Gatleel Joar

DES MOINES — Gatleel Joar won an Iowa Alliance Conference championship in the 400-meter hurdles, guiding Marshalltown boys track and field to a fourth-place finish at the Alliance meet at Williams Stadium on Friday.

The Bobcats racked up 84 points, one behind Ames in third. Mason City won the team title with 150 points, followed by Des Moines Roosevelt with 146.

Joar ran a new season-best time of 56.13 seconds to win the 400 hurdles by four-tenths of a second over Roosevelt’s Terrance Hill. Joar was also second in the 110-meter hurdles and was part of sprint medley and 4×400 relays that scored fifth-place points for the Bobcats.

MHS also picked up a hoard of points in distance events — Preston and James Johnson had a 3-4 finish in the mile run; James was second in the two-mile with John Moellers in fourth; and the distance medley and 4×800 relay teams were third and fourth, respectively.

LaMar Johnson, Aiden Smitherman, Isaac Ceniceros and James Johnson were on the distance medley quartet; Parker Gooding, Preston Johnson, Carter Nunn and Kade Randall passed the baton around in the 4×800.

Smitherman also snagged a bronze medal in the long jump.

Bobcat girls track 10th at Alliance meet

DES MOINES — Marshalltown girls track and field scored 28 team points in 10th place at the Iowa Alliance Conference Co-Ed Track Meet at Des Moines East High School on Friday.

Ames won the team title with 155 points, followed by Des Moines Roosevelt with 124.

Marshalltown senior Amaya Moore had the best individual finish for the Bobcats with a fourth-place leap in the long jump, at a mark of 15 feet, 8.5 inches.

The Bobcat 4×800 relay quartet of Thalia Gallegos, Elyza Ceren, Zoe Weidenaar, Kaitlyn Yepez had the best relay finish for MHS, placing third in 11:31.23.

Anessa Morrison added a fifth-place run in the 3,000-meter run, and the sprint medley and distance medley relay girls were also fifth-place finishers.