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Suring sweeps M&O track triangular

The Suring High School girls track team won 13 of 18 events, en route to 117 points, in a Marinette & Oconto Conference triangular April 21 at Gillett. The Suring boys also placed first with 80 points. Crivitz took second with 57 points and Gillett third with 46 points. In the girls meet, Gillett took second with 29 points. Crivitz finished with 13 points. Blake Seppel and Katie Stegeman each had two individual wins for the Suring girls. Seppel captured the long jump (13-1) and 200 dash (29.37). She also was part of winning relay teams in the 800 (2:04.64), with Carly Christensen, Az VanBellinger and Courtney Stelzer, and the 400(58.72), with Christensen, VanBellinger and Darian Bowman. Stegeman notched wins in the high jump (4 feet, 6 inches) and 400-meter dash (1 minute, 9.1 seconds). The Eagles’ other first-place finishers were Courtney Heimerl (pole vault, 7-6), Hailey Thompson (100 hurdles, 19.77), VanBellinger (100, 13.90), Stelzer (triple jump, 27-5), Breanna Tienor (300 hurdles, 1:03) and the 3,200 and 1,600 relay teams. Gillett’s sole first-place finishes came from Taylor Kohls, in the discus (113-2) and shot put (35-6), and Lauren Herzog in the 1,600 (5:37.89) and 800 (2:45.51) In the boys meet, Suring’s Creo VanBellinger won the 400 (58.21) and 200 (25.52). Grant Fischer won the 800 (2:17.33) and was part of the winning 3,200 relay team(10:25.47) with Connor Giese, Scout Gerndt and Ryan Mahoney. John Christensen took first in the high jump (6-0), and Mark Runge won the pole vault (10-0). Gillett’s Akeem Bates and Matt Peterson each took first in two events. Bates won the long jump (18-6) and triple jump (10-1), and Peterson won the 100 hurdles (17.01) and 300 hurdles (44.34). Peterson was also part of the winning 1,600-relay team (3:54.19) with Brett Milhans, Max Zeitler and Leeland Kahler. Other winners from Gillett were Zeitler in the 1,600-run (5:01.33) and Jacob Timm in the discus (116-2).