13th annual Russ Pilcher Western Montana Top 10 track meet results

(From the Daily Inter Lake)

MISSOULA - Whitefish freshman Marlow Schulz won the girls 100 at the 13th annual Russ Pilcher Western Montana Top 10 track meet on Tuesday.

Schulz clocked 12.91. She also took sixth in the 400. Teammate Jessica Sagen was second in the 3,200, Amanda Foley took fourth in the 200, and Carly Schwickert finished fourth in the 1,600. The girls relay team was a close second in the 400 relay.

Libby's Kody Berget won the boys 300 hurdles, clocking 39.95. Teammate Reese Jensen took third in the high jump, Sawyer Zimmerman was fifth in the shot put and the Loggers short relay team came in fifth.

Anthony Correa took second in the 400 and the Columbia Falls long relay team was runner-up. Nate Thompson finished fifth in the triple jump.

Whitefish's Logan Harwood took sixth in the 400 and Gage Vasquez was sixth in the 800. The Bulldog long relay team took sixth.

Bigfork's Mallery Knoll was fifth in the 300 hurdles and Caitlin Charlebois came in sixth in the javelin.

Seven meet records were broken on Tuesday, the two oldest being from 1999.

13th Russ Pilcher Western Montana Top 10

Tuesday at Missoula County Stadium

GIRLS

100 - 1, Marlow Schulz, Whitefish, 12.91; 2, Cali Kanthack, Helena, 13.04; 3, Morgan Braby, Big Sky, 13.04; 4, Elsa Janney, Butte, 13.06; 5, Kelsie Almond, Hamilton, 13.08; 6, Maggie Rickman, Capital 13.27.

200 - 1, Paige Squire, Corvallis, 24.81 (meet and stadium record: old meet record 6.04, Emily Alspaugh, Hellgate, 1999; old stadium record 25.40, Loni Perkins, Conrad, 2002); 2, Kelsie Almond, Hamilton, 26.13; 3, Elle Tinkle, Big Sky, 26.58; 4, Amanda Foley, Whitefish, 26.64; 5, Morgan Braby, Big Sky, 26.69; 6, Cali Kanthack, Helena, 26.71.

400 - 1, Sadi Henderson, Corvallis, 59.29; 2, Elle Tinkle, Big Sky, 59.31; 3, Kaitlyn Oliver, Helena, 60.14; 4, Eric McLeod, Butte, 60.93; 5, Marissa Sanchez, Capital, 61.36; 6, Marlow Schulz, Whitefish, 61.60.

800 - 1, Ayden Eickhoff, Corvallis, 2:22.98; 2, Katie McKay, Big Sky 2:25.18; 3, Bailey Malecha, Eureka, 2:25.55; 4, Dana Anderson, Anaconda, 2:26.51; 5, Breanna Jaynes, Sentinel, 2:28.28; 6, Jessica Diehl, Big Sky, 2:28.64.

1,600 - 1, Leah Esposito, Helena, 5:27.63; 2, Breanna Jaynes, Sentinel, 5:31.15; 3, Breanna Watson, Townsend, 5:33.67; 4, Carley Scwickert, Whitefish, 5:36.79; 5, Erica Ackerlund, Helena, 5:39.32; 6, Alexis Bryant, Drummond, 5:41.01.

3,200 - 1, Paige Gilchrist, Hellgate, 11:00.67 (meet record: old record 11:16.93, Caitlin Stone, Seeley-Swan, 2006); 2, Jessica Sagen, Whitefish, 11:48.26; 3, Olivia Wood, Ana-conda 11:48.36; 4, Mesa Starkey, Polson, 11:52.27; 5, Casey Stewart, Corvallis, 11:54.21; 6, Addy Melvin, Hellgate, 11:54.40.

100 hurdles - 1, Paige Squire, Corvallis, 14.46 (meet record: old record 14.69, Squire, 2010); 2, Liz Harper, Sentinel, 15.24; 3, Hope Reid, Thompson Falls, 15.46; 4, Lakyn Connors, Corvallis, 15.94; 5, Breanne Kelley, Polson, 16.25; 6, Brittany Chilcott, Stev-ensville, 16.37.

300 hurdles - 1, Liz Harper, Sentinel, 45.12; 2, Elsa Janney, Butte, 45.34; 3, Monica Grimsrud, Helena, 46.97; 4, Allison Morrison, Helena, 47.42; 5, Mallery Knoll, Bigfork, 47.46; 6, Breanne Kelley, Polson, 48.22.

400 relay - 1, Butte 50.64; 2, Whitefish 50.75; 3, Big Sky 50.95; 4, Helena 51.16; 5, Sen-tinel 51.44; 6, Capital 51.67.

