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Shawano’s Kurtz claims pole vault title

Kristina Kurtz earned the lone win for Shawano Community High School’s girls track and field team in Saturday’s Bay Conference Championship at Marinette. She led the Hawks to a seventh-place finish with 53 points. West De Pere won six events and the team title with 143.5. Kurtz won the pole vault at 9 feet, 6 inches, finishing ahead of a second-place tie between teammate Onalee Siegfried (9-0) and Michelle Wenninger (9-0) of Seymour. Kurtz also had a third-place finish in the 800-meter run with a time of 2 minutes, 29.28 seconds, along with leading Shawano’s relay teams. Kurtz, Jewel Carey, Sarah Hokenstad and Averi Vomastic finished second in the 800-meter relay at 1:51.76. Kurtz, Carey, Hokenstad and Hannah Wendorff finished the 1,600 relay in 4:27.25 to place third. Vomastic added two top-five finishes for the Hawks, finishing third in the 200 at 28.01 and fourth in the 300 hurdles at 51.59. Bay Conference Championship Girls results: 1. West De Pere 143.5; 2. Seymour 114; 3. Luxemburg-Casco 88; 4. Marinette 87; 5. Oconto Falls 77; 6. Denmark 73; 7. Shawano 53; 8. Menasha 35; 9. New London 27.5.