Girls take first among four teams at Deer River event
Ely’s high school girls track team has both high-end talent and depth in the field events.
That was on display again Monday at Deer River, where the Timberwolves won a four-team meet with a dominant performance in field events.
Kaylin Visser, Addison Forsman and Sarah Visser all picked up first-place finishes in those events, while the Wolves added two seconds and three thirds as well.
Ely senior Grace La-Tourell added a victory in the 400 dash, while she also teamed with Lydia Shultz, Sarah Visser and Mattie Lindsay to win the fourby- 400 relay.
Those performances helped the Wolves collect 177 points, edging out Northome- Kelliher-Blackduck by 7.5 points to win the event. Deer River/Northland-Hill City and Bigfork lagged behind.
Kaylin Visser, the Ely freshman who is the defending section champion in the discus, had little trouble winning that event with a throw of 103 feet. She also took third in the shot put (27-1).
Forsman leaped to victory in the long jump (13-5), while Sarah Visser captured first place with a triple jump of 29-3.
The triple jump was an Ely sweep with Forsman (26-9) in second and Anna Dunn (26-2) in third, while Shultz placed second in the high jump at 4-6.
Ely’s Rachel Carter (7110) was third in the discus.
The Wolves also scored points in numerous other events, with LaTourell (1:05.7) and eighth-grader Violet Udovich (1:06.6) giving Ely both a first and a third in the 400.
Ely won the four-by-800 relay with Kiarstin Eaton joining Katy Brophy, Lindsay and Elsa Ellerbroek to win in 11:38.8.
Brophy was the runner-up in the 1,600 (6:43.4) and Dunn ran to a second-place finish in the 3,200 (15:00.3).
The Wolves also had two second-place relays, with Dunn combining with Alison Poppler, Stella Koivisto and Udovich in the fourby- 200 (2:11.9) and the all seventh-grade quartet of Ivy Ohlhauser, Kaija Shultz, Brynn Larson and Miram Messerschmidt second in the four-by-400.
Lindsay, an eighth-grader, took third in the 300 hurdles in 59.8.
Other top-10 finishes included: • 100 dash - 4. Shultz,
14.0; 5. Anna Larson, 14.1; 6. Messerschmidt, 14.2;
• 200 dash - 6. Forsman,
31.4; 8. Larson, 32.1; 10. Carmen Nelson, 22.8;
• 400 dash - 5. Larson,
1:18.1; 9. Maddie Johnson,
1:23.9;
• 800 run - 4. Ohlhauser,
3:03.7; 7 Addison Kannas,
3:12.7; 8. Isabella Macho,
3:13.9;
•1,600 run- 4. Ellerbroek,
6:45;
• 100 hurdles - 8. Dunn,
27.4;
• Four-by-100 relay - 5. Lucy Dunn, Macho, Siiri Nelson, Kaija Shultz, 1:06;
• Four-by-200 relay - 3. Chantel Ridings, Bela Moskowitz, Kannas, Ohlhaurs, 2:24.9;
• Shot put - 7. Carter, 23-1;
• Discus - 4. Alyssa Ice,
70-11; 6. Forsman, 69-6; 10. Ellerbroek 54-8;
• Long jump - 5. Sarah Visser, 12-7; 10. Stella Koivisto, 10-4;
• Triple jump - 6. Ice,
24-10.
The Wolves return to action Monday at International Falls.
