The Clarion-Goldfield-Dows boys track and field team hosted its annual Cowboy Relays on Thursday and several local teams were in attendance. West Fork finished runner-up and Belmond-Klemme was fifth in Class B. Iowa Falls-Alden was second, Hampton-Dumont-CAL was third and C-G-D was fifth in Class A.
Champions and Runner-Up’s:
Belmond-Klemme (Class B)
2nd in High Jump, Braden Dougherty – 5-08
West Fork (Class B)
1st in 200m, Trevor Despenas – 23.48
1st in 400m, Trevor Despenas – 52.97
1st in 400m Hurdles, Xavier Haller – 1:01.15
1st in High Jump, Xavier Haller – 5-10
2nd in 400m, Rylan Dorenkamp – 54.60
2nd in 3200m, Aaron Ihrke – 11:19.28
2nd in Shot Put, Jarren Hitzhusen – 41-11
2nd in 4×100 – 45.88
Clarion-Goldfield-Dows (Class A)
2nd in 110m Hurdles, Chaz Lane – 16.33
C-G-D Sophomore Chaz Lane on hosting the meet and his finish in the hurdles.
“It’s a lot of fun. There’s a lot of people here to watch. There’s not many people that go to track meets that are far away, so it’s really nice to see family and friends come to these meets,” says Lane. “The wind helped a lot there. It was my best time of the year. It was a close race. My teammate Daven was right behind me and the Keehn was right ahead me. He was pushing me pretty hard, so this was a fun race. Let’s hope to keep doing it and get some PRs for the whole team.”
Hampton-Dumont-CAL (Class A)
1st in 110m Hurdles, Aaden Keehn – 15.82
1st in 400m Hurdles, Colin Bird – 58.89
2nd in Shot Put, Beau Morton – 43-04
2nd in 400m, Colin Bird – 53.69
1st in Shuttle Hurdle – 1:06.61
Iowa Falls-Alden (Class A)
1st in Long Jump, Andrew Bartlett – 19-05.50
T-1st in High Jump, Brody McNeal – 6-00
T-1st in High Jump, Cade Olberding – 6-00
1st in Discus, Carter DeBates – 145-06
2nd in 100m, Andrew Bartlett – 11.37
2nd in 200m, Levi Langfitt – 23.26
1st in Sprint Medley Relay – 1:38.21
2nd in Shuttle Hurdle – 1:09.72
2nd in Distance Medley Relay – 3:59.63
2nd in 4×100 – 45.26
2nd in 4×200 – 1:34.48
2nd in 4×400 – 3:38.16
2nd in 4×800 – 8:48.60
IFA Senior Levi Langfitt on finishing second in the team race and the Cadets drive.
“The second place finish, I’m confident we’re going to have lot of first place finishes after tonight because it left a lot of us hungry by losing only by nine. It came down to that last race and them taking it from us, it leaves a little chip on our shoulder that we need to go get it,” says Langfitt. “We got drive, and we’re not going to give up no matter what’s in our path. When we take something, we take it with determination. We plan to do that all season.”
