NRHEG girls’ track team sets more new records

Published 12:00 am Thursday, April 24, 2003

NEW RICHLAND &045; The records continue to fall and the championships continue to add up for the NRHEG girls’ track and field team.

A week after setting two school records while winning their invitational, the Panthers re-broke those records en route to first place in the Panther Relays at New Richland Tuesday. NRHEG topped the eight-team field with 115 points. Byron was second with 91, WEM third with 64.

Senior Nicole Lonning had another big day, shattering her school shot put record with a toss of 41 feet, 5 inches, combining with Kyree Wobbrock and Jennifer Grunzke for first in that event.

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The other record was by the first-place 4×100-meter relay team of Kalisha Anthony, Camille Kyte, Brandis Hagen and Alison Anderson, which won in 52.09 seconds.

The Panthers had five other firsts: discus (Lonning, Brittany Schwartz, Grunzke); 4×800 (April Bayerkohler, Jessica Brouwers, Melissa Maurer, Karla Lewer); 100 hurdles (Anthony, Kelsie Hansen, Ashley Misgen); 300 hurdles (Hansen, Misgen, Sarah Kyte); and pole vault (Anthony, Melissa Barber, Megan Groskreutz).

Other NRHEG places: long jump, second (Anderson, Misgen, Mackensie Tappe); 3×1600, second (Lewer, Bayerkohler, Brianna Blouin); short sprint medley, second (Hillary Johnson, Sarah Kyte, Anderson, Camille Kyte); high jump, third (Hansen, Misgen, Tappe); 4×200, third (Anthony, Anderson, Sarah Kyte, Camille Kyte); triple jump, fourth (Camille Kyte, Tappe, Laura Manthey); 4×400, fourth (Hansen, Jessica Brouwers, Barber, Lewer); sprint medley, sixth (Johnson, Groskreutz, Jasmine Brouwers, Jessica Brouwers).

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boys finished fifth with 52 points. Byron won with 100. Brian Bos, Matt Reiter, Tim Rysavy and John Coffield took second in the 4×800 relay with a school-record 9:06.3.

Taking first was the 4×200 relay team of Bos, Coffield, Sonny Berg and Geoff Stieglebauer. Berg, Bos and Tom Bartness were second in the long jump.