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Hannah Owens won two events to lead the Dodgeville-Mineral Point girls track and field team to the top spot at the River Valley Division 2 Regional. The boys team took third place behind Platteville and Mount Horeb. The meet was postponed on Tuesday due to weather conditions and was held Wednesday. May 28.
In all the girls squad had 16 individual qualifiers and three relay teams that headed to the Viroqua Sectional Friday.
The boys qualified 11 individuals and also three relay teams.
The top four in each event qualified for sectionals.
Owens won both long distance races, beating out teammates in both for the top spot. She took the 1600 in 5:20.11 over Mary Hanson's 5:26.37. Dodge-Point's Mackenzie Hall also qualified with a 5:32.56 for 4th.
Owens came back and won the 3200 in 11:59.93 over Anna Eisenzimmer's 12:46.
Another 1-2 Dodge-Point finish came when Mikaela Bakker won the 400 in 1:02.1 over Emily Philipps' 1:03.98 with Katie Dochnahl 7th in 1:08.73.
Hanson won the 800 in 2:24.46 with Mariah Zoet 8th in 2:43.51.
Taylor Stanek won the 300 hurdles in 48.94 with Megan Pluemer 3rd in 52.78 and Lizzy Doolittle 4th in 53.24.
The final individual event winner was Melissa Seman with a 110'1" discus toss. Bri Johnsrud took 3rd at 104'9".
The 4x400 relay team of Kennedy Stumpf, Brittany Rhyner, Bakker and Sydney Staver won in 4:08.51 as did the 4x800 team of Hanson, Philipps, Stumpf and Rhyner in 10:01.35.
Also qualifying individually were: Sarah Lawinger 4th in the 200 in 29.13, Alexa Bohnsack 2nd in the triple jump at 31'9.5"; 4x200-Gorgen, Stanek, Weier, Parkin 4th in 1:51 and Stanek 4th in the high jump at 5'.
The 4x400 relay team of Stumpf, Rhyner, Bakker and Staver won in 4:08.51 as did the 4x800 team of Hanson, Philipps, Stumpf and Rhyner in 10:01.35.
Other finishes were: 100-Ally Brennan 7th 14.38, Mikalah Enright 8th 14.44, Jacie Runde 9th 14.32; 200-Cassie Bossert 7th 30.37; 100 hurdles-Natalie Chubb 6th 18.54, Claire Binsfeld 7th 18.85, Megan Pluemer 9th 18.5; 4x100-Jaynie Gorgen, Bohnsack, Jalissa Weier, Marissa Parkin 5th 53.13; long jump-Staver 5th 14'9.75"; triple jump-Enright 6th 30'2.5"; shot put-Johnsrud 8th 28'11.5".
The boys finishes was higlighted by a team that didn't win - finishing 2nd in the 4x400 - when they set a school recond.
That team of Markus Ellerman, Ryan Raess, Jonah Nelson and Jack Schickel ran a 3:28,57 to eclipse a mark set in 2008 with Bruce Schmitz, Bobby Wunnicke, Kyle Van Dyn Hoven and Joel Hamilton of 3:29.00.
Individually, Nelson won the 1600 meters in 4:40.24, over seven seconds faster than runner-up Alec Bass of River Valley.
Besides being part of the 4x400 team, he ran on the winning 4x800 team of himself, Steven Blume, Schickel and Ellerman that finished in 8:16.64, nearly 11 seconds in front of Mount Horeb.
Chanler Leonard provided finishes of 1-2-2-3. He won the triple jump at 41'7", took 2nd in the long jump at 20'1", 2nd in the 110 hurdles in 16.82 and was 3rd in the high jump at 6'.
Ellerman won the 800, besides being part of two qualifying relays, in 2:00.44.
Other qualifiers were: 200-Noah Goetzke 3rd 24.56; 400-Nathan Eisenzimmer 4th 53.45; 300 hurdles-3rd 43.19, Jason Gullickson 4th 44.33; 4x200-Kyle Fitzsim-mons, Gullickson Raess, Cris Francia 3rd 1:33.9; .
The rest of their finishes were: 200-Shane Chapman 11th 25.57; 400-Declan McGraw 10th 58.01; 800-Tyler Wunnicke 6th 2:09.64, Payton Grunow 8th 2:13.19; 110 hurdles-McGuire 6th 17.79, Micah Sprain 10th 19.72; 300 hurdles-Sprain 6th 45.2; 4x100 relay-Fitzsimmons, Kane Poad, Brady Wetter, Francia 5th 46.19; long jump-Dane Pfaff 11th 16'9.25"; triple jump-Sprain 9th 35'4.75"; shot put-Trevor Oomans 11th 36'4", George Glover 16th 32'; discus-Glover 8th 116'6", Zack Tolzman 16th 77'9".
Platteville won the boys meet with 145 points to Mount Horeb's 138 and Dodge-Point's 122.
The other team scores were: River Valley 94.5, Wiscconsin Heights 72, Lancaster 67, Prairie du Chien 37.5 and Richland Center 18.
"After the delay and eventual postponement on Tuesday, we were ready to go on Wednesday. I'd have to say that we (coaching staff) exceeded our expectations as a team and the number of athletes we got through to the sectional Championship in Viroqua on Friday," said Dodge-Poin coach Joe Hanson.
"The girls won the Regional Championship for the second straight year and the Boys were 3rd. As a staff, we set up the meet to try and get as many kids to move on and the team scores are an after thought. Although we knew if things went well, we would finish high as a team," he added.
"A couple years ago we brought in Coach Palzkill, Coach Matt McGraw and Coach Van Dyn Hoven to join myself, Coach Tolzman and Coach Denny McGraw. I knew that with their knowledge and commitment to the Track and Field program, we would soon have a complete team. Look at the results. We have sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers, throwers, relay teams and distance runners going to the Sectional championships. To say I'm proud of our athletes and my co-coaches would be a massive understatement," Hanson went on saying.
"Special mention to our boys 4 x 400 relay team of Jonah Nelson, Ryan Raess, Markus Ellermann and Jack Schickel who broke the school record with a time of 3:28.57."