Holmen pair help win state title

Hoesley wins two state titles for Arcadia

A busy day for a pair from Holmen High School, pays off with a state championship.

Aaron Zmolek and Seth Holden competed in three events each Saturday at the Division 1 WIAA state track and field meet.

And, while they both medaled in their individual events, it was the 400-meter relay where they ended up on top of the podium.

Holden, Zmolek, Seth Wilson and Ryan Bennett took the crown with a 42.02-second run. Brookefield East, which had the fastest time to Holmen in Friday’s preliminaries, came in second (42.05).

Teammate Mason Kalander, who also competed in the 800, took fifth in the 1,600.

Onalaska’s Austin Glynn entered the discus with the second-highest qualifying mark, but the junior scratched on all three of his attempts.

On the girls side, Mason Kalander finished fifth in the 1,600 (5:02.35). She also competed in the 800 (14th – 2:20.49).

IN DIVISION 2, Aquinas Isiah Brown finished the runner-up in the 110 hurdles (15.0). Beating the senior was another senior, and defending state champ, Jim Hoesley (14.41).

Hoesley also finished the state champ in the 300 hurdles (38.41) and finished third in the 200 (21.93). Hoesley also finished the state champ in the 300 hurdles (38.41) and finished third in the 200 (21.93).

It’s the 32nd state title for Arcadia – three by Hoesley, who broke his own school records in both the 110 and 300 hurdles.

On the girls side for the Red Raiders, Abbey Zastrow came away with a state championship in the 400 (56.86). The junior also finished third in the 200 (25.78).

Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau’s Dana Feyen finished the runner-up in the 3,200 (10:49.39) and third in the 1,600 (5:04.97).

Westby’s Krista Hall finished third in the discus (125 feet, 7 inches).

IN DIVISION 3, Alma/Pepin’s Caiden Haake won the discus and then some. The junior took first with a 170-10, while second place was 151-6. Haake also took 12th in the shot (45-8.75). 

Bangor’s Kellen Kravik (right) won the pole vault (15-0) and took eighth in the 300 hurdles (42.23).

Independence/Gilmanton’s Alex Grulkowski competed in four state finals, finishing fourth in the long jump (21-0) and sixth in the 200 (23.13). His 800-relay team also finished sixth (1:33.86).

Melrose-Mindoro’s Dominik Ummel won the 800 by a hundredth of a second, finishing in 1:56.1.

On the girls side, Ashlie Lockington won a title in the triple jump (37-1.5), while Cashton’s Jamie Schmitz won the triple jump by a quarter inch (37-1.5).

Cochrane-Fountain City’s 1,600 relay of Rylee Gabel, Hayley Duellman, Karen Scharlau, Abbey Engel took  second (4:07.5), while teammate Abbey Engel finished the runner-up in the 800 (2:16.15) and sixth in the 400 (59.75).

WIAA STATE TRACK AND FIELD
at UW-La Crosse
LOCAL FINALS
BOYS
DIVISION 1
CENTRAL

1,600: 7. Sam Pinkowski 4:16.91

800: 17. Jett Mickelson 1:58.88.

Triple jump: 10. Ben Richmond 43-4.5

HOLMEN

100: 6. Aaron Zmolek 11.14, 10. Seth Holden 11.42.

200: 6. Zmolek 22.46.

400: 8. Holden 50.03.

400 relay: 1. Holmen  (Holden, Seth Wilson, Aaron Zmolek, Ryan Bennett) 42.02.

Brookefield East second 42.05

LOGAN

High jump: 14. Chase Johnson 6-2.

Triple jump: 7. CJ Siegel 44.4.5.

ONALASKA

Pole vault: 22. Isaac Lock 13-0.

GIRLS
CENTRAL

High jump: 8. Kali Goodwin 5-2.

LOGAN

800: 19. Joie Ross 2:23.09.

HOLMEN

800: 14. Mason Kalander 2:20.49.

1,600: 5. Kalander 5:02.35.

ONALASKA

Triple jump: 5. Amanda Wiebke 37-9.

DIVISION 2
BOYS
AQUINAS

110 hurdles: 2. Isiah Brown 15.0.

800 relay 7. Aquinas (Spencer Lund, Conley Malone, Connor Haag, Brown) 1:30.95.

3,200 relay: 10. Aquinas (Rory Campbell, Jeremiah DeGroot, Evan Weber, Zachary Phillips) 8:08.98.

ARCADIA

110 hurdles: 1. Jim Hoesley 14.41.

200: 3. Jim Hoesley 21.93.

300 hurdles: 1. Jim Hoesley 38.41. 

3,200: 11. Ramon Romero 9:53.91.

GALE-ETTRICK-TREMPEALEAU

High jump: 6. Chris Thompson 6-2.

PRAIRIE du CHIEN

High jump: 9. Wesley Schwager 

VIROQUA

Discus: 13. Michael Lampman 134-11.

WEST SALEM

100: 5. Brent Heilman 11.39.

Discus: 6. Chris Matthews 149-06.

Pole vault: t-6. Noah Reedy 13-0.

400 relay: 10. West Salem (Zach Pierce, Mark Harris, Tim Schauf, Heilman) 52.36.

800 relay: 1. West Salem (Pierce, Harris, Mitchell Lehmann, Heilman) 1:28.51.

