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OSCEOLA – Stratford will have two representatives at next week’s state meet after competing at the WIAA Division 2 Track & Field Sectional on Thursday at Osceola High School.
Jaidyn Wright won the girls triple jump with a leap of 34 feet, 8¾ inches, and the boys 3,200 relay team of Elijah Lucio, Conner Weigel, Evan Danielson and Noah Lucio finished third in 8:29.37 for Stratford.
Wright and the relay team will compete at the WIAA Division 2 State Track & Field Championships on Friday, June 25, at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
The Tigers had a couple of close misses as Drey Drexler finished fifth in the discus (129-9) and Luke Gaulke was fifth in the 200 meters (23.85 seconds). The top four in each event qualified for the state meet.
Wright finished seventh in the girls long jump (15-4½), Drexler was eighth in the boys shot put (45-1¾), the boys 1,600 relay team was 11th, Alexis Folz was eighth in the girls discus (102-0) and 16th in the shot put (30-5¾), and Lydia Golbach was 14th in the girls 1,600 (6:23.91). Darin Heeg didn’t qualify for the finals in the boys 300 hurdles.
WIAA Division 2 Track & Field Sectional
June 17, at Osceola High School
Girls
Team scores: 1. Osceola 65; 2. Rice Lake 62; 3. Mosinee 48; 4. Hayward 43.5; 5. Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau and La Crosse Logan 40.5; 7. Prescott 40; 8. Wittenberg-Birnamwood 38; 9. St. Croix Falls 34.5; 10. Ashland 31; 11. Medford 29; 12. St. Croix Central and Lakeland 28; 14. Amery 26; 15. Northland Pines 20; 16. Antigo 19; 17. Baldwin-Woodville 16; 18. Barron and Adams-Friendship 15; 20. Stratford and Bloomer 13; 22. Altoona 11; 23. Tomahawk 9; 24. Black River Falls 6; 25. Somerset 4; 26. Stanley-Boyd and Northwestern 2; 28. Arcadia, Elk Mound and Ellsworth 1.
Boys
Team scores: 1. Osceola 62; 2. La Crosse Logan 56; 3. Ashland and Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau 50; 5. West Salem 41; 6. Mosinee 37; 7. Lakeland 34; 8. Neillsville 30; 9. Tomahawk and Medford 27; 11. Ellsworth 26; 12. Northwestern 25; 13. Somerset 24; 14. Barron 20; 15. Northland Pines 19; 16. Nekoosa 18; 17. Amery and Stratford 15; 19. Elk Mound and Prescott 14; 21. Arcadia 13; 22. St. Croix Central 12; 23. St. Croix Falls and Stanley-Boyd 11; 25. Antigo, Wittenberg-Birnamwood, Bloomer and Black River Falls 10; 29. Spooner 6; 30. Rice Lake 3; 31. Hayward 1.