Trudgeon breaks 100 dash record, Speedboys win Bracket

By JASON JUNO

sports@yourdailyglobe.com

Bessemer --- Bessemer’s Tommy Trudgeon put his name in one record book Thursday and he’s hoping to rewrite a couple more before his senior season is finished.

His time of 11.60 seconds was the fastest 100-meter dash in the history of Bessemer’s Marcy Bracket Invitational.

“It was on my radar,” Trudgeon said. “I still got the school record to beat.”

The old record was 11.62 seconds, set by South Shore-Washburn’s Brett Bulovsky in 2014.

“It’s awesome, I am so happy for him,” Bessemer coach Valerie Aijala said.

The school record he’s referring to is 11.27 seconds set by Casey Trevarthen in 2006. He was closer at last week’s meet in Ashland at 11.40 seconds.

Trudgeon is also hoping to be a U.P. champion, and even a U.P. record holder. The fastest time in the history of the Division 3 race is 11.12 seconds.

He ran fast in Ashland despite the cold weather by Lake Superior and it wasn’t a lot warmer for the Bracket. Some favorable conditions and the rubberized track at the U.P. Finals in Kingsford should help him meet his goals, Aijala said.

“I think he’s really been putting time I know in the offseason with working out in the weight room and being in three sports,” she said of Trudgeon, who also won the 200 dash Thursday. “I know this year he did football (wide receiver), it really helped. I know Mr. (Nick) Heikkila was really working on getting him to sprint too for football. I just think he’s really been dedicated to putting in the extra time to getting faster for sprinting, especially for track, so that’s been big for us.”

The Speedboys won the team event with Ironwood finishing runner-up.

The throwers have been a big part of their success, led by Neal Rand, who won the discus and finished second in the shot put. He’s got his own shot and discus to practice at home on the farm. He hit the weight room, too, Aijala said.

“He throws out in the fields,” she said. “He bought his own stuff because he wants to get better and he practices at home.”

West Iron County won the girls meet with Ironwood runner-up.

The Wykons were led by standout Danica Shamion, who won the high jump and the 100, 200 and 400 dashes. She’s committed to the track-and-field program at Division I Central Michigan University.

The Devils’ Aubrey Smith won the 800 and 1,600 runs. Teammate Emma Worden placed first in both the shot put and discus.

The Ewen-Trout Creek girls finished third.

“I’m really happy for our little crew,” E-TC coach Brad Besonen said of his six-person team. “We didn’t see that coming at all this year in any of the meets we would go to, but things shook out right. Our girls performed very well, there were a lot of PRs in there. Leona (Schutz) and Bree (Besonen) running distance, there’s not a lot of kids sometimes in those distance races. They’re good at them and they run a full slate, so that gave us a lot of opportunities to get some points if they run well and they did. And just the people that were there for other schools worked out in our favor too to maximize the points we could get.”

Results

Girls

Team: 1. West Iron County 137, 2. Ironwood 119, 3. Ewen-Trout Creek 84, 4. Bessemer 79, 5. Baraga 58, 6. Washburn 48, 7. Ontonagon 42, 8. Wakefield-Marenisco 36, 9. Watersmeet 2.

4x800 relay: 1. Ewen-Trout Creek 11:11.16, 2. WIC 12:02.40, 3. Ironwood 12:15.30, 4. Wakefield-Marenisco 12:24.90.

100 hurdles: 1. Seanna Stine, WIC, 19.16; 2. Elise Delene, Baraga, 19.43; 3. Jenna Tarnowski, Ontonagon, 20.09; 4. Brown Fiszer, WIC, 20.22; 5. Skyla Ballew, Ironwood, 20.88; 6. Hannah Ferguson, E-TC, 20.89.

100 dash: 1. Danica Shamion, WIC, 13.27; 2. Violet Amos, Ontonagon, 13.68; 3. Lilyanna DeSousa, WIC, 14.64; 4. Brooke Stanislawski, Bessemer, 14.69; 5. Riley Graser, Ironwood, 14.73; 6. Akira Ruotsala, Ironwood, 15.02.

1,600 run: 1. Aubrey Smith, Ironwood, 5:52; 2. Sophie DesRochers, Baraga, 6:12.52; 3. Bree Besonen, E-TC, 6:14.77; 4. Leona Schutz, E-C, 6:32.13; 5. Iyla Lagalo, Ironwood, 6:36.03; 6. Aubrey Balduc, Ironwood, 7:00.01.

4x200 relay: 1. Bessemer 2:00.71, 2. Ironwood 2:02.81, 3. WIC 2:07.49, 4. Ironwood 2:08.37, 5. Washburn 2:08.53, 6. Baraga 2:10.19.

