister, CF, 30-5.

Pole vault — 1, Breauna Erickson, Con, 11-0; 2, Chesnee Lawerence, Ham, 10-6; 3, Emma McAllister, CF, 9-6; 4, Ava Krings, Con, 9-0; 5, Aubrey Korst, Ham, 8-6; 6, Sophie Hagberg, Cor, 7-6.