13th Annual Raider Invitational

Raider Invitational hosted by Sugar River on Thursday May 8, 2008 at Belleville High School: Results


Eleven teams competed at the 13th annual Sugar River Invitational. Evansville and Clinton both D2 schools from the Rock Valley Conference finished 1-2 while D2 Sugar River and D3 Pecatonica-Argyle finished 3-4.


Hailey Meier [right] a junior from D3 Black Hawk finished first in the 100m dash event. Deerfield's Alyssa Rogers [far left] was second while Nikki Hollis [left] from Evansville took third.


In the 200m dash Leah Heimerl [above left] of Evansville took first followed by Stephanie Jahn [ above center] of Deerfield and Megan Neperud [above right] of Sugar River.

Haley Meier of Black Hawk became a double winner when she ran 1:02.5 to win the 400m dash event. Meier is pictured on left and above right. Rachel Miller of Sugar River came in second [left-Black jersey]. Above center: Third place finisher Nicolette Blumer of Albany [white jersey] and fifth place finisher Tanna Crull of Pecatonica - Argyle are shown on the backstretch.

Junior Elise Sigg [right and left-green jersey] of D3 Pecatonica - Argyle was a triple winner at the Sugar River Invitational. She won the 1600m [5:28.2], 800m [2:29.9] and was on the Viking 4x4 relay team which won in 4:21.3. On the left are Carly Brown [black jersey] from Sugar River who finished second in the 1600m and Waterloo's Cassie Forman who finished fourth.


Starter Loren Homb at the start of the 1600m race.

Senior Amanda Allen from Deerfield accomplished a 'PR' when she won the shot put with a throw of 36' 07. Allen is on the HR for the D2-D3 SP and discus events.

Above left: Amanda Allen of Deerfield who won the shot and placed second in the discus. Above center: Korie Klitzman of Evansville. Klitzman won the discus event. Above right: Alicia Kopp of Evansville came in second in the shot put. with a throw of 35' 10.


Black Hawk's Savannah Erzen [L] and Albany's Devan Brugger [Below-white jersey] both were clocked in 16.9 in the 100m HH finals. Brugger was judged the winner, Brugger also won the 300m LH's.


Alycia Krebs [R] of Clinton was third in the HH's.


Amber Rogers [Below-black jersey] is pictured in the preliminaries of the HH event. Rogers won the pole vault with a height of 9' 06.


Below: Finals of the 100m HH's.




Leah Heimerl [R] a junior from Evansville won the LJ and TJ events.


Teammate Rachel Bromley [L] was second in the LJ.


Emily Buchanan [not pictured] from Clinton won the HJ [5' 00.].



Blackhawk won the 4x1 relay. The relay runners were [L-R] Katie Place, Hailey Meier, Savannah Erzen, and Rachel Rygh. Below: Rachel Rygh hands off to anchor Hailey Meier.


Albany 4x2 relay runner Sydney Bump [above left]. Pecatonica - Argyle 4x2 anchor Ariel Noble [Above center]. The Pecatonica - Argyle Viking 4x2 relay team [L-R]: Kimee Chandler, Ariel Noble, Cassie Welch, and Holly Vlasak. A DQ prevented a first place by the Vikings in the 4x2. Deerfield won the 4x2 in 1:55.7.

The Sugar River Raider relay team ran a 10:20.9 to win the 4x8 event.


Sugar River 4x8 teammates above [L-R]: Anysia Secord, Rachel Miller, Carly Brown, and Alison Schmitz.