High School Track and Field: Iola Mustangs and Fillies
A stiff wind was not enough to keep the Fillies away from success at the Anderson County Invitational track meet on Thursday.
The Iola girls finished in second place overall in a meet that included all of the teams that will be included in Iolas regional meet and half of the Pioneer League. The Iola boys finished seventh.
Its hard to talk about the Fillies strong performance and not start with sophomore Elysia Kunkler who for the second time in her high school career, had a clean sweep of all four of her events.
Kunkler finished first in the 100-meter dash (13.46) and the 100-meter hurdles (17.03) and finished first while setting personal records in both the 300-meter hurdles (49.79) and the long jump (17 feet).
The 300-meter record was even more impressive considering the hurdlers were running into a 20-mph wind.
Junior Ellie Carson also finished well in the 300-meter hurdles, with a season-best time of 52.80 and a fourth-place finish. She also came in second in the 100-meter hurdles (17.75).
Sophomore Elka Billings finished top-five in three of her events including third in the 800-meter run (2:44.70), fourth in the 400-meter run (1:09.15) and fifth in the 3200-meter run (13:25.13).
Senior Nora Gostner finished third in the discus with a throw of 9703 which was a personal best and fifth in the 100-meter dash with a time of 14.29.
Junior Kassy Shelby finished fourth in the 200-meters with a time of 29.81 and senior Madi Carlin finished fifth in the high jump with a height of 406.
The 4×100-meter relay team of Shelby, Gostner, Carson and Madisyn Holloway finished third overall with a time of 54.75.
The 4×400 team of Shelby, Kylee Maloney, Hannah Gardner and Holloway finished fifth (4:45.51) and the 4×800 team of Marta Iglesias-Gonzalez, Audrey Coltrane, Averie Sharon and Taelyn Maley also finished fifth with a time of 12:18.5.
THE IOLA BOYS
were led by a second-place finish (9:35.16) from the 4×800 relay team consisting of Cole Regehr, Jack Adams, Nathan Sprague and Tavon Bass.
Individually, Adams, a freshman, finished third in the 3200 with a time of 11:36.03 and Regehr, a senior, finished sixth in the 1600 (5:25.22).
Sophomore Dan Foust finished fifth in the 300-meter hurdles (45.02) and junior Elijah Luedke tied for fifth in the high jump with a height of 502 which was a personal best.
Sophomore Christian Floyd finished fifth in the shot put (4005) and senior Alex Morrison finished sixth in the javelin with a throw of 13511 which was a personal record by almost 10 feet.
The 4×400-relay team of Floyd, Foust, Nathan Sprague and Cale Barn-hart finished fifth with a time of 3:51.21.
