Russell, Richardson lead Baxter at indoor track and field opener

AMES — Camryn Russell opened her indoor track and field season with a bronze medal, Max Handorf debuted with a school record and the Baxter boys’ track and field team posted five top-10 finishes at the Iowa Track Coaches Association (IATC) Indoor Championships at Iowa State University.

The boys finished 21st with 10.33 points in the Class 1A division on Thursday, while the girls scored seven points in 24th on Friday.

The top Bolts’ finish came from Camryn Russell in the 60-meter hurdles. She was third in the preliminaries with a time of 9.89 seconds and then finished third in the final with a time of 9.83.

The Baxter girls’ shuttle hurdle relay team placed eighth. Grace Anderegg, Kendall Brummel, Russell and Rossi Swihart posted a school-record time of 44.89.

Baxter’s boys were fourth in two events. Matt Richardson finished fourth in the 3,200 with a time of 10 minutes, 17.41 seconds. He also anchored the 4x800 relay to fourth.

The foursome of Cody Samson, Handorf, Logan Jones and Richardson finished in 8:50.52.

Handorf took 11th in the 1,600 in his prep debut and finished in a school-record time of 4:44.86.

The 4x100 relay team of Cade Robinson, Rainsbarger, Treyton Travis and Cainan Travis placed ninth in 46.72 seconds.

Treyton Travis also tied for eighth in the high jump with a leap of 5 feet, 7 inches.

Lisbon won the boys meet with 65 points. Bellevue was next with 42 and Danville and Madrid each scored 32 in a tie for third.