Wilkens Debuts With Three Wins

TAKES HURDLE, HIGH JUMP EVENTS FOR EG

Freshman Chelsi Wilkens got her East Greene track career off to a good start with three first-place showings in two meets.

Wilkens won the 100 meter shuttle hurdles in her high school debut at the Richard Ryan Relays in Gowrie on April 4, the first meet of the season. Her time was 18.68. Wilkens also anchored East Greene’s winning 4 x 100 meter shuttle hurdle relay, which broke the tape in 1:22.42. Other members of the championship relay team are senior Tia Lowe and freshmen Emily Jacobsen and Brooke Popp.

Jaclyn Baldwin, a sophomore at Paton-Churdan, placed in three events at the meet, hosted by Prairie Valley (Gowrie). She was fourth in the 200 meters, 29.67; fifth in the 400 meters, 1:12.87; and sixth in the 100 meters, 14.21. Her placements gave PC 7 points in the team standings.

East Greene rounded its scoring in the team standings, 21 points, with a sixth place finish in the 4 x 100 meter relay in a time of 1:00.58.

Team Standings @ Gowrie: West Bend-Mallard 163, Prairie Valley (Gowrie) 151, Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer 88, Southeast Webster-Grand 76, Laurens-Marathon 33, Coon Rapids-Bayard 24, East Greene 21, Paton-Churdan 7.

Wilkens was a winner in a debut event again on April 18 when she took first in the high jump at the Southeast Webster-Grand Eagle Relays in Burnside with a jump of 4’10”. The shuttle hurdle relay had another good outing with a fourth-place finish at 1:21.92. The coed meet ended after the 100 meter hurdles due to the cold weather further complicated by rain and wind.

Team Standings @ Burnside: Woodward-Granger 108, South Central Calhoun (Rockwell City) 73, Southeast Webster-Grand 65, Newell-Fonda 47, Glidden-Ralston 28, East Greene 24, Coon Rapids-Bayard 22.

District track assignments were announced and East Greene will participate in the District 9 Class 1A meet at Manson. Other teams in addition to the host school, Manson-Northwest Webster, are Coon Rapids-Bayard, Glidden-Ralston, Madrid, Newell-Fonda, Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg), Paton-Churdan, Pocahontas/Palmer-Pomeroy, Southeast Webster-Grand, St. Mary’s (Storm Lake) and Woodward-Granger.

League opponents from the Rolling Hills Conference at District 6 in Guthrie Center are Adair-Casey, CAM (Anita), Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira, and Walnut. The combined Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian squad will compete at District 10 at Martensdale-St. Mary’s and Orient-Macksburg will be at District 3 at Creston.

The Rolling Hills Conference meet is tonight, May 2, at Panora. Nine teams will compete for the crown as ICA/ACA is a combined team. EHK/Exira is the returning champion.

Jefferson-Scranton will compete at the Class 2A district meet at Ida Grove with Audubon, East Sac County, IKM-Manning, Kuemper (Carroll), Logan-Magnolia, Maple Valley-Anton Oto, OA-BCIG (Ida Grove), Prairie Valley (Gowrie), South Central Calhoun and Tri-Center (Neola).