PCM girls finish fourth at HOIAC meet

JEWELL — Morgan Karr won her second straight conference title in the 100-meter hurdles and the PCM girls track and field team registered seven top-three finishes during the Heart of Iowa Athletic Conference meet on Thursday.

The Mustangs totaled three runner-up finishes and Karr grabbed the lone win as PCM scored 98 points in fourth.

Roland-Story won the conference title with 160.5 points. West Marshall (117) edged host South Hamilton (113) for second and the rest of the eight-team field included Greene County (86), Perry (67), Nevada (64) and Saydel (15).

Karr won the 100 hurdles with a career-best time of 15.51 seconds. That ranks third in Class 2A.

Karr also was the runner-up in the 100. She finished the race in 13.05 seconds and Ryan Bennett was sixth in 13.79.

Ayla Barrett placed second in the high jump with a leap of 4 feet, 10 inches and Lexi Fagg (14-6) and Alyssa Buckingham (13-11) went 3-5 in the long jump.

Tori Lindsay finished fifth in the 400 hurdles in 1 minute, 19.29 seconds. Bailey Wheeler (2:43.13) also was fifth in the 800 and Paiten Rumbaugh (career-best 1:08.65) finished fifth in the 400.

The best relay finish came in the 4x800. The team of Abi Teeter, Wheeler, Tiffani Koonce and Lila Milani finished second in 10:34.36, which was the team’s second-best time of the season.

The Mustangs were third in the 4x200, distance medley and shuttle hurdle relays.

Buckingham, Lindsay, Addison Shannon and Lillian Humpal posted a time of 1:59.79 in the 4x200 relay.

The distance medley relay featured Jorja Teeter, Stella Stravers, Koonce and Milani and they finished in 4:39.3, which was PCM’s second-best time of the season.

Lindsay, Jorja Teeter, Humpal and Karr placed third in the shuttle hurdle relay in 1:12.57.

Three wins power PCM to fourth at North Polk

ALLEMAN — All three wins for PCM at the North Polk Coed Invitational came in relays as the Mustangs scored 77 points in fourth on Monday.

PCM won the 4x100, 4x800 and shuttle hurdle relays, was second in the 4x400 and registered seven top-three finishes in all.

Host North Polk cruised to the meet title with 147 points, while Roland-Story was the runner-up with 96. South Hamilton (89.5) was third followed by PCM (77), Nevada (68), Greene County (64.5), Bondurant-Farrar (29) and the North Polk JV (28).

The Mustangs now have the eighth-best time in 2A in the shuttle hurdle relay. The team of Lindsay, Jorja Teeter, Humpal and Karr posted a season-best time of 1:10.16 to win the race.

They also won the 4x100 in 52.97 seconds with Humpal, Karr, Bennett and Jorja Teeter.

The 4x800 relay team of Milani, Abi Teeter, Koonce and Rumbaugh won the race in 10:40.63 and Koonce, Jorja Teeter, Fagg and Milani finished second in the 4x400 relay in 4:30.07.

Abi Teeter had the lone individual runner-up finish. That came in the 800 as Abi Teeter (2:34.05) and Wheeler (2:40.37) posted career-best times in second and fourth, respectively.

Raegan Vannoy finished third in the 1,500 in a career-best 5:57.42, Lindsay (1:20.41) was third in the 400 hurdles and Bennett (29.63) finished fourth in the 200. Humpal (18.34) also placed fifth in the 100 hurdles.

Fagg (14-10 3/4) and Buckingham (career-best 14-7 3/4) registered the final top-five individual finishes in fourth and fifth, respectively, in the long jump.