LYNDON — Yates Center High’s Donnie Bennett, Dylan Sicka and Brae Adams captured gold medals Thursday at the Lyndon High Spring Relays.
Bennett won both hurdle races. He ran the 100-meter high hurdles in 18.54 seconds with teammate Sam Aguirre finishing sixth in 21.83 seconds.
Bennett won the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 41.7 seconds.
Sicka was a double-gold medal winner also. He ran a winning time of 5 minutes, 5 seconds in the 1600-meter race. Sicka was first in the 800-meter run in 2:10.51.
Adams, Yates Center’s record holder in the discus, won the girls’ discus Thursday with a throw of 112 feet, 1 inch.
“We had a great meet for both boys and girls,” said Dan Berg, YCHS head coach. “Donnie and Dylan picked up where they left off last year. Donnie’s time in the 300 hurdles tied his personal best.”
Sicka also took fifth in the long jump with a leap of 18’5”.
Berg said Aguirre and C.J. Cole, both freshmen, did well for their first meet. Brent Rice was ill and did not go to the meet, Berg said.
Yates Center’s Cherokee Shafer and Paige Steinforth tied for sixth in the high jump at 4’6”. Steinforth was sixth in the long jump at 13’3”.
Haley Bedell ran third in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles in 58 seconds. Steinforth took fifth in the 400-meter dash in 69.9 seconds.
“Our veterans — Brae, Cherokee and Haley did well,” Berg said. “Paige, a freshman, picked up her first medal. Haley’s third in the hurdles was acheived the hard way — she was in the slow heat and ran her race basically by herself.”
Yates Center goes to Eureka next Thursday.
Crest and Southern Coffey County also competed at Lyndon, but the Register did not receive reports from those two schools by today’s press time.
Yates Center’s track athletes have good start to 2010 season
