Prep Track and Field- It was busy Thursday night for high school Track and Field with meets placed all over Iowa. Some of our local teams made the trip to Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont for the Ike Ryan Relays and another group competed at the Gardner-Wilson Relays at Louisa-Muscatine. Here’s some of the highlights.
Gardner-Wilson Relays
Much like they have all season, the Columbus boys’ team collected points like it was going out of style, finishing with the crown with 189 points, while Van Buren County took 2nd place with 123 points. West Burlington/Notre Dame took 3rd place with 80 points.
Lamar Ceant has been on a tear in his sophomore campaign as be blazed his way to a 1st place time of 22.42 seconds to win the 200-meter dash and the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.8 seconds for Columbus.
Ty Muniz outpaced the field in the 1600-meter run with a time of 4 minutes and 46 seconds and the 3200-meter run with a time of 10 minutes and 14 seconds for the Wildcats. In the field events, Riley Kaalberg outjumped everyone in the long jump with a distance of 20 feet and 2.5 inches.
The Falcons watched Landry Haberichter fly to the gold in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.09 seconds followed closely behind by Ceant of Columbus. That speed led to a win in the 4×100 meter relay with a time of 44.66 seconds. Logan Hamma won the 400-meter hurdles with a sub-one-minute time.
Mason Watkins hovered to a win in the high jump for WB/ND with a height of 6 feet.
Van Buren County’s Lincoln Bainbridge, a fine distance runner, displayed his endurance speed with a win in the 400-meter dash with a time of 50.92 seconds. The Warriors went on to win the 4×200, 4×400, and sprint medley relays.
Wapello’s Kolton Small swept the throwing events, heaving the shot put 49 feet and tossing the discus 135 feet, just one inch further than Hayden Cantrell of Louisa-Muscatine.
On the girls’ side, West Burlington fielded 2nd place with 100 points, followed closely behind by Van Buren County’s 98.5 points and Central Lee took 4th place with 75.5 points.
Ady Lamm led the Falcons with a 1st place time of 13.39 seconds in the 100-meter dash. Kaitlynn Kipp had enough separation to win the 800-meter run with a time of 2 minutes and 33 seconds. WB/ND grabbed 1st place in the shuttle hurdle relay.
Van Buren County won the 4×100 meter relay.
Central Lee’s Allsion Gruntmeir was victorious in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 17.7 seconds, while Kamryn Cox swiped the 400-meter hurdles, clocking a time of 1 minute and 16 seconds. Aubrey Weber easily took the discus with a throw of 109 feet and 3.5 inches.
Columbus took the 4×200 meter relay. Isabella Forbes tossed the shot 33 feet and 4 inches to take home the gold in the shot put.
Ike Ryan Relays
Mediapolis performed well over at Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont, winning the 4×100 meter relay with a time of 44.2 seconds and the 4×200 meter relay with a time of 1 minute and 32 seconds.
Will Schmidgall took the 800-meter run with a time of 2 minutes and 4 seconds. His success parlayed into a victory in the sprint medley relay with a mark of 1 minute and 28 seconds.
Simon Wendel grabbed 1st place in the 1600-meter run by over six seconds with a time of 4 minutes and 45 seconds along with the 3200-meter run with a time over a minute faster than second place (10 minutes and 17 seconds).
In the field events, Nathan Schmidgall took home the long jump with a leap of 20 feet and 7.25 inches, while Lathan Keller tied for 1st place in the high jump with a height of 6 feet.
Fairfield’s lone victory belonged to Spencer McCready in the 110-meter hurdles, lunging out Mt. Pleasant’s Keegan Heaton by five-tenths of a second with a mark of 16.24 seconds.
The Panthers finished with the silver in four events.