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The Ely Timberwolves piled up first-place finishes on the way to a dominant early-season performance Monday at Deer River.
There were eight Ely firsts in all - two each by senior Leo Stalmer and junior Eli Olson - as the Timberwolves easily won the four-team high school boys track meet with 217 points.
“It was a great day,” said Ely Head Coach Will Helms. “It was a quad with smaller schools, and the competition was good for us to go to that level. Sometimes we forget we are a smaller school. We had a lot of first place finishes and seconds and thirds.”
No other team collected more than 162 points on the day as Ely easily won the team title.
Stalmer cruised in both the 110 and 300 meter hurdles, winning in 18.0 and 45.7 seconds, respectivey.
“The times for Leo were both very solid for this time of year,” said Helms.
Olson, meanwhile, had his second big day in as many meets.
The junior won the long jump with a personal-record 17-11, and was first in the triple jump (38-5.5) as he edged out teammate Silas Solum.
“Eli had a big day in the long and the triple and with a couple of pivotal relay legs, including a really good fourby- four at the end of the day,” said Helms. “And Silas had a good day. It was his first time doing the triple and going over 36 is really good.”
In addition to his runner- up showing in the triple jump, Solum won the 800 in 2:12.4.
The Wolves’ Brooks Brenny (5:28.5) won the 1,600 meters with fellow freshman Oliver Hohenstein (5:29.6) in second, and Ely swept the four-by-200, four-by-400 and four-by-800 relays.
In the four-by-200, the all-junior foursome of Wyatt Mattson, Tory Hughley, Milo McClelland and Dylan Durkin won in 1:43.9, while Olson teamed up with Solum, Stalmer and Caleb Larson to win the four-by-400 (3:47.9).
It was McClelland and Wyatt Devine, Brenny and Hohenstein in the fourby- 800, taking first in 9:56.
The first-place finishes came with many other point-collecting outings by the Wolves.
Larson, a freshman, sprinted his way to a second -place finish in the 200 meters (25.2) and was third in the 100 (12.5).
Ely’s Mason Kurvnava, who is also part of a talented freshman group, was the runner-up in the 3,200 (12:56.1), and Mattson set a personal-record in the discus (second, 95-5). McClelland was third (93-5) while also setting a personal-best.
“We had a couple of personal records in the discus and shot with Wyatt and Milo,” said Helms. “They’ve been sort of stretching around 90 feet. We knew it was there and they got it done.”
Ely also scored top-10 finishes in these events:
• 100 dash - 10. Jack Rintala, 13.6;
• 200 dash - 4. Durkin, 25.7; 6. Trenton Bishop, 25.9;
• 400 dash - 3. Bishop, 1:02.5; 5. Noah Axlesson, 1:07.9; 7. John Schiltz, 1:10.2; 8. Oren Solum, 1:15.1;
• 800 run - 4. Hughley, 2:29.8; 5. Devine, 2:35.3;
• 3,200 run - 3. Blake Houde, 14:16.6;
• 300 hurdles -4. Kurnava, 1:07.7;
• Four-by-100 relay - 2. Olson, Hughley, Rintala, Mattson, 50.1; 5. Liam Kurnava, Hunter Kosinski, Jackson Ridings, Avery Ellerbroek, 1:10.3;
• Four-by-200 relay - 5. Kosinski, Ridings, Trynn Weisinger, Liam Kurnava, 2:28.2;
• Four-by-100 relay - 3. Devine, Schiltz, John Cook, Rowan Smith, 4:25.7;
• Four-by-800 relay - 2. Grady Anderson, Axlesson, Schiltz, Houde, 11;194;
• Shot put - 7. Mattson, 340; 8. McCelland, 31-3;
• Discus - 4. Smith, 83-0; 9. Rintala, 71-0;
•Long jump - 3. Durkin, 17-3; 4. Stalmer, 16-4;
• Triple jump - 7. Hughley, 30-4; 9. Kurnava, 25-4.5