1,600 relay - 1, Corvallis (Nikki Barron, Sadi Henderson, Lakyn Connors, Paige Squire), 4:02.89 (meet record: old record 4:06.24, Polson, 2008); 2, Helena 4:07.20; 3, Butte 4:07.24; 4, Big Sky 4:09.98; 5, Sentinel 4:12.57; 6, Whitefish 4:13.62.

Shot put - 1, Taylor Corne, Capital, 37-8; 2, Taylor Kanthack, Helena, 36-5 1/2; 3, Ashley Medeiros, Loyola Sacred Heart, 36-5; 4, Megan Leathers, Florence, 35-9 1/2; 5, Megan Kratofil, Hamilton, 35-5; 6, Allie Keleti, Capital, 34-5.

Discus - 1, Megan Leathers, Florence, 122-4; 2, Anna Pershouse, Sentinel, 117-1; 2, Taylor Corne, Capital, 116-3; 4, Frankie Weinbrenner, Plains, 109-5; 5, Megan Kratofil, Hamilton, 106-9; 6, Jacquelyn Verlanic, Anaconda, 106-3.

Javelin - 1, Malia Estes, Anaconda, 122-2; 2, Kabrie Emmerson, Butte, 120-0; 3, Kendal Williams, Helena, 116-6; 4, Kaci Matthies, Capital, 114-5; 5, Dawn Blevins, Charlo, 112-8; 6, Caitlin Charlebois, Bigfork, 112-7.

High jump - 1, Allison Morrison, Helena, 5-5 (meet record: old record 5-4 by Amy Flaig, Sentinel, 2000; Gwen Abbott, Butte, 2008; and Alyssa Gilchrist, Helena, 2010); 2, Adessa Durglo, Ronan-SI, 5-3; 3, Alyssa Gilchrist, Helena, 5-3; 5, Brittany Ericson, Big Sky, 5-1; 5 (tie), Hope Reid, Thompson Falls, Molly Brewer, Stevensville and Lori Hansen, Townsend, 4-11.

Long jump - 1, Allison Morrison, Helena, 16-11; 2, Kelsie Almond, Hamilton, 16-10; 3, Sarah Jakober, Darby, 16-6 1/2; 4, Kristen Daugherty, Big Sky, 16-5 1/2; 5, Nicole Stroot, Superior, 16-4; 6 (tie), Emilee Pilcher, Dillon, and Adessa Durglo, Ronan-SI, 15-9 1/2.

Triple jump - 1, Adessa Durglo, Ronan-SI, 34-10; 2, Kristen Daugherty, Big Sky, 34-8; 3, Sarah Jakober, Darby, 34-3 3/4; 4, Lakyn Connors, Corvallis, 34- 1/2; 5, Kinsey Cooper, Superior, 33-5 1/2; 6, Bailey Harper, Big Sky, 32-9.

Pole vault - 1, Taylor Allen, Hellgate, 10-0; 2, Aspen Evans, Corvallis, 10-0; 3, Tara Cundith, Helena, 10-0; 4, Emily Schroeck, Boulder, 9-6; 5, Alex Brammer, Dillon. 9-6; 6, Kaymi Lockhart, Hellgate, 9-6.

BOYS

100 - 1, Jake Messerly, Sentinel, 11.20; 2, Gunnar Brekke, Capital, 11.34; 3, Zach Bunney, Butte, 11.37; 4, Aaron Johnston, Darby, 11.41; 5, Mike Duncan, Big Sky, 11.48; 6, Josh Lords, Stevensville, 11.60.

200 - 1, Jake Messerly, Sentinel, 22.83; 2, Jordan Umstead, Helena, 23.21; 3, Jordan Franklin, Ronan-SI, 23.45; 4, Aaron Johnston, Darby, 23.46; 5, Cody Carriger, Butte, 23.57; 6, Tyler Coorough, Victor, 23.72.

400 - 1, Aaron Johnston, Darby, 50.83; 2, Anthony Correa, Columbia Falls, 50.95; 3, Mike Duncan, Big Sky, 51.52; 4, Jacob Senecal, Deer Lodge, 52.07; 5, Brady Bloomquist, Florence, 52.36; 6, Logan Harwood, Whitefish, 52.38.

800 - 1, Doug Raymer, Darby, 1:56.36 (meet record: old record 1:57.3, Joe Simon, Boul-der, 2001); 2, Josh Panusak, Butte, 2:04.14; 3, Jeremy Campbell, Darby, 2:05.27; 4, Mar-cus Hungerford, Ronan-SI, 2:06.61; 5, Killian Smith, Capital, 2:07.67; 6, Gage Vasquez, Whitefish.

