BALDWIN — Prescott, Ellsworth and Elmwood/Plum City track and field each made the trip to the Baldwin-Woodville Meet on April 30, with the Prescott boys winning the event and EPC junior Lillian Pullen breaking the school record at the 100-meter dash.

Prescott

The Prescott boys won the 10-team event with a 106.5 score, and the girls took fifth with a 66.

“They didn’t run their primary events on Tuesday, but a lot of them still had a chance to be able to compete in something,” Coach Emily Calabrese said. “Considering that, I thought our kids performed wonderfully.”

The boys team is loaded with experience and has been building comfortability in their events for years. On the girls’ side, Prescott is dealing with some injuries, but the young competitors are already showing out.

“The momentum is really strong right now on the boys’ side especially,” Calabrese said. “Our girls team is very young, which is very fun to see them kind of discovering more about the sport.”

Calabrese said some of the girls are shaving multiple seconds off sprinting personal bests, showcasing how they are starting to get a feel for the events.

It was the first time the boys 4x200 squad raced together, and they won the race, finishing just tenths off the school record. Just days removed from playing eight seven-on-seven football games in Las Vegas, the Prescott coaches were impressed with how Kobe Russell paired with teammates Andrew Russell, Wyatt Budworth and Ethan West to get the win.

Top three placements:

• Nolan Leask took second in the 3,200-meter race with a time of 11:01.21
• Will Packard took second in the 110-meter hurdles with a 16.40 time and second in the 300-meter hurdles with a 42.87 second time
• Won the 4x200 relay with a time of 1:30.36 (Kobe Russell, Andrew Russell, Wyatt Budworth and Ethan West)
• Took third with a 3:44.83 at the 4x400 relay (Andrew Lesso, Gavin Miller, Aidan Anthony, Will Packard) and second in the 4x800 relay (William Haeg, Wyatt Wrisky, Nolan Leask, Henry Rohl)
• Eyan Miller tied for second in the high jump with a 5-10 leap
• Ethan West dominated the pole vault competition with a 12-foot vault
• Kyra Dix was third in the 1,600 with a time of 5:43.28 and second in the 3,200 with a time of 12:20.72
• MaKenna Ogilvie, Natalee Huppert, Marisa Cogan, Zoe Anthony won the 4x400 with a 4:27.57, winning by 10 seconds
• Kyla Gotzinger, Sydney Herr, Amber Van Loon, Lily Vesperman took third in the 4x800 with a 10:53.21
• Makaria Haas finished second in the discus with a 114-04

EPC

The EPC girls took sixth of 10 teams and the boys took 10th, but in the events they competed in, there were a lot of top performers.

“Coming to Baldwin, we see a lot of big schools there,” Head Coach Amanda Webb said. “It’s always good to go someplace and see a lot of good competition, and,= overall, I thought our kids performed very well there.”

Junior Lillian Pullen broke the school record in the 100-meter dash with a 12.87 second time, but also finished fourth in the 200 and 400.

“She has been working really hard in the offseason, lifting every day, getting in shape. It’s definitely starting to pay off,” Webb said. “As the next few weeks go on, that time might drop even a little bit more yet.”

Webb expects Pullen to chase down the 200 school record this season.

“This is the first year in a while that we actually have enough on our girls team to kind of fill out a full event list,” Webb said.

The strides EPC has made are evident, and they are ready to see where it takes them.

“We’re starting to be competitive, which I really like,” Webb said.

Top-three placements:

• Brewer Link also tied for second in the high jump with a 5-10 jump of his own
• Lillian Pullen took second in the 100-meter with a school record 12.87-second run
• Alexis Thalacker finished second in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:31.78, second in the 1,600 with a 5:41.75 and third in the 3200 with a 13:04.75
• Allison Sauve brought home the triple jump crown, leaping to a 33-03.00 score

Ellsworth

The Ellsworth boys took sixth as a team and the girls finished ninth.

“It was a pretty good night for us. We were able to get a relay together for the first time this year. It was able to place second,” Coach Drew Pechacek said. “It’s just been kind of a slow spring for us because we just haven’t been healthy all year, but we’re starting to get healthy.”

Ellsworth’s 4x200 relay team really stuck out to Pechacek because despite it being thrown into the mix for the first time, they took second and had a time that would contend for a State appearance.

“The first time out they ran a 1:32 which is probably close to State caliber,” Pechacek said. “I know Prescott, they have a State caliber, and we were second behind them so we were right there, right where we want to be.”

Ellsworth is still in the optimization phase, finding the perfect spot for their runners and field competitors.

“It’s just kind of getting them to get used to each other,” Pechacek said. “We have a lot of people in different spots, and we lost a lot of experience too.”

“We’ve really put a lot of emphasis on the weight room the last few years, and now that we have another consistent weight program and a weight coach that’s working with them, we’re starting to get more three sport athletes,” Pechacek said. “When I first started here, we would hardly get any three-sport athletes.”

Sprinter Levi Nelson could be the first Panther in years to make State all four years of high school, according to Pechacek. Along with Pechacek, the experienced group is ready to strike.

Top-three finishers:

• Levi Nelson won the 100-meter dash with a 11.09 time and the 200-meter race with a 22.77
• Noah Matzek and Adolfo Mendez took second and third in the 800-meter race
• Took second in the 4x200 relay with a time of 1:32.84 (Brady Mitchell, Keegan Stahlke, Michael Holst and Levi Nelson)
• Chace Kressin won the discus with a throw of 162-10.50
• Olivia Gilbertson earned third in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:42.85
• Ava Birkel, Lexi Marks, Isabelle Peterson and Lily Hanson teamed up for second in the 4x100 with a 54.01
• Julia Boyle, Lexi Marks, Alivia Maher and Lily Hanson kept the relay success going with a third-place finish at the 4x200 with a 1:56.80
• Olivia Gilbertson, Julia Boyle, Libby Groh, Isabelle Peterson took third in the 4x800 with a 4:38.80
• Maleah Petersen won the discus with a 122-foot throw and was third in the shot put
• Libby Groh’s five-foot high jump was good for a tie for second