WESTBY

1,600: 16. Hayden Fredrickson 4:36.47.

3,200: 6. Spencer Oftedahl 9:59.73.

Triple jump: 4. Noah Shea 43-6.75.

Pole vault: 5. Owen Gluch 13-0.

GIRLS
ARCADIA 

200: 3. Abbey Zastrow 25.78.

400: 1. Zastrow 56.86

BLACK RIVER FALLS

Discus: 10. Hailey Collins 118-5.

GALE-ETTRICK-TREMPEALEAU

1,600: 3. Dana Feyen 5:04.97

3,200: 2. Feyen 10:49.39.

Pole vault: 14. Ellen Mills 8-6.

VIROQUA

800: 7. Jillian Weston 2:17.65

1,600: 5. Jillian Weston 5:06.86.

Discus: 13. Jessica Schmidt 111-11.

Pole vault: 8. Josie Wiltrout 10-0.

3,200 relay: 7. Viroqua (Madelyn Anderson, Emma Kolden, Lauren Brendel, Weston) 9:49.78.

WESTBY

1,600: 8. Elena Schmidt 5:11.88.

3,200: 9. Elena Schmidt 11:13.76.

Discus: 3. Krista Hall 125-7.

Pole vault: 6. Linse Wilbur 10-0.

WEST SALEM

Shot put: 12. Haley Dutton 36.9.25

Discus: 5. Trevonna Rave 124-10, 7. Haley Dutton 121-9.

DIVISION 3
BOYS
ALMA/PEPIN

Shot put: 12. Caiden Haake 45-8.75

Discus: 1. Caiden Haake 170-10

2. 151-06.

BANGOR

300 hurdles: 8. Kellen Kravik 43.23.

Pole vault: 1. Kellen Kravik 15-0.

BLAIR-TAYLOR

800: 8. Chance Johnson 1:58.77.

High jump: 14. Chance Johnson 5-8.

3,200 relay: 16. (Johnson, Austin Elvaker, Chad Waldera, Preston Guttenberg) 9:00.31.

COCHRANE-FOUNTAIN CITY

High jump: 5. Garrison Barum 6-2.

DE SOTO

800: 12. Lance Buckles 2:00.99.

INDEPENDENCE/GILMANTON

200: 6. Alex Grulkowski 23.13.

Long jump: 4. Grulkowski 21-0.

800 relay: 6. I/G (Damontae DeWitt, Jose Salazar, Cameron Bauer, Andrew Grulkowski) 1:33.86.

ONALASKA LUTHER

3,200: 5. David Vannucchi 9:44.35.

300 hurdles: 6. Cameron Schroeder 41.51.

3,200 relay: 12. Luther (Jacob Wintrone, Beau Clemmensen, Brad Kirsch, Ben Kennedy) 8:25.42.

MELROSE-MINDORO

800: 1. Dominik Ummel 1:56.1

GIRLS
ALMA/PEPIN

100: 7. Sierra Hetrick 13.24.

800: 16. Laura Brevick 2:33.01

Discus: 7. Brilyn Brecka 119-7.

BANGOR

Triple jump: 1. Ashlie Lockington 37-1.5

400 relay: 4. Bangor (Claire Reynolds, Lockington, Ariana Hundt, Allison Everson) 50.65.

800 relay: 7. Bangor (Reynolds, Lockington, Hundt, Everson) 1:47.77.

1,600 relay: 7. Bangor (Cydney Lyga, Everson, Hallie Horstman, Lockington) 1:47.77.

BLAIR-TAYLOR

400 relay: 10. B-T (Marissa Eckel, Justine Brown, Hilde Everson, Brooke Bahr) 56.4.

BROOKWOOD

Discus: 12. Allyson Nelson 107-5.

400: 7. Allyson Nelson 1:00.73.

800: 7. Allyson Nelson 2:23.68.

300 hurdles: 5. Molly Kotten 46.41.

1,600 relay: 4. Brookwood (Alexis Gnewikow, Molly Kotten, Eva Dorn, Briana Nelson) 4:07.6.

CASHTON

100 hurdles: 5. Emily Schaldach 16.24.

300 hurdles: 8. Emily Schaldach 48.47.

Long jump: 4. Jamie Schmitz 17-7.25.

Triple jump: 2. Jamie Schmitz 37-1.5

COCHRANE-FOUNTAIN CITY

Shot put: 12. Greta Hess 35-10.

400: 6. Abbey Engel 59.75.

800: 2. Abbey Engel 2:16.15.

1,600: 12. Karen Scharlau 5:30.45.

1,600 relay: 2. C-FC (Rylee Gabel, Hayley Duellman, Scharlau, Abbey Engel) 4:07.05.

3,200 relay: 13. C-FC (Karen Scharlau, Kamryn Hund, Hayley Duellman, Paige Allemann) 10:24.04.

MELROSE-MINDORO

800: 11. Carrie Pfaff 2:26.14.

3,200 relay: 15. M-M (Sydney Becker, Marissa Sime, Anna Morabito, Carrie Pfaff) 10:28.57

ONALASKA LUTHER

1,600: 11. Alivia Fuhrman 5:30.2.

1,600 relay: 6. Luther (Cassie Bell, Fuhrman, Maedke, Kaitlyn Kennedy) 4:10.23.