LE GRAND — The East Marshall track and field teams may not have the overall numbers to compete for a championship at the North Iowa Cedar League meet, but the Mustangs still have enough moxy and mettle to mix it up while they’re still a part of it.

Both the East Marshall girls’ and boys’ teams emerged from the NICL Mega Meet on Thursday night with five all-conference performances apiece, powered by junior Ashtyn Wheater’s championship in the shot put. Wheater won the event by more than four feet over the nearest competitor and nearly won the discus, too. A final throw from AGWSR’s Carlie Hoodjer edged Wheater by 1 1/2 feet, denying the hometown Mustang the double.

Wheater threw 38 feet, 11 inches to win the shot put by a comfortable margin, and then tossed 100-6 to score silver in the discus. Hoodjer won with a 102-foot twirl on her final attempt.

Fellow Mustang junior Sydney Hull narrowly missed her season-best time in the 1,500-meter run, taking third in 5 minutes, 13.74 seconds, and she took fourth in the 800 with a season-best 2:24.90. Grundy Center’s Grace Storjohann set the track record in the 800 — supplanting Haley Fye’s home-track mark of 2:21.41 from 2015 — by winning in 2:19.36.

Marisa Cahalan cleared 4-10 to finish tied for fifth in the high jump, which was won by Grundy Center’s Allison Koch at 5-6 — also a new venue record.

East Marshall added a sixth-place finish by the distance medley relay team of Gianna Boswell, Dayviah Hinegardner, Addy Denham and Hull, which set a new season-best time of 4:32.81. Boswell bagged ninth in the 100 hurdles in 17.31, bettering her season-low time my more than a second, and the 4×100 relay team of Denham, Libby Atcher, Cahalan and Boswell set a new season-best time of 54.66 to finish 10th.

The East Marshall girls totaled 34.5 points to tie with AGWSR for 10th place out of 15 scoring teams in the NICL Mega Meet. Grundy Center claimed the girls’ team title with 116 points, while the Spartan boys won their side of the meet with 111 points. East Marshall tied Oelwein for ninth place with 36 points.

The Mustang boys were paced by Nathan Frye, who cleared his season-best by four inches to take second place in the high jump at 6-2. Union Community’s Ethan Winnike also cleared 6-2 and took the title.

Eli Burns produced a pair of all-conference performances for the Mustangs, finishing third in the 110-meter high hurdles and fourth in the long jump. Burns re-broke the school record he established in the 110 highs, taking the bronze in 15.09, while he finished fourth in the long jump at 20-2 1/4.

Blake Neuroth finished third in a star-studded field in the 400 hurdles, crossing the finish line in 57.11. Grundy Center’s Judd Jirovsky set the track record, winning in 54.88.

Cael Curphy closed out a competitive day on the track by anchoring the 4×400-meter relay team to fourth. Neuroth, Kaden Grant, Burns and Curphy clocked in 3:30.25 — missing their season-best mark by 15-hundredths of a second — and Curphy also an all-conference honorable mention by finishing sixth in the 400 (52.85).

Even in a conference with 15 teams, only the top six individuals and top three relays are awarded all-conference honors.

The Mustangs had a trio of eighth-place relays as well. Neuroth, Good, Burns and Curphy posted a time of 1:38.37 in the sprint medley; Neuroth, Trent Criswell, Kaden Grant and Good went 1:35.16 in the 4×200, and the 4×800 quartet of Grant, Austin Pansegrau, Wyatt Anderson and Gavin Gaschler chopped more than 10 seconds off their previous low to take eighth in 9:02.91.

The Mustangs, who will leave the NICL for the South Iowa Cedar League in 2027-28, compete in Lynnville-Sully’s Last Chance Meet on Monday before going to the Class 1A state-qualifying meet at Colfax-Mingo on Thursday, May 14.