TAKE 7th IN LONG JUMP, 8th IN HIGH JUMP
East Greene had its best showing in many years at the Iowa High School State Track Meet at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, May 19-21, with Reed Ostrander placing seventh in the long jump and Chelsi Wilkens tying for eighth in the high jump.
Ostrander’s leap of 20’8” gave East Greene 2 points in the Class 1A team standings—the first time in many years that EG has scored at state. Nick Efkamp of Madrid won the event with a new state record of 23’2.5”. Efkamp won four events to lead Madrid to its third straight 1A championship and fifth overall since 2002.
East Greene tied for 49th place with Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian, Hinton and Clay Central-Everly in the team standings.
Wilkens, a freshman, tied for eighth among 24 state finalists in the high jump with a 4’10” effort, giving the Hawkettes one-half point scoring in the team standings—the first points at state for EG in more than a decade.
Wilkens qualified for state at the district meet on Thursday, May 13, in Manson with a jump of 4’10”—good for second place behind Maddie Bardole of Woodward-Granger, who won with a 5’1” effort. Bardole took fourth at state with a 5’2” jump to pace Woodward-Granger to a seventh place finish in the team standings.
Ostrander, a sophomore, qualified for state at the district at Manson with a runner-up finish to Efkamp of Madrid. Efkamp, an Iowa State recruit, won with a 21’11 ¾” jump with Ostrander second at 20’ 10 ½”.
It was a very tough district with not just the defending two-time state champs from Madrid to contend with, but the host team from Manson-Northwest Webster was coming off a fifth-place finish from last year’s state meet.
Madrid repeated as district champions with 185 points with MNW in second with 142. MNW won the girls district title with 145.33 points, edging out Woodward-Granger with 140.
At the state meet, Manson-Northwest Webster moved up to the runner-up spot, scoring 53 points to Madrid’s state championship-winning 74 points. The third-place team, West Harrison (Mondamin), was nearly 20 points behind M-NW with 34—indicating how dominating the two teams from the Manson district were in the boys competition.
The Manson-Northwest Webster girls tied Corning for fifth place with 29 points at the state meet, just ahead of Woodward-Granger at 25.5.
WILKENS PLACES IN FOUR EVENTS
Wilkens paced the East Greene girls—a team comprised of just one senior and four freshmen—
to a 10th place finish among 12 teams with 24.33 points at the district meet on May 12. The EG boys finished tied for 7th among the same 12 teams with 30 points. It was the best finish for each of the boys and girls teams in many years.
Wilkens was third in the 100 meters, 14.16, and third in the 100 meter hurdles, 17.62. She anchored EG to a fifth place in the shuttle hurdle relay, 1:17.92. Senior Tia Lowe was the leadoff runner with Emily Jacobsen and Brooke Popp handling the second and third legs. Popp rounded out the scoring tying for eighth place in the high jump, 4’4”, giving EG 1/3 of a point.
Also competing were Shelby Cooklin, 15th in the shot put, 23’4” and Lowe in the 200 meter dash, 20.28 seconds, 13th place.
In the boys competition, senior Schyler Bardole closed out a successful track and EG sports career with a third-place finish in the 100 meter dash, 12.24 seconds. Madrid’s Efkamp won the district 100 meter crown, 11.52, with Blake Jesse of Newell-Fonda in second, 12.09. Efkamp went on to win the 100 at the state meet, 11.41, after running in 11.28 in the preliminaries.
Wes Onken was third in the discus, 124’8 ½”, and Harrison Johnston was eighth in the 400 meter dash, 58.94 seconds.
East Greene had a good showing in the relay events: distance medley relay (Bardole, Aaron Lyons, Ostrander, Broc Timm), fifth, 4:19.87; 4 x 100 meter relay (Gabe Bardole, Alex Gordon, Wyatt Beaman, Bret Kersey), seventh, 53.66; 4 x 400 meter relay (Johnston, T.J. Lint, Zack Dearborn, Zack Fouch), seventh, 4:10.43; and 4 x 200 meter relay (Ostrander, Lyons, Kersey and Schyler Bardole), eighth, 1:40.66.
Also participating at the district but not finishing in the top eight to score team points were Schyler Bardole, high jump, 16’4”, 13th; Tory Beger, discus, 98’5 ¾”, 15th; Joe Pena, shotput, 25’6 ¾”, 18th; Fouch, 200 meter dash, 28.41, 19th; Beger, 200 meter dash, 28.65, 20th; Gabe Bardole, 100 meter dash, 14.19, 21st; and Johnston and Dearborn in the high jump.
Paton-Churdan was also at the Manson district but had no state qualifiers. Taylor King finished fourth in the 1600 meter run, 5:00.96, and fourth in the 800 meter run, 2:20.87 to give PC 10 points in the team scoring.