400 dash: 1. Danica Shamion, WIC, 1:00.81; 2. Violet Amos, Ontonagon, 1:03.53; 3. Jessica Chard, Washburn, 1:06.27; 4. Alyssa Shirkey, W-M, 1:09.74; 5. Summer Stites, Ontonagon, 1:10.63; 6. Bree Delich, Ironwood, 1:10.66.

4x100 relay: 1. Bessemer 57.97, 2. WIC 59.09, 3. Ironwood 59.59, 4. W-M 1:01.96, 5. Bessemer 1:02.64, 6. Washburn 1:02.80.

300 hurdles: 1. Seanna Stine, WIC, 56.32; 2. Rowyn Fiszer, WIC, 58.53; 3. Hannah Ferguson, E-TC, 58.88; 4. Jenna Tarnowski, Ontonagon, 59.20; 5. Vivian Holm, WIC, 1:03.13; 6. Skyla Ballew, Ironwood, 1:03.63.

800 run: 1. Aubrey Smith, Ironwood, 2:38.42; 2. Jessica Chard, Washburn, 2:41.85; 3. Sophie DesRochers, Baraga, 2:43.17; 4. Emma Besonen, E-TC, 2:44.87; 5. Bree Besonen, E-TC, 2:46.02; 6. Alyssa Shirkey, W-M, 2:46.15.

200 dash: 1. Danica Shamion, WIC, 27.67; 2. Violet Amos, Ontonagon, 28.48; 3. Alyssa DeCremer, E-TC, 30.85; 4. Keira Graham, Bessemer, 31.02; 5. Bella Cooley, Bessemer, 31.08; 6. Noelle Grace, W-M, 31.13.

3,200 run: 1. Greta Hart, Washburn, 13:29.36; 2. Bree Besonen, E-TC, 14:15.42; 3. Leona Schutz, E-TC, 14:29.26; 4. Malla Latvakoski, Washburn, 15:31.73; 5. Aubrey Balduc, Ironwood, 15:45.54; 6. Anneli Meyer, W-M, 16:18.

4x400 relay: 1. WIC 4:53.85, 2. Ironwood 5:05.31.

High jump: 1. Danica Shamion, WIC, 5-0; 2. Emily Johnston, Bessemer, 4-10; 3. Kaedyn Hendrickson, Bessemer, 4-8; 4. Noelle Grace, W-M, 4-4; 5. Audra Pawlak, Ironwood, 4-4; 5. Mikayla Pawlak, Ironwood, 4-4.

Pole vault: 1. Elise Delene, Baraga, 8-0; 2. Hanna Vaughn, Ironwood, 6-6; 3. Eiley Meski, WIC, 6-0.

Long jump: 1. Bella Cooley, Bessemer, 12-8; 2. Alyssa DeCremer, E-TC, 12-6; 3. Cheyenne Ritchie, WIC, 12-5; 4. Kaedyn Hendrickson, Bessemer, 12-2; 5. Piper Prior, WIC, 12-1; 6. Alexandreya Schiiller, Ironwood, 12-0.

Shot put: 1. Emma Worden, Ironwood, 32-9; 2. Bella Gaiser, Bessemer, 25-6; 3. Emma Besonen, E-TC, 25-1.5; 4. Mackenzie Montgomery, Bessemer, 25-1; 5. Allyssa Holley, Baraga, 24-11.5; 6. Reese Holley, Baraga, 24-10.5.

Discus: 1. Reese Holley, Baraga, 101-6; 2. Emma Besonen, E-TC, 92-9; 3. Delilah Means, Washburn, 88-3; 4. Emma Worden, Ironwood, 83-0; 5. Sidney Storti, WIC, 80-8; 6. Madelena Braucher, Ironwood, 71-3.

4x100 throwers relay (not scored): 1. Baraga 1:03.77, 2. Ironwood 1:03.78, 3. Bessemer 1:04.08, 4. WIC 1:13.78.

Boys

Team: 1. Bessemer 172, 2. Ironwood 150, 3. Washburn 115, 4. Ontonagon 55, 5. Wakefield-Marenisco 42, 6. Baraga 19, 7. West Iron County 14, 8. Ewen-Trout Creek 5, 8. Watersmeet 5.

4x800 relay: 1. Ironwood 9:35.57, 2. W-M 10:12.14, 3. Washburn 10:53.44.

110 hurdles: 1. Talon Hughes, Ironwood, 17.64; 2. Achilles Suri, Bessemer, 18.57; 3. Niko Amos, Ontonagon, 20.38; 4. Logan Holm, Ironwood, 20.62; 5. John Balchik, Ironwood, 24.06.

