Spartan girls 6th in Eldora; BCLUW's Garber sweeps hurdles

Published by editor on Wed, 04/14/2021 - 12:18pm

Grundy Center's Taylor Stahl (left) reaches back for the baton from Lainy Thoren in the final leg of the sprint medley relay at Eldora on Friday. (Jake Ryder photo)

By:

Jake Ryder

The Grundy Register

ELDORA – Grundy Center girls track and field led a trio of Register-area teams with a sixth-place team finish at the South Hardin Girls Invite on Friday, April 9.

The Spartans scored 69 points to finish in the middle of the 11-team pack. AGWSR was eighth with 48.5 points and BCLUW scored 45 points in ninth.

Spartan junior Dahlia Gardiner scored two bronze medals in the shot put and the long jump and was the anchor on the 4x100 team that placed fourth.

Grundy’s top relay finish was in the 4x400 as Bella Dole, Lucy Lebo, Laney Dole and Ellery Luhring finished third in 4:46.15.

AGWSR’s Abby Veld was second in the shot put with a throw of 34 feet, 2.5 inches, a new season-best for the freshman. The Cougars added another silver in the sprint medley with the team of Mady Mausser, Trinity Rotgers, Avery Lafrenz and Brynn Smith crossing the finish line in 2:03.58.

BCLUW’s Lizzie Garber won both of the individual hurdle events on Friday with a 16.35 time in the 100 hurdles and a 1:14.32 run in the 400 hurdles. She was also the anchor leg on the third-place shuttle hurdle team, finishing in 1:14.57 with teammates Kenna Paxson, Emma Averill and Anistyn Borsch-Rash running the first three legs.

South Hardin Girls Invite

Team scores (top 3 and area) - 1. Iowa Falls-Alden 120.5; 2. Hudson 99; 3. Emmetsburg 98; 6. Grundy Center 69; 8. AGWSR 48.5; 9. BCLUW 45.

Individual results

(Winners and area team scorers)

100 - 1. Sommer Stotler (A-P) 13.12.

200 - 1. Jaslynn Dagel (IF-A) 26.75; 8. Fiona Speicher (BCLUW) 29.50.

400 - 1. Jaslynn Dagel (IF-A) 1:02.69; 3. Brynn Smith (AGWSR) 1:03.63; 5. Bella Dole (GC) 1:08.47; 6. Ellery Luhring (GC) 1:08.70.

800 - 1. Ellie Meyer (IF-A) 2:32.55.

1,500 - 1. Ellie Meyer (IF-A) 5:20.54; 8. Taylor Stahl (GC) 6:10.25.

3,000 - 1. Ellie Meyer (IF-A) 11:04.59; 5. Elizabeth Kielty (AGWSR) 14:01.31; 6. Olivia Patrick (GC) 14:52.47.

100 hurdles - 1. Lizzie Garber (BCLUW) 16.35; 3. Kenna Paxson (BCLUW) 17.70; 7. Alyssa Hames (AGWSR) 18.89.

400 hurdles - 1. Lizzie Garber (BCLUW) 1:14.32; 4. Katelyn Pfaltzgraff (AGWSR) 1:14.98; 6. Avery Dirks (GC) 1:21.47.

Discus - 1. Elyse Trunck (Hud) 87-5; 3. Bailey Reding (GC) 83-10.

Shot put - 1. Emily Schany (Emm) 35-2.5; 2. Abby Veld (AGWSR) 34-2.5; 3. Dahlia Gardiner (GC) 33-3; 5. Jadyn Sawyer (GC) 31-6.25.

High jump - 1. Kylee Sallee (Hud) 4-10; 3. Lila Vaughn (AGWSR) 4-4.

Long jump - 1. Kylee Sallee (Hud) 17-6.5; 3. Dahlia Gardiner (GC) 14-8.5; 6. Carlie Willis (GC) 14-5; 8. Kenna Paxson (BCLUW) 14-0.

4x100 - 1. A-P 54.18; 4. GC (Launstein, Hamann, Willis, Gardiner) 56.83; 6. BCLUW (M. Grant, Borsch-Rash, Anderson, K. Grant) 59.18.

4x200 - 1. A-P 1:55.27; 4. GC (Ruth, Launstein, Willis, Hamann) 2:04.86; 5. BCLUW (M. Grant, Borsch-Rash, Anderson, K. Grant) 2:05.18.

4x400 - 1. Emmetsburg 4:36.32; 3. GC (B. Dole, Lebo, L. Dole, Luhring) 4:46.15; 7. AGWSR (Pfaltzgraff, Koop, Hames, Smith) 4:53.18.

4x800 - 1. IF-A 11:20.97; 3. AGWSR (Hames, Koop, Dodd, Pfaltzgraff) 11:32.55; 4. GC (B. Dole, L. Dole, Luhring, Lebo) 11:34.78.

Shuttle hurdle - 1. Emmetsburg 1:11.80; 3. BCLUW (Paxson, Averill, Borsch-Rash, Garber) 1:14.57; 6. GC (Barragy, Dirks, Ruth, Monaghan) 1:21.77.

Sprint medley - 1. Emmetsburg 2:03.01; 2. AGWSR (Mausser, Rotgers, Lafrenz, Smith) 2:03.58; 5. BCLUW (Paxson, K. Grant, Garber, Speicher) 2:05.71; 8. GC (Launstein, Newton, Thoren, Stahl) 2:09.22.

Distance medley - 1. North Tama 4:43.35; 4. GC (Launstein, Willis, Dirks, Stahl) 4:57.22; 7. AGWSR (Hames, Mausser, Olson, Pfaltzgraff) 5:03.85.