Rainsbarger, relays lead Baxter boys at Tigerhawk Indoor Relays

GRINNELL — Logan Rainsbarger scratched on his first three attempts in the long jump on Thursday night. But his final leap was a new career-best mark and his win was part of a big night for the Baxter boys’ track and field team at the Tigerhawk Indoor Relays.

Rainsbarger, Matt Richardson and Max Handorf were part of four individual wins and the Bolts also finished first in the 4x800-meter and distance medley relays at Grinnell College.

Colfax-Mingo was highlighted by a pair of runner-up finishes from Xavier Woods and the Tigerhawks’ 4x800 relay team also was second.

No team scores were kept for this meet and medals were awarded to the top five individuals and top three relays. JV winners also were given medals.

Rainsbarger’s win in the long jump came on a personal-best leap of 19 feet, 8 inches. His second win came in the 60 hurdles and that time was clocked in 8.79 seconds.

Richardson and Cody Samson went 1-3 in the 800. Richardson posted a winning time of 2 minutes, 12.57 seconds. Samson’s time was clocked in 2:19.62.

The final individual win came from Handorf in the 1,600. He won the race with a time of 4:58.59.

The 4x800 relay team opened the track events with a win. The team of Samson, Handorf, Logan Jones and Richardson posted a winning time of 8:55.48.

Richardson also anchored the distance medley relay team. He rallied the Bolts to a win as the trio of Cade Robinson, Treyton Travis and Jones helped him register a time of 3:54.31. That would have been the second-best time all of last year.

Baxter was third five times. Travis had two of them as he was third in the high jump with a season-best leap of 5-8 and third in the 200 with a time of 25.27 seconds.

Carter Smith’s career-best throw of 39 feet, 10 inches netted him third place in the shot put.

Robinson, Rainsbarger, Travis and Jones teamed up for the final third-place finish as they ran the 4x60 relay in 30.72 seconds.

Woods led host Colfax-Mingo with a pair of runner-up finishes. He was second in the high jump with a leap of 5-10 and posted a time of 9.06 seconds to take second in the 60 hurdles.

The Tigerhawks’ 4x800 relay team was second with Fisher Grove, Izaiah Lewis, Owen Ament and Sully Wilkins. They posted a time of 9:37.94.

Wilkins also was fourth in the 800 with a time of 2:26.04 and Ament finished fifth in the 1,600 in 5:33.68.