100 dash: 1. Tommy Trudgeon, Bessemer, 11.60; 2. Talon Hughes, Ironwood, 12.19; 3. Landon Peterson, Bessemer, 12.47; 4. Ayden Mattson, Washburn, 13.00; 5. Aidan Busch, Bessemer, 13.00; 6. Blake Shively, Watersmeet, 13.33.

1,600 run: 1. Zach Smith, Ironwood, 4:58.98; 2. Noah Verbos, Bessemer, 5:10.71; 3. Jack Nelson, Ontonagon, 5:17.62; 4. Thomas Blong, Washburn, 5:23.99; 5. Phoenix Jensen, Washburn, 5:28.33; 6. Daniel Tibaldo, Ironwood, 5:41.99.

4x200 relay: 1. Bessemer 1:37.62, 2. Ironwood 1:45.74, 3. Washburn 1:46.15, 4. W-M 1:46.76, 5. Ontonagon 1:47.88.

4x100 relay: 1. Bessemer 46.65, 2. Washburn 51.76, 3. Ironwood 56.42.

400 dash: 1. Abi Pestka, Ontonagon, 56.12; 2. Kurt Bissell, Ironwood, 56.57; 3. Alvin Holst-Larsen, Bessemer, 56.73; 4. Brody Majurin, Ontonagon, 57.06; 5. Gabriel Harju, Bessemer, 58.90; 6. Owen Miljevich, W-M, 1:00.39.

300 hurdles: 1. Vinnie Triggiano, Bessemer, 48.68; 2. Achilles Suri, Bessemer, 49.83; 3. Logan Holm, Ironwood, 50.65; 4. Niko Amos, Ontonagon, 52.15; 5. Logan Roush, Washburn, 54.45; 6. Nathan Jaunzems, Ironwood, 58.91.

800 run: 1. Joey Lauzon, Ironwood, 2:12.79; 2. Zach Smith, Ironwood, 2:23.73; 3. Jack Nelson, Ontonagon, 2:26.10; 4. Christian Besonen, E-TC, 2:34.90; 5. Will Vasser, Washburn, 2:37.78; 6. Mark Jaunzems, Ironwood, 2:37.81.

200 dash: 1. Tommy Trudgeon, Bessemer, 24.31; 2. Talon Hughes, Ironwood, 24.84; 3. Abi Pestka, Ontonagon, 25.36; 4. Jordan Libertoski, W-M, 25.89; 5. Leland Hollenbeck, Bessemer, 26.01; 6. Logan Holm, Ironwood, 26.19.

3,200 run: 1. Noah Verbos, Bessemer, 11:29.11; 2. Phoenix Jensen, Washburn, 11:54.72; 3. Daniel Tibaldo, Ironwood, 13:15.01; 4. Nathan Jaunzems, Ironwood, 14:05.19; 5. Alex Lopez, Ironwood, 15:43.96.

4x400 relay: 1. Washburn 3:52.68, 2. Bessemer 4:04.78, 3. Ironwood 4:08.82, 4. Ontonagon 4:11.85.

High jump: 1. Alvin Holst-Larsen, Bessemer, 5-0; 2. Calvin Weispfenning, Washburn, 4-10.

Pole vault: 1. Kaeden Werner, Washburn, 11-0; 2. Alvaro Castelo, Washburn, 9-6; 3. Leland Hollenbeck, Bessemer, 8-6; 4. Javier LeBouton-Chediack, Washburn, 8-6; 5. Logan Roush, Washburn, 7-6; 6. Mitchell Martin, Ironwood, 7-6.

Long jump: 1. Landon Peterson, Bessemer, 17-9; 2. Jordan Libertoski, W-M, 16-10; 3. Owen Miljevich, W-M, 16-4; 4. Ayden Mattson, Washburn, 16-3; 5. David Graveen, Ironwood, 15-4; 6. Samuel Sordahl, W-M, 14-6.

Shot put: 1. Tanner Nordstrom, WIC, 41-3.5; 2. Neal Rand, Bessemer, 38-6.5; 3. Javier LeBouton-Chediack, Washburn, 38-1; 4. Taven Lewis, Baraga, 38-0; 5. Ben Kaurala, Bessemer, 37-11; 6. Aidan Busch, Bessemer, 37-3.75.

Discus: 1. Neal Rand, Bessemer, 133-2; 2. Nate Sterbenz, Baraga, 122-1; 3. Taven Lewis, Baraga, 116-6; 4. Logan Gilbert, Washburn, 107-10; 5. Fabian Rosales, Washburn, 106-10; 6. Tanner Nordstrom, WIC, 105-0.

4x100 throwers relay (not scored): 1. Bessemer 57.60, 2. Ironwood 1:07.84.