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SPORTS SHORTS: BCLUW girls repeat as Iowa Star track champs

MAXWELL — BCLUW girls track and field won the team title at the Iowa Star Co-Ed Conference Meet on Thursday.

The Comets scored 136 team points. Collins-Maxwell was runner-up at 114.5 points, Meskwaki and GMG tied for 12th at 17 points and North Tama scored 14 points in 14th place.

Mallori Jones, Miranda Jones and Ceanna White each finished with three gold medals to lead the Comets.

Mallori was the high jump champion and teamed up with Miranda, White and Raegan Crawford to win the 4×800; Miranda, Mallori, White and Kalia Stover also won the 4×400 relay. The distance medley quartet of Brinna Benson, White, Miranda Jones and Stover grabbed gold as well.

The Comets added two more field event titles with Morgan Bergman winning the discus throw and Kailan McEwen taking the win in the shot put, finishing ahead of teammate Grace Farnsworth for a 1-2 Comet finish in the event.

Meskwaki’s Dorothy Bear was fourth in the 400 and fifth in the 400 hurdles and was the anchor on the fifth-place sprint medley relay team. GMG’s Makayla Pendleton led the Wolverines with a runner-up finish in the discus. North Tama’s 4×800 relay of Rachael Murty, Jamie Jacobs, Ava Breakenridge and Violet Seda was fourth.

Comet boys track 2nd at Iowa Star Meet

MAXWELL — BCLUW boys track and field claimed the runner-up spot at Thursday’s Iowa Star Co-Ed Conference Meet.

The Comets scored 104 points; Baxter scored 135 points as conference champs. GMG was eighth with 48 points, North Tama placed ninth with 42 points.

Cael Keller won the 400-meter dash and Alex Paxson was 400 hurdles champion; Keller and Paxson also teamed up with Kevin Hill and Cayden White to close out the meet as 4×400 relay champions.

Jabari Woodbury was the big point-scorer for GMG; he was second to Keller in the 400, placed third in the 200, and anchored the second-place sprint medley relay team along with Colin Teske, Grady Dieleman and Slate Witte; he also anchored the fourth-place 4×100 quartet, teaming up with Witte, Landon Stonewall and Teske. Jay Bessman added a bronze medal in the discus throw.

North Tama racked up points in field events; Clayton Williams was the runner-up in the long jump, Brayton Cibula was third in the high jump and Ty Guthrie took fifth in the discus. The Redhawks added 3rd-place runs in the shuttle hurdle and 4×400 relays.

Devin Hoag scored the only team point for the Meskwaki boys with an eighth-place showing in the long jump.

Trojan boys 6th at HOIAC meet

JEWELL — West Marshall boys track and field scored 63.5 points to finish sixth at the Heart of Iowa Conference Co-Ed Track Meet at South Hamilton High School on Thursday.

Erick Rosas Canchola, Preston Reese, Brevon Gibson and Dylan Thompson teamed up for second in the 4×800 relay. The Trojans secured bronze medals with Brady Larson in the shot put, Jace Eich in the open 400 and Ben Gonzalez, Gabe Degelau, Kinnick Geers and Eich.

Nevada won the team title with 159 points. PCM was second at 156.5.

Jirovsky, Spartans 2nd at NICL boys meet

CEDAR FALLS — Grundy Center’s Judd Jirovsky shot an even-par 72, then won a playoff to take runner-up medalist honors as Spartan boys golf also finished second as a team at Friday’s North Iowa Cedar League Super Meet at Pheasant Ridge Golf Course.

Jirovsky defeated Max Schuchmann of Waterloo Columbus in the playoff. Hudson’s Oliver Thompson was conference champion with a 1-under round of 71.

The Columbus Sailors were the team champions at a 307 team score, four strokes ahead of the Spartans.

Preston Martens was fourth overall with a 74 for the Spartans. Eli Wegmann shot an 82 and Tate Jirovsky and Sullivan Dirks each had 83s.

East Marshall was 13th with a 378 team score, led by Jackson Bidwell with an 81. Gladbrook-Reinbeck shot 392 as a team, led by Austin Gehring with a 95.

Grundy girls 5th at Schupbach Classic

GRUNDY CENTER — Leah Larson shot an 86 to lead Grundy Center girls golf to a fifth-place finish at the Spartans’ home tournament, the Rick & Lisa Schupbach Classic, at Town & Country Golf Course on Friday.

Grundy Center shot a 382 team score. Oelwein won the team title with 345 strokes, followed by runner-up Sumner-Fredericksburg with a 352.

Larson was sixth overall with her round. Sumner-Fredericksburg’s Chloe Bolte was the medalist with a 70 and Jesup’s Morgan Krall shot a 75 as runner-up.

Avery Knutsen and Ashlyn Kuiper contributed a 97 and 98 for the Spartans and Belle Ruth and Holly Lubbert each shot 101.

South Tama was seventh with a 429 score, led by Aubrey Dolezal with a 99. GMG’s Mariah Wood shot a 98 to pace the Wolverines, finishing eighth with a 517.

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