March 28, 2024

Hawk track teams notch seconds at home

SULLY — Competing a little more than a week from the original date, track athletes had an almost perfect night at the Lynnville-Sully Co-ed Invitational Thursday at Sully.

Lynnville-Sully’s girls and boys finished second in their respective divisions. Pella ran away with the girls’ competition, amassing 228 points with Lynnville-Sully in second with 99 points.

Collins-Maxwell/Baxter’s boys jumped into the meet Thursday and won the team title by 10 points. CMB’s Raiders had 93 points and Lynnville-Sully Blue had 83 points. Lynnville-Sully Gold was sixth with nine points.

“It was a great night for competition,” Lynnville-Sully boys’ head coach Mike Parkinson said. “We are very proud of what our guys were able to do.”

The Hawk girls did not have an event champion. Lynnville-Sully’s boys won three individual events and one relay race.

“We had great efforts by our team tonight,” Lynnville-Sully girls’ head coach Darin Arkema said. “The weather conditions were certainly more favorable, but wind still slowed times some. A lot of our distance girls saw nice drops in times.”

Marissa Vos had the top individual performance for Lynnville-Sully’s girls. She placed second in the 3,000-meters in 12 minutes, 51.93 seconds with teammate Haley James in fifth at 14:22.65. Marissa Vos ran third in the 1,500 in 5:47.50 and Makayla Rozendaal was fifth in 6:06.22.

Mariah Vos and Hailey Scandridge went second and third in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:15.65 and 1:19.69, respectively. Camryn Russell ran fourth in 17.40 seconds in the 100-meter high hurdles with Mariah Vos in fifth at 17.76.

Russell, Scandridge and Mariah Vos combined with Shelby Foster to take third in the shuttle hurdle relay race in a season’s-best 1:16.16. Russell finished fifth in the 200 meters in 28.47 seconds. Makayla Rozendaal placed fifth in the 800 in 2:56.65.

Carson Fisk posted a second-place time of 1:05.48 in the 400 meters with Foster in sixth at 1:14.63. Fisk combined with Scandridge, Mariah Vos and Julie Ranch-Holm for a third-place finish in the 4x400 really in 4:41.30.

Lynnville-Sully’s girls claimed second in 11:52.31 in the 4x800 relay with the foursome of Haley Breeden, Makayla Rozendaal, Emily Van Gorp and Shaleah Van Wyk. The distance medley relay team of Makenzy Rozendaal, Jataya Meyer, Ranch-Holm and Breeden placed third in 5:07.23.

In the sprint medley relay race, the Hawk girls’ team of Kasiah Ehresman, Makenzy Rozendaal, Brenna Lanser and Fisk ran third in 2:00.34. Ehresman, Makenzy Rozendaal, Meyer and Lanser teamed up for third in the 4x200 in 1:53.43.

Taking fifth in 53.79 seconds was the Hawk girls’ 4x100 squad of Ehresman, Makenzy Rozendaal, Russell and Lanser.

The only points scored by the Lynnville-Sully girls in field events came in the long jump. Fisk recorded a third-place leap of 14 feet, 4 1/4 inches and Scandridge was fifth at 13-8 3/4.

Lynnville-Sully’s boys had two field event championships. Both were marked up by Sage Ehresman as he won the discus with a throw of 140-9 and the shot put on a toss of 47-5. Noah Engle was third in the discus at 128-2, and Rylan James placed fifth in the shot at 42-2.

Corey McCoy captured first in the 400 meters for the Hawk boys with a winning time of 53.84 seconds. James was sixth in 57.85.

The Hawk boys’ shuttle hurdle relay team of Carson Dunsbergen, Gage Vander Leest, Engle and Ryan Hofer claimed first in 1:03.57. The team of Ross Van Wyk, Cayden Johnson, Jason Craver and Kemper Lukehart was fifth in 1:17.37.

McCoy combined with Vander Leest, Vander Linden and Dunsbergen for second in the 4x400 relay. The foursome ran the race in 3:41.80.

Hofer placed second in the 110-meter high hurdles in 16.62 seconds, and Colten Arment took fifth in 17.32. Tyson Vander Linden turned in a third-place time of 1:00.57 in the 400 hurdles and Vander Leest was fifth in 1:02.89.

Ehresman ran second in the 100 meters in 11.47 seconds and Nate Stock placed fifth in 11.90. Ross Van Wyk was fifth in the 200 meters in 24.70 seconds. Stock, Engle, Noah Zylstra and Ehresman turned in a second-place finish in the 4x100 relay race in 45.34 seconds.

Canyon Kuhlmann claimed second in the 1,600 and the 800 meters in 5.09.06 and 2:14.87, respectively. He was third in the 3,200 meters in 11:12.77. Cody Gibbs finished fifth in the 1,600 in 5:23.71.

Gibb combined with Max Knapp, Luke Jones and Carson Dunsbergen for third place in the 4x800 relay in 9:28.34. The 4x200 relay team of Zylstra, Vander Linden, Ross Van Wyk and Engle was fourth in 1:38.55.

Carson Dunsbergen cleared the high jump bar at 5-8 for second place. Hofer was fourth going over at 5-2.

On Tuesday, the Hawk girls are at Montezuma and the boys are at BGM.

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