LA CROSSE — The Holmen High School girls track and field team is built to score points, and that’s exactly what it did Saturday at UW-La Crosse’s Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex.
The Vikings won 13 events — four individuals won at least twice — on the way to 230 1/3 points and 74 ahead of second place Onalaska (156 1/3) in the MVC championship meet.
Holmen’s boys also won comfortably with 188 points to give the Vikings a sweep of the team title for the second year in a row.
Senior Sabrina Lechnir won the 800-meter dash in 2 minutes, 18.75 seconds, the 1,600 in 5:13.84 and the 3,200 in 11:40.37, and senior Alivia Wickstrom won the 100 hurdles (15.6) and 300 hurdles (47.37) and ran one leg for the record-breaking and winning 800 relay (1:46.14).
Senior Lydia Lazarescu won the 100 with a meet record of 11.87 and the 200 in 24.76, and senior Brenna Schmidt was victorious in the shot put (39 feet, 8 1/2 inches) and discus (131-6).
Lazarescu completed her MVC career as a nine-time champion and four-time winner of both the 100 and 200. She also won the 400 as a junior and placed third in the event with a time of 1:00.17 on Saturday.
Lechnir is a three-time champ in the 1,600 and 3,200, and her win in the 800 on Saturday makes her a seven-time champion.
Holmen’s girls 400 relay team of Ava Newman, Abry Bloyer, Hadley Johnson and Courtney Simmons won with a meet record of 49.13, and Wickstrom was joined by Newman, Johnson and Simmons to break the 800 relay record.
Bloyer was also the runner-up to Lazarescu in the 100 (12.26) and 200 (25.56).
Newman and Simmons also ran with the winning 1,600 relay (4:13.04), and Naomi Wedan ran with that team and the winning 3,200 relay (10:24.89).
Onalaska’s second-place girls received big performances from seniors Makena McGarry and Isabella Malecek and sophomore Elin Gilles.
Malecek won the high jump for the second year in a row by clearing 5 feet, and that pushed her individual championship total to seven during her MVC career.
McGarry won the long jump for a fourth time and went 17-9 to win by more than a foot. She also placed second in the high jump (4-8) and fourth in the 100 (12.56) and finished her conference career with five individual championships.
Gilles won the 400 (58.05) and triple jump (35-0 1/2) and added team points by placing third in the 200 (26.08) and sixth in the 100 (12.86).
Onalaska senior Olivia Peterson also won the pole vault (9-6) for the second year in a row.
Logan’s girls finished third (83), Aquinas was fifth (56) and Central was sixth (53).
BOYS
Onalaska junior Brendan Chenault and Holmen junior Jakai Ayed had the biggest day in the boys competition with three victories and a runner-up finish each.
Chenault won the 100 (10.82), 400 (49.16) and triple jump (45-11) and finished second in the 200 (22.18). The win in the triple jump was his second in a row.
Ayed was second to Chenault in the 100 (11.0) but won the 110 hurdles in a meet-record 14.2, the 300 hurdles (40.51) and the long jump (21-6 1/2). Ayed also swept the hurdle events last season.
Senior Ryland Eickhoff also helped the Vikings secure a nice chunk of points toward the team.
Championship by helping Holmen’s 400 relay team — Eli Kane, John Faherty, Landon Berg and Eickhoff — win in 43.54 and adding third-place finishes in the 100 (11.05) and 200 (22.73).
Eickhoff was also fourth in the long jump (21-2).
Logan senior Briggs Schaffer defended last year’s championship in the pole vault by clearing 12 feet, and the Rangers won the boys 1,600 relay for the sixth year in a row.
Gabe Driscoll, Will Howard, Andrew Stanton and Schaffer completed the race with a winning time of 3:27.52.
Logan junior Gabe Passe won the 3,200 (10:06.79), Onalaska sophomore Wylder Burch the high jump (6-2), Logan junior Sam King the shot put (54-8) and Holmen senior Kyle Dreyer the discus (142-10).
Logan’s boys finished second (144), Onalaska’s third (142), Central’s sixth (53) and Aquinas was seventh with nine.
