By JOHN VRANCIC

Escanaba Daily Press

STEPHENSON — Showing their strength in the distances, the Ishpeming boys won for the fourth time this spring with 157 points at the Stephenson Invitational track and field meet held Friday evening.

Norway was a distant runner-up with 89 points while Rapid River had 73.

“Our guys did good today,” Ishpeming coach P.J. Pruett said. “Our big insurance policy is our distance team and Gavin Sundberg and Matt Trawick did real well in the sprints.

“I’m very pleased with the way our team performed. They’ve been working hard.”

The Mid Peninsula girls got a chance to enjoy a victory lap after winning their half of the meet. The Wolverines presented Lauren Marshall with her first coaching victory by scoring 99 points. Rapid River edged Stephenson 84-77 1/2 for the runner-up spot as Ishpeming was ninth with 22.

“Our relays are real strong,” Marshall said. “Our handoffs were real good today. We’re also good in the distances.

“Daisy (Englund) is getting close to the school record in the 800 and we’re real proud of Landry (Koski). Not only did they do well in their races, our whole team did real well. Although Ishpeming brought only three girls.”

In the boys meet, the Hematites’ Jonah Broberg was a four-time winner, taking the 800-meter run in 2 minutes, 11.11 seconds, the 1,600 in 5:04.16 and the 3,200 in 10:53.34 while helping IHS win the 3200 relay in 9:10.23.

The Hematites’ Logan Kruhlik won the shot put with a heave of 44-feet-8 1/4.

Norway’s Mitch Legrave won the 200 and was runner-up in the 100 to Trawick by 0.07 of a second with the Ishpeming runner winning in 11.87 seconds. Evan Grosskopf added a first for the Knights in the 110 hurdles and David Loomis copped the pole vault.

“We did OK,” Norway coach Al Trudeau said. “Ishpeming has a very strong team.”

Rapid River senior Gunner Larson won the discus and Big Bay de Noc senior Alex LaLonde captured the high jump. Stephenson senior Montell Glover captured the 400 and anchored the winning 800 and 1,600 relays.

For the girls, Koski won the 400 in 1:06.61, along with the 1600 and 3200 and was runner-up to Englund in the 800.