Nodaway Valley girls track triumphs on home track

More times than not, athletes from other schools were chasing those from Nodaway Valley from start to finish Monday, April 4.

The Wolverine girls’ track team hosted its home invitational and scored 113 points to win the meet. They outlasted Treynor by 10 points to take the meet title. They also broke a meet record in one of the relays.

“We had a good night running,” said NV head coach Brett Welsch after the meet. “We have some handoffs to work on, but overall it was a very solid night of running and field events.”

The team effort was led by six event wins by Nodaway Valley. Senior Maddax DeVault was a part of four of those wins. Individually, she won the 100-meter hurdles (16.17 seconds) and the 200-meter dash (27.24). She was on a winning shuttle hurdle relay that also included Maddie Fry, Olivia Laughery and Annika Nelson, and they broke the meet record with a time of 1:10.45.

The 4x100-meter relay with Grace Britten, Fry, Emma Lundy and Nelson (53.20 seconds); 4x200 with Abby Engles, Fry, Lundy and Nelson (1:52.31); and 4x400-meter relay with Engles, Laughery, DeVault and Nelson (4:20:66) all won.

Britten, Alena Rectenbaugh, Lundy and Engles were second in the sprint medley (1:58.95) to Audubon. Fry went 16 feet, 1 1/4 inches in long jump to also place second.

Third-place efforts were earned by Jorja Holliday in shot put (29 feet, 5 1/2 inches). She set a new personal record in the discus, placing third in that event with a throw of 101 feet. Jazz Christensen ran to a third place finish in the 1,500-meter run (5:59.77).

Bailey Carstens took fourth in high jump, going 4 feet, 4 inches. Engles in the 200 (29.19), Erin Ford in the 3,000 (13:54.05) and Britten in the shot put (29 feet, 3 1/4 inches) also each finished fourth.

Freshman Joanna Larson was sixth in the 400 (1:13.44). The 4x800 (Christensen, Carstens, Haley Johnson and Erin Ford in 13:04.20) and distance medley (Britten, Rectenbaugh, Laughery and Christensen in 5:07.44) quartets also placed sixth.

Wolverines second at Clarke

Nodaway Valley was second to Central Decatur at Clarke’s DeWitt Invitational Friday, April 1.

DeVault won the 100 (13.17 seconds) and 200-meter (27.49) dashes, and the 400-meter run (1:01.72). She joined Engles, Laughery and Nelson on a winning 4x400-meter relay (4:27.95).

Maddie Weston, Fry, Lundy and Nelson were winners of the 4x100-meter relay (52.91) while Engles, Fry, Lundy and Nelson won the 4x200-meter relay (1:51.59).

Off the track, Britten was champion of the shot put with a throw of 29 feet, 3 1/2 inches.

The sprint medley took second, with Britten, Laughery, Weston and Engles (2:02.61), as did the distance medley with Britten, Laughery, Carstens and Christensen (5:16.54).

The shuttle hurdle relay was also runner-up, with Fry, Laughery, Carstens and Nelson (1:16.81). Fry was second in long jump (15 feet, 5 1/2 inches), Ford second in the 3,000-meter run (13:52.20) and Christensen second in the 800-meter run (2:48.83).

Holliday was third in the shot put (28 feet, 6 1/2 inches) and discus (89 feet, 9 inches), and Christensen was third in the 1,500 (5:55.58).

Carstens high jumped to tie for fourth (4 feet, 2 inches) and Ford was sixth in the 1,500-meter run (6:29.09).