1,600 - 1, Doug Raymer, Darby, 4:24.25; 2, Jake Turner, Sentinel, 4:24.84; 3, Matt Baker, Helena, 4:34.93; 4, Thomas Lund, Helena, 4:36.70; 5, Carter Montgomery, Plains, 4:39.21; 6, Madison Bolton, Florence, 4:42.13.

3,200 - 1, Jake Turner, Sentinel, 9:43.57; 2, Adam Peterman, Hellgate, 9:46.27; 3, Chris Jessop, Corvallis, 9:54.71; 4, Matt Barker, Helena, 9:54.81; 5, Sean Abrahamsen, Darby, 9:55.38; 6, Mark Messmer, Sentinel, 10:00.42.

110 hurdles - 1, Mark Huntington, Butte, 15.55; 2, Stephen Delaney, Charlo, 15.60; 3, Austin Lindqust, Big Sky, 15.96; 4, Boone Helm, Townsend, 16.22; 5, Quinn Chamber-lain, Capital, 16.60; 6, Jay Owens, Big Sky, 16.63.

300 hurdles - 1, Kody Berget, Libby, 39.95; 2, Stephen Delaney, Charlo, 39.95; 3, Mark Huntington, Butte, 40.87; 4, Boone Helm, Townsend, 40.90; 5, Blaise Reibe, Dillon, 40.94; 6, Jay Owens, Big Sky, 41.67.

400 relay - 1, Butte 43.89; 2, HelenaCapital 44.66; 3, Hellgate 44.82; 4, Dillon 44.88; 5, Libby 45.02; 6, Whitefish 45.35.

1,600 relay - 1, Big Sky 3:30.72; 2, Columbia Falls 3:32.26; 3, Helena Capital 3:33.38; 4, Florence 3:34.29; 5, Loyola Sacred Heart 3:34.55; 6, Whitefish 3:35.06.

Shot put - 1, Brandon Forson, Deer Lodge, 55-11 (meet record; old record 55-2 1/2, Adam Cordeiro, Boulder, 1999); 2, Monty Folsom, Dillon, 50-4; 3, Nate Bignell, Drummond, 47-6; 4, Jonathan Richards, Butte Central, 46-4; 5, Sawyer Zimmerman, Libby, 45-4; 6, Darby Maier, Big Sky, 45-3.

Discus - 1, Brandon Forson, Deer Lodge, 181-7 (meet record: old record 180-3, Forson, 2010); 3, Darby Maier, Big Sky, 147-7; 3, Jimmy Henderson, Corvallis, 145-10; 4, Dillon Ryan, Ennis, 14-1;3 5, Colton Pipinich, Capital, 136-2; 6, Zeke Koslosky, Dillon, 134-5.

Javelin - 1, Logan Connors, Corvallis, 189-0; 2, Howard Juneau, Sentinel, 182-8; 3, Kurt Manely, Victor, 172-11; 4, Dillon Ecord,.Capital, 172-5; 5, Adam Moore, Noxon, 163-0; 6, Seth Ray, Hamilton, 159-7.

High jump - 1, Ryan Rayson, Troy, 6-1; 2, Jordan Franklin, Ronan-SI, 6-1; 3, Reese Jensen, Libby, 5-11; 4 (tie), Josh Haynes, Stevensville, and Cody Pierson, Twin Bridges, 5-11; 6, Dace Moerkerke, Hamilton, 5-11.

Long jump - 1, Taylor Firestone, Plains, 21-8 1/2; 2, Mike Duncan, Big Sky, 21-4 1/2; 3, Josh Lords, Stevensville, 21-3; 4, Josh Haynes, Stevensville, 21-2; 5, Vasily Lemeza, Big Sky, 20-8 1/2; 6, Cody Orr, Troy, 20-5.

Triple jump - 1, Taylor Firestone, Plains, 45-1; 2, Josh Haynes, Stevensville, 43-10 1/2; 3, Reid Jenkins, Florence, 42-11 1/2; 4, Mike Duncan, Big Sky, 42-11; 5, Nate Thompson, Columbia Falls 42-3 1/2; 6, Ross Mangun, Florence, 41-9 1/2.

Pole vault - 1, Jake Reidelbach, Helena, 14-0; 2, Adam Sears, Hellgate, 14-0; 3, T.J. Bomar, Helena, 13-0; 4 (tie), Jensen Roseboom, Hellgate, Chance Rosenbaum, Charlo and Ryan Hover, Hellgate, 12-6.

