Russell, Wonders lead Baxter girls to third at ISC meet

BAXTER — Camryn Russell won the 100-meter hurdles in an Iowa Star Conference meet record time, Avery Wonders tied a career-best mark in winning the high jump and the Baxter girls track and field team set a pair of school records during the conference meet on Thursday.

The Bolts hosted the Iowa Star Conference track and field meet for the second time, and the Baxter girls placed third with 98.5 points.

“I couldn’t be more proud of the girls’ efforts,” Baxter head girls track and field coach Josh Russell said. “Although we came up just short of one of our team goals, they battled all night in every event.”

The two wins by Camryn Russell and Wonders were the two golds the Bolts grabbed on the night. But Baxter was second in the shuttle hurdle relay and placed third four times.

The meet came down to the final few events as BCLUW was crowned conference champion with 111 points. Janesville (100) edged Baxter by 1.5 points.

Riceville (80) and Tripoli (67) completed the top five of the 16-team field.

“The conference has gotten deeper and better over the past few years, and that shows in the results” Coach Russell said. “Now we turn the page toward state qualifying and trying to get as many girls to Drake Stadium as possible.”

The Bolts went 1-3 in the 100 hurdles as Camryn Russell’s win was clocked in 16.1 seconds. That set a conference meet record and Grace Anderegg was third in a career-best 17.67.

Wonders won the high jump with a career-best leap of 5 feet, 0 inches.

Andregg and Camryn Russell finished the shuttle hurdle relay that placed second. The other two members were Kamdyn Krampe and Rossi Swihart and they finished the race in second in a school-record time of 1 minute, 11.17 seconds.

“We have a lot of girls in the mix,” Camryn Russell said about the shuttle hurdle relay. “It’s competitive so that’s pushing everyone to run faster. We wanted to win, but we did cut off 2 seconds tonight.

“I want to qualify for state in four events. And we want to win the shuttle hurdle relay at state qualifying.”

The 4x800 relay team was third in 11:13.91. That foursome included Zoey Gliem, Piper Redman, Kendall Brummel and Gwen Tichy.

The Bolts finished outside the top four in the 4x400 relay but set a school record with a time of 4:33.14. The quartet of Wonders, Krampe, Tichy and Brummel finished fourth in the race.

The other two third-place finishes came from Camryn Russell (1:10.79) in the 400 hurdles and Wonders (1:04.96) in the 400.

Camryn Russell also was fourth in the long jump with a leap of 15-10 1/2 and Makayla True (11:43.48) placed fourth in the 3,000.

Wonders (28.23) grabbed fifth in the 200, Sydney Hibbs (13.57) placed fifth in the 100 and True took sixth in the 1,500 with a career-best time of 5:33.16.

Bolts finish fourth at Dream Builders Invitational

MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — Baxter won just one event at the Dream Builders Invitational on Monday, but the Bolts’ six runner-up finishes helped them to a fourth-place team finish.

BCLUW won the meet hosted by Meskwaki Settlement School with 162 points. South Tama County (124.5) and Collins-Maxwell (118.5) also finished ahead of Baxter (108.5) and the rest of the eight-team field featured North Tama (75), Meskwaki Settlement School (49), GMG (35) and Colo-NESCO (32.5).

The lone win came from Camryn Russell. She won the long jump with a career-best leap of 16-3 1/2.

The Bolts were third in two relays. The 4x800 relay team of Wonders, Brummel, Gliem and Tichy finished in 11:01.85 and Redman, Hibbs, Anderegg and Wonders completed the 4x200 in 2:01.04.

Kaylyn Krampe, Brummel, Swihart and Anderegg took second in the shuttle hurdle relay with a time of 1:16.92.

The other five individual silver-medal performances came in individual events.

Camryn Russell was second in the 400 in a career-best 1:04.97 and placed second in the 100 hurdles in 16.44.

Brummel posted a career-best 1:14.39 and placed second in the 400 hurdles, Wonders (4-8) finished second in the high jump and True (11:40.58) was second in the 3,000.

The Bolts doubled up in the 100 hurdles as Kamdyn Krampe was fourth in a career-best 18.19. Gliem (5:46.66) also was fourth in the 1,500, Callie Cross (28-3) placed fifth in the shot put and Kaitlyn Engle (77-1) took sixth in the discus.