BCLUW boys track 3rd at home meet

Published by editor on Thu, 04/08/2021 - 12:59pm

Gladbrook-Reinbeck's Logan Giesking clears the bar in the high jump at Conrad last Thursday. (Jake Ryder photo)

By:

Jake Ryder

The Grundy Register

CONRAD – BCLUW boys track and field scored 79 points to finish third at the home boys early bird meet at BCLUW High School on Thursday.

Iowa City West’s JV squad won the team title with 161 points, followed by Iowa Falls-Alden with 84 points. AGWSR finished eighth in the 10-team field with 16 points.

BCLUW’s 4x800 relay team won the event in eight minutes, 55.21 seconds, team of Noah Gallentine, Nick Pieper, Henry Kaisand and Connor Lynch. The Comets added six silver medals: Kaisand in the 800-meter run in 2:17.29, Carson Hoffman in the long jump with a leap of 19 feet, 6.5 inches, and the 4x100, 4x400, sprint medley and distance medley relay teams.

AGWSR’s Jeffrey Pfaltzgraff won the 1,600 for the second time in the week, crossing the finish line in 5:04.52. Pfaltzgraff also was the last one to touch the baton in the distance medley relay that placed fourth in 4:13.30, with the stick going from Bradly Roder to Darren Veld to Kaden Abbas before going to Pfaltzgraff.

Gladbrook-Reinbeck’s Logan Giesking won the high jump for the second time in as many tries last week, clearing 5-foot-8 for the win. Paul Brockett added a fifth-place finish in the 3,200 in 11:50.97.

BCLUW Boys Early Bird

April 1, 2021

Team scores: 1. Iowa City West JV 161; 2. Iowa Falls-Alden 84; 3. BCLUW 79; 4. Jesup 74; 5. Des Moines North 71; 6. Wapsie Valley 59; 7. North Tama 25; 8. AGWSR 16; 9. Gladbrook-Reinbeck 12; 10. GMG 5.

Individual results

(Winner and area team scorers)

100-meter dash - 1. Mason Applegate (ICW) 11.07; 6. Conrad Hughes (BCLUW) 12.22.

200 - 1. Mason Applegate (ICW) 22.77.

400 - 1. Trevor Sauerbrei (WV) 52.42; 6. Connor Lynch (BCLUW) 55.64.

800 - 1. Mason Van Waning (ICW) 2:16.41; 2. Henry Kaisand (BCLUW) 2:17.29; 5. Cayden McLeland (BCLUW) 2:21.53.

1,600 - 1. Jeffrey Pfaltzgraff (AGWSR) 5:04.52.

3,200 - 1. Drew Peterson (ICW) 10:48.38; 4. Cayden McLeland (BCLUW) 11.27.01; 5. Paul Brockett (G-R) 11:50.97.

110 hurdles - 1. Jaden Damiano (IF-A) 16.35; 4. Nick Curl (BCLUW) 17.42.

400 hurdles - 1. Jason Lu (ICW) 59.29; 5. Nick Curl (BCLUW) 1:02.68.

Discus - 1. Carson Lienau (Jesup) 160-1; 5. Darren Veld (AGWSR) 116-2.

Shot put - 1. Carson Lienau (Jesup) 50-7.5.

High jump - 1. Logan Giesking (G-R) 5-8; 6. Noah Gallentine (BCLUW) 5-4.

Long jump - 1. Parker McHone (Jesup) 19-8; Carson Hoffman (BCLUW) 19-6.5.

4x100 - 1. DM North 45.50; 2. BCLUW (Hoffman, Bracy, Hughes, Drake Leimbacher) 46.87.

4x100 weightman - 1. IF-A 55.91; 3. BCLUW 58.10.

4x200 - 1. IC West 1:35.34.

4x400 - 1. DM North 3:45.03; 2. BCLUW (Curl, Pieper, N. Gallentine, Lynch) 3:47.56.

4x800 - 1. BCLUW (N. Gallentine, Nick Pieper, Kaisand, Lynch) 8:55.21.

Shuttle hurdle - 1. IC West 1:09.65; 3. BCLUW (Bracy, Carter Gallentine, Nick Feldpausch, Curl) 1:13.61.

Sprint medley - 1. IF-A 1:40.33; 2. BCLUW (Hoffman, Tyler Bracy, Jack Hughes, Lynch) 1:40.73.

Distance medley - 1. IC West 4:02.80; 2. BCLUW (Hoffman, Bracy, N. Gallentine, Kaisand) 4:03.22; 4. AGWSR (Bradly Roder, Darren Veld, Kaden Abbas, Jeffrey Pfaltzgraff) 4:13.30.