Ely’s high school girls track team went into the postseason on a high note.
Led in part by some of their youngest athletes, the Timberwovles took third among seven teams at Saturday’s Steve Kerzie Invitatonal.
It was a final tune-up prior to the rain-delayed subsection competition, which was held Thursday after deadline at Aurora, and Ely placed only behind host Rock Ridge and Hibbing.
Eighth-grader Violet Udovich had the Wolves’ only first-place finish at the event, winning the 400 meter dash for a second straight meet and recording a time of 1:01.22.
Udovich was also part of a second-place relay unit, and two Ely relays dominated by younger talent came home with second-place finishes.
Eighth-grader Mattie Lindsay, meanwhile, picked up a third-place finish in the 300 hurdles.
The young talent combined with experience to put together a solid day for the Wolves.
Senior Sarah Visser placed third in the triple jump and classmate Grace LaTourell was part of a thirdplace Ely relay.
Udovich, LaTou rell and Visser were together with freshman Lydia Shultz on Ely’s second-place four-by-400 relay (4:13.44), while sisters Katy and Molly Brophy joined Lindsay and sophomore Elsa Ellerbroek to take second in the fourby- 800 relay (10:55.56).
LaTourell, Udovich, Shultz and Anna Larson were third in the four-by-200 relay (1:51.55).
Sarah Visser had a 31-3.5 triple jump to take third in that event, while Shultz was fourth in the high jump at 4-8.
Lindsay set a personal record of 54.05 on the way to a third-place finish in the 300 hurdles. while sophomore Alyssa Ice (93-6) and freshman Kayla Visser (935.5) were fourth and fifth, respectively in the discus.
Other top-10 Ely finishes included:
• 100 dash - 7. Miriam Messerschmidt, 14.64;
• 200 dash - 6. Larson, 29.27; 10. Messerschmidt, 29.65;
• 800 run - 9. Ivy Ohlahuser, 2:47.11;
• 1,600 r un - 4 . M olly Brophy, 5:41.29; 7. Lindsay, 5:52.21; 8. Katy Brophy, 6:08.89;
• Four-by-100 relay - 5. Shultz, Larson, Messerschmidt, Ice, 55.5;
• Four-by-200 relay - 10. Alison Poppler, Chantel Ridings, Bela Moskowitz, Isabella Macho, 2:18.17;
• Shot put - 10. Rachel Carter, 26-85.
• Discus - 8. Sarah Visser, 84-1; 10. Carter, 80-2;
• Long jump - 5. Addison Forsman, 14-0.75;
• Triple jump - 8. Forsman, 28-3.
