The Rice Lake boys track and field team was runner-up, with the girls in third for their respective standings, as the Warriors hosted the Rice Lake Invitational on Thursday.
In total the Warriors won five individual titles and one relay. Adaline Sheplee won both the 300-meter hurdles and the high jump. Rice Lake took both shot put titles with Addison Schmidt and Dayton Eck winning their respective events. Warriors took first and second in 110 hurdles as Jacob Madsen and Kaden Willger finished back-to-back, and winning the girls 400 relay was the team of Avery Ash, Sheplee, Sophia Knauff and Madilyn DeLawyer.
Osceola won both the boys and girls titles. The Warrior boys finished with 119.25 points, with the Chieftains topping the leaderboard at 146.25. The Osceola girls scored 143 with Chippewa Falls (105.5) just edging Rice Lake (104.5) for second.
Sheplee took the 300 hurdles in a time of 48.52 seconds and was the only competitor to clear the bar at 5 feet, 4 inches in the high jump. Schmidt won the girls shot put at 36-5.5 and Eck had a personal best 44-3 to win the boys title. It was Madsen crossing the finish line in 15.43 in the 110 hurdles, with Willger right behind at 15.65. The Warriors' 400 relay had a winning time of 50.83.
The Warrior girls 800 relay was runner-up as Ash, Safia Winfield, Knauff and Ellie Pacholke finished in 1:54.27, while the boys also had a second-place relay, as Carter Kucko, Austin Prince, Pierce Hastreiter and Bailey MacDonald finished their 3,200 relay in 8:35.27.
Ethan Mullikin had a personal best triple jump of 42-10 to finish second, and Adaline Sheplee added a runner-up finish for the 100 hurdles with a time of 16.82. Eliana Sheplee placed second in the 100 in 13.07, and with a time of 26.65 she was also third in the 200. Pacholke and Schmidt finished second (104-6.5) and third (100-0), respectively, for the discus as each set personal best marks, and both Colten Eggleston and Will Svendsen cleared 5-8 in the high jump as Eggleston took second and Svendsen third.
Also in third were DeLawyer with a time of 1:02.88 for the 400, Kucko at 10:03.65 in the 3,200 and Durand at a height of 12-6 in the pole vault. DeLawyer triple jumped 33-2.75 for fourth, while Ellie Strand took fourth for the shot put with a toss of 29-11.5. The Rice Lake boys had four athletes take fourth place with MacDonald completing his 800 in 2:06.21, Hastreiter his 1,600 in 4:94.37, Willger reaching the finish line in the 300 hurdles in 42.07 and Jackson Frank shot putting 41-7.
Jacob Jondreau was right behind Willger for the 300 hurdles in a time of 43.07 for fifth, while he also placed sixth for the pole vault (11-0). The Warrior boys 400 relay of Madsen, Vincent Weber, Durand and Lucas Peters placed fifth, while the 1,600 relay of Xander Easton, Peter Montgomery, Owen Brunette and Parker Diercks was sixth. Also in sixth was Madsen in the long jump (19-3).
Adding to the Warriors' point total for the boys were seventh-place finishes by Prince in the 3,200, Durand in the triple jump and Frank in the discus, while in eighth were Peters in the 200, Finn Grenier in the high jump and Brunette in both the 400 and discus.
The Rice Lake girls had Morgan Stephens take seventh in the 800 and DeLawyer finished eighth in the pole vault.
Lucie Habas, Pacholke, Sloan Campbell and Brooke Schulz were eighth in the 1,600 relay, as was the 3,200 relay of Stephens, Ellison Brown, Elleanor Hietala and Habas. Willger, Weber, Jondreau and Braeden Kretzschmar placed eighth in the 800 relay.
Golf
Kellen Marsh and Ben Vande Voort each shot 40s and Max Tomesh was one stroke back in leading the Warriors at their Big Rivers meet hosted at Turtleback.
Rice Lake took sixth in the standings with a score of 165. Dylan Husak scored 44 and Brody Lammers finished with a 50.
Hudson combined for a 148 to win the meet.
Topping the individual leaderboard was New Richmond's Cole Langness, who shot a 34, one stroke in front of Hudson's Sam Swavely and New Richmond's Matthew Unger.
Softball
Chippewa Falls 13, Rice Lake 8
In a high-scoring battle it was the Cardinals maintaining their top spot in the Big Rivers in Thursday's matchup in Chippewa Falls.
Rice Lake outhit Chippewa Falls 14-10 but three Warrior errors allowed the Cardinals (12-1, 7-1) to score three unearned runs, and Rice Lake (8-5, 4-4) left eight runners on base.
Madi Rowe and Emily Kalina each had three hits. Kalina drove in two runs and scored once, while Rowe scored twice. Kamryn Kunz and Addie Seelow were 2 for 3. Seelow had three RBIs, while Veda Stenseth had a hit and two driven in.
After falling behind 11-3 through three innings the Warriors fought back with a five-run fourth. Chippewa Falls extended its lead up to five in the bottom of the fourth and Rice Lake went scoreless in the final three innings.
Baseball
Chippewa Falls 1, Rice Lake 0
It was the Cardinals coming out on top in a pitcher's dual Thursday at Chippewa Falls.
Easton Stone tossed six innings for the Warriors (4-7, 1-5), giving up six hits and one run. He didn't issue a walk and finished with seven strikeouts. His counterpart for Chippewa Falls (6-4, 4-2) was Jakeb Lequia, who threw six innings, giving up eight hits and four walks, with five punch outs.
The game's lone run came on a home run by Lucas Logslett in the second inning.
Lucas Roux and Brady Musil each had two hits to lead the Warrior offense.
In the seventh the Warriors put both the tying and go-ahead runners into scoring position. The first two batters reached by with a walk and hit-by-pitch. Rice Lake sacrifice bunted the runners up and an intentional walk filled the bases. The Warriors were unable to score as the Cardinals got a fielder's choice force out at home plate and then a ground out to third that ended the game.
Soccer
New Richmond 5, Rice Lake 0
The Warriors were shut out by the conference-leading Tigers in New Richmond.
Goalkeeper Ayla Zuzek had 12 saves for the Warriors (4-2-4, 1-2-2).
New Richmond (6-1-3, 4-0) scored twice in the first half and added three more after the break.
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