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Balance boosts Mid-Prairie girls to River Valley Conference track championship
Golden Hawk boys finish 5th
ANAMOSA — Champions do not allow an opening for an opponent.
Mid-Prairie displayed championship mettle in winning the River Valley Conference girls track title Thursday, scoring in 18 of 19 events with a top-five placing in 16 and seven wins that included a new league record.
Mid-Prairie’s boys were fifth with two wins — Cain Brown’s high jump of 6 feet and the shuttle hurdle relay edged Tipton by five/100ths of a second in 1 minute, 5.41 seconds behind Clark Latcham, who was second in both the 110 high hurdles (15.94) and the 400 hurdles (57.44).
The Golden Hawks’ depth carried them to the girls title. The sprint medley relay ran the second fastest time in Class 2A this season and lost. Two relays won: the 4x200 and the distance medley, which cleared second place by 10 seconds with the fastest 2A time.
Two of the four field events were Hawk wins: Tori Boyse put the shot 38 feet, 7 inches and Ella Groenewold leapt 5 feet high.
Danielle Hostetler’s 3000 run of 10:26.4 is now the RVC record in the race. Mitzi Evans won the 800 in 2:22.64, the fourth fastest time in 2A. She recorded the fastest time at the Drake Relays. Sydney Yoder’s first-place time of 5:04.41 in the 1500 is 2A’s third fastest this season.
GIRLS TEAM SCORES
1. Mid-Prairie 136, 2. Northeast 90.5, 3. North Cedar 69, 4. Tipton 59, 5. Monticello 58.5, 6. Bellevue 56, 7. Iowa City Regina 55, 8. Cascade 54, 9. Anamosa 35, 10. West Branch 32, 11. Wilton 29, 12. West Liberty 25, 13. Camanche 22, 14. Durant 20
BOYS TEAM SCORES
1. Bellevue 108, 2. Monticello 102, 3. Anamosa 87, 4. Tipton 80, 5. Mid-Prairie 73.5, 6. Cascade 72, 7. Camanche 61, 8. Northeast 46, 9. North Cedar 41, 10. Durant 25, 11. West Liberty 17, 12. Regina 16, 13. West Branch 10, 14. Wilton 0
Thursday at the River Valley Conference track meet in Anamosa, Maddie Edgington hands the baton to to Alyssa McDowell in Mid-Prairie’s sprint medley relay that finished second to Northeast, 1 minute, 49.63 seconds to 1:49.74. Those are the two fastest times in the event in Class 2A. Mid-Prairie’s girls won the RVC team title Thursday. (Dain Jeppson photo)
Mid-Prairie hurdler Clark Latcham was second (15.94 seconds) in the 110-meter high hurdles, second in the 400 hurdles (57.44) and anchors the winning shuttle hurdle relay (pictured) at the River Valley Conference track meet at Anamosa Thursday. Mid-Prairie was fifth in the boys team scores. (Dain Jeppson photo)
Mid-Prairie’s Mitzi Evans runs next to Northeast in the sprint medley relay during the River Valley Conference track meet at Anamosa Thursday won by the Golden Hawks. Mid-Prairie (1:49.74) and Northeast (1:49.63) have the two fastest times in the event in Class 2A. (Dain Jeppson photo)
