Iron Mountain’s Courtney Partello, left, runs neck and neck with Newberry’s Maddie Grigg during the 800-meter relay event during the Division 2 track meet Wednesday at the Superior Dome in Marquette. (Rachel Oakley/The Mining Journal)

MARQUETTE — Mother Nature hasn’t quite cooperated with the spring sports season in the Upper Peninsula thus far, but that wasn’t a problem on Wednesday as 10 high school track and field teams took to the Superior Dome for a Division 2 meet.

Ishpeming took overall team victories on both the boys and girls sides, with the boys scoring 91 points and the girls scoring 111.

Iron Mountain finished second on both sides with 86 points on the boys side and 90 on the girls side. Newberry rounded out the boys podium in third with 83.75 while Manistique was third on the girls side with 62 points.

Iron Mountain’s Olivia Berutti took first in the 55-meter hurdles at 9.59. She also won the 200 dash at 28.70.

Taylor Talerico took first with a time of 7.83.

The Iron Mountain boys won the 3200 relay at 9:11.37. The Mountaineers also took the 1600 relay at 3:51.55.

Charlie Gerhard took first in the 55 hurdles at 8.42. He won the high jump at 5 feet, 11 inches.

Michael Kulas took first in the 1600 at 4:59.82.

Ishpeming head coach P.J. Pruett said it was nice to get into an actual meet after training indoors for the last several weeks and the Hematites’ first meet at Menominee being canceled on April 12.

“The Ishpeming track has about five feet of snow on it,” he said. “I’m glad to be in the Dome because we’re basically in our fifth week of inside workouts. This is our first meet of the year and overall, the boys look really good. We’ve got a lot of young boys. The girls look really tough right now. We don’t have many (girls) but they’re very hard workers and they’re doing a really good job.”

Ishpeming senior hurdler Katie Loman finished second in the 55-meter hurdle event with a time of 9.92.

Loman said hitting a track for the first time this season took some time to adjust to after weather forced indoor training.

“It feels pretty good, but it’s really different because we haven’t been able to get on the track at all this year, so this is the first time we’ve been able to get on a track,” she said. “Especially since I do hurdles, it was a lot different going to a track from a gym floor.”

Loman added that the low numbers on the girls team means the Hematites need to strive even further for success.

“We came into this meet wanting to win and knowing that we really had to strive because we’re really short on girls,” she said. “So knowing we’re all doing four events and we’re all pushing our limits, that’s really cool.”

Loman also took first place in the 400 dash with a time of 1:11.29. Ishpeming freshman Madisyn Mead finished third in the hurdles event.

Other notable results on the girls side include Gwinn junior Mallory Delmont taking third place in the 55-meter dash with a time of 8.20.

Delmont said it feels good to be on the track again and has some high expectations for a successful season, particularly on the relay teams.

“It was a lot harder running inside since we haven’t been able to do anything really,” she said. “But it feels good to be back running.

“We should do pretty good this year. We took second last year with our 400-relay team at U.P.s so we have pretty high expectations for this upcoming season.”

Gwinn head coach Justin Ellman said things are looking up for his young roster.

“It’s hard not being able to run outside at all,” he said. “Practicing in school hallways and in the gym and everything. So the kids are a little unconditioned but it’s the first meet of the year so things can only get better.

“We’ve got a lot of young kids on the team but once they get a little more experience they’re going to do really good.”

Other results include Ishpeming’s Kayla Koski taking first place in the 800-meter dash and long jump. Gwinn’s Brooke Mannor finished fifth in the 400-meter and Ishpeming’s Chloe Sjoholm finished third in the 800 run. Ishpeming also took victories in the 4×200 and 4×400 relays.

On the boys side, Ishpeming’s Kyle Pruett took first in the 800 run with a time of 2:21.19. Fellow Hematites Jordan Longtine and David Liimatta took fourth and fifth in that event.

The Hematites also had a 1-2 finish in the 3200 race with Spencer Giroux taking first and Jonah Broberg taking second. Both had times of 11:12. with Giroux edging his teammate by 0.63 seconds.