Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Hawks win 4x100, finish second in 4x200 at Sioux City Relays
Brenton Thomas runs the final leg of the shuttle hurdle relay at the Dutch Relays. H-M-S finished fourth overall in the event.
Ethan Diehm takes the baton from Ryan Borden to begin the second leg of the 4x200 relay at the Dutch Relays. The Hawks finished third.
The Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn boys' track and field team made a name for itself during the 2022 edition of the Sioux City Relays on April 9.
Competing at Elwood Olson Stadium, H-M-S won the Class C 4x100 meter relay. Ryan Borden, Ethan Diehm, Kooper Ebel and Connor Dodd ran the race in a time of :45.53, nearly a full second faster than runner-up Gehlen Catholic.
That same group finished second in the 4x200 relay with a time of 1:35.36. That was three seconds behind Lawton-Bronson's first-place squad.
In the sprint medley relay, Tyson Tessum, Bradley Zamudio, Travis Kamradt and Bryce Dodge finished fifth with a time of 4:08.53.
The Hawks also had individual success at the Sioux City Relays. Dodd was the runner-up in the Class C 100-meter dash with his time of :11.58. He also placed eighth in the long jump with a leap of 19'2-1/4".
Diehm jumped 18'5-1/4" in the long jump to finish 17th overall, and George Vargas finished 29th in the 3200 meter run with a time of 12:13.88.
• Dutch Relays results
H-M-S opened its outdoor track and field season April 9 at the MOC-Floyd Valley Dutch Relays, held at De Valois Stadium on the campus of Northwestern College.
Runner-up finishers were Kooper Ebel in the 400-meter dash (:53.65) and the 4x100 relay team of Ryan Borden, Ethan Diem, Ebel and Connor Dodd (:45.31). The same group finished third in the 4x200 (1:36.03).
Dodd finished fourth in the 100-meter dash (:11.81) and Borden placed sixth (:12.13).
In the field events, Adam Schierholz was third in the discus (123'7"); Diehm placed third in the long jump (19'1/2") and Dodd was fifth (18'10"); and Ebel finished in a three-way tie for fifth in the high jump (5'4").
H-M-S's shuttle hurdle relay team of Ethan Wiersma, Bradley Zamudio, Tyson Tessum and Brenton Thomas placed fourth (1:13.70). Tessum, Zamudio, Travis Kamradt and Bryce Dodge combined to place fifth in the distance medley (4:11.36), while Tessum, Zamudio, Kamradt and Thomas were sixth in the sprint medley (1:47.29).
H-M-S finished in the top half of the 10-team field. Spirit Lake won the title with 130 points and MOC-Floyd Valley edged Gehlen Catholic, 88-86, for second. Western Christian finished fourth with 76 points, followed by H-M-S 48, Sheldon 45, Unity Christian 42, Sioux Center 40, Sibley-Ocheyedan 28 and Storm Lake 8.
