April 23, 2024

Revell is girls’ Little Hawkeye Conference shot put champ

By Jocelyn Sheets

Sophomore Haley Revell wins the 2016 Little Hawkeye Conference shot put competition Tuesday at Grimes. It was the top performance for the Newton High girls. (Jocelyn Sheets)

GRIMES — Haley Revell is settling quite nicely into the shot put ring during the 2016 track season. The Newton High sophomore captured her first Little Hawkeye Conference shot put championship Tuesday.

Revell’s throw of 36 feet, 4 1/2 inches won the 2016 LHC girls’ competition at Dallas Center-Grimes High’s track facility. Fellow sophomore Miranda Ervin placed fifth in the event at 31-7 1/2.

Sophomore Ali Bestell finished fourth in the conference discus event with a distance of 103-11. Revell was fifth at 103-3.

Fresh off a run at the 2016 Drake Relays, Newton’s 800-meter sprint medley relay team of sophomore Liz McVey and seniors Alex Hutchinson, Leela Spencer and Sydney Jenkins turned in a third-place finish. The foursome posted a time of 1 minute, 57.38 seconds. The same four ran fourth in the 4x100 race in 52.03.

Newton’s 4x800-meter relay squad of freshman Rachel Rhoads, sophomore Tessa Keeton, freshman Lakin Jenkins and junior Ellie Horn finished third in 10:46.78. The Cardinals did not secure a league championship on the track Tuesday.

The Cardinals scored 83 points to place fifth as a team. Pella dominated, piling up 190 points to win the 2016 LHC team title and host Dallas Center-Grimes was second with 137.5 points. Oskaloosa finished third with 103 and Grinnell was fourth with 93 points.

Norwalk scored 70 points for sixth. Pella Christian had 48.5 points for seventh.

Sydney Jenkins ran third in the 400-meter dash in 1:02.69 and was fifth in the 200 in 27.77 seconds. Lakin Jenkins finished sixth in the 800 meters in 2:44.69, and freshman Caelyn Briley placed eighth in the 3,000 meters in 12:506.

Sophomores Alexis Stout and Audrey Lucas finished fourth and eighth, respectively, in the 400 hurdles in 1:12.81 and 1:19.57. Sophomore Morgann Eide placed sixth in the 100-meter high hurdles in 17.11 seconds.

Stout, Lucas, freshman Abbie Barr and Eide combined for fifth in the 4x100-meter shuttle hurdle relay race in 1:10.99. Barr took eighth in the high jump, clearing the bar at 4-8. Junior Kenna Winther placed sixth in the long jump with a leap of 14-10 1/4.

Newton’s 4x200 relay team of McVey, Hutchinson, junior Morgan Allen and Winther posted a fourth-place time of 1:56.32. Keeton, Barr, Stout and sophomore Hannah Boecker combined for fifth in the 4x400 relay race in 4:32.73.

Senior Elise Axtell, freshman Teddie Brunsmann, Boecker and senior Kaelee Knoll joined forces to place sixth in the 1,600 distance medley relay in 4:58.23.

The Cardinal girls compete at home at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the annual Newton High Cardinal Relays at H.A. Lynn Stadium.

Contact Jocelyn Sheets at
641-792-3121 ext. 6535 or jsheets@newtondailynews.com