Griswold takes gold in 400-meters at Bedford relays

Griswold’s Carsyn Adams won gold in the 400-meters and Ella Gade had a top throw of 108 feet towin the discus.
The East Mills girls finished eighth in Beford. They were led by Ellie Hagen’s third place showing in the 100-meters and its third place 4x100-meter relay.
Saige Jones was the highest performing medalist for ninth place for Southwest Valley. Jones was third in the 800-meters. Alyssa Pearson was fifth in the 400-meter hurdles as the only other individual medalist for the girls.
“The girls did a great job tonight,” said Southwest Valley Coach Jason Hults. “Over a a third of the girls squad was missing for another school event in the FBLA conference, so the other girls really stepped up and performed well in some events that will probably be filled by those other girls as the season goes on.”
The Essex girls finished 10th. Ella Sandahl led the way with a gold medal time of 12:16.23 in the 3,000-meters.
On the boys side, Bedford was the team champion with 110.5 points. Fremont-Mills was the runner up with 101 points.
Fremont-Mills’ JW Linkenhoker won the 110 meter hurdles in 14.92 and Jonathan Ekpai had a top leap of 20 feet, 10 inches to win the long jump. The Knights added a relay gold in the 4x200-meter relay.
Southwest Valley was fifth in the team standings.
Leading the way for the Timberwolves was Brody Crozier with a pair of new school records and first place finishes in the 100 and 200-meters.  Crozier ran 11.07 in the 100 to break his own school record of 11.22 set at the state track meet last year.  He followed that with a 23.15 in the 200-meter, breaking his own record of 23.52 set last year. 
“Brody struggled in the long jump at the start of the meet, posting four scratches, so I was very happy to see him shake off that frustration and perform so well in the 100 and 200,” Hults said.
The Timberwolves also got 1st place finishes in the high jump from Gavin Wetzel with a winning jump of 6-0 and Caleb Owen in the shot put with a new personal-record of 45-0.25.
Jiri Brodigan placed second in the 100-meters to lead East Mills to a seventh-place finish.

East Mills Girls Medal Winners
100m: third place, Ellie Hagen, 13.35.
Discus: sixth place, Shaylee Stiverson, 81’ 4”.
Shot put: sixth place, Stiverson, 31’ 11”.
4x100m relay: third place, East Mills, 56.32.
4x200m relay: second place, East Mills, 2:00.18.
Distance medley relay: sixth place, East Mills 5:08.99.

Essex Girls Medal Winners
400m: third place, Piper Maher, 1:08.73.
3000m: first place, Ella Sandahl, 12:16.23.

Griswold Girls Medal Winners
100m hurdles: second place, Carsyn Adams, 16.89.
400m: first place, Adams, 1:03.92.
400m hurdles: second place, Adams, 1:12.28.
800m: second place, Alexa Steinhoff, 2:43.47.
Discus: first place, Ella Gade, 108’.
Shot put: fifth place, Gade, 31’ 11.5”.
Sprint medley relay: third place, Griswold, 2:06.62.
Shuttle hurdle relay: second place, Griswold, 1:15.80.
4x400m relay: second place, Griswold, 4:38.97.
4x800m relay: second place, Griswold, 13:01.60.
Distance medley relay: third place, Griswold, 4:55.17.

Southwest Valley Girls Medal Winners
400m hurdles: fifth place, Alyssa Pearson, 1:18.84.
800m: third place, Saige Jones, 2:45.21.
Sprint medley relay: sixth place, Southwest Valley, 2:11.34.
4x100m relay: sixth place, Southwest Valley, 58.86.
4x100m relay: fourth place, Southwest Valley, 1:42.04.
4x400m relay: fifth place, Southwest Valley, 5:22.51.
Distance medley relay: fourth place, Southwest Valley, 5:04.76.

Boys Team Results
1. Bedford, 110.5. 2. Fremont-Mills, 101. 3. Lenox, 95. 4. Nodaway Valley, 83. 5. Southwest Valley, 71. 6. CAM, 39.5. 7. East Mills, 36. 8. Griswold, 31. 9. Essex, 15.

East Mills Boys Medal Winners
100m: second place, Jiri Brodigan, 11.22.
400m hurdles: sixth place, Khayden Poorker, 1:05.12.
High jump: fourth place, Poorker, 5’ 4”.
Shot put: fourth place, Tyson Viner, 42”.
Sprint medley relay: third place, East Mills, 1:46.06.
4x100m relay: third place, East Mills, 47.59.
4x200m relay: third place, East Mills, 1:40.31.
Distance medley relay: sixth place, East Mills, 4:44.66.

Essex Boys Medal Winners
200m: sixth place, Ashon Kline, 24.60.
High jump: second place, Isaiah Sholes, 5’ 10”.
4x100m relay: sixth place, Essex, 49.87.
4x200m relay: fourth place, Essex, 1:43.35.

Griswold Boys Medal Winners
110m hurdles: third place, Wyatt Silk, 15.40.
400m hurdles: fourth place, Callen Keiser, 1:02.56.
1600m: sixth place, Quentyn Ruchti-Wilson, 5:33.85.
3200m: third place, Ruchti-Wilson, 12:11.15.
Discus: fourth place, Brayden Beck, 117’ 7”.
4x100m relay: fourth place, Griswold, 48.32.
4x200m relay: fifth place, Griswold, 1:45.13.
Shuttle hurdle relay: fourth place, Griswold, 1:09.09.

Southwest Valley Boys Medal Winners
100m: first place, Brody Crozier, 11.07.
110m hurdles: sixth place, Gavin Wetzel, 17.22.
200m: first place, Crozier, 23.15.
400m: sixth place Uriah Westerhausen, 1:00.98.
400m hurdles: second place, Wyatt Mendenhall, 57.08.
Discus: fifth place, Caleb Owen, 111’.
High jump: first place, Gavin Wetzel, 6’.
Shot put: first place, Owen, 45’ .25”.
Sprint medley relay: fifth place, Southwest Valley, 1:46.35.
4x100m relay: second place, Southwest Valley, 45.86.
4x400m relay: fifth place, Southwest Valley 4:16.89.
4x800m relay: sixth place, Southwest Valley, 10:28.10.
Distance medley relay: third place, Southwest Valley, 4:11.12.: