LA CROSSE — The West Salem High School boys track and field team placed second and its girls third in the Willard Hanson Invitational hosted by Central on Thursday.
The Panthers had 160 points in boys events finished only behind champion Chippewa Falls (181.5) and 100.25 in girls events. Eau Claire Memorial won the girls championship with 135 points.
Local boys won nine events, and West Salem sophomore Tavaryies Henderson led the way with victories in the high jump (6 feet, 2 inches) and triple jump (43-5.25).
Sophomore Jackson Seberg, junior Michael Torrance, senior Elliot Wolf and junior Isaiah Laack also won events for the Panthers.
Seberg won the 100 (11.28 seconds), Torrance the 800 (1:59.39), Wolf the shot put (48-5) and Laack the discus (153-9).
Holmen junior Jakai Ayed won the 110 hurdles (14.67), Central senior Stefan Bellamy the 300 hurdles (42.16), and Holmen’s 400 relay crossed the finish line first in 43.23.
Local competitors won five girls events.
Onalaska senior Makena McGarry was victorious in the triple jump (35-5), Holmen senior Kendall Kozlowski in the pole vault (9-0), Central junior McKenna Michaels in the long jump (16-1) and Aquinas junior Eliot McKnight in the discus (110-3).
West Salem’s girls also won the 3,200 relay in 10:10.74.
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BLAIR — The Melrose-Mindoro girls placed third with 643 points, and its boys were fifth with 596 in combined scores between large and small schools.
Junior Bristol Coats was a four-time champion to lead all Mustangs.
Coats won the girls 100 (13.15), 200 (26.99), 300 hurdles (48.18) and long jump (15-10.25).
Junior teammate Sheila Johnson added wins in the 400 (1:03.84) and high jump (5-2).
The Melrose-Mindoro boys were led by a pair of second-place finishes. Junior Caleb Arneson was runner-up in the 3,200 (11:16.96), and the team’s 3,200 relay was second in 9:14.81.
Junior Peyton Craig was second in two girls events — the 100 (13.41) and 200 (27.94) — and the Mustangs placed second in the 1,600 relay (4:31.74).