BOYS TEAM STANDINGS AT MANSON: Madrid 185, Manson-Northwest Webster 142, Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer 82, Woodward-Granger 73, Newell-Fonda 50, Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg) 50, EAST GREENE 30, Glidden-Ralston 30, Coon Rapids-Bayard 26, St. Mary’s (Storm Lake) 12, Paton-Churdan 10, Southeast Webster-Grand 1.
Paton-Churdan girls finished 12th with 9 points. Jaclyn Baldwin was fifth in both the 200 meter dash and 400 meter dash, and Stephanie Thompson was eighth in the 3,200 run.
GIRLS TEAM STANDINGS AT MANSON: Manson-Northwest Webster 145.33, Woodward-Granger 140, Madrid 114, Pocahontas Area/Pomeroy-Palmer 68, Southeast Webster-Grand 60, Newell-Fonda 47.5, Glidden-Ralston 38.33, Northeast Hamilton (Blairsburg) 33.5, St. Mary’s (Storm Lake) 30, EAST GREENE 24.33, Coon Rapids-Bayard 21, and Paton-Churdan 9.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: This is not only the best showing at state in many years for both the EG girls and boys track teams, but it is probably the best showing ever for underclassmen in such intense competition. Ostrander, a sophomore, and Wilkens, just a freshmen, are off to impressive starts as East Greene athletes as their track success is just one of many accomplishments this school year.
Here’s a hats off to a great job by all the EG tracksters and track coaches for a terrific job this season!
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
EG Win 4 Events at Rolling Hills Meet
HAWKS, HAWEKTTES EACH FINISH IN 6TH PLACE
East Greene crowned four champions at the Rolling Hills Conference track meet Monday, May 9, at Panora.
Freshman Chelsi Wilkens won the 100 meter hurdles in 17.94 seconds, and she anchored EG’s championship shuttle hurdle relay. Senior Wes Onken won the discus with a throw of 129’10” and sophomore Reed Ostrander won the long jump with a 19’9 ¾” effort.
The Hawkettes and Hawks each finished in sixth place among the nine conference teams—the girls tying with Orient-Macksburg with 44 points and the boys finishing with 41 points. Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton took both the girls and boys titles.
The shuttle hurdle relay team of senior Tia Lowe and freshmen Emily Jacobsen, Brooke Popp and Wilkens took first with a time of 1:21.00. Wilkens had a good night as she also took second in the high jump, 4’8”, and second in the 100 meters, 13.82 seconds. Casey James of Orient-Macksburg won the event in 13.39 seconds and Jaclyn Baldwin of Paton-Churdan placed fifth in 14.09 seconds.
Other EG girls events that placed in the conference meet:
Fourth: Popp, high jump, 4’6”
Fifth: Jacbosen, 400 meter hurdles, 1:30.81; 4 x 100 meter relay (Lowe, Jacobsen, Shelby Cooklin, Popp), 1:02.69.
Other EG boys events that placed:
Fourth: Schyler Bardole, shot put, 37’9”; 4 x 800 meter relay (Harrison Johnston, T.J. Lint, Tory Beger, Broc Timm), 10:17.48; 4 x 100 meter relay (Wyatt Beaman, Bardole, Alex Gordon, Bret Kersey), 52.65.
Fifth: Johnston, high jump, 5-2; Bardole, 100 meter dash, 11.9; 4 x 200 meter relay (Ostrander, Lint, Aaron Lyons, Bardole), 1:40.59; 1600 meter medley relay, 4:20.45
Sixth: Beger, discus, 100’9”; Lint, long jump, 16, 4 ¾”
Paton-Churdan girls finished last with 17 points. In addition to finishing sixth in the 100 meters, Baldwin was third in the 200 meters, sixth in the 400 meters and she teamed up with Makayla Minnehan, Emma Tilley and anchor Stephanie Thompson to take fourth in the 4 x 400 meter relay. Thompson placed in all three distance events for PC. She was fifth in the 3,000 meters, sixth in the 1500 meters and sixth in the 800 meters.
Rolling Hills Conference Girls @ Panora: Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 160, Adair-Casey 90, Glidden-Ralston 72, CAM (Anita) 70, Walnut 49, East Greene and Orient-Macksburg 44, Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian 35, Paton-Churdan 17.
Taylor King of Paton-Churdan won the conference crown in the 1,600 meter run, 5:03.25. Also placing for the PC boys were King in the 800 meter run in sixth place and the 4 x 400 meter relay (Daniel Minnehan, King, Blake Murphy and Brandon Tilley) in fourth place.
Rolling Hills Conference Boys @ Panora: Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 148, Adair-Casey 116, Glidden-Ralston 78, Orient-Macksburg 64, CAM (Anita) 62, East Greene 41, Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian 32, Paton-Churdan 16, Walnut 1.
The EG boys were in action again on Friday, May 6, at the Bill Estrem Relays hosted by Ballard (Huxley). The Hawks finished seventh of eight teams in Class B, which featured two-time Class A state champion Madrid, which took the Class B team title with 161 points. Jefferson-Scranton won the Class A title, winning six events.
