LUXEMBURG, Wis. — Marinette senior thrower Caden Genrich came away with a North Eastern Conference Championship in the discus at the NEC Championships hosted by Luxemburg-Casco High School on Friday.
Genrich advanced to the finals as the top seed with a preliminary distance of 141-7. He stepped that up to 142-6 on his last toss of the day to win by nearly 12 feet.
The top-three finishers in each event received All-Conference recognition, and fellow thrower Frankie Marquardt joined Genrich with an All-NEC nod in the shot put.
Marquardt was the last man into the finals with a preliminary toss of 38-09.00, but the Marine senior busted out three consecutive tosses over 40’ in the finals and topped out at 40-10.5, which was good for third place.
The Marines had several other top-five finishers, while both the girls and boys teams came away eighth overall.
Little Chute took the top spot in both the boys and girls competitions, though the Mustang girls shared the title with Freedom as both teams finished at 161.5 points.
Mason Hofherr and Jackson Draheim finished fourth and fifth in the 400m dash. Hofherr covered the distance in 51.34 seconds, just ahead of Draheim’s mark of 51.42 seconds.
Draheim also took fourth in the 800m run with a time of 2:07.02, holding off Freedom’s Bradey Obermueller (2:07.10) and Little Chute’s Dominic Fletcher (2:07.36) at the finish line.
Hofherr took sixth in the 200m dash at 23.73 seconds, just clipping Fox Valley Lutheran’s Kaleb Williams (23.84) and Clintonville’s Isaiah Smith (23.90) at the line.
Draheim and Hofherr then combined with Kaiden Brown and Braxton Polzin to finish fourth in the 4x400m relay at 3:35.83.
Elijah Wimbush advanced to the finals of the 100m dash and finished ninth at 12:51 seconds.
Wimbush, Brown, Polzin and Luke Adams finished sixth in the 4x100m relay at 46.22 seconds.
For the Marine girls, the team of Madison Kunick, Anna Marzahl, Laruen Sadowski and Addison Lacy posted Marinette’s best finish of the day, taking fourth in the 4x800m relay at 10:53.61.
Nat Poquette reached the finals of both the discus and shot put. The junior thrower topped out at 94-1 in the discus to finish fifth. Meanwhile, her heave of 31-0.25 in the shot put was good for sixth place.
Freshman Bailey Krouth picked up points with a seventh-place finish in the 400m. Krouth crossed the line at 1:04.95.
In the 4x100m relay, Daisy Mercer, Kyle Vergara, Keristen Kabacinski and Sadowski placed seventh with a time of 56.86 seconds; and in the 4x400m relay, Kabacinski, Sadowski, Krouth and Marzahl finished sixth at 4:29.37.
Up Next
The Marines will host the NEC JV Conference meet on Tuesday. They will take part in a WIAA Regional competition at Medford, Wis. on May 20.
North Eastern Conference Championship
Team scores
Boys — Little Chute 157, Freedom 142.5, Waupaca 70.5, Fox Valley Lutheran 65.5, Luxemburg-Casco 64.5, Oconto Falls 60, Denmark 56, Marinette 47, Clintonville 31, Wrightstown 8.
Girls — Little Chute 161.5, Freedom 161.5, Fox Valley Lutheran 113, Luxemburg-Casco 75, Wrightstown 60, Oconto Falls 52, Denmark 30, Marinette 19, Waupaca 14, Clintonville 10.
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