August 02, 2025

Woods leads Tigerhawks at SICL indoor

C-M girls score four top-five finishes

By Troy Hyde
Xavier Woods

Colfax-Mingo junior Xavier Woods, left, celebrates a career-best mark in the high jump with C-M assistant boys track and field coach Phil Grant at the South Iowa Cedar League indoor meet on Monday. Woods finished first with a leap of 6 feet, 0 inches at Grinnell College. (Troy Hyde/Newton News)

GRINNELL — Xavier Woods is set to lead the Colfax-Mingo boys’ track and field team this season.

The Tigerhawk junior had the school’s only win at the South Iowa Cedar League indoor meet on Monday, but Colfax-Mingo posted eight top-five finishes at Grinnell College.

One new SICL indoor record was broken on the night. No team scores were kept.

Woods’ win came in the high jump. Three jumpers cleared 6 feet, 0 inches, but Woods hit his career-best mark on his first attempt, which gave him the victory.

Izaiah Lewis

Colfax-Mingo sophomore Izaiah Lewis, left, helped the Tigerhawks finish fifth in the 4x400-meter relay at the South Iowa Cedar League indoor meet at Grinnell College on Monday. (Troy Hyde/Newton News)

He also placed fourth in the 60-meter hurdles with a personal-best time of 9.19 seconds.

The girls’ night was highlighted by a trio of fourth-place finishes. Katelyn Steenhoek was fourth in the high jump, Mallory Sipma took fourth in the 800 and the Tigerhawks’ 4x800 relay team also was fourth.

The C-M boys were fifth in both the distance medley and 4x400 relays.

The distance medley relay team of Isaiah Baucom, Wyatt Thornton, Sully Wilkins and Owen Ament finished in 4 minutes, 16.61 seconds. Izaiah Lewis, Thornton, Wilkins and Woods completed the 4x400 relay in 3:59.67.

Sipma’s personal-best time of 2:55.92 in the 800 placed her fourth. Steenhoek and Grace Hunsberger both cleared 4-8 in the high jump and finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Mallory Sipma

Colfax-Mingo sophomore Mallory Sipma, right, finished fourth in the 800-meter run and helped the Tigerhawks to a fourth-place finish in the 4x800 relay at the SICL indoor meet at Grinnell College on Monday. (Troy Hyde/Newton News)

The other top-six individual finish came from Addie Schroeder, who was sixth in the 1,500 with a time of 6:08.44.

Schroeder and Sipma teamed up with Rachael Uecker and Shae Wilkins in the 4x800 relay and the team placed fourth in 11:45.57.

The distance medley relay team of Cadence Linn, Steenhoek, Wilkins and Schroeder took sixth in 5:23.7.