Estrem Relay Class A @ Ballard: Jefferson-Scranton 143, Boone 110, North Polk (Alleman) 87, Ballard 81, Gilbert 72, Nevada 56, Saydel 9.
Estrem Relays Class B @ Ballard: Madrid 161, St. Edmond (Fort Dodge) 154, Roland-Story 90, West Marshall 70, South Hamilton 41, Woodward-Granger 30, East Greene 10, Southeast Webster-Grand 1.
East Greene competed in the Gonzales-Parrish Invitational in Guthrie Center on April 28. The boys were last of nine teams with 20 points while the girls were last of eight teams with 3 points.
Ostrander was the highlight of the meet for East Greene as he won the long jump with a meet record leap of 19’10”. Bardole was fourth in the 100 and sixth in the 200, Johnston was fourth in the high jump, and Onken was sixth in the discus.
Wilkens finished fifth in the high jump and the 4 x 100 meter relay placed sixth for the girls scoring.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: The Hawkettes are faring well with just five team members while the Hawks are still “hitting their stride” (and leaps and throws) as they were shut out of competition for most of their earlier meets due to wet and cold weather. Ostrander and Wilkens are both having excellent seasons. Look for some of the Hawks to move up in their individual events—especially Bardole in the sprints and shot put—and for the 4 x 200 meter relay to be a force as the season ends.
EG has a busy week with the boys headed back to Guthrie Center tonight for an invitational meet and the girls participating at the South Central Calhoun Invitational in Lake City. Both teams will be looking for peak performances tonight in preparation for the district meet at Manson on Thursday.
East Greene crowned four champions at the Rolling Hills Conference track meet Monday, May 9, at Panora.
Freshman Chelsi Wilkens won the 100 meter hurdles in 17.94 seconds, and she anchored EG’s championship shuttle hurdle relay. Senior Wes Onken won the discus with a throw of 129’10” and sophomore Reed Ostrander won the long jump with a 19’9 ¾” effort.
The Hawkettes and Hawks each finished in sixth place among the nine conference teams—the girls tying with Orient-Macksburg with 44 points and the boys finishing with 41 points. Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton took both the girls and boys titles.
The shuttle hurdle relay team of senior Tia Lowe and freshmen Emily Jacobsen, Brooke Popp and Wilkens took first with a time of 1:21.00. Wilkens had a good night as she also took second in the high jump, 4’8”, and second in the 100 meters, 13.82 seconds. Casey James of Orient-Macksburg won the event in 13.39 seconds and Jaclyn Baldwin of Paton-Churdan placed fifth in 14.09 seconds.
Other EG girls events that placed in the conference meet:
Fourth: Popp, high jump, 4’6”
Fifth: Jacbosen, 400 meter hurdles, 1:30.81; 4 x 100 meter relay (Lowe, Jacobsen, Shelby Cooklin, Popp), 1:02.69.
Other EG boys events that placed:
Fourth: Schyler Bardole, shot put, 37’9”; 4 x 800 meter relay (Harrison Johnston, T.J. Lint, Tory Beger, Broc Timm), 10:17.48; 4 x 100 meter relay (Wyatt Beaman, Bardole, Alex Gordon, Bret Kersey), 52.65.
Fifth: Johnston, high jump, 5-2; Bardole, 100 meter dash, 11.9; 4 x 200 meter relay (Ostrander, Lint, Aaron Lyons, Bardole), 1:40.59; 1600 meter medley relay, 4:20.45
Sixth: Beger, discus, 100’9”; Lint, long jump, 16, 4 ¾”
Paton-Churdan girls finished last with 17 points. In addition to finishing sixth in the 100 meters, Baldwin was third in the 200 meters, sixth in the 400 meters and she teamed up with Makayla Minnehan, Emma Tilley and anchor Stephanie Thompson to take fourth in the 4 x 400 meter relay. Thompson placed in all three distance events for PC. She was fifth in the 3,000 meters, sixth in the 1500 meters and sixth in the 800 meters.
Rolling Hills Conference Girls @ Panora: Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 160, Adair-Casey 90, Glidden-Ralston 72, CAM (Anita) 70, Walnut 49, East Greene and Orient-Macksburg 44, Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian 35, Paton-Churdan 17.
Taylor King of Paton-Churdan won the conference crown in the 1,600 meter run, 5:03.25. Also placing for the PC boys were King in the 800 meter run in sixth place and the 4 x 400 meter relay (Daniel Minnehan, King, Blake Murphy and Brandon Tilley) in fourth place.
Rolling Hills Conference Boys @ Panora: Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton 148, Adair-Casey 116, Glidden-Ralston 78, Orient-Macksburg 64, CAM (Anita) 62, East Greene 41, Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian 32, Paton-Churdan 16, Walnut 1.
The EG boys were in action again on Friday, May 6, at the Bill Estrem Relays hosted by Ballard (Huxley). The Hawks finished seventh of eight teams in Class B, which featured two-time Class A state champion Madrid, which took the Class B team title with 161 points. Jefferson-Scranton won the Class A title, winning six events.
