MIDDLETON - The signature event for the Monroe boys track team continues to be the 3,200-meter relay.
Monroe senior Cody Faust teamed with Monroe junior Thang Lu, freshmen Jonah Tostrud and Dylan Scace to win the 3,200 relay at the Badger South Conference meet Tuesday with a time of 8 minutes, 15.42 seconds.
"Monona Grove thought they could win it," Monroe boys track coach Curt Miller said of the 3,200 relay. "Our kids did a great job of competing. I think they have higher expectations when it gets to regional and sectional time."
Monona Grove ran away with the conference title 169-139 over Oregon. Monroe (50 points) finished last place out of seven teams.
"You see a seventh place and some people will wonder what happened," Miller said. "We are in a really tough conference. We have a young team. We don't have the firepower we have had the previous few years. There is no disappointment with today. We are a young team that in a couple of years will contend."
Faust finished second place in the 400 (52.33).
"He ran a good race knowing that he would have to come back and run the 4x400," Miller said.
Faust teamed with Jason Koller, Lu and Alex Koller to take second place in the 1,600 relay (3:33.98). Oregon won the 1,600 relay with a time of 3:29.24.
"Oregon was at a different level in that race," Miller said. "They battled and ran a good time after many of them had run three other events."
Lu took fourth place in the 800 (2:01.52).
Monroe junior Mitch Keith cleared 11-6 to finish fifth place in the pole vault. He made the same height Fort Atkinson's Dylan Gray, who took third place, but it came down to misses on the tiebreaker.
Monroe freshman Brayden Zettle finished sixth place in the triple jump with a jump of 40-5. It marked Zettle's personal-record by two feet.
"In a few years you will be writing down Brayden Zettle's name a lot more," Miller said.
Monroe will run in the WIAA Division 2 McFarland regional Tuesday.
Monroe senior Cody Faust teamed with Monroe junior Thang Lu, freshmen Jonah Tostrud and Dylan Scace to win the 3,200 relay at the Badger South Conference meet Tuesday with a time of 8 minutes, 15.42 seconds.
"Monona Grove thought they could win it," Monroe boys track coach Curt Miller said of the 3,200 relay. "Our kids did a great job of competing. I think they have higher expectations when it gets to regional and sectional time."
Monona Grove ran away with the conference title 169-139 over Oregon. Monroe (50 points) finished last place out of seven teams.
"You see a seventh place and some people will wonder what happened," Miller said. "We are in a really tough conference. We have a young team. We don't have the firepower we have had the previous few years. There is no disappointment with today. We are a young team that in a couple of years will contend."
Faust finished second place in the 400 (52.33).
"He ran a good race knowing that he would have to come back and run the 4x400," Miller said.
Faust teamed with Jason Koller, Lu and Alex Koller to take second place in the 1,600 relay (3:33.98). Oregon won the 1,600 relay with a time of 3:29.24.
"Oregon was at a different level in that race," Miller said. "They battled and ran a good time after many of them had run three other events."
Lu took fourth place in the 800 (2:01.52).
Monroe junior Mitch Keith cleared 11-6 to finish fifth place in the pole vault. He made the same height Fort Atkinson's Dylan Gray, who took third place, but it came down to misses on the tiebreaker.
Monroe freshman Brayden Zettle finished sixth place in the triple jump with a jump of 40-5. It marked Zettle's personal-record by two feet.
"In a few years you will be writing down Brayden Zettle's name a lot more," Miller said.
Monroe will run in the WIAA Division 2 McFarland regional Tuesday.
