CMB boys cruise to another team title

MONROE — The depth of Collins-Maxwell/Baxter’s boys’ track team was evident at the PCM Boys High School Classic on Thursday.

The Raiders dominated the field events, grabbed eight first-place finishes and 22 top-three tallies during an easy team win.

CMB went 1-2 in the shot put and 3,200-meter run, 1-3 in the 110 high hurdles and long jump and 2-3 in the 400 low hurdles.

The Raiders scored 177 points and were 84 points better than East Marshall (93), which held off Carlisle (92) by a point, in the large-school division.

Skyler Koder had two of PCM’s three second-place finishes, helping the Mustangs take fourth with 66 points. North Mahaska ended up with 51, West Marshall scored 50 and Pleasantville had 29.

Bryce Kemp had three wins and a runner-up finish. Clayton Weltha won both the shot put and discus. Mark Deutsch (3,200), Hunter Gunderson (high jump) and the shuttle hurdle relay team won.

Kemp won the long jump with a leap of 19 feet, 9 inches, sprinted to a win in the 100-meter dash in 11.11.58 seconds and glided to a victory in the 110 high hurdles with a time of 15.0 seconds.

The 200 resulted in a second-place finish for Kemp as he crossed in 23.41 seconds.

Weltha won the discus with a heave of 147-1 and then took advantage of an injury to Girard to win the shot put with at throw 44-7. Girard still ended up second with a toss of 43-0.

Gunderson won the high jump with a mark of 6-2.

The other win came from Deutsch in the 3,200 as he crossed in 10 minutes, 34.07 and Colin Thomson was second in 11:04.60.

Joey Nissen gave the Raiders six more points in the 110 high hurdles as he was third with a time of 16.36 seconds. Stover was third in the long jump to help CMB score six more points in that event.

The top relay team was the shuttle hurdle squad.

Kyle Cather, Brad Ritter, Brady Stover and Nissen grabbed the gold in a strong field and crossed the line in 1:00.59.

The 400 low hurdles was another event that CMB scored double-digit points in. Stover was the runner-up with a time of 58.43 and Cather crossed in 59.43. Cather was third in the 400, too. He hit the line in that event in 55.18.

Deutsch ran the 800 and placed third with a time 2:03.44.

Two relays came home with silver medals. The 4x100-meter relay featuring Dalton Birchmier, Ritter, Nissen and Jon Engle was runner-up in 47.67 seconds. The 4x200 also placed second. That team included Birchmier, Engle, Ritter and Stover, and they crossed in 1:37.68.

The distance medley, 4x400 and 4x800 all claimed bronze medals.

The distance medley included Birchmier, Engle, Blake Coughenour and Gunderson, the 4x400 was made up of Cather, Coughenour, Engle and Gunderson and the 4x800 squad was Creighton Caple, Jack Cheville, Carter Fricke and Evan Bianchi.

Koder was runner-up for PCM in the 110 high hurdles and the high jump.

The Mustang senior trailed only Kemp in the hurdles with a time of personal-best time of 15.94 seconds. He also won the silver in the high jump with a leap of 6-0.

A bronze medal was corralled by Koder as well. He anchored the shuttle hurdle team to a third-place finish with a time of 1:02.85. That foursome included Ricky Reeve, Luke Pendroy, Austin Sneller and Koder.

The third and final silver-medal performance for the Mustangs was in the distance medley. Reeve and Greiner ran the first two legs and Tyler Dredge handed off to Maverick McAtee, who crossed the finish line in 3:55.37.

Connor Warrick was the only individual third-place tally. He grabbed it in the shot put with a toss of 42-10.

The 4x200 relay also was third. Sneller, Luke Greiner, Brady North and Dredge finished in 1:40.99.

McAtee, Chris Ellens and Logan Gilman had fourth-place finishes in an individual event.

Gilman was fourth in the discus with a throw of 122 and McAtee’s fourth-place tally came in the 1,600 where he hit the line in 4:54.63. Ellens was fourth in the two mile. He finished in 11:28.15.

The Mustangs return to action at 4:45 p.m. Friday at Dallas Center-Grimes. CMB hosts its second and final meet at 4:30 p.m. Monday.