Estrem Relay Class A @ Ballard: Jefferson-Scranton 143, Boone 110, North Polk (Alleman) 87, Ballard 81, Gilbert 72, Nevada 56, Saydel 9.
Estrem Relays Class B @ Ballard: Madrid 161, St. Edmond (Fort Dodge) 154, Roland-Story 90, West Marshall 70, South Hamilton 41, Woodward-Granger 30, East Greene 10, Southeast Webster-Grand 1.
East Greene competed in the Gonzales-Parrish Invitational in Guthrie Center on April 28. The boys were last of nine teams with 20 points while the girls were last of eight teams with 3 points.
Ostrander was the highlight of the meet for East Greene as he won the long jump with a meet record leap of 19’10”. Bardole was fourth in the 100 and sixth in the 200, Johnston was fourth in the high jump, and Onken was sixth in the discus.
Wilkens finished fifth in the high jump and the 4 x 100 meter relay placed sixth for the girls scoring.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: The Hawkettes are faring well with just five team members while the Hawks are still “hitting their stride” (and leaps and throws) as they were shut out of competition for most of their earlier meets due to wet and cold weather. Ostrander and Wilkens are both having excellent seasons. Look for some of the Hawks to move up in their individual events—especially Bardole in the sprints and shot put—and for the 4 x 200 meter relay to be a force as the season ends.
EG has a busy week with the boys headed back to Guthrie Center tonight for an invitational meet and the girls participating at the South Central Calhoun Invitational in Lake City. Both teams will be looking for peak performances tonight in preparation for the district meet at Manson on Thursday.
Friday, May 14, 2010
EG Heads to Guthrie for District Meet
TOP PERFORMERS MOVE ON TO STATE @ DRAKE
East Greene tracksters head to Guthrie Center today for the district track meet. The Hawks will be facing stiff competition in one of toughest of the state’s 12 district meets in Class 1A.
In addition to East Greene and the host school, Guthrie Center, other girls and boys teams competing in the co-ed district meet are Adair-Casey, CAM (Anita), Coon Rapids-Bayard, Des Moines Christian, Earlham, Griswold, Madrid, Orient-Macksburg, Van Meter, Woodward Academy (boys only) and Woodward-Granger.
The Hawks went head-to-head with seven of those teams in the recent West Central Conference meet, which Madrid won going away. EG and Madrid both competed in the district at Southeast Webster-Grand at Burnside last year. Madrid won that district and then went on to win the state meet in Des Moines. So this will be a very tough district as Madrid looks even stronger than last year. Griswold is another strong team, having finished fifth at the state meet last year and winning several large meets this year, including the Western Iowa Conference meet, its fourth conference crown in the last five years.
EG will get a good look at three of next year’s Rolling Hills Conference competitors in Adair-Casey, CAM and Orient-Macksburg at the meet today. Woodward Academy, which is strong in several boys sports, rounds out the 13-team field on the boys’ side.
The first- and second-place winners will advance to the state meet at Drake Stadium in Des Moines on May 21 and 22.
In the girls meet, the same event is called a regional, and the winner of each event in the regional advances (12 total) to the state meet in Des Moines along with the 12 next best performances among all the regional competitors.
The Hawks tuned up for the district with meets last Thursday at Ballard (Huxley) and on Tuesday at Southern Cal (Lake City), a co-ed meet. Madrid was in the field with the Hawks in Class B at Ballard and won the event by one point over Roland-Story. It was a very competitive field with the returning state 1A champion (Madrid) and three solid class 2A teams—West Marshall, Roland-Story and South Hamilton.
EG scored 7 points with the 4 x 200 finishing fifth just behind Madrid. The three 2A teams swept the first three places in the 4 x 200 with West Marshall edging out Roland-Story at the tape for the win and both teams breaking the meet record.
Madrid took the 4 x 100 in another fast field as the Tigers (43.86) and the second- and third-place finishers, Roland-Story (43.89) and South Hamilton (44.03), all broke the meet record.
EG’s 4 x 100 relay finished fifth (48.96) and the 4 x 400 relay was sixth (4:11.75). Also finishing sixth were Reed Ostrander in the long jump (18-5.25) and Schyler Bardole in the shot put (39-8.5).
Jefferson-Scranton rolled to the title in Class A with 159 points, well ahead of runner-up Boone with 103.
Team scoring in Class B @ Ballard: Madrid 145, Roland-Story 144, West Marshall 120, South Hamilton 76, Woodward-Granger 49, Southeast Webster 13, EAST GREENE 7.
The Hawks finished 9th among 11 teams at Southern Cal with 22 points. The 4 x 100 relay improved its time to 47.96 for fifth with Woodward Academy wining the event in 44.66 and three Twin Lakes Conference teams finishing in the next three spots.
EG fared well in the field events as Wes Onken was third in the discus (129-02), Bardole fourth in the shot put (40-10) and Ostrander fifth in the long jump (17-4).
