PHOTO PROVIDED - The Marshalltown girls’ golf team stands with Harper Wilson, the lone senior who was honored at Tuesday’s Senior Day dual meet against Ames at the American Legion Memorial Golf Course. Pictured, from left, are: Emma Clawson, Teagan Niedermann, Betsy Wirin, Anna Phomvisay, Wilson, Avery Polley, Morgan Hilderbrand, Kamryn Price and Hanna Osgood.

The Marshalltown girls’ golf team secured the Iowa Alliance Conference North Division’s regular-season title on Tuesday, edging Ames by one stroke in a nine-hole dual meet at the American Legion Memorial Golf Course.

The Bobcats improved to 3-0 in the Alliance North thanks to a 179-180 victory over the visiting Little Cyclones.

MHS sophomore Morgan Hilderbrand posted the runner-up medalist round of 4-over-par 40 to lead the team to victory, trailing only the 38 shot by Jessie Lohman of Ames. Lone senior Harper Wilson finished out with a 45 for the fourth-lowest score of the dual, followed by Emma Clawson (46) and Hanna Osgood (48).

Every stroke counted on this particular day, and the Bobcats had one fewer than the Little Cyclones.

Behind Lohman’s 38, Ames got a 43 from Zoey Johnson, a 47 from Lauren Van Hauen and a 52 by Addison Downs. Both Lohman and Johnson eagled the par-5 third hole, while Hilderbrand and Wilson both birdied.

Marshalltown resumes play on Friday at the 15-team Southeast Polk Invitational at Copper Creek Golf Club.

Three golds for MHS boys

FORT DODGE — The Marshalltown boys’ track and field team crowned three Iowa Alliance Conference champions on its way to a fourth-place finish Tuesday at Dodger Stadium.

Bobcat junior Preston Johnson won two individual events and anchored Marshalltown’s distance medley relay to victory in the 11-team meet.

Johnson won both the 1,600- and 3,200-meter races with teammate Carter Nunn claiming second place in each as well. In the 1,600, Johnson finished in 4 minutes, 35.22 seconds, while Nunn crossed in 4:39.05. In the 3,200, it was Johnson first in 9:42.54 and Nunn second in 9:49.83.

The Bobcats’ distance medley quartet of Isacc Ceniceros, Declan Greene, Larrs Schoenfelder and Johnson picked up gold with their time of 3:45.49. Marshalltown finished with a five-second advantage ahead of its nearest competitor.

Nunn notched an additional silver medal, finishing behind only Des Moines Hoover’s Chase Gordon (2:01.11) in the 800. Nunn charted a season-best time of 2:02.27.

Aiden Smitherman shined with silver in both the 400 and 400 hurdles, taking second with respective times of 52.51 and a season-best 58.62 in the latter.

Marshalltown’s 4×800 relay team of Myles Goodman, Kade Randall, Michael Downs and Carson Wright took fourth in 8:43.32, while the 4×400 foursome of Zak Wilder, Greene, Ceniceros and Smitherman closed the meet with a fourth-place result and a season-best time of 3:38.09.

Evan Anderson earned fifth in the 200 (22.84) and helped the sprint medley relay team (Fernando Garcia, Smitherman, Anderson, Ceniceros) to a season-best 1:38.22 and fourth place as well.

Ceniceros took sixth in the 400 hurdles (1:01.16), and the 4×200 team of Elicha Mboungou, Wilder, Jamison Niehouse and Anderson took sixth in 1:36.22.

In the field events, Jaxson Hinkle finished sixth in both the shot put (46 feet, 2 inches) and the discus (126 feet, 1 inch).

Ames claimed the Alliance title with 126 points, followed by Mason City (109), Des Moines Roosevelt (105), the Bobcats and Fort Dodge (94).

Marshalltown is back on the track on Thursday, May 14, at the state-qualifying meet at Waukee Northwest.