Eagles Win Door County Classic Harris Cup

Southern Door’s Damontrae Meeks (left) clears a hurdle in front of Sturgeon Bay’s Ozzie Langfeldt in the boys 300-meter hurdles during Monday’s Door County Classic at Sevastopol. Photo by Kevin Boneske.

All four of Door County’s mainland high schools got together Monday in Sevastopol to compete in the annual Door County Classic track-and-field meet.

Southern Door scored the most points in the boys’ and girls’ results, with the combined total winning the Harris Cup – named after the late Chan Harris, longtime publisher and editor of the Door County Advocate. 

The Eagle boys, who placed first in 11 of the 18 events, topped the team standings with 125 points, followed by Sturgeon Bay (84), Gibraltar (28) and Sevastopol (25).

Southern Door’s girls, who won five events, tallied 95.5 points, followed by Sturgeon Bay (87), Sevastopol (42.5) and Gibraltar (33).

The meet’s top athletes were recognized based on scoring the most points in the maximum of four events they were allowed to compete in.

There was a three-way tie for the top athlete among the boys at 18 points, which included:

• Gibraltar senior Braden Sitte, who won the high jump (6 feet), and placed second in the 100-meter dash (11.82 seconds), 200 dash (24.0) and long jump (19-3).

• Southern Door junior Ben Grota, who won the 800 run (2:08.05), 1600 run (4:55.09) and 3200 run (10:34.91).

• Southern Door senior Alaric Urban, who won the long jump (20-7.5) and triple jump (39-6), and placed third in the 100 dash (11.83) and 200 dash (24.58). 

The girls’ top athlete, Southern Door sophomore Frankie Nellis, also tallied 18 points when she won the long jump (15-1.25) and triple jump (31-6.75), and placed third in the 100 dash (13.5) and 200 dash (28.01).

Other individual winners among the boys from Southern Door included senior Zack Lynch in the 100 dash (11.38) and 200 dash (23.22); sophomore Damontrae Meeks in the 300 hurdles (45.11); and sophomore Grant Pieschek in the pole vault (12-0).

Southern Door’s boys also won the 4×200 (1:40.76) and 4×400 (3:56.68) relays.

Surgeon Bay’s four individual winners among the boys included senior Chase Hasenjager in the 400 dash (54.56), junior Ozzie Langfeldt in the 110 hurdles (17.44), junior Braden Evers in the shot put (47-9.5) and senior Gannon Evers in the discus (127-5). 

The Clipper boys also won the 4×100 (48.97) and 4×800 (9:34.79) relays.

Sturgeon Bay’s girls recorded seven first-place individual finishes, with senior Julia Kurek in the 1600 run (5:42.96) and 3200 run (12:40.61); junior Ella Tarkowski in the 100 dash (13.15), junior Tiviana Andropolis in the 200 dash (27.36); junior Cady Carlson in the 400 dash (1:03.62); senior Jade Tomberlin in the 800 run (2:38.49); and senior Gabriella Luett in the discus (82-7)

The Clipper girls also won the 4×100 (53.72) and 4×800 (12:07.75) relays.

In addition to the two first places by Nellis, the winning finishes for Southern Door’s girls included: freshman Elise Jackson in the 300 hurdles (49.99), Danica Neville in the pole vault (8-6) and the 4×400 relay (4:37.89).

Gibraltar senior McKailey Reisen won both the 100 hurdles (16.47) and high jump (5-0), the two events she qualified for state last year.

Sevastopol’s girls got their two first-place finishes from senior Cassie Rankin in the shot put (29-5) and in the 4×200 relay (1:57.12)