Bardole’s fourth place in the 100 meter dash (11.43) and Zach Hiller’s fourth place in the 200 meter dash (23.85) rounded out the scoring for the Hawks.
Boys team scoring @ Southern Cal: Woodward Academy 92, Manson-Northwest Webster 85, Prairie Valley 82, Rockwell City-Lytton 81, Southern Cal 69, Alta 44, Southeast Webster-Grand 35, Newell-Fonda 25, EAST GREENE 22, West Bend-Mallard/Twin River Valley 15, Paton-Churdan 8.
The Hawkettes were also in the field at Lake City and Bobbie Halterman took second in the 3,000 meter run (12:36.1) to give the Hawkettes 8 points. Stephanie Thompson of Paton-Churdan was fifth in the same event. PC’s Jaclyn Baldwin had a good showing with first place in the 100 meter dash (13.46) and fifth in the 400 meter dash (1:08.87). PC scored 14 points to finish just ahead of EG in eighth place in the nine-team field.
PC’s Taylor King had a mirror finish to Halterman, as he took second in the boys distance event, the 3,200 meter run (11.17.21), to give PC its eight points on the boys’ side.
Girls team scoring @ Southern Cal: Manson-Northwest Webster 177, Southern Cal 127, Guthrie Center 81.5, Rockwell City-Lytton 53, Southeast Webster-Grand 49.5, Alta 46, Newell-Fonda 29, Paton-Churdan 14, EAST GREENE 8.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: Halterman has really improved her times in recent meets and could contend for the top spot today at Guthrie and move on to state. She finished fourth at the conference meet behind Gabi Wilson of Des Moines Christian and two Panorama runners. The latter two will be in the 2A district, leaving Wilson and Halterman the top two place finishers among the eight West Central teams that are in the field at Guthrie. Wilson had a considerable lead over Halterman at that meet, 11:46.01 to 13:15.38 but Halterman has really dropped her time in just a week with her 12:36.1 showing at Lake City on Tuesday. The fastest time at the Rolling Hills Conference meet on May 3 on the same track was 12:33.86 by Chansea Nelson of Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira but EHK/E is in the district meet at Audubon. Griswold does not have a threat in the 3,000 so it should come down to Halterman and Wilson. Hopefully it will be a fast pace, so if Halterman should come in second or third, she could still qualify with a good at-large time.
The Hawks are solid in several key sprint events, but unfortunately, in each of those events Madrid has dominated. The Madrid-EG finish of fourth and fifth places in the 4 x 200 at Ballard was separated by five seconds, so EG has a pretty big gap to fill to catch up to the Tigers today in the district. Neither EG or Woodward Academy were in the field at Southern Cal on Tuesday so it’s hard to determine how Woodward Academy might fare in the event.
Woodward Academy will be solid competition to Madrid in the 4 x 100 as its time at Lake City is less than a second slower than Madrid’s time in Huxley. EG was three seconds behind Woodward Academy (47.67 to 44.66) and Madrid had a full five-second advantage over the Hawks at Ballard last week. In the conference meet, it was Madrid, Earlham, Panorama and EG taking the top four spots, so with Panorama out of the mix it looks like Madrid will be the heavy favorite with a number of teams jockeying for second place and the right to move on to state. Adair-Casey posted a time of 47.26 in winning the 4 x 100 in the Rolling Hills meet on the Guthrie track. Underwood won the Western Iowa Conference meet in 44.99 and Griswold was third with a time two seconds slower. So look for AC and Griswold to be in the mix for second place along with EG, Earlham and Woodward Academy.
Underwood was also the winner in the 4 x 200 relay at the WIC meet. Griswold though does not appear to be strong in that event but is pretty significant in the 4 x 400 and 1,600 medley relays. Orient-Macksburg won the 4 x 200 relay in the Rolling Hills meet at 1:40.72 so they will be a team to contend with for the Hawks, who ran 1:40.2 in their conference meet on the same track a day later. Madrid was disqualified in that event and Earlham and Guthrie Center finished 1-2 with times of 1:36.27 and 1:36.38. Panorama and West Central Valley finished 3-4 so they will not be a threat since they are in the 2A district at Tri-Center (Neola). EG will also have to contend with Woodward-Granger. EG had the advantage at the conference meet by 1.18 seconds and stayed ahead in the “battle of the Hawks” at Ballard but the difference had been whittled down to just .05 seconds.
Onken in the discus, Bardole in the shot put, and Ostrander in the long jump have all performed well this season with high placings in most meets, but again, Madrid has solid performers in all these events. Madrid’s Eric Simmons and Brock Hinkel were second and third in the conference meet in the discus. The winner was Seth VandeVoort from Des Moines Christian and the fourth place thrower was Andrew McCune from Woodward-Granger. Onken finished fifth, nine feet behind the WG thrower, so he will really need to uncork a all-out effort to finish first or second and move on to state.
