May 03, 2024

Six wins propel C-M boys to team victory at home coed

Woods claims three wins at Tigerhawk Stadium

By Troy Hyde
Kyle Wood

Colfax-Mingo sophomore Kyle Wood helped the Tigerhawks win the 4x800 and distance medley relays at the team's home coed meet on Monday. Colfax-Mingo scored 183 points for the team title, too. (Troy Hyde/Newton News)

COLFAX — Winning is not everything, but it sure can be a lot more fun when it happens.

The Colfax-Mingo boys track and field team found that out on Monday during its home coed meet. The Tigerhawks won six events, registered 18 top-three finishes and scored a season-high 183 points at the top of the standings.

That was 62 points in front of runner-up Colo-NESCO (131) and the rest of the five-team field included Martensdale-St. Marys (118), the Bondurant-Farrar junior varsity (89) and Meskwaki Settlement School (70).

Xavier Woods

Colfax-Mingo junior Xavier Woods won the high jump at the team's home coed meet on Monday. Woods registered three individual wins for the night and led the Tigerhawks to their first team title of the season. (Troy Hyde/Newton News)

Xavier Woods had three of the six wins. He won the 400-meter hurdles with a career-best time of 57.98 seconds. That currently ranks 10th in Class 2A.

Woods also won the 110 high hurdles in 16.38 and grabbed a win in the high jump with a leap of 5 feet, 10 inches.

The Tigerhawks, whose roster goes 12 deep, doubled up in nine events.

Sullivan Wilkins grabbed an individual win in the 800. He posted a time of 2 minutes, 14.92 seconds.

Davion Long (12.73) and Izaiah Lewis (career-best 13.44) finished 2-4 in the 100, Long (career-best 25.23) and Cody Heisler (career-best 27.24) were 3-5 in the 200 and Fisher Grover (58.51) and Wilkins (1:01.02) were 3-4 in the 400.

Owen Ament gave the Tigerhawks a 1-3 finish in the 800 as he was third in a career-best 2:27.32.

Davion Long Izaiah Lewis

Colfax-Mingo sophomore Davion Long, center, and sophomore Izaiah Lewis (6) finished 2-4 in the 100-meter dash at the Colfax-Mingo Coed Invitational on Monday. (Troy Hyde/Newton News)

Wilkins (5:33.22) and Ament (5:47.89) were 3-4 in the 1,600, Ament (12:46.64) and Kyle Wood (career-best 13:10.57) finished 3-4 in the 3,200 and Wyatt Thornton (19.06) was second in the 110 high hurdles to give C-M a 1-2 finish.

Lewis scored a third-place finish in the 400 hurdles with a time of 1:07.75 and Thornton placed fourth in the long jump with a leap of 16-11.

Isaiah Baucom was the runner-up in the shot put with a career-best toss of 36-10 and Nate Endersbe placed fifth in the discus with a career-best heave of 79-1 1/2.

Colfax-Mingo won two relays and finished second in two others.

The 4x800 relay team featured Thornton, Wilkins, Wood and Grove and they won the race in 10:14.1.

Baucom, Heisler, Ament and Wood won the distance medley relay in 4:26.42.

Owen Ament

Colfax-Mingo junior Owen Ament, center, finished third in the 800 and 3,000 and fourth in the 1,600 at the team's home coed meet on Monday. The Tigerhawks won their first team title of the year with 183 points. (Troy Hyde/Newton News)

The Tigerhawks were second in the 4x100 relay. They finished the race in a season-best 49.23 seconds with Baucom, Lewis, Grove and Long.

Long, Thornton, Grove and Woods took second in the 4x400 relay in 3:53.08.

The sprint medley relay team of Baucom, Asher Knutson, Heisler and Lewis were third in 1:52.63.