March 28, 2024

CMB boys claim first team title of season

SULLY — Collins-Maxwell/Baxter coach Josh Russell joked after winning his first team title as Raider boys track coach he had a long ways to go to catch former coach Neil Seales.

Russell was pretty excited to claim No. 1 on Thursday night.

The Raiders won seven events and finished second in five others and won the make-up meet over host Lynnville-Sully. CMB scored 169 points, finishing 19 ahead of the Hawks.

Senior Brady Stover won three events and took third in another, while junior Jack Cheville won the 800-meter run and helped the 4x800 relay team to a win. Senior Hunter Gunderson won the high jump and finished second in the 400.

CMB went 1-3 in the 110 high hurdles, 1-3 in the high jump, 1-3 in the 800, 2-4 in the discus and 3-4 in the shot put.

Stover won the long jump with a leap of 20 feet, 4 inches, hit the finish line first in the 110 high hurdles in a season-best 16.27 seconds and was first in the 400 hurdles in a season-best 56.23. His third-place finish came in the 100 as he hit the finish line in 11.48, which was .01 behind L-S senior Sage Ehresman and .06 behind Montezuma’s Jordon Bender.

Gunderson won the high jump with a leap of 5-10 and Cheville’s winning time in the 800 was clocked at 2 minutes. 13.33 seconds.

Cheville’s teammates in the 4x800 included freshman Xander Huff, junior Tucker Maxwell and sophomore Carter Fricke and that group won with a time of 9:12.87.

Gunderson was the runner-up in the 400 (55.7), freshman Will Clapper took second in the discus (131-1) and freshman Ian Thomson hit the finish line second in the 3,200 (11:06.9).

The other two runner-up finishes came in the shuttle hurdle relay and distance medley relay.

The shuttle hurdle team included sophomore Ben Gunderson, senior Lane Howes, sophomore Joe Keeling and senior Brad Ritter and they were clocked at 1:04.25.

The Raiders claimed eight bronze medals.

Ben Huff was third in the high jump (5-6), Kemp was third in the shot put (44-7), Fricke took third in the 800 (2:15.78),

Thomson finished third in the 1,600 (5:18.04) and Ben Gunderson was two positions behind Stover in the 110 hurdles (17.28).

The 4x200 (1:38.15) and 4x400 (4:08.95) relay teams were the final two third-place finishes. Names for those relay teams were not known at press time.

The Raiders run at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Ballard. They’ll get a final chance to qualify for the Drake Relays at 4:30 p.m. Thursday when they host another co-ed meet in Baxter.