Glacier Twins 7, Mission Valley Mariners 5

Here are some photos from the Mission Valley Mariners game last night. They played well, but a few errors allowed the Twins to come out on top. Good early season showing for the Mariners against a AA team.

Why baseball is the best

I got my first “It’s baseball season moment” the other day.

Now I know that the pros have been playing for a little while, but my enthusiasm has largely been blunted by the fact that my beloved Red Sox have started the season with the same gusto as John Goodman on a treadmill.

Last Saturday, walking over to O’Malley Park for Mission Valey Rockies’ practice, you could smell the grass, the sun was beating down on the diamond and you could hear that familiar “thump” as a baseball came in contact with a leather glove.

It really doesn’t take much to realize that baseball is perhaps the best sport around. There’s no argument, but if you want to make a blasphemous statement that football, basketball or soccer is better, let me present the following statements.

The game is the same on every level – Football more than any other sport varies wildly depending on what age of kids are playing. The NFL is a very cold, calculated game with very little room for originality and everyone ends up copying one another’s playbook. College is a little more wide-open as teams try things as coaches play around the amount of talent they have on the team. High school actually might be the more pure form of football, it comes at a time where the talent of the athletes but also the smarts in the playbook are probably most evenly matched.

But you can’t compare the three. They’re so incredibly different types of games, the speed is different, the play-calling is incredibly different and if you’re trying to compare box scores, you’re going to go insane.

But baseball? With the exception of t-ball, the last level of baseball I excelled at, statistics and the way the game is played is largely the same. That’s what gives fans so much enjoyment. When somebody says a pitcher struck out 20 batters in a high school game, you know that it’s an incredible achievement. When someone runs for 200-yards in a pee-wee football game… well he just hit puberty before everyone else.

Softball too so resembles the pro version of baseball, that it’s rather eerie. Watching Janeal McDonald from Mission get up to bat is like watching Albert Pujols step up to the plate. You can tell that Lady Bulldogs fans expect something good to happen, and the opposing coach is nervously chewing on their fingernails. The only big difference is the base-running, if a catcher is distracted for a split second, it seems like teams like Polson will steal two bases on them.

Stats – Numbers count and mean something in baseball. If you didn’t as a kid pour over baseball cards and the plethora of stats they had printed on the back… well you didn’t have a childhood. Just how important are stats? Last week, I spent a good half hour at Walmart debating if I should buy a new pack of 2011 baseball cards just the heck of it. My reason… I could backtrack every MLB players stats I could get a card of. Why wouldn’t you blow a spare $20 on that?

The chatter – Have you listened to baseball players talk to one another. It’s funnier than “Conan” “30-Rock” “Saturday Night Live” and “Modern Family” combined. I wish I could say that it’s all innocent but lets be honest… baseball players are usually the weirdest athletes out of all the sports. Who else blesses their bats with chicken bones or talk to their gloves?

The history – Baseball can trace it’s history back to the Civil War. In what other sport can you refer to guys with handlebar moustaches and names like “Three-Finger Brown” and “Shoeless Joe Jackson” for stories. The best I can do for football and basketball is “Won’t shut up Warren Sapp” and “Blake could dunk on the moon Griffin.”

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to recruit to my man-cave and see if the Red Sox can’t pull themselves out of the basement of the AL East.

Ronan Softball Video

Here's some video taken from yesterday's game against Anaconda...

Polson takes second at Last Chance meet

CORVALLIS - Paige Squire of Corvallis won the 100 hurdles in 14.28 seconds on Thursday at the Corvallis Last Chance track meet.

The all-class state record is 14.34 seconds, but state records can only be set at the state meet. The State A meet is May 27-28 in Missoula.

Squire also won the 300 hurdles in 45.31 to lead the Blue Devils to the team crown with 119 points.

Polson, led by 3,200 winner Mesa Starkey, was second with 92 and Hamilton was third with 82.

Kelsi Almond posted three wins for Hamilton. She won the 100 in 12.81 seconds, the third fastest time in the state this season.

Almond also took the 200 in 27.47 and the long jump at 17-feet-1.5 inches, the fourth best mark in the state.

Bigfork's Quinci Paine won the 400 (62.8) and the Bigfork boys won the short relay(46.12).

Polson's Clark Rubel won the shot put (44-1).

GIRLS
Team Totals
Corvallis 119, Polson 92, Hamilton 82, Anaconda 67, Bigfork 50, Charlo 37, Stevensville 28, Townsend 24, Darby 18.

