Host Columbus finishes third at SEISC North Division track meet

The Columbus girls? track and field team took third place when it hosted the Southeast Iowa Super Conference North Division meet on Monday evening.

Pekin won the North Division title with 161 points, and Mediapolis was second with 132 points. The Wildcats finished third with 90 points.

Columbus only won one event, as the 4x100 relay team of Kelsey Pretz, Rebecca Davisson, Heaven Chandler and Megan Pretz took first place in 50.98 seconds.

The sprint medley relay team of Kelsey Pretz, Chandler, Megan Pretz and Caitlin Chaney took second place in 1:58.83, and the quartet of Chaney, Zulema Camarena, Kylie Marin and Taylor Hills finished second in the 4x800 relay in 10:20.96. The shuttle hurdle relay team of Davisson, Kelsey Pretz, Megan Pretz and Laura Mincks was runner-up in 1:10.98.

Marin took second place in the 800-meter run in 2:32.22, and Hills was seventh in 2:39.39. Kelsey Pretz finished fourth in the 200-meter dash in 27.77 seconds, and Chaney came in sixth in the 400-meter dash in 1:05.49.

Davisson finished third in the 100-meter hurdles in 16.15 seconds, and Megan Pretz was fourth in 16.65 seconds. Mincks came in fifth in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:14.50.

Davisson took third place in the long jump competition with a leap of 14 feet, 11.75 inches, and Chandler was fourth with a jump of 14 feet, 9.25 inches.

The Wildcats? 4x400 relay team of Rebeca Neri, Jessica Cruz, Marin and Hills finished third in 4:28.24, and the quartet of Jessica Morales, Camarena, Neri and Cruz was third in 4:38.78.

Highland tied Lone Tree for fifth place with 61 points. The Huskies won a pair of events, as sophomore Sam Dutton cleared 5 feet to win the high jump competition and then anchored the sprint medley relay team ? which also included Briana Davis, Cheyann Adamson and Kassie Vazquez ? to a first-place finish in 1:57.70. The same quartet also finished second in the 4x200 relay in 1:52.36.

Adamson took third place in the 100-meter dash in 13.30 seconds, and Davis was eighth in 13.59 seconds. Sophomore Chelsey Lampe finished fourth in the 800-meter run in 2:34.32, and she was seventh in the 1,500-meter run in 5:33.84.

Vazquez finished fifth in the long jump competition with a leap of 14 feet, 8.5 inches. Senior Megan Miller took fifth place in the shot put competition with a throw of 30 feet, 10 inches, and senior Mady Powers was sixth in the discus competition with a toss of 93 feet, 9 inches.

Highland?s 4x400 relay team of Courtnee Hahn, Kaitlin Hora, Lampe and Bridget Murphy finished fifth in 4:43.87. The quartet of Adamson, Dutton, Jordan Rath and Vazquez came in seventh in the 4x100 relay in 54.84 seconds, and the distance medley relay team of Hahn, Powers, Murphy and Hora was seventh in 4:57.53.

WACO finished ninth at the conference meet with 37 points.

Junior Rosemary Skriver cleared 4 feet, 10 inches to take fourth place in the high jump competition, and sophomore Jennie Greene finished sixth in the long jump competition with a leap of 14 feet, 5.25 inches. Sophomore Leah McElhinney finished seventh in the discus competition with a throw of 86 feet, 6 inches.

Freshman Angel Frier took fourth place in the 100-meter dash in 13.35 seconds. Sophomore Gaby Wagler came in eighth in the 800-meter run in 2:39.83, and freshman Cheyenne Sedlacek was eighth in the 3,000-meter run in 13:31.18. Sophomore Jalyssa Jepson finished seventh in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.90 seconds.

WACO?s shuttle hurdle relay team of Jepson, Greene, Aaliyah Brown and Erika Leichty came in fourth in 1:20.00. The quartet of Trilby Frier, Katelyn White, Angel Frier and Greene finished sixth in the 4x100 relay in 54.31 seconds, and the 4x200 relay team of Angel Frier, White, Morgan Dugger and Greene was sixth in 1:58.32. The distance medley relay team of Jaelyn Unternahrer, Kaila Leichty, Sara Conwell and Wagler came in sixth in 4:55.37. The quartet of Jepson, Skriver, Dugger and Wagler finished seventh in the sprint medley relay in 2:10.12, and the 4x400 relay team of Skriver, Wagler, Conwell and Brown was seventh in 4:54.97.

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in the team standings with 20 points. Senior Anya Slaubaugh matched her personal best by clearing 4 feet, 10 inches in the high jump competition, where she took second place. Sophomore Hannah Miller also had a personal-best performance in the long jump competition, finishing seventh with a leap of 14 feet, 3.5 inches.

Sophomore Riley Schmieder finished sixth in the 1,500-meter run in a personal-best time of 5:33.39.

The distance medley relay team of Kristin Davis, Olivia Yutzy, Miller and Riley Schmieder finished fifth in a season-best time of 4:50.14. The 4x200 relay team of Slabaugh, Davis, Yutzy and Miller came in seventh in a season-best time of 1:58.50, and the same quartet finished eighth in the 4x100 relay in a season-best time of 55.65 seconds.