Mace-Maynard leads impressive Cardinal debut at Dickinson Relays

CEDAR FALLS — Jackson Mace-Maynard is primed for a big senior season for Newton’s boys track and field team.

And it took Mace-Maynard all of one meet to qualify for the Drake Relays in April.

The Cardinal senior set a new school record in the 3,200-meter run on Tuesday and his time of 9 minutes, 23.37 seconds also was under the Drake Relays Blue Standard time.

His victory in the race highlighted a strong showing at the annual boys Dickinson Relays inside the UNI-Dome.

The Cardinals’ day included six top-15 performances and four that were inside the first 10 positions.

Mace-Maynard came in more than 11 seconds faster than the Drake Relays Blue Standard time in the 3,200. He was an individual Drake Relays qualifier in the 800 last season.

Nate Maki was the next best Cardinal as he was second in the 200 and fourth in the 60.

Maki was clocked in 22.8 seconds in the 200 and 7.03 in the 60. PCM’s Aidan Anderson also made the finals in the 60 and placed eighth with a time of 7.17.

The fourth top-10 finish came in the 4x800 relay as the foursome of Derek Beiner, Landon Menninga, Jared Smith and Cody Klein finished seventh in 8:48.12. PCM’s team of Carsen Hansen, Riley Graber, Finn Wilson and Brevin DeRaad was 59th in 11:12.57.

Treycen Garton was top 15 in his two individual events. He started with a 13th-place tally in the 400 as he was clocked in 53.83. He took 11th in the 800 in 2:06.37.

PCM and Newton were side-by-side in the 4x400 relay. The Mustangs (4:13.08) were 49th with Kaleb DeVries, Mickey Mackewich, Gabe Hobbs and Trey Broderson and the Cardinals (4:16.72) placed 50th with Presley Arnold, Asher Wood, Collin Buchli and Christian Buchli.

The top relay finish for PCM came in the 4x200. The Mustangs’ team of Anderson, Kaden Hale, Gavin Fenton and Adrian Robbins were 26th in 1:39.03.

Newton’s 4x200 relay was 61st in 1:46.62. That foursome included Reilly Trease, Jakez Siddell, Tavian Williams and Christian Ergenbright.

PCM’s Griffin Olson placed 70th in the 200 in 24.98, Jake Winters was 71st in the 60 hurdles in 10.02 and Carson VandeLune placed 84th in the 800 with a time of 2:19.41.

In the shot put, Ben Buys registered a 78th-place finish for PCM with a toss of 38 feet, 4 1/2 inches.

Gavin Van Gorp (17-6), Aydan Camu (17-5) and Will Oelmann (16-8) finished 80th, 82nd and 94th, respectively, in the long jump.