Six wins not enough for PCM girls at home meet

MONROE — Morgan Karr was part of two wins, Ila Keuning and Ayla Barrett each won a field event and the PCM girls track and field team used six wins and 12 top-three finishes to take second as a team at the PCM Girls Invitational on April 22.

PCM and Ballard competed at the top of the standings throughout the night, but the Bombers pulled away with 139 points. The Mustangs also reached triple digits in second with 113.

The rest of the eight-team field featured Lynnville-Sully (83), West Marshall (79), Pleasantville (66), the Southeast Polk JV (61), Southeast Warren (23) and a partial squad from Pella (9).

“The Hawks battled all night, and we continue to see a lot of positives,” L-S head girls track and field coach Kevin Johnson said. “The quicker meet made for some quick turnaround times for events, but the Hawks continued to work hard.There was some good competition, and we worked hard to compete all night.”

The Mustangs won three relays and finished third in another, while Karr won the 100-meter dash, Keuning scored a victory in the discus and Barrett grabbed the gold medal in the high jump.

Karr (13.65 seconds) and Ryan Bennett (14.14) finished 1-2 in the 100, Jorja Teeter posted a career-best time of 1 minute, 6.38 seconds to finish second in the 400 and Abi Teeter was the runner-up in the 1,500 with a time of 5:17.78.

Keuning’s winning throw in the discus was marked at 83 feet, 4 inches, Barrett registered a career-best leap of 5-1 to win the high jump and Lexi Fagg (14-5 1/2) and Alyssa Buckingham (career-best 14-3 1/2) went 3-5 in the long jump.

The final two individual top-four finishes for PCM came from Tori Lindsay (1:17.46) in the 400 hurdles and Bailey Wheeler (2:44.19) in the 800. Lindsay was third and Wheeler placed fourth.

PCM won the 4x100, 4x200 and 4x800 relays while also placing third in the 4x400.

Tiffani Koonce, Karr, Bennett and Jorja Teeter won the 4x100 in 52.74 seconds, which is the team’s second-best time of the season.

The 4x200 relay team featured Buckingham, Lindsay, Addison Shannon and Stella Stravers and they won the race in a season-best time of 1:59.

Abi Teeter, Wheeler, Koonce and Lila Milani posted a season-best time of 10:23.48 to win the 4x800 relay.

The 4x400 relay finished third and posted the team’s second-fastest time of the season with Milani, Fagg, Paiten Rumbaugh and Ali Hilsabeck. Their time was 4:29.63.

Lynnville-Sully was held out of the win column, but finished third as a team because of four second-place finishes and three bronze-medal performances.

The Hawks also scored double points in five events.

Kate Harthoorn was second in the 800 with a career-best time of 2:39.29 and Peyton Sharp (2:42.55) came in third.

Tatum Huyser (28.21) and Brilynn Tice (29.45) were 2-4 in the 200, Sharp (12:45.73) and Emma Parkinson (12:53.91) finished 3-5 in the 3,000 and Tice (1:10.64) and Laura Fikse (1:10.91) were 4-5 in the 400.

Olivia Norrish (5:48.24) and Parkinson (5:53.68) also went 5-6 in the 1,500 and Natalie Roberts (14.69) sprinted to fifth in the 100.

The Hawks were led in the field events by Huyser, who was the runner-up in the high jump with a leap of 5-0.

Helle Augustinussen (14-4 1/2) finished fourth in the long jump and Sophia Squires took fifth in the discus (76-8) and sixth in the shot put (28-6 3/4).

The Hawks’ 4x200 relay team finished second with Carsyn McFarland, Morgan Hay, Roberts and Morgan Jones and they posted a time of 1:59.71.

McFarland, Jones, Huyser and Norrish teamed up to finish second in the distance medley with a season-best time of 4:42.29.

The 4x100 relay team of McFarland, Hay, Jones and Huyser came in third with a time of 53.79.