Field events power Tigerhawks to home victory lap

COLFAX — The Lynnville-Sully girls track and field team won 10 events, but Colfax-Mingo posted 20 top-three finishes, scored double points in eight individual events and dominated the field events during its narrow victory over the Hawks in the Colfax-Mingo Coed Invitational on Tuesday.

The Tigerhawks won five events, went 1-2 in the discus and shot put and finished 2-3 in the long jump and high jump. Their 187 points edged Lynnville-Sully (185) by two at the top of the standings.

The rest of the six-team field included North Tama (99), Colo-NESCO (52), Grand View Christian (35) and Meskwaki Settlement School (27).

Three of C-M’s five wins came from Ashlynn Hosbond in the 3,000-meter run, Britney Keeney in the discus and Emma Cook in the shot put.

The Tigerhawks also won the 4x200 and shuttle hurdle relays.

The 10 second-place finishes included Jessa Purdie in the 100 hurdles, Trinity Smith in the 400 hurdles and long jump, Hosbond in the 1,500, Lily Arndt in the discus, Lexie Aller in the shot put and Grace Hunsberger in the high jump.

Hosbond won the 3,000 in a career-best 11 minutes, 26 seconds, but the field events dominated the night for the Tigerhawks.

Keeney’s winning throw in the discus was 82 feet, 10 inches, but Arndt (79-6), Aller (73-6) and Cook (72-11) were 2-4-5.

Cook won the shot put with a toss of 31-2, but Aller (30-6 1/2), Genesis Hardney (career-best 27-4 1/2), Susan Aldan (career-best 25-11 1/2) and Keeney (25-9 1/2) placed 2-4-5-6.

Teams can only score points for the first two finishes at each individual event though.

Grace Hunsberger (4-8) was the runner-up in the high jump, but Claire Hunsberger (4-8) and Katelyn Steenhoek (4-6) finished 3-5.

Smith’s 14-8 put her second in the long jump. Krissy Snow was third with a career-best leap of 13-6, Steenhoek placed fifth with a career-best 12-7 and Kaylee Collins took sixth with a mark of 11-3 3/4.

The Tigerhawks also doubled up in the 100, 200, 100 hurdles and the 1,500.

Aubrey VanderSchoor finished third in the 100 in a career-best 14.82 seconds, Snow was fourth in 15.03 and Brianna Freerksen placed fifth in a career-best 15.09.

Purdie (18.27), Evalyn Anderson (19.85) and Freerksen (19.88) went 2-5-6 in the 100 hurdles, and all three posted career-best times.

Claire Hunsberger finished the 200 in a career-best time of 32.16. She was fourth in the event, while Snow (32.99) was sixth.

Hosbond turned in a career-best time of 5:24.83 and placed second in the 1,500 and Mallory Sipma was sixth in 6:09.18.

Smith’s runner-up time in the 400 hurdles was clocked in 1:14.22 and Laila Kwaskiewicz finished sixth in the 800 in a career-best 2:57.47.

The Tigerhawks won the 4x200 relay in a season-best 2:01.74 with Smith, Steenhoek, VanderSchoor and Karmylia Snyder.

The shuttle hurdle relay team won with a season-best time of 1:17.37. That quartet included Purdie, Smith, Lily Anderson and Evalyn Anderson.

Colfax-Mingo also was second in the distance medley, sprint medley and 4x100 relays and finished third in the 4x800 and 4x400 relays.

In the 4x100, the team of Lily Anderson, Freerksen, Purdie and Snyder posted a time of 58.05.

Lily Anderson, VanderSchoor, Steenhoek and Claire Hunsberger placed second in the sprint medley relay with a time of 2:13.92.

Snyder, Purdie, Sipma and Hosbond teamed up to take second in the distance medley relay in 4:55.7.

The 4x800 relay team featured Sipma, Jessica Gibson, Karoixa Snyder and Kwaskiewicz and they finished third in 12:07.45.

The 4x400 relay team posted a season-best time of 5:03.06 with Gibson, Claire Hunsberger, Karoxia Snyder and Kwaskiewicz and they finished third.