Mount Ayr second, NV third in POI girls track

LEON — Wayne was crowned winner of the Pride of Iowa Conference in girls track and field with 165.5 points in a conference meet held Monday night at Central Decatur High School.

In second place, Mount Ayr scored 140.5 points, Nodaway Valley was third (105), Central Decatur fourth (82) and Lenox fifth (69). Martensdale-St. Marys (64) was in sixth, Southwest Valley seventh (33), East Union and Bedford tied in eighth with 31 and Southeast Warren was 10th with nine.

Mount Ayr wins four events

With four event wins, Mount Ayr coach Brad Elliot was pleased with how his girls team performed.

“Wayne just has a pretty deep team this year. We just couldn’t keep up with their scoring,” Elliott said.

Raiderette sprinter Adalyn Reynolds helped her team by scoring 30 points, with wins in the 100-meter dash (12.90), 200-meter dash (26.63) and 400 (1:01.73). Makayla Jones also won the 3,000-meter run in 12:25.38.

Mount Ayr’s second place finishers were Karly Elwood in the 800-meter run (2:38.81), the sprint medley (1:58.11) and 4x400 (4:40.39).

Third place for the Raiderettes were Payten Lambert in the 100 (13.39 seconds) and the 4x100 team in 1:20:13.

“The 1-2 punch in the sprint events with Ady Reynolds and Payten Lambert was good for us,” Elliott said. “Ady’s had a really good season for us so far. The big surprise was Karlie running a 2:38 in the 800. Senior leadership out of Makayla Jones was outstanding tonight. We have a thing at Mount Ayr called the ‘Iron Woman.’ That’s running in the 3,000, the 1,500, the 800 leg of our medley, and she ran the 4x400, so she went as far as you can run in a track meet tonight. We’re really excited for her committing to that.”

Fourth place was Makayla Jones in the 1,500-meter run (5:46.26), Karlie Larsen in the 3,000-meter run (13:10.16), Lambert in the long jump (15 feet, 4 1/4 inches), Zoey Larsen in the shot put (29 feet, 9 1/2 inches), the 4x200 (2:02.82) and the distance medley (5:01.41).

Lambert 200-meter dash (28.06 seconds) and 400-meter dash (1:08.11) were each fifth, as was Elwood’s high jump (4 feet, 4 inches) and the 4x800 (12:15.53).

Karlie Larsen was sixth in the 1,500 (5:50.77). Hope Whittington was sixth in the discus (84 feet, 9 inches) and shot put (28 feet, 10 1/2 inches).

Haveman took seventh in the 100-meter hurdles (18.49 seconds) and Stewart in the 400-meter hurdles (1:21.35).

Mount Ayr’s 4x100 was eighth in 57.28 seconds.

Nodaway Valley led by hurdlers, DeVault

Junior athlete Maddax DeVault was in all three winning events for the Wolverines, taking the win in the 100-meter hurdles (16.24) and as part of the 4x100 (53.87) and shuttle hurdle relays (1:10.14).

DeVault was second in the 200 (26.64). Other runner-up efforts were Sophia Broers in the 3,000 (12:34.41) and Madison Fry in the long jump (15 feet, 9 1/4 inches).

Annika Nelson was third in the 100-meter hurdles (17.46), Jorja Holliday third in the discus (86 feet, 11 inches), Bella Hogan third in the shot put (32 feet, 4 1/2 inches) and the sprint medley (53.87), 4x200 (1:56.52) and 4x400 (4:40.48) were all third.

Nelson was sixth in the 200 (28.29) and Erin Ford sixth in the 3,000 (13:15). Seventh place finishes were Broers in the 1,500 (6:00.03), Natalie Yonker in the long jump (14 feet, 9 3/4 inches) and Holliday in the shot put (28 feet, 3/4 inch).

Abby Engles in the 100 (14.10), Lindsey Davis in the 400 (1:13.08) and the distance medley (5:20.87) were all eighth.

NV head coach Brett Welsch said his team is battling a few nagging injuries at this point in the season, but their focus is to run with who they have going forward.

“Because of the injuries to some of the runners, I don’t have the depth I’d like at this point in the season,” Welsch said. “I think cutting the season by two weeks was tough on our freshmen, and we really have two sets of freshmen. Overall, I was happy with the times, we just don’t have enough bodies because of some of these nagging injuries preventing us from filling a full list of events.”

Hogan and Douglas shine for the Tigers

Three individual events and two relays won for Lenox. Mikinna Hogan was winner of the 800 (2:36.67) and 1,500 (5:34.69), Cadence Douglas won the high jump (5 feet), the 4x800 won (11:01.68) and the distance medley won (4:40.25).

Cassidy Nelson was second in the 100-meter hurdles (16.86), TJ Stoaks third in the 400-meter hurdles 1:14.79 and the 4x100 team sixth (56.62). Eighth was the 4x400 (5:03.69) team and Brooklynn Ecklin in the 200 (29.12).

For Southwest Valley, a fourth place finish in the 4x800 (11:12.22) led the way. Aunalee Bruce (13.82) was fifth in the 100 and Haidyn Top fifth in the 800 (2:48.55).

Emma Cooper placed sixth in the long jump (15 feet), the 4x200-meter (2:04.10), 4x400 (4:49.68) and distance medley (5:04.50) were also sixth. Halle Pearson in the 400 (1:12.97) and the 4x100 (56.69) were seventh place finishers. Sydney Davis in the 3,000 (13:54.38), Samantha Davies (77 feet, 1 inch), Trinity Schroeder in the high jump (4 feet, 4 inches) and the sprint medley (2:13.50) were all eighth.

Elizabeth Hardy of East Union was third in the 800 (2:42.81) and the Eagles took third in the 4x100 (55.72 seconds). The Eagles’ sprint medley (2:06.90) and distance medley (5:02.31) were fifth, Grace Nixon was sixth in the 100-meter hurdles (18.44), and the Eagles were also sixth in the 4x800 (12:19.16).

Gabrielle Valencia was seventh in the 3,000 (13:23.02) while Nixon in the 400-meter hurdles (1:23.35), Valencia in the 1,500 (6:03) and the team’s 4x200 (2:11.68) were all eighth.