L-S boys used depth to score second at SICL, C-M takes seventh

COLFAX — The Lynnville-Sully boys track and field team won just one event at the annual South Iowa Cedar League outdoor meet on Tuesday.

But seven top-three finishes and 12 top-six individual tallies pushed the Hawks to second in the final standings at Colfax-Mingo High School.

The Hawks won the 4x800-meter relay and moved into the top 10 in Class 1A in the shuttle hurdle relay, while the host Tigerhawks finished eighth in the 11-team field with 43.5 points.

Iowa Valley grabbed six victories and cruised to the conference title with 142 points.

Lynnvile-Sully scored 112 points in second and the rest of the top five featured Belle Plaine (106), English Valleys (94.5) and Sigourney (81).

BGM (53) led the next group which also included Montezuma (48), Colfax-Mingo (43.5), HLV/TC (36), Keota (16) and North Mahaska (9).

Lynnville-Sully’s 4x800 quartet was Terran Gosselink, Blake Wilmesmeier, Colton Alberts and Hendrick Lowry and they won the race in a season-best time of 8 minutes, 44.06 seconds.

Gosselink also anchored the shuttle hurdle relay team to a season-best time. That group featured Connor Deal, Sawyer Veldhuizen, Ashton Rozendaal and Gosselink and they finished second in 1:02.56, which ranks eighth in 1A.

Belle Plaine won the race in 1:01.8 and Iowa Valley was third in 1:12.57. All three times are top 10 in 1A.

The Hawks’ 4x400 relay team also was second. The foursome featured Ethan Dunsbergen, Lowry, Jace Johnson and Gosselink and they were clocked in a season-best 3:35.16.

Deal had the best individual finish as he was second in the high jump with a leap of 6 feet, 0 inches. He also was sixth in the 110 high hurdles in 16.93.

Dawson James grabbed a pair bronze medals. He was third in the shot put with a toss of 44-5 and finished third in the discus with a career-best heave of 129-7.

The final field event to score points was the long jump. Jack Bowlin took fifth in the event with a leap of 18-2 1/4.

The Hawks scored double points in the 1,600 and 3,200.

Alberts posted a career-best time of 4:52.59 to finish fourth in the 1,600 and Wilmesmeier (5:00.09) was fifth.

The duo flip flipped in the 3,200 as Wilmesmeier (10:31.39) and Alberts (10:45.25) were third and fourth, respectively.

Gosselink (58.94) wrapped up his night with a fourth-place finish in the 400 hurdles, Lowry (2:10.51) was fifth in the 800 and Johnson posted a career-best time of 23.74 and finished sixth in the 200.

The Tigerhawks were third in a pair of relays.

The 4x400 relay team of Chase Trotter, Wyatt Thornton, Izaiah Lewis and Xavier Woods grabbed the bronze medal in a time of 3:36.09. That was a season-best by more than 4 seconds.

The distance medley relay team of Tony Buenrostro, Woods, Trotter and Sullivan Wilkins also placed third in a season-best 3:56.16.

Woods earned fourth in a pair of individual events as he posted a time of 16.25 in the 110 highs and had a leap of 5-10 in the high jump.

Wyatt Thornton finished sixth in the 400 hurdles with a career-best time of 59.83. Wilkins placed sixth in the 3,200 in 11:12.31 and Teagan Dybevik was sixth in the discus with a toss of 111-9.

Notes: Aside from the shuttle hurdle having three of the best 10 times right now in 1A, a few other male athletes from the SICL could win state titles in May. English Valleys’ Gage Heyne currently ranks first in the 1,600 (4:19.82), third in the 800 (1:55.24) and fourth in the 3,200 (9:48.51), Iowa Valley’s Caleb Haack is second in the 200 (22.10) and fifth in the 100 (11.03) and Belle Plaine’s Lane Vokoun is tied for third in the long jump (21-8 1/2) and ranks eighth in the 110 high hurdles (14.87). English Valleys’ distance medley relay currently sits sixth in the class, while Iowa Valley’s 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400 relays teams — with Haack — are fifth, second and first, respectively.

Two wins push Tigerhawks to fourth at Cardinal Relays

NEWTON — Wilkins won the 800 and anchored the Tigerhawks to a huge season-best time in the distance medley during the Cardinal Relays inside H.A. Lynn Stadium on Thursday.

Colfax-Mingo won those events, finished second in two more and placed fourth in the annual track and field meet hosted by Newton.

The Cardinals won the meet with 217 points. Lynnville-Sully (127) and Pleasantville (105) also were in front of Colfax-Mingo, which scored 89 points in fourth. Southeast Warren (61), North Mahaska (27) and Twin Cedars (21) completed the field.

Wilkins won the 800 in a career-best 2:08.31. He also was second in the 1,600 in 4:58.55.

The other win came in the distance medley relay and the second runner-up finish was in the 4x400 relay.

Buenrostro, Thornton, Trotter and Wilkins won the distance medley relay in 3:48.54. That was a season-best time by more than 7 seconds.

The 4x400 relay team of Trotter, Thornton, Lewis and Buenrostro finished second in 3:40.81.

The Tigerhawks’ only bronze medal finish came in the 4x800 relay. The quartet of Alexander Rodriguez-Briseno, Joey Grimm, Willie Fitzgerald and Mario Rodriguez finished third in 9:47.26.

Colfax-Mingo doubled up in the 110 high hurdles and 400. Thornton (18.33) and Kyle Wood (19.34) were 4-5 in the 110 highs and Fisher Grove (career-best 56.8) and Lewis (57.55) went 5-6 in the 400.

Trotter also placed fourth in the 200 in 23.78 and Wood was fourth in the 400 hurdles in 1:05.06.