Events
100 - 2. Anna DiGiallonardo, Pol, 12.93. 5. Deondra Brown, Cha, 13.37
200 - 2. Anna DiGiallonardo, Pol, 27.73. 6. Deondra Brown Cha, 29.65.
400 - 3. Sierra Pete, Pol, 65.0. 6. Rachel Hoyt, Cha, 67.2.
800 - 4. C. Hewston, Pol, 2:38
1,600 - 3. Claudia Hewston, Pol, 5:49
3,200 - 1. Mesa Starkey, Pol, 12:24.9;
100 hurdles - 3. Breanne Kelley, Pol, 15.7. 6. Schaelyn Fell, Cha, 16.49.
300 hurdles - 2. Breanne Kelley, Pol, 48.27. 4. Aspen Runkel, Cha, 51.5, 5. Erica Alfiero, Pol, 55.15
400 relay - 2. Polson, 55.82, 4. Charlo, 53.62
1,600 relay - 2. Polson, 4:18.9, 3. Charlo, 4:32.1
Javelin - 4. Dawn Blevins, Cha, 106-4
Shot put - 4. D.J. Conko-Camel, Pol, 28-3; 5
Discus - 4. D.J. Conko-Camel, Pol, 94-1
High jump - 3. Rachel Hoyt, Cha, 4-10
Long jump - 5. Anna DiGiallonardo, Pol, 15-1 1/4
Pole vault - 2. Derika Stipe, Cha, 7-6, 4. K. Medland, Pol, 7-0, 5. M. Banner, Pol, 7-0.

BOYS
Team Totals
Darby 105, Corvallis 101, Charlo 73, Townsend 66, Polson 60, Hamilton 51, Stevensville 35, Bigfork 28, Anaconda 8.

Events
100 - 4. Austin Bauer, Cha, 11.41, 6. Vince DiGiallonardo, Pol, 11.50.
200 - 5. Chris Cote, Pol, 24.34, 6. Chico Stipe, Cha, 24.72.
400 - 2. Mike Devlin, Pol, 52.81, 3. Chris Cote, Pol, 54.32
800 - 3. Chance Rosenbaum, Cha, 2:13.0, 4. Travis Hayes, Pol, 2:13.4
3,200 - 6. Michael Smith, Cha, 10:55.7.
110 hurdles - 2. Stephen Delaney, Cha, 15.39, 2. Tra Ludeman, Cha, 16.50, 6. Zion Lee, Polson, 17.62.
300 hurdles - 1, Stephen Delaney, Cha, 41.19
400 relay - 4. Polson 46.62
1,600 relay - 2. Polson 3:36.7, 4. Charlo 3:44.5
Shot put - 1, Clark Rubel, Pol, 44-1, 3. Dale Big Sam, Pol, 43-0, 6. Riley Sampson, Pol, 41-6.
High jump - 2. Chance Rosenbaum, Cha, 6-0
Long jump - 2. Austin Bauer, Cha, 20-7
Triple jump - 6. Web O'Neill, Cha, 38-4 ½.
Pole vault - 1. Chance Rosenbaum, Cha, 12-6, 2. Zion Lee, Pol, 11-6, 3. Webb O'Neill, Cha, 11-6, 6. Drew Fouty, Pol, 10-6.

Vaughn High School Rodeo Results

Here are the results from the Vaughn High School Rodeo from last weekend, several rodeo athletes from the Mission Valley competed in it and here are their times.

Saturday
Barrels
Rebecca Lake - 16.06
Lexi Bagnell - 16.30

Poles
Rebecca Lake - 27.55
Lexi Bagnell - 22.60

Breakaway
Rebecca Lake - 4.74 10th
Lexi Bagnell - NT

Goat Tying
Rebecca Lake - 14.71
Lexi Bagnell - 10.82

Calf Roping
Wyatt Lytton - NT

Team Roping
Colton Johns (heading) Wyatt Lytton (heeling) 13.40 3rd

Sunday
Barrels
Rebecca Lake - 21.50
Lexi Bagnell - 16.34

Poles
Rebecca Lake - 27.28
Lexi Bagnell - 26.58

Breakaway
Rebecca Lake - NT
Lexi Bagnell - 4.34 3rd

Goat Tying
Rebecca Lake - 13.13
Lexi Bagnell - 9.51 3rd

Calf Roping
Wyatt Lytton - 19.43 11th

Team Roping
Colton Johns (heading) Wyatt Lytton (heeling) NT

Polson-Ronan Tennis Photos

Here are photos from the Polson-Ronan tennis matchup today in tennis. They got it in despite the rain, hail and cold temperatures.

Ronan Middle School Track Meet Photos

Here are some photos from the Ronan middle school track meets from today, congrats to all the kids that braved the treacherous weather.