Bardole will again be going up against Simmons and Tyler Ahrens of Madrid in the shot put. They took second and fourth in the conference meet and WG’s McCune’s third, just ahead of Colton Greer of Coon Rapids-Bayard (44-2.5) and Bardole (43-3.5) in fifth and sixth places among the 19 throwers. The winner was from Panorama, so that could be an advantage to one of the next five placings. Simmons made it to state last year and he threw 48-11 at the conference meet with the other four all within a 2.5-foot range of each other, from 45-10 to 43-3.5. Dayton Amdor of CAM is also solid as he won the Rolling Hills shot put crown at 46-10, and Demetrius Lloyd of Woodward Academy was second at Southern Cal on Tuesday at 43-0.5 while Bardole was fourth at 40-10.
Ostrander was just three inches from taking second at the conference meet. Madrid’s Nick Elfcamp, who is also a sprinter, took the event with a leap of 20-05 followed by Danny Clinton of DMC (18-11), Kaden Bruden of Van Meter (18-10.5 ), and Onken (18-8). Brendon McGinnis of Earlham and Jorge Spears of Woodward Academy are also competitive in this event. Elfcamp finished sixth at the state meet last year.
Jessie Priest will be going up against Michael Plasencia of Van Meter and Jeremy Johnson of Madrid in the 400 meter dash. Bardole ran a fast 11.42 at Lake City Tuesday after running 12.24 in the conference meet a week before, a time topped only by district competitors Louie Wickett of Madrid and Josh Arment of DMC. However, two of the three faster times at Lake City were posted by runners from Woodward Academy and AC’s Josh Cummings won the 100 at the RHC meet in 11.8, so Bardole will need to show even more improvement in this very strong field today at Guthrie. Wickett, who place sixth in the 100 at the state meet last year, won the conference meet in 11.21 and then posted an 11.16 at Ballard, good for second behind Aaron Arment of West Marshall, a 2A school.
While Madrid looks to be the hands-down favorite among the boys with most likely Griswold to finish second and Woodward Academy to take third, the situation is not nearly as clear-cut on the girls’ side. In a WIC meet sweep, Griswold also won the girls’ title, but Woodward-Granger has been particularly strong all season, finishing just 17 points behind WCC track power Panorama, the closest any team has come to the Lady Panthers in years. Earlham and Guthrie Center have also had strong meets this season, as had Des Moines Christian. So look for WG and Griswold to go head-to-head for the team championship.
While all eight 1A teams from the West Central are competing at Guthrie and the two 2A schools are at Tri-Center, the eight track teams in the Rolling Hills are all over the map. While CAM, AC and Orient-Macksburg are at Guthrie, Glidden-Ralston, Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira, and Walnut are at Audubon. Paton-Churdan heads to Burnside to compete with the same Twin Lakes 1A teams that were in Tuesday’s Lake City meet (SWG, RCL, MNW and Southern Cal) along with seven teams from north central and northern Iowa and Colo-Nesco from the other side of Ames. Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian (a shared program) heads to Martensdale-St. Mary’s along with Grandview Park Baptist of Des Moines. The rest of the field is from southern Iowa.
Jefferson-Scranton will be among the favorites in an eight-team boys 3A district meet in Atlantic after winning the Heart of Iowa-Large and several other large meets with 3A teams this season. Perry will compete in the 3A district at Dallas Center-Grimes, and Ogden will host Prairie Valley (Gowrie) and 10 other teams in a 2A district meet.
East Greene tracksters head to Guthrie Center today for the district track meet. The Hawks will be facing stiff competition in one of toughest of the state’s 12 district meets in Class 1A.
In addition to East Greene and the host school, Guthrie Center, other girls and boys teams competing in the co-ed district meet are Adair-Casey, CAM (Anita), Coon Rapids-Bayard, Des Moines Christian, Earlham, Griswold, Madrid, Orient-Macksburg, Van Meter, Woodward Academy (boys only) and Woodward-Granger.
The Hawks went head-to-head with seven of those teams in the recent West Central Conference meet, which Madrid won going away. EG and Madrid both competed in the district at Southeast Webster-Grand at Burnside last year. Madrid won that district and then went on to win the state meet in Des Moines. So this will be a very tough district as Madrid looks even stronger than last year. Griswold is another strong team, having finished fifth at the state meet last year and winning several large meets this year, including the Western Iowa Conference meet, its fourth conference crown in the last five years.
EG will get a good look at three of next year’s Rolling Hills Conference competitors in Adair-Casey, CAM and Orient-Macksburg at the meet today. Woodward Academy, which is strong in several boys sports, rounds out the 13-team field on the boys’ side.
The first- and second-place winners will advance to the state meet at Drake Stadium in Des Moines on May 21 and 22.
In the girls meet, the same event is called a regional, and the winner of each event in the regional advances (12 total) to the state meet in Des Moines along with the 12 next best performances among all the regional competitors.
The Hawks tuned up for the district with meets last Thursday at Ballard (Huxley) and on Tuesday at Southern Cal (Lake City), a co-ed meet. Madrid was in the field with the Hawks in Class B at Ballard and won the event by one point over Roland-Story. It was a very competitive field with the returning state 1A champion (Madrid) and three solid class 2A teams—West Marshall, Roland-Story and South Hamilton.
