Bluejacket boys, girls win LSC Quad Meet

GRAND RAPIDS—The Hibbing High School boys and girls track teams both won at the Lake Superior Conference Quad Meet held Tuesday at the Webb-LeBeau Track and Field Complex Tuesday.

The Bluejacket boys scored 65.33 points, followed by Duluth Denfeld with 54.33, Grand Rapids 49 and Duluth Marshall 17.33.

Hibbing got individual first-place finishes from Finn Eskeli in the 400 (54.33); Lucas Arnhold in the 800 (2:14.40); Aiden Shepherd in the shot put (49-feet-4 ½-inches) and discus (136-9) and Austin Valento in the pole vault (10-6).

The 4x800 team of Arnhold, Brady Janezich, Jack Bottoms and Jake Walli won with a time of 9:31.00.

Other top-eight finishers for Hibbing were as follows:

100—2. Finn Eskeli, 11.66

400—5. Elias Langner 57.41; 6. Jaiden Touchstone 57.42.

800—2. Jake Walli 2:14.80; 4. Taite Murden 2:22.20; 7. Ethan Aune 2:26.85; 8. Oliver Stevens 2:27.10.

1600—2. Jack Bottoms 5:04.16; 8. Connor Sullivan 5:18.99.

3200—2. Brady Janezich 10:27.40; 3. Harri Larson 12:23.95.

110 hurdles—6. Adin Nelson 20.59.

300 hurdles—2. Adam Reckmeyer 45.54; 5. Nelson 45.87; 7. Joseph Marchetti 46.80.

4x100—5. Kaelub Burkes, Clayton Horst, Jonathan Meittunen, Landon Tokarczyk 52.71.

4x200—3. Ethan Eskeli, Nathan Gustafson, Reckmeyer, Justin Walker 1:44.59; 6. Isaac Hendrickson, Aidan Reini, Joseph Marchetti, Nelson 1:50.83.

4x400—2. Arnhold, Finn Eskeli, Murden, Walker 3:53.78; 3. Bottoms, Austin Valento, Walli, Langner 3:57.15.

4x800—4. Aune, Sullivan, Touchstone, Stevens 9:31.00.

Shot put—3. Vincent Marchetti 43-4 ½; 4. Alexander Henderson 41-7.

Discus—3. Vincent Marchetti 127-5; 4. Henderson 123-10.

High jump—3. Gustafson 5-4; 4. Reckmeyer 5-2.

Pole vault—2. Wylie Stenson 10-0; 3. Nehemiah Figueroa 9-6; 4. Kai Strom 8-6; 7. Zander Buroker 6-6.

Triple jump—6. Reese Ringhofer 33-9.

The Hibbing girls scored 84.5 to place first, followed by Grand Rapids with 43.5, Duluth Denfeld 36 and Duluth Marshall 21.

Individual firsts went to Tara Hartling in the 800 (2:25.19) and triple jump (31-2 ½); Jocelyn Strukel in the 1600 (5:22.42); Mileena Sullivan in the 3200 (11:57.99); and Alizah Langner in the pole vault (7-6).

The 4x100 team of Andrew Petroske, Rylee Moellering, Hattie Eskeli and Brynn Babich won with a time of 54.08; the 4x200 of Abigail Theien, Haley Mount, Petroske and Babich won with a time of 1:58.44; the 4x400 team of Babich, Strukel, Sullivan and Jorie Anderson won with a time of 4:19.52; and the 4x800 team of Hertling, Strukel, Sullivan and Anderson won with a time of 9:43.23.

Other Bluejacket top-eight places were as follows:

Top eight Hibbing finishers were as follows:

100—4. Rylee Moellering 14.01; 7. Haley Mount 14.27

200—2. Hattie Eskeli 28.46; 4. Moellering 29.33; 5. Mount 29.38; 6. Abigail Theien 29.75; 7. Alizah Langner 29.89.

400—4. Isabella Zika 1:10.37.

800—2. Jorie Anderson 2:29.48; 4. Avery Kukowski 2:40.08; 5. Mount 2:58.27; 6. Raini Gibson 2:59.65; 7. Grace Bigelow 3:00.25.

1600—2. Kukowski 5:43.13; 3. Hannah Farnsworth 6:02.79; 4. Emma Reini 6:12.17; 8. Justine McDannold 7:03.84.

300 hurdles—4. Autumn Nelson 52.40.

4x400—2. Riley St. George, Kamryn Mandt, Bigelow, Farnsworth 4:39.22; 6. Theien, Kukowski, Reini, Langner 4:54.83.

4x800—2. St. George, Mandt, Bigelow, Farnsworth 9:59.24.

Shot put—2. Isabelle Walto 27-7; 5. Adrionna Vittori 25-5 ½; 6. Shaylee McLaughlin 25-2 ½.

Discus—3. Walto 79-4; 5. Arana Ellis 72-11; 6. Autumn Nelson 68-7; 7. Vittori 67-3.

High jump—2. Eskeli 4-10; 3. Gianna Manning 4-8; 4. Emilia Heller 4-2.

Pole vault—3. Isabella Zika 6-6.

Long jump—3. Mount 13-5 ½; 4. Moellering 13-1; 5. Manning 12-7; 7. Evie Renskers 11-11 ½.

Triple jump—4. Manning 26-8.