JEFFERSON — West Marshall senior Ryder Gile tied for the top spot in the high jump to lead the Trojans to sixth place as a team at the Heart of Iowa Conference meet on Thursday at Greene County High School.

Gile and PCM sophomore Evan Wendt both cleared 5 feet, 10 inches, to share first place in the conference meet. PCM took first in the team standings with 158 points, followed by Roland-Story (147), Nevada (129), Greene County (91), Perry (63) and West Marshall (58) in the nine-team invite.

West Marshall’s sprint medley relay team of Turner DeRossett, Calvin Streeter, Kinnick Geers and Evan Siegert scored third place with a season-best time of 1 minute, 36.93 seconds. Geers got third in the 100 in 11.19, and Siegert was third in the 400 in 52.26.

The Trojans’ 4×100 foursome of Geers, Streeter, Siegert and DeRossett tallied a season-best time of 45.01 to place fifth. Siegert added a fifth-place finish in the 200 (23.91), and Erick Rosas Canchola took fifth in the 400 hurdles (1:00.27).

Farnsworth, Elmore lead locals at Iowa Star girls’ meet

MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — BCLUW senior Grace Farnsworth won the shot put and GMG freshman Addison Elmore won the discus as a pair of area teams competed at the Iowa Star Conference track and field meet on Thursday at Meskwaki Settlement School.

BCLUW placed fourth with 54 points while GMG finished 13th out of 16 teams with 28 points. Baxter won the meet with 139 points, followed by Janesville (80), Collins-Maxwell (69) and the Comets.

Both local teams scored a bulk of their points in field events, highlighted by Farnsworth’s win the shot put. She threw a season-best 37 feet, 8 1/2 inches, to claim the top spot ahead of GMG’s Arianna Pierce (season-best 36-8 3/4) in second and Skyler Murty (34-11) in third.

Farnsworth also finished second to Elmore in the discus, with the GMG freshman winning with a distance of 105-1. Farnsworth was second at 98-1, followed by fellow Comet Adrienne Caster (94 11 1/2) in third and GMG’s Murty in fifth (93-8).

BCLUW also got a bronze-medal finish from Cambria Wayman in the long jump (15-5). On the track, the Comets were led by third-place results from the 4×100- and 4×800-meter relays. BCLUW’s foursome of Wayman, Lucy Walters, Adelynn Zoske and Brinna Benson bagged third in the 4×100 with a time of 54.84 seconds, while the quartet of Chloe Switzer, Kennedy Davis, Elise Engle and Layla Follett finished third with a season-best 11:25.00.

GMG’s best results on the track were ninth-place finishes from Taelyn Sash in the 800 (2:45.74) and the 4×200 team of Pierce, Murty, Jolessa Vazquez and Riah Boege (2:11.36).

Josie Parks ran season-bests of 1:20.40 for 10th in the 400 hurdles and 18.90 for 11th in the 100 hurdles.

West Marshall girls finish fifth in Heart of Iowa meet

JEFFERSON — The West Marshall girls’ track and field team emerged from the Heart of Iowa Conference meet with three silver medals to lead the Trojans to fifth place out of nine teams on Thursday at Greene County High School.

The Trojans totaled 74 points to trail PCM (147), Roland-Story (134), Perry (105) and host Greene County (83).

Senior Addie Thompson led West Marshall with two runner-up finishes, taking second in season-best times in both the 1,500- (5 minutes, 18.38 seconds) and 3,000-meter runs (11:12.61).

Dalaney Eldridge took second in the 400 as well, clocking in at 1:01.48, and she anchored for the 4×800 relay team of Ella Randall, Summer Kurth and Thompson that took third in 10:34.59. Eldridge also cleared 14 feet, 9 inches, for fourth in the long jump, and she anchored the sprint medley team (Sophie Simms, Cailyn Brown, Alayna Frederick) to fourth in 1:56.10.

Frederick took fourth in the 200 (27.97), narrowly missing her season-best time, and the 4×100 relay team of Simms, Ava Young, Elyse Ranson and Brown claimed fourth in 55.93.

Comets, Wolverines compete at Iowa Star boys’ meet

MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — The BCLUW boys’ track and field team finished in eighth place and GMG was 11th at the Iowa Star Conference meet on Thursday at Meskwaki Settlement School.

Baxter won the team title with 141 points, followed by Riceville (127) and Collins-Maxwell (100). BCLUW finished with 41 points and GMG totaled 20.5 in the 16-team meet.

The Comets topped out with a pair of third-place finishes in relay races, as the 4×800-meter relay and the distance medley teams both bagged bronze. The 4×800 foursome of Brayden Catherwood, Olin Hupfeld, Avery Schipper and Tommy Hinderhofer had a season-best time of 9 minutes, 27.97 seconds, while the distance medley quartet of Eathan Petermeier, Vance Hoyt, Ethan Shadlow and Catherwood came in with the Comets’ second-best time of the season at 3:57.20.

The sprint medley team of Petermeier, Wyatt Gould, Owen Case and Shadlow also scored the team’s second-best time of the spring, finishing fourth in 1:42.30, and Petermeier took fourth in the 100 with a season-best 11.20.

GMG’s distance medley team logged its low time for the season in finishing fourth, as Landon Balmer, Rider Kupka, Jacoby Woodbury and Ethan Klemesrud came in at 3:58.30. The Wolverines’ 4×400 foursome of Kupka, Woodbury, Balmer and Klemesrud took fifth in a season-best 3:44.12, and Klemesrud was fifth in the 800 with his season-best 2:13.28.

GMG senior Jay Bessman was sixth in the discus (136 feet, 2 inches) and eighth in the shot put (39-4), while Klemesrud was seventh in the long jump (17-10).