EG scored 7 points with the 4 x 200 finishing fifth just behind Madrid. The three 2A teams swept the first three places in the 4 x 200 with West Marshall edging out Roland-Story at the tape for the win and both teams breaking the meet record.
Madrid took the 4 x 100 in another fast field as the Tigers (43.86) and the second- and third-place finishers, Roland-Story (43.89) and South Hamilton (44.03), all broke the meet record.
EG’s 4 x 100 relay finished fifth (48.96) and the 4 x 400 relay was sixth (4:11.75). Also finishing sixth were Reed Ostrander in the long jump (18-5.25) and Schyler Bardole in the shot put (39-8.5).
Jefferson-Scranton rolled to the title in Class A with 159 points, well ahead of runner-up Boone with 103.
Team scoring in Class B @ Ballard: Madrid 145, Roland-Story 144, West Marshall 120, South Hamilton 76, Woodward-Granger 49, Southeast Webster 13, EAST GREENE 7.
The Hawks finished 9th among 11 teams at Southern Cal with 22 points. The 4 x 100 relay improved its time to 47.96 for fifth with Woodward Academy wining the event in 44.66 and three Twin Lakes Conference teams finishing in the next three spots.
EG fared well in the field events as Wes Onken was third in the discus (129-02), Bardole fourth in the shot put (40-10) and Ostrander fifth in the long jump (17-4).
Bardole’s fourth place in the 100 meter dash (11.43) and Zach Hiller’s fourth place in the 200 meter dash (23.85) rounded out the scoring for the Hawks.
Boys team scoring @ Southern Cal: Woodward Academy 92, Manson-Northwest Webster 85, Prairie Valley 82, Rockwell City-Lytton 81, Southern Cal 69, Alta 44, Southeast Webster-Grand 35, Newell-Fonda 25, EAST GREENE 22, West Bend-Mallard/Twin River Valley 15, Paton-Churdan 8.
The Hawkettes were also in the field at Lake City and Bobbie Halterman took second in the 3,000 meter run (12:36.1) to give the Hawkettes 8 points. Stephanie Thompson of Paton-Churdan was fifth in the same event. PC’s Jaclyn Baldwin had a good showing with first place in the 100 meter dash (13.46) and fifth in the 400 meter dash (1:08.87). PC scored 14 points to finish just ahead of EG in eighth place in the nine-team field.
PC’s Taylor King had a mirror finish to Halterman, as he took second in the boys distance event, the 3,200 meter run (11.17.21), to give PC its eight points on the boys’ side.
Girls team scoring @ Southern Cal: Manson-Northwest Webster 177, Southern Cal 127, Guthrie Center 81.5, Rockwell City-Lytton 53, Southeast Webster-Grand 49.5, Alta 46, Newell-Fonda 29, Paton-Churdan 14, EAST GREENE 8.
EYE ON GJ SAYS: Halterman has really improved her times in recent meets and could contend for the top spot today at Guthrie and move on to state. She finished fourth at the conference meet behind Gabi Wilson of Des Moines Christian and two Panorama runners. The latter two will be in the 2A district, leaving Wilson and Halterman the top two place finishers among the eight West Central teams that are in the field at Guthrie. Wilson had a considerable lead over Halterman at that meet, 11:46.01 to 13:15.38 but Halterman has really dropped her time in just a week with her 12:36.1 showing at Lake City on Tuesday. The fastest time at the Rolling Hills Conference meet on May 3 on the same track was 12:33.86 by Chansea Nelson of Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira but EHK/E is in the district meet at Audubon. Griswold does not have a threat in the 3,000 so it should come down to Halterman and Wilson. Hopefully it will be a fast pace, so if Halterman should come in second or third, she could still qualify with a good at-large time.
The Hawks are solid in several key sprint events, but unfortunately, in each of those events Madrid has dominated. The Madrid-EG finish of fourth and fifth places in the 4 x 200 at Ballard was separated by five seconds, so EG has a pretty big gap to fill to catch up to the Tigers today in the district. Neither EG or Woodward Academy were in the field at Southern Cal on Tuesday so it’s hard to determine how Woodward Academy might fare in the event.
Woodward Academy will be solid competition to Madrid in the 4 x 100 as its time at Lake City is less than a second slower than Madrid’s time in Huxley. EG was three seconds behind Woodward Academy (47.67 to 44.66) and Madrid had a full five-second advantage over the Hawks at Ballard last week. In the conference meet, it was Madrid, Earlham, Panorama and EG taking the top four spots, so with Panorama out of the mix it looks like Madrid will be the heavy favorite with a number of teams jockeying for second place and the right to move on to state. Adair-Casey posted a time of 47.26 in winning the 4 x 100 in the Rolling Hills meet on the Guthrie track. Underwood won the Western Iowa Conference meet in 44.99 and Griswold was third with a time two seconds slower. So look for AC and Griswold to be in the mix for second place along with EG, Earlham and Woodward Academy.
