Gilles notches pair of firsts, Freyholtz, Elsner take crowns

Warren Bowlus Open results | Heptathlon results

MENOMONIE (January 27, 2018) -  Andrew Gilles was part of two first place finishes as UW-Stout hosted the Warren Bowlus Open Saturday at the Sports and Fitness Center.

Andrew Gilles topped a field of 30 in the 800-meter run with a time of 1-minute, 57.56-seconds teamed up with and Cody Lohrenz, Ross Thompson and Brent Heilman to win the 4x400-meter relay in a time of 3:29.15.

Sam Elsner toyed with the school record book in the weight throw, coming up just a little over two inches short of the school record in winning the event. Elsner hit a distance of 62-3, just short of Mike Lihrman's mark of 62-5.25. Elsner was second in the shot put in 55-4.25 which was just short of Jason Lehman's 20-year-old school record of 56-0.
 
Josh Freyholtz won the pole vault with a height of 15-1.

Stout will be at the Bethel University Gene Glader Invitational, Saturday, Feb. 3 starting at 10:30 a.m. in St. Paul, Minn.

Sprints

• Freshmen Brent Heilman and Mackenson Steinburg finished fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 60-meter dash, with Heilman posting a time of 7.19 seconds and Steinburg at 7.24. Jasiah Scott ran a 7.46 and Jack Hoaby a 7.55.
• In the 200-meter, freshman Cody Lohrenz finished third (22.91) and senior Ross Thompson was ninth (23.20). Scott placed 21st (23.96), Brandon Hernandez 29th (24.37) and Noah Bielinski 36th (24.64) of 55 runners
• In the 400-meter, Nick Wilkerson was 12th (54.15), Jude Pelowski 14th (54.39), Seth Plenge 16th (55.78) and Dillon Keller 17th (55.95).

Middle Distance

• Gilles led four Stout runners in the 800-meter run. Kody Radtke was fifth (2:00.21), Jake Houghton seventh (2:00.53) and David Rosenlund 19th (2:04.71). There were 30 runners over four heats.
• Sam Wouters finished 12th in the mile run (4:38.00). Andrew Klavekoske was 15th (4:47.42) and Cole Harty 17th (4:49.43).

Distance

• Mike Friedman was fourth in the 3000-meter run in a time of 8:40.48. Zach Zimmerman was 10th (8:50.28), Trevor Blum 11th (8:51.10), Nick Zolendek 14th (8:56.73), Mike Fifield 16th (9:00.37) and Dan Ressler 18th (9:01.95). Forty-three runners competed.

Relays

• Stout had four teams entered in the 4x400-relay. In addition to taking the top spot the team of Radtke, Wouters, Klavekoske, and Houghton were fourth (3:36.02), the team of Jack Hoaby, Wilkerson, Plenge and Isaac Seibold was 10th (3:41.62) and the team of Steinberg, Isaac Lee, Harty and Rosenlund placed 12th (3:48.04).

Jumps

• Robert Mesenburg matched Freyholtz's mark of 15-1 in the pole vault, but finished second on misses. Jack Kolar and Brenden Buryska were sixth and seventh, respectively, with a mark of 13-7.25. Aric Varani was ninth (13-1.50).
• Lee was eighth in the long jump (19-7) and Jack Kolar 12th (18-9.75).
• Freyholtz was Stout's top finisher in the triple jump, finishing third (42-8). Lee was fifth (40-6.75).

Throws

• Elsner was second in the shot put (55-4.25). Anton Proksch was fourth (46-3.50) and Kevin Ruechel was seventh (42-5.25).
• Elsner dominated the weight throw, going nearly 10 feet further than second place finisher Gunnar Melin of Augsburg (52-9.25). Proksch finished third (51-9). Team captain Duncan Magerl was sixth (48-8.75), Ruechel was seventh (47-10), Alec Benzinger ninth (45-1.75) and Jacob Bugelle 17th (38-5).

Hepthathlon

• Freshmen Alex Grulkowski and Noah Zastrow both performed their first collegiate heptathlon. Grulkowski finished sixth with 4404 points and Zastrow finished with 4280 points.