By Chris Faulkner
Danville High School’s girls track team captured the Class B portion of the Timm Lamb Pen City Relays Tuesday at Fort Madison High School’s Richmond Stadium.
An unusually warm day greeted the athletes at the meet that in the past has been marked with 40- to 50-degree temperatures.
Danville fared well in Class B with four individual event victories and first-place finishes in four relays.
Mediapolis won two relays and an individual race and finished fourth with 95 points. Cardinal was second with 138 and Van Buren third with 124 out of the seven teams.
West Burlington/Notre Dame competed in the larger Class A portion and finished fifth out of seven teams with 84 points. Mount Pleasant won with 159 points.
Class B
Danville’s Kamryn Sherwood won the 800-meter run in 2:50.69, with Bear teammate Abby Arnett second in 2:57.45.
Alaina Gourley won the 400 in 1:02.66, with teammate Macie Wagner third in 1:11.55. Alexis Dietsch won the 400 hurdles in 1:14.90, and Kenna Furnald captured the long jump at 16 feet, 5 ¼ inches. She also took third in the 200 (:26.63).
In the 4x400, Miya Obriana, Jaeda Molle, Wagner, and Gourley won in 4:23.25. Gourley, Molle, Sherwood, and Orbiana won the 4x800 in 10:41.56.
Also first were the sprint medley team of Taylor Jones, Molle, Furnald, and Orbiana (2:00.61) and the distance medley team of Furnald, Gourley, Orbiana, and Molle (4:46.72).
Chloe Horn was second in the 100 hurdles (:17.79), and Sherwood was third in the 1,500 (5:37.05).
Mediapolis won the 4x100 and 4x200 relays, with Kira Messer, Josie Hutcheson, Amelia Grier, and Haley Steffener clocking 53.68 seconds in the 4x100, and a 1:53.25 in the 4x200.
Bryn Wright won the 1,500 in 5:36.82.
Grace Holsteen of the Bullettes finished second in the 400 (1:11.14).
Class A
West Burlington/Notre Dame’s Elise Oleson claimed the discus title with a throw of 95 feet, 11 inches. She came in second in the shot put at 33-10.
The Falcons’ 4x100 team of Ady Lamm, McKenna Marlow, Amiya Davis, and Ava Parkins took second in 52.58 seconds.
The 4x200 team of Lacie Felkins, Anna Engberg, Lauren Summers, and Logan Kelley placed third in 1:57.67.
In the individual running events, Parkins was third in the 100 in 13.16 seconds, Davis was third in the 200 in 27.37 seconds, and Hadley Augustine was third in the 800 in 2:37.85.