SOLON — The boys track and field team won the 2023 Denny Gruber Co-Ed Relays Tuesday, April 18 with eight first place finishes and by topping runner up Mount Vernon 159-157. Marion (85), Assumption Catholic (60), Vinton-Shellsburg (51), North Cedar (27), Beckman Catholic (24), and Regina Catholic (22) filled out the eight-team field.
Brick Kabela was a double winner as he took the 1,600-meter run in 4:44.59 and the 3,200 run in 10:14.89. Blake Timmons won the 200-meter dash in 22.76 seconds, Michael Yeomans won the 800-meter run in 2:02.56, and Adam Smith was a double winner in the shot put and discus with 50-0 and 159-3 throws.
Grant Knipper, Timmons, Yeomans, and Grant Bumsted won the 1,600-meter distance medley relay in 3:38.60 while Charlie Brandt, Cole Carney, Keenan Kruse, and Nash Kotar won the shuttle hurdle relay in 1:04.48.
Second place finishes were posted by Kruse in the 400-meter hurdles (58.58), Ben Kampman in the discus (153-0), and Oaken Foster in the high jump (6-2).
Third place finishes went to Jeremy Bachus in the 400 dash (50.96), Brandt in the 400 hurdles (1:00.78), and Marcus Richard in the shot put (46-3).
Brayden Moore, Milo Ashbacker, Brett White, and Austin Knight were third in the 4×100 (44.59) while Moore, Ashbacker, Barret Schade, and Knight were third in the 4×200 (1:34.67). Rhett Mesch, Jeremy Bachus, Grant Bumsted, and Knipper took third in the 4×400 (3:33.64) and Maddox Shipley, Wyatt Applegarth, Spencer Michels, and Kabela were third in the 4×800 (9:02.32).
Bachus and Mesch were fourth in the 200 dash (23.26) and 400 dash (52.64).
Benjamin Duckett was fifth in the 110-meter-high hurdles in 18.59 seconds.
Sixth place finishes went to Ashbacker in the 100 dash (12.08), Colin Bumsted in the 3,200 run (11:22.16), Carter Grimm in the shot put (43-4.50), and Mason Scott in the discus (117-6).
Seventh place went to Einar Stecher in the 100 dash (12.11), Spencer Michels in the 1,600 run (4:59.85, and Gavin Wisman in the high jump (5-2). Eddie Johnson, Oliver Owens, Cole Carney, and Tyler Bell took seventh in the 4×200 in 1:38.66.
Noah Kottenstette and Jordan Schmidt took eighth in the 400 dash (1:01.27) and long jump (17-3.50).
Three relays – the 4×100 (Kyler Jensen, Stecher, Eli Kampman, and Brady White), the 4×400 (Gavin Wisman, Tyler Bell, Justin Moore, and Will Brandt), and 1,600 distance medley (Kyler Jensen, Conlan Poynton, Carson O’Haver, and Will Brandt) took eighth in 47.60, 3:58.81, and 4:23.26.
Colin Bumsted and Poynton were ninth in the 1,600 run (5:13.70) and long jump (16-10.50) while Brayden Moore, Brett White, Gavin Sieverding, and Knight were tenth in the 800-sprint medley in 1:49.71.
Full results can be found at www.kauderraceresults.com.
Drake Relays qualifiers
Oaken Foster, Adam Smith, and Ben Kampman will compete this weekend at the Drake Relays in Des Moines. Foster is the 17th seed in the high jump with a 6-05 qualifying effort while Smith and Kampman qualified for discus as the tenth and twelfth seeds with 171-00 and 168-03 throws.
Brayden Moore, Milo Ashbacker, Brett White, and Austin Knight will run the 4×100 relay as the 54th seed with a 44.15 qualifying time and Rhett Mesch, Jeremy Bachus, Grant Bumsted, and Knipper will run the 4×400 with a 3:25.38 qualifying time, good for the 11th seed.
Upcoming schedule
Thursday, April 27 – Pacha Relays at Clear Creek Amana High School, Tiffin. 4:45 p.m.
Thursday, April 27 — Saturday, April 29 — Drake Relays, Des Moines
Monday, May 1 – Boys JV Co-Ed Invitational at Prairie High School. 4:15 p.m.
Thursday, May 4 – WaMaC Varsity Meet at West Delaware. 4:00 p.m.
Colin Bumsted chugs along Tuesday, April 18 in the Denny Gruber Relays. Bumsted took sixth in the 3,200 run (11:22.16) and ninth in the 1,600 run (5:13.70).