March 28, 2024

NHS track teams run, throw at Grinnell

GRINNELL — There was a bit bigger girls’ division — six varsity teams — than a boys’ division — three varsity and two junior varsity squads — competing in Tuesday’s Grinnell Tiger Coed Relays.

Newton High’s Cardinal girls and boys were right in the mix of things. The Newton girls had one gold-medal performance while the boys claimed three wins in relay races and a win in the 100-meter dash.

Southeast Polk and Pella pulled most of the points in the girls’ division with SEP winning with 167 points to Pella’s 164. Host Grinnell was third with 98 followed by Williamsburg with 74. Newton finished fifth with 49.5 points and Oskaloosa was six with 37.5.

In the boys’ division it was Pella amassing 191 points for the team title and Grinnell finishing second with 182 points. Newton was third with 97 points. Pella Green (junior varsity) had 46 points and Newton’s junior varsity had 21 points.

Ali Bestell won the girls’ discus with a throw of 109 feet, 2 inches. Teammate Audrey Lucas placed third at 105-9.

Haley Revell captured third in the shot put at 34-11 and Bestell placed sixth at 32-5, just ahead of Mackenzie Baker, 32-4 3/4, in seventh. Abbie Barr tied for fifth in the high jump at 4-8.

Newton’s boys opened with a gold-medal run in the 800-meter sprint medley relay. The foursome of Jeremiah Johnson, Josh Miravalles, Camden Winther and Matthew Yeager posted a winning time of 1 minute. 39.46 seconds.

Johnson, Miravalles and Winther combined with Jack Callaghan to win the 4x100 relay race in 46.03 seconds. The Cardinals won the 1,600 distance medley relay in 3:57.25 with the team of Johnson, Devon Crandall, Callaghan and Adam Hunter.

Clayton Baltisberger was the gold medalist in the 100 at 12.08 seconds. He teamed up with Johnson Miravalles and Winther for a third-place time of 1:39.01 in the 4x200 relay race.

Callaghan ran second in the 800 in 2:07.70. Gavin Urias finished third in the 400 hurdles in 1:04.42. Baltisberger and Chayton Lambertus-Hamm were fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 200 in 25.65 and 27.06.

Hunter finished fourth in the 1,600 in 5:08.57 and Luke Zaabel ran fourth in the 3,200 in 11:38.76.

Jace Lukefahr took the silver medal in the discus with a throw of 130-10 and Mason Lee was fourth at 119-6. Landon Hansen claimed silver in the shot put at 47-7 1/4, and Ben Peterson was bronze medalist at43-4 1/2.

On the track for the Cardinal girls, the shuttle hurdle relay foursome of Barr, Kate Callaghan, Liz McVey and Morgann Eide was third in 1:12.34. Eide took fourth in the 100 hurdles in 16.71 seconds and Rachel Berkland placed fifth in the 400 hurdles in 1:09.81.

Berkland combined with Rachel Rhoads, Clare Muckler and Gerima Blair for fourth in the 4x800 relay in 10:29.96. McVey, Meg Callaghan, Jordan Banfield and Tessa Keeton combined for a fifth-place time of 2:06.94 in the sprint medley relay race.

Priscila Amador, Kalista Townsley, Muckler and Serenity Stier posted a fifth-place time of 2:07.19 in the 4x200. The team of Amador, Liv Whitten, Stier and Alivia Hoffman was eighth in the 4x100 in 58.82.

The Newton girls’ distance relay team of Amador, Townsley, Alona Kosenko and Molly Coy was sixth in 5:31.47.

Newton’s junior varsity boys had Clay Meyer and Ben Peterson placing fifth and sixth, respectively, in the discus at 111-0 and 110-0. Mason Lee placed sixth in the shot put at 39-1/2.

Dalton Altemeier was eighth in the 100 meters in 13.91 seconds and Christian Lampman ran seventh in the 400 in 1:00.62. Jaden Dydell was sixth in the 110 hurdles in 2027 and eighth in the 400 hurdles in 1:08.76.

Luke Zaabel was fifth in the 800 at 2:18.81. The junior varsity team of Altemeier, Lambertus-Hamm, Crandall and Urias was fourth in the sprint medley really in 1:56.66.

Taking fifth in the 4x100 was the team of Lampman, Owen Sanger, Lambertus-Hamm and Crandall in 50.58 seconds. Urias, Altemeier, Zane Biondi and Sanger combined for fifth in the 4x200 in 1:48.62.

Newton’s boys and girls compete at 5 p.m. on Thursday in a meet hosted by Pella.

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