March 28, 2024

Cardinal boys win two relays at Saydel

SAYDEL — With a week from the 2017 Drake Relays’ deadline, Newton High boys’ head track coach Tanner Clute decided it was time for a break away. He enter six athletes from the Cardinal track team in Thursday’s Saydel Eagles Boys Invitational to get a push toward the cutoff marks.

Seniors Brennen Dodd and Connor Gholson combined with juniors Jaron Roush and Jack Callaghan to win two relay races at Saydel. The foursome won the 1,600-meter distance medley relay in 3 minutes, 41.58 seconds and the 4x400 relay in 3:33.38.

The two relay times are still off the cutoff, but the Cardinals are close.

Gholson took third in the long jump. Junior thrower Landon Hansen and junior sprinter Matthew Karsten also competed.

Complete results were not available at presstime.

Newton’s boys compete at Norwalk on Monday and at home in the Cardinal Invitational on Thursday.

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