Cardinals’ depth shines through in runner-up finish

PELLA — Macy Lampe and Tori White both won an individual event and teamed up to win the shuttle hurdle relay during the Pella Dutch Coed Relays on Monday.

The Cardinals used four wins and 14 top-three finishes to claim second in the team standings in their final meet before Thursday’s state qualifier at Mount Vernon.

“The team saw the warmest night of competition yet but, as they have done all season long, they pushed through and had a great night,” Newton head girls track and field coach Rachelle Tipton said. “A second-place finish is very exciting to see.”

Host Pella won the meet championship with 203 points. Newton scored 135 in second and the rest of the seven-team field included Oskaloosa (97.5), PCM (79.5), Pella Christian (60), the Pella JV (42) and Knoxville (37).

Lampe won the 100-meter hurdles in 16.26 seconds and White was the runner-up in 16.44.

White also won the high jump with a leap of 5 feet, 0 inches. Ellie DeVries placed third with a mark of 4-8.

The Cardinals also doubled up in the 100 and 1,500 and finished in the top three in six of the seven relays.

Camryn Klein, Lampe, Mack Sims and White won the shuttle hurdle relay in 1 minute, 7.66 seconds. It was the sixth time this season the Cardinal foursome went under 1:08.

The final win came in the 4x800 relay. The quartet of Harper Barton, Sarah Malow, Alex Riney and Bella Winther won the race in a season-best time of 10:06.09.

Newton finished second in the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. BrookLynn Britton, Lola Rivera, Abby Bruce and Klein finished the 4x100 in 51.69 seconds and the 4x400 relay team of DeVries, Darbiee Owens, Hailey Dickerson and Abbie Preston completed the race in 4:38.46.

Both medley relays were third. Alivia Conley, Bruce, Rivera and Sims placed third in the sprint medley relay in 1:54.52 and Britton, Jazmyn Rivera, Neveya Miller and Peyton Ray took third in the distance medley relay in 4:46.7.

“Tonight was another glimpse at the depth of this team, and the bright future the team has,” Tipton said. “We tuned up and saw some nice things from athletes continuing on to Thursday, but tonight was also the chance to give the other athletes one more meet to compete.”

Rivera (13.14) and Ashlyn Karsten (13.83) went 3-5 in the 100. Karsten’s time was a career best.

Alexis Sorensen placed sixth in the 800 in a career-best time of 2:39.74 and Audrey Muckler (5:17.61) and Temple Barton (5:34.88) finished 3-6 in the 1,500.

Bruce was second in the long jump with a leap of 15-8 1/4, MaKarra Budinich placed third in the 400 hurdles in a career-best 1:29.05 and Brooke Garvis (32-9) was fifth in the shot put.

“We’ve had some athletes step into some new events at the end of the season so I would like to shout out (Miller), (Owens), (DeVries), and (Budinich) — we are looking forward to the progress they make next year,” Tipton said.