MASON CITY — The Marshalltown girls’ track and field team narrowly missed avoiding last place at Tuesday’s CIML Iowa Conference meet, trailing Fort Dodge by only one point.

The Bobcats totaled 43 points in sixth place, trailing Fort Dodge (44), Mason City (56), Ames (123) and a tight battle for the conference team title. Ankeny outlasted Ankeny Centennial, 159-153, for the crown.

Lilly Duff represented a portion of the scoring for the Bobcats by placing in the top-six in both throwing events. Duff achieved a new personal-record distance of 107 feet, 2 inches, to finish second in the discus, and her heave of 30-4 1/4 was good enough for sixth place in the shot put. Klaudia Hernandez came in fourth in the discus with her new personal-best distance of 99-11.

Marshalltown also came away with second place in the 4×800-meter relay, as Micah Blevins, Grace Rasmussen, Rachel Smith and Makenna Ainsworth charted a new season-best time of 10 minutes, 24.52 seconds.

Mia Rasmusson made her way to a height of 4-10 and a fourth-place finish in the high jump.

On the track, Rasmussen collected fourth in the 800-meter run in a time of 2 minutes, 31.68 seconds. Veronica Herrera was fourth in the 3,000 in 12:35.83.

Marshalltown’s shuttle hurdle relay team of Rasmusson, Lily Roberts, Valerica Beccera and Sara Huffman took fourth as well, timing in at 1:13.75, and the distance medley quartet of Katelyn Stowe, Kendall See, Grace Collins and Phoebe Hermanson.