Four wins highlight L-S track teams at SICL indoor

GRINNELL — The Lynnville-Sully girls’ track and field team is not large on numbers. But the athletes who are competing for the Hawks should still give the squad a shot at repeating as South Iowa Cedar League champions later this season.

The squad competed in the SICL indoor meet on Monday, and a pair of wins and 12 top-five finishes highlighted a successful night.

The L-S boys have the largest squad in head coach Darin Arkema’s 24 years as a track and field coach.

Most of the Hawks are freshmen and sophomores though and that inexperience showed up Grinnell College. Still, the L-S boys won two events and placed in the top five in nine.

There was one new SICL indoor record set on the night and team points were not kept.

Both L-S squads won an individual event and claimed victory in the 4x800-meter relays.

Carsyn McFarland, a three-time state qualifier, won the 60-meter dash with a time of 8.57 seconds.

The Hawks’ winning girls 4x800 relay team featured Peyton Sharp, Emma Parkinson, Brilynn Tice and Olivia Norrish and they finished in 10 minutes, 59.72 seconds.

The boys’ got a win from Jack Bowlin in the long jump. His best leap was marked at 19 feet, 2 inches.

The boys 4x800 relay team posted a winning time of 9:11 with Hendrick Lowry, Terran Gosselink, Ethan Dunsbergen and Michael Spooner.

Norrish had a big night for the L-S girls. She was second in the 800 with a time of 2:44.83 and Sharp finished third in 2:50.59.

Norrish also anchored the distance medley relay team to second place. That squad featured Morgan Jones, Natalie Roberts, Tice and Norrish and they hit the finish line in 4:56.97.

Tatum Huyser also had a good night. She was the runner-up in the high jump with a leap of 5-0.

The 4x200 relay team of McFarland, Morgan Hay, Jones and Huyser finished second in 1:58.57.

L-S collected five fifth-place finishes. Individually, Hay (13-3) was fifth in the long jump, Roberts (8.92) took fifth in the 60 dash, McFarland (30.16) finished fifth in the 200 and Parkinson (6:07.09) came in fifth in the 1,500.

The Hawks’ 4x400 relay team was fifth. The foursome of Laura Fikse, Sharp, Helle Augustinussen and Tice stopped the clock in 4:57.71.

Lowry registered a pair of top-four finishes in two individual events. He was the runner-up in the 800 with a time of 2:14.03 and was fourth in the 400 in 57.74.

Corder Noun Harder posted a time of 7.39 seconds to finish third in the 60 and Dawson James (39-5) and Davis Utech (37-10) were third and fifth, respectively, in the shot put.

Connor Deal ended up fourth in the high jump with a leap of 5-8. He also was part of the fourth-place 4x400 relay team as Bowlin, Deal, Dunsbergen and Spooner posted a time of 3:59.19.