EDDYVILLE — Relays powered Pella Christian’s girls to a third-place team finish at Tuesday’s Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont Girls Relays.
The Eagles won two relay races and ran second in three others. They had 82 points as a team, finishing behind Davis County with 163 and host Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont with 121.
Picking up a gold medal for the Eagles was the 4x200-meter relay team of Morgan Anderson, Leah Breon, Christa Veenstra and Sarah Meyer in 1 minute, 52.83 seconds. Breon, Veenstra and Meyer combined with Kathryn Van Tuyl to claim first in the sprint medley relay race in 1:55.30.
Van Tuyl, Meyer and Breon teamed with Taylor Bolt for a second-place finish in the 4x100-meter relay race in 53.58 seconds. In the 4x400-meter relay race, Anderson, McKinley Zula, Bolt and Veenstra came in second in 4:37.13.
Pella Christian’s distance medley relay foursome of Meyer, Breon, Anderson and Alyssa Starkey finished in second place at 4:41.22. Zula, Courtney Nikkel, Cara Theune and Marina Shannon combined for a third-place finish in the 4x800-meter relay in 11:26.64.
Shannon captured the silver medal in the 800-meter run in 2:40.63 with Nikkel running seventh in 2:53.69. Starkey took third in the 1,500-meter run in 5:38.86 and Shannon was fourth in 5:43.63.
Abby Van Soelen turned in a third-place performance in the 3,000-meter run in 13:37.36. Damaris Worthington placed sixth in 14:21.90.
Van Tuyl finished fifth in the 100-meter dash in 13.72 seconds with Bolt coming across the finish line in eighth at 14.36. Bolt took fifth in the 200-meter dash in 30.13 and Julia Dykstra placed seventh in 30.21.
Alec Breon ran fifth in the 400-meter dash and Sydney Faber was sixth. Miranda Nikkel placed seventh in the shot put with a throw of 31 feet, 1/2 inch and Van Tuyl cleared the bar at 4’4” for eighth in the high jump.
Pella Christian goes to Grinnell next Tuesday, April 29.