March 28, 2024

Cardinal girls place fifth at Tiger Relays

GRINNELL — Newton High’s girls won four events at Tuesday’s Grinnell Tiger Relays. The Cardinals finished with 58 points, settling in the fifth-place team spot.

Pella rolled to a team win with 166.5 points. There were seven teams in the girls’ track meet.

“We had another great night of competition tonight at Grinnell. The girls continue to step up and improve their performances. We are nearing the end of the our season so now is when we want to be at our best,” said Rachel Tomas, NHS girls’ head coach.

Sarah Kalkhoff earned first-place points in the discus and shot put for the Cardinals. She won the discus with a throw of 123 feet, 1 inches with teammate Haley Revell just out of scoring places in seventh at 87-3.

Kalkhoff won the shot put with a toss of 36-1. Revell was ninth at 29-2.5 and Bailey Wall placed 12th at 25-5.

Newton’s 1,600-meter distance medley relay team of Leela Spencer, Alex Hutchinson, Hailey Coy and Grace Coen posted a winning time of 4 minutes, 19.70 seconds.

Coen pulled away from the 1,500-meter run field, winning in 4:49.64. Coy was fifth at 5:17.92 and Megan Van Dalen placed 13th in 6:09.09.

Alexis Stout ran third in the 400 hurdle race in 1:13.29. Kenna Winther placed fifth in the long jump at 15-3.75 and Sarah Prendergast was 11th with a leap of 12-3.25.

The Cardinals’ shuttle hurdle relay team of Stout, Liz McVey, Fran Lucas and Anna Barr finished fourth at 1:13.34. The 4x200 relay foursome of Spencer, Hutchinson, McVey and Winther turned in a fifth-place time of 1:53.57.

McVey, Hutchinson, Winther and Spencer combined for sixth place in the 4x100 relay race in 53.44 seconds. The 4x800-meter relay team of Tessa Keeton, Kaelee Knoll, Van Dalen and Madison Bleeker took sixth in 11:20.16.

Other non-scoring placers for Newton were:

4x100 relay — 13. Newton (Bethany Risius, Destiny Lautenbach, Kayla Botterbrodt, Shannah Ergenbright), 1:04.72.

4x200 relay — 11. Newton (Serenity Stier, Brenna Schwenker, Hannah Boecker, Brooke Wolfe), 2:07.24.

4x400 relay — 8. Newton (Stout, Keeton, Sydney Hook, Barr), 4:45.80, 12. Newton (Autumn Hunt, Prendergast, Annie Hurt, Michaella Cope), 5:37.37.

4x800 relay — 9. Newton (Prendergast, Lautenbach, Botterbrodt, Cope), 12:51.86.

Sprint medley relay — 8. Newton (Lucas, Stier, Jordan Banfield, Bleeker), 2:09.86, 12. Newton (Schwenker, Wolfe, Risius, Boecker), 2:19.06.

100-m dash — 8. Winther, 14.11, 11. Banfield, 14.22

200-m dash — 7. Banfield, 29.66, 10. Hook, 32.20

400-m dash — 9. Hook, 1:10.61, 13. Lautenbach, 1:19.87

800-m dash — 9. Keeton, 2:44.80, 11. Knoll, 2:51.80

100-m high hurdles — 11. Barr, 18.42, 12. Lucas 19.16

3,000-m run — 9. Hunt, 14:18.20, 10. Hurt, 15:36.12

High jump — 7. Bleeker, 4-6

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