Colfax-Mingo, Baxter girls win twice at Tigerhawk Indoor Relays

GRINNELL — Baxter’s Camryn Russell won a pair of events to lead the Baxter girls track and field team on Thursday, while host Colfax-Mingo also claimed two wins at their home indoor meet at Grinnell College.

No team scores were kept for the Tigerhawk Indoor Relays and medals were awarded to the top three relay teams and top five individuals as well as all JV winners.

Colfax-Mingo’s wins came from Katelyn Steenhoek in the high jump and Addie Schroeder in the 1,500-meter run.

Steenhoek matched her career best with a leap of 4 feet, 10 inches. Grace Hunsberger also was sixth in the event with a career-best jump of 4-8.

Schroeder and Shae Wilkins finished 1-5 in the 1,500. Schroeder’s winning time was clocked in 5 minutes, 56.66 seconds and Wilkins posted a time of 6:24.96.

The Tigerhawks were second in the shuttle hurdle relay. The team of Lily Webster, Cadence Linn, Evalyn Anderson and Arlo Steck posted a time of 44.5 seconds.

The 4x800 relay team of Mallory Sipma, Rachael Uecker, Wilkins and Shroeder came in third in 11:45.40. That was a season-best time by 19 seconds.

Russell opened her night with a leap of 14 feet, 9 1/2 inches to win the long jump and then went 10.08 seconds to grab a win in the 60 hurdles.

Avery Wonders had the next best finish as she was third in the high jump with a career-best leap of 4-8. Gwen Tichy placed fifth in the 800 with a time of 2:52.36.