Underwood was also the winner in the 4 x 200 relay at the WIC meet. Griswold though does not appear to be strong in that event but is pretty significant in the 4 x 400 and 1,600 medley relays. Orient-Macksburg won the 4 x 200 relay in the Rolling Hills meet at 1:40.72 so they will be a team to contend with for the Hawks, who ran 1:40.2 in their conference meet on the same track a day later. Madrid was disqualified in that event and Earlham and Guthrie Center finished 1-2 with times of 1:36.27 and 1:36.38. Panorama and West Central Valley finished 3-4 so they will not be a threat since they are in the 2A district at Tri-Center (Neola). EG will also have to contend with Woodward-Granger. EG had the advantage at the conference meet by 1.18 seconds and stayed ahead in the “battle of the Hawks” at Ballard but the difference had been whittled down to just .05 seconds.
Onken in the discus, Bardole in the shot put, and Ostrander in the long jump have all performed well this season with high placings in most meets, but again, Madrid has solid performers in all these events. Madrid’s Eric Simmons and Brock Hinkel were second and third in the conference meet in the discus. The winner was Seth VandeVoort from Des Moines Christian and the fourth place thrower was Andrew McCune from Woodward-Granger. Onken finished fifth, nine feet behind the WG thrower, so he will really need to uncork a all-out effort to finish first or second and move on to state.
Bardole will again be going up against Simmons and Tyler Ahrens of Madrid in the shot put. They took second and fourth in the conference meet and WG’s McCune’s third, just ahead of Colton Greer of Coon Rapids-Bayard (44-2.5) and Bardole (43-3.5) in fifth and sixth places among the 19 throwers. The winner was from Panorama, so that could be an advantage to one of the next five placings. Simmons made it to state last year and he threw 48-11 at the conference meet with the other four all within a 2.5-foot range of each other, from 45-10 to 43-3.5. Dayton Amdor of CAM is also solid as he won the Rolling Hills shot put crown at 46-10, and Demetrius Lloyd of Woodward Academy was second at Southern Cal on Tuesday at 43-0.5 while Bardole was fourth at 40-10.
Ostrander was just three inches from taking second at the conference meet. Madrid’s Nick Elfcamp, who is also a sprinter, took the event with a leap of 20-05 followed by Danny Clinton of DMC (18-11), Kaden Bruden of Van Meter (18-10.5 ), and Onken (18-8). Brendon McGinnis of Earlham and Jorge Spears of Woodward Academy are also competitive in this event. Elfcamp finished sixth at the state meet last year.
Jessie Priest will be going up against Michael Plasencia of Van Meter and Jeremy Johnson of Madrid in the 400 meter dash. Bardole ran a fast 11.42 at Lake City Tuesday after running 12.24 in the conference meet a week before, a time topped only by district competitors Louie Wickett of Madrid and Josh Arment of DMC. However, two of the three faster times at Lake City were posted by runners from Woodward Academy and AC’s Josh Cummings won the 100 at the RHC meet in 11.8, so Bardole will need to show even more improvement in this very strong field today at Guthrie. Wickett, who place sixth in the 100 at the state meet last year, won the conference meet in 11.21 and then posted an 11.16 at Ballard, good for second behind Aaron Arment of West Marshall, a 2A school.
While Madrid looks to be the hands-down favorite among the boys with most likely Griswold to finish second and Woodward Academy to take third, the situation is not nearly as clear-cut on the girls’ side. In a WIC meet sweep, Griswold also won the girls’ title, but Woodward-Granger has been particularly strong all season, finishing just 17 points behind WCC track power Panorama, the closest any team has come to the Lady Panthers in years. Earlham and Guthrie Center have also had strong meets this season, as had Des Moines Christian. So look for WG and Griswold to go head-to-head for the team championship.
While all eight 1A teams from the West Central are competing at Guthrie and the two 2A schools are at Tri-Center, the eight track teams in the Rolling Hills are all over the map. While CAM, AC and Orient-Macksburg are at Guthrie, Glidden-Ralston, Elk Horn-Kimballton/Exira, and Walnut are at Audubon. Paton-Churdan heads to Burnside to compete with the same Twin Lakes 1A teams that were in Tuesday’s Lake City meet (SWG, RCL, MNW and Southern Cal) along with seven teams from north central and northern Iowa and Colo-Nesco from the other side of Ames. Iowa Christian/Ankeny Christian (a shared program) heads to Martensdale-St. Mary’s along with Grandview Park Baptist of Des Moines. The rest of the field is from southern Iowa.
Jefferson-Scranton will be among the favorites in an eight-team boys 3A district meet in Atlantic after winning the Heart of Iowa-Large and several other large meets with 3A teams this season. Perry will compete in the 3A district at Dallas Center-Grimes, and Ogden will host Prairie Valley (Gowrie) and 10 other teams in a 2A district meet.
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