CMB boys collect third title, Mustangs finish third

BAXTER — The Collins-Maxwell/Baxter boys track team started pulling varsity guys out of events late in the Raiders home coed meet Thursday night.

That’s because the lead had grown to more than 80 points.

The Raiders piled up double points in eight events, collected seven wins and cruised past the competition in winning a third consecutive team title. CMB scored 210 points, while BGM was next with 151 and Prairie City-Monroe was third with 134.

Colfax-Mingo sent parts of its team to two different locations. The Tigerhawks who were at CMB scored 34 points in fourth.

Three of the Raiders’ seven wins came from senior Brady Stover. He won the 100-meter dash, 110 hurdles and long jump. He also had the best time in the 400 hurdles but was disqualified after winning easily.

Noah Rhoades claimed his first win of the season as he crossed the finish line first in the 1,600, and senior Hunter Gunderson won the high jump. The Raiders also grabbed gold medals in the shuttle hurdle relay and 4x800 relay.

PCM got individual wins from junior Chris Ellens in the 3,200 and senior Gunnar Davis in the shot put. The distance medley also collected a gold medal.

Colfax-Mingo’s best finisher was senior Nicholas Deal. He took third in the discus with a throw of 127 feet, 5 inches.

The Raiders’ depth was on full display on Thursday. They went 1-2 in the 100 and 1,600, 1-3 in the 110-high hurdles and long jump and 2-3 in the 200, 400 and 800. The high jumpers also went 1-2-3.

Stover won the 100 with a time of 11.53 seconds, hit the finish line in the 110 high hurdles in 16.02 seconds and leaped to a victory in the long jump (19 feet, 6 1/4 inches).

Gunderson’s winning leap in the high jump was marked at 5-8, while freshman Ben Huff was second (5-6) and junior Tucker Maxwell placed third (5-4).

Rhoades’ winning time in the 1,600 was 5 minutes, 11.81 seconds. Freshman Ian Thomson came in a few seconds later in second. Thomson also was second in the 3,200 with a time of 11:02.13.

The other individual runner-up finishes came from junior Zach Schafer in the 100 (12.07), senior Brad Ritter in the 400 hurdles (1:01.90), junior Jack Cheville in the 800 (2:12.59), Marcus Mitchell in the 200 (24.77), Blake Coughenour in the 400 (56.84) and Brady Kemp in the shot put (45-2).

Schafer gave the Raiders double points in the 200 when he finished third in 24.94, while Gunderson was third in the long jump (17-10 1/2). Junior Ben Gunderson claimed third in the 110 high hurdles (16.86), and Creighton Caple was third in the 800 in 2:20.41.

Caple helped the Raiders score a first-place finish in the 4x800. That relay included Rhoades, Maxwell and Cheville and they finished in 9:09.41. The shuttle hurdle relay foursome of Ben Gunderson, Lane Howes, Joe Keeling and Ritter won with a time of 1:04.07.

Keeling anchored the Raiders to a runner-up finish in the distance medley relay. Before Keeling got the baton, teammates Coughenour, John Newton and Hunter Gunderson carried it first. The foursome finished in 4:06.82.

Ellens had another big night for the Mustangs. He won the 3,200 in 10:39.10 and then anchored PCM to a win in the distance medley relay.

The other three members were Tyler Dredge, Brady North and Brayton VanDyke. They won the race in 3:58.06.

Davis’ winning throw in the shot put covered 45-3, while Leevi Telfer finished third with a toss of 43-10.

Three individuals grabbed silver medals. Noah Clark was the runner-up in the discus (137-6), Austin Sneller finished .02 behind Stover in the 110 high hurdles (16.04) and Luke Greiner was second in the long jump with a leap of 19-0 1/2.

Davis Herndon sprinted to third in the 100 with a time of 12.39.

The Mustangs were second in the 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400.

Greiner, Herndon, Preston VanWyk and Dredge were part of the 4x100 and 4x200. They finished those races in 46.58 and 1:37.73, respectively.

Dredge anchored the 4x400 to a silver medal. That relay also included Wes Cummings, VanWyk and VanDyke and they finished in 3:51.62.

The Raiders compete at 4:30 p.m. Friday at South Hardin. The Mustangs and Tigerhawks run at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont.