Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Hawks fall short in 2 record-setting relays at Unity Christian meet
Kooper Ebel (left) and Connor Dodd stay with the leaders during the 100 meter dash. Dodd finished second and Ebel finished fifth in the event.
Travis Kamradt is determined to get off to a fast start after taking the baton from Ryan Borden in the distance medley relay.
Sometimes the best isn't quite good enough. Case in point – Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn's 4x100 relay squad which bettered the Unity Christian Invitational meet record, but didn't win the race.
Noah Adams, Kooper Ebel, Dawson Schiphoff and Connor Dodd ran a time of :45.62, which bettered the old meet record. But they had to settle for second place, as Unity Christian ran a time of :43.84 to set a new meet record.
Adams, Ebel, Schiphoff and Dodd also finished second in the 4x200 (1:36.46), but lost again to Unity Christian which ran another record-setting time (:1:32.17).
Dodd recorded the best individual finishes for H-M-S, placing second in the 100 meter (:11.95) and 200 meter (:24.23) dashes. Ebel finished fifth in the 100 (:12.33).
Field event results included a fourth-place finish by Gabe Bronstad in the shot put (37'2"); and sixth-place finishes by Jesse Garcia in the shot put (36'5"); Adams in the long jump (18'9.75"); and Ebel in the high jump (5'4").
Fifth-place relay finishes were recorded in the 4x400 (Ryan Borden, Travis Kamradt, Tyson Tessum, J.P. Mutombo; 4:07.18), 1600 meter medley (Borden, Kamradt, Mutombo, Brenton Thomas; 4:16.97) and 800 meter medley (Borden, Mason Brinkman, Schiphoff, Kamradt; 1:51.57). H-M-S placed sixth in the 4x800 relay (Ethan Diehm, Aidan Espeland, Matthew Meyers, George Vargas; 11:25.63).
Thomas won the JV long jump (16'5"). Third-place finishers were Bradley Zamudio in the 100 (:13.19) and Espeland in the 800 meter run (2:39.01).
Keevyn Jacobsma placed fourth in the JV shotput (34'8"); Alan Abonce was fifth in the 800 meter run (2:45.12); and Gavin Faulkner was sixth in the 1600 meter run (7:20.19).
The Hawks' JV 4x100 relay finished fourth (Zamudio, Landen Elwood, Jordan Ortega, Trenton Vollink; :52.04); and the 4x400 relay team finished fifth (Espeland, Abonce, Faulkner, Ethan Wiersma; 4:59.80).
The meet in which H-M-S was to compete at Orange City on April 19 was cancelled.
The Hawks will compete in the H-M-S Coed Relays on April 23 and at the Okoboji Relays on April 26.
