Clintonville’s Ploederl wins high jump event
By Greg Seubert
Freedom High School and North Eastern Conference track championships have gone hand-in-hand in recent years.
That trend continued June 4, as the Irish returned home from Appleton’s Fox Valley Lutheran High School with boys’ and girls’ team championships.
Freedom won the boys’ title with 186.5 points, followed by Fox Valley Lutheran (147), Little Chute (117.5), Denmark (44), Clintonville (38), Waupaca (37.5), Luxemburg-Casco (36), Marinette (30), Wrightstown (29.5), Oconto Falls (29).
Team scores for the girls were Freedom (228.5), Fox Valley Lutheran (109.5), Little Chute (84.5), Marinette (83.33), Luxemburg-Casco (75.66), Oconto Falls (40.5), Clintonville and Wrightstown (20), Denmark (17), Waupaca (4).
Casey Ploederl won Clintonville’s only championship, as he placed first in the boys’ high jump event with a leap of 6 feet, 2 inches.
North Eastern Conference track meet
First-place finishers
Boys
100-meter dash: Simon Alexander, Denmark (11.28).
200-meter dash: Simon Alexander, Denmark (23.17).
400-meter dash: Simon Alexander, Denmark (50.59).
800-meter run: Jackson Higgins, Freedom (2:00.9).
1,600-meter run: Drew Robinson, Little Chute (4:33.41).
3,200-meter run: Riley Huss, Little Chute (10:14.73).
110-meter hurdles: Blake Kortz, Freedom (16.02).
300-meter hurdles: Blake Kortz, Freedom (41.78).
High jump: Casey Ploederl, Clintonville (6 feet, 2 inches).
Long jump: Jacob Zernicke, Fox Valley Lutheran (20 feet, 11 inches).
Triple jump: Carson Wyngaard, Little Chute (43 feet, 10 inches).
Pole vault: Ryan Vosters, Freedom (13 feet, 6 inches).
Shot put: Gavin Fritsch, Little Chute (54 feet, 3 1/4 inches).
Discus: Gavin Fritsch, Little Chute (142 feet, 9 inches).
400-meter relay: Fox Valley Lutheran (Blake Retzlaff, Carsen Rindt, Cavan Dobberstein, Jacob Zernicke) (44.32).
800-meter relay: Freedom (Jon Verhasselt, Carson Hofacker, Hayden Falcus, A.J. Oppermann) (1:34.57).
1,600-meter relay: Freedom (Owen Tisdale, Jackson Higgins, Gavin Greiner, Ryan Vosters) (3:33.67).
3,200-meter relay: Little Chute (Casey DeBoth, Riley Huss, Caleb Mostek, Mason Genke) (8:37).
Girls
100-meter dash: Alyssa Hutcherson, Little Chute (12.63).
200-meter dash: Grace Hambel, Freedom (26.51).
400-meter dash: Grace Hambel, Freedom (59.61).
800-meter run: Gwen Hinz, Freedom (2:23.45).
1,600-meter run: Jessica Wilson, Little Chute (5:32.44).
3,200-meter run: Ella Pahl, Little Chute (12:25.68).
100-meter hurdles: Ellyse Wolfrath, Fox Valley Lutheran (14.73).
300-meter hurdles: Sam Bartels, Freedom (47.3).
High jump: Kylie Veriha, Marinette (5 feet).
Long jump: Chloee Urban, Freedom (16 feet, 5 inches).
Triple jump: Alyssa Hutcherson, Little Chute (36 feet, 6 1/2 inches).
Pole vault: Shannon Tomazevic, Freedom (9 feet, 3 inches).
Shot put: Linnea Willer, Freedom, (54 feet, 3 1/4 inches).
Discus: Linnea Willer, Freedom (127 feet, 4 inches).
400-meter relay: Freedom (Chloee Urban, Ashley Vondrachek, Maya Vosters, Samantha Edelburg) (51.05).
800-meter relay: Freedom (Sam Bartels, Ashley Vondrachek, Gwen Hinz, Samantha Edelburg ) (1:49.41).
1,600-meter relay: Freedom (Sydney Bartels, Anna Nason, Macy Verhasselt, Emily Jahnke) (4:18.36).
3,200-meter relay: Freedom (Sydney Bartels, Emily Jahnke, Heidi Van Asten, Gwen Hinz) (10:40.56).