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Leo Stalmer cemented his standing as one of the area’s top hurdlers earlier this week.
The lone senior on Ely’s high school boys track team also had the best showing of any Timberwolf at the Iron Range Conference meet, held Tuesday at Rock Ridge.
Stalmer was the runner-up in the 300 meter hurdles and placed fourth in the 110.
Those finishes helped the Wolves to a fifth-place team standing at the IRC event, where they had to contend with larger, deeper teams including Rock Ridge.
Stalmer more than held his own, finishing second in the 300 with a personal-best time of 43.99 seconds. His time of 17.97 in the 110 was good enough for fourth.
Ely junior Silas Solum also had a big day, placing in the top-four in two separate events.
Solum was third in the 800 in 2:09.69 and fourth in the triple jump (38-1.75). Both were personal-bests.
After that, Ely’s best showings came in the various relays.
Three Ely relay units wound up third.
The four-by-200 foursome of Dylan Durkin, Milo McClelland, Wyatt Mattson and Tory Hughley, all juniors, was third in 1:42.32.
Solum and Stalmer combined with Eli Olson and Caleb Larson to take third in the four-by-400 (3:48.41).
It was McClelland, freshmen Brooks Brenny and Oliver Hohenstein, and eighth-grader Wyatt Devine who formed a third-place four-by-800 unit (9:41).
The four-by-100 group of Olson, Mattson, Hughley and McClelland sprinted to a fourth-place finish (50.02).
The only other top-five finishes went to Mattson (fifth, discus, 97-5) and Hohenstein (fifth, 1,600, 5:19.95).
Ely also scored top-12 finishes as follows:
• 100 dash - 10. Larson, 12.64;
• 200 dash - 7. Larson, 24.92; 10. Durkin, 25.54;
• 800 run - 9. Devine, 2:30.79; • 3,200 run - 8. Mason Kurnava, 12:06.79; 10. Blake Houde, 12:40.6;
LETTING IT GO - Ely’s Sarah Visser threw the discus nearly 87 feet and took third in that event at the IRC meet Tuesday at Rock Ridge.
SPRINTING TOWARD THE FINISH were Ely’s Siiri Nelson and Bela Moskowitz.
OVER THE HURDLES for Ely eighth-grader Mattie Lindsay during track action earlier this week. The Wolves head to subsections Wednesday at Aurora.
• Shot put - 8. Mattson, 33-9;
• Discus - 9. McClelland, 91-1;
• Long jump - 12. Olson, 16-10.25 The Wolves also took part in the May 9 Belluzzo Invitational at Chisholm, with Stalmer scoring a victory in the 300 hurdles in 44.7 seconds. He also was fourth in the 110 (17.99).
Ely had a pair of runner- up relay teams, with Mattson, Hugley, McClelland and Durkin taking second in the four-by-200 (1:42.18) and McClelland, Devine, Brenny and Hohenstein second in the four-by-800 (9:26.72).
Solum took third in the 800 (2:09.85), while Olson was third in the triple jump (37-2.5), seventh in the long jump (17-3.5) and joined Mattson, Hughley and Jack Rintala on a third-place fourby- 100 relay team.
Nabbing fourth-place individual finishes were Durkin (200, 24.19) and Kurnava (3,200, 12:17.89), while Durkin (long jump) and Hohenstein (1,600 run) bagged fifth-place finishes.
After a Saturday tune-up at Rock Ridge, the track team heads to Aurora Wednesday for the Section 7A North Subsection meet.
