District Results From Carroll

Top Three Teams Advance

1. Carroll 327
2. Harlan 332
3. Humboldt 335
4. Storm Lake 336
5. Atlantic 347

State Qualifying Individuals

1. Brad Christianson, Carroll, 75
2. Ross Martens, Harlan, 76
3. Carson Whittington, Creston 77
4. Jaxon Heinz, Humboldt

Click here for the interview with Harlan golf coach Chad Swanson

(Des Moines) State Long Jump or District Golf Tournament?

That was the question Atlantic Junior Sam Markham had to consider late last week. Many would be happy to have either opportunity, but for Markham is created a tough choice.

The Trojan's #2 golfer and top long jumper leaped a season best 21-10'5 at the state track qualifying meet on Thursday and then fired a six-over-par 75 the next day to place in the top ten at the sectional golf tournament at Atlantic Golf and Country Club.

Even though Markham had chosen golf as his primary sport at the start of the spring, this unique opportunity presented the multi-talented athlete with a complex decision to make.

After carefully considering his options with family, friends, and coaches, Markham deemed being the #1 seed in the long jump as a once in a lifetime opportunity.

That decision sent him east to Des Moines for the state track meet, while his golf teammates travelled north to Carroll Country Club in hopes of advancing to the state golf tournament.

Before Markham jumped he texted his golf teammates good luck and they sent the same best wishes in return. Markham would go on leap another season best and place 3rd in the 3A long jump.

With golf as his primary sport, Markham attended track practice sparingly and rarely worked on jumping during those practices. He competed in just five track meets all season. Next year as a senior he plans to focus solely on golf.

Click to listen to Markham speak with the media following his jump

Class 1A 4x100M Relay Prelims

Audubon-3rd-fastest time, 51.25q, (Carly Johnston, Emma Konkler, Emily Nelsen, Lacey Vokt)

Class 1A 100M Hurdle Prelims

4th-Chaley Rath, Treynor-16-09q

5th-Lacey Vokt, Audubon, 16.15q

12th-Carmen Subbert, Stanton,16.51

Class 1A 4x200 Meter Relay

3rd-A-H-S-T, 1:47.82 (CourtneyKardell, Shayla Bird, Taylor Baggett, Johnni Schueman)

15th-Treynor, 1:51.05

23rd-Villisca, 1:52.80

Class 1A 400M Low Hurdles

2nd-Rebekah Topham, Griswold. 1:05.11

3rd-Chaley Rath, Treynor, 1:05.49

20th-Paige Peterson, Stanton

21st-Anna Mulder, Adair-Casey

Class 1A Distance Medley

4th-Guthrie Center, 4:19.63 (Haley Wilson, Breanne Meier, Keisha Bailey, Leah Courtney)

18th-Griswold, 3:40.76

22nd-Corning

24th-St. Albert

Class 4A Distance Medley

18th-Abraham Lincoln, 4:22.68

 Class 1A High Jump

1st-Chaley Rath, Treynor, 5-08.25* (defends her title), and set new Class 1A State meet rec. set by Jenni Elbert, Laurens-Marathon, set in 2004, 5-05.00

Class 1A Discus

1st-Amy Wright, Earlham, 133-08

9th-Paige Volkens, Treynor, 109-08

15th-Maria Palmer, Corning, 101-11

21st-Candice Howell, Griswold, 93-05

Class 3A Sprint Medley Relay

2nd-Dallas Center-Grimes, 4:12.5

10th-Creston, 4:19.6

12th-Harlan, 4:20.82

16th-ADM, 4:23.58

Class 2A 400M Low Hurdles

22nd-Bailey McCalister, Panorama

Class 3A 400M Low Hurdles

1st-Audry Bollinger, Creston, 1:03.70

6th-Katey Trecker, Carroll, 1:07.26

7th-Katrina Knudsen, Harlan, 1:07.46

12th-Lexi Fisher, Glenwood

Class 3A 4X200

7th-Harlan, 1:46.80

10th-Denison-Schleswig, 1:47.47

15h-Glenwood, 1:48.59

Class 2A Discus

5th-Kaylee Blake, IKM-Manning, 129-06

17th-Courtney Monson, IKM-Manning, 111-03 

Class 3A Shotput

15th-Cassie Kruse, Glenwood

23rd-Lauren Janning, Carroll

Class 2A 100M Hurdles

12th-Abbie Mosher, Kuemper Catholic, 16.43 

Class 3A 100M Hurdles

16th- Mercedes Liparoto, Glenwood, 16.86          
23rd-Katey Trecker, Carroll, 17.33

Class 3A 4X100

Glenwood, 50.83 (advances to finals with 5th best times)

12th-Denison-Schleswig, 51.63

16th-Carroll, 51.8

22nd-Harlan

23rd-Dallas Center-Grimes

Class 2A 4X400

Tri-Center, 4:09.69 (qualifies for finals with 8th best time)

Class 3A 4X400

Harlan 4:05.80 (qualifies for finals with 5th best time)

Creston 4:05.98 (qualifies with 6th best time)

10th-ADM

Class 3A Long Jump

6th-Brianna Maitlen, Creston 16-01.25

10th-Madison Bertman, ADM

15th-Ali Meiners, Carroll

21st-Sara Salerno, Glenwood

Class 2A High Jump

22nd-Ashley Nepper, IKM-Manning

(Griswold) Griswold hopes of defending their state championship got a huge boost from a pair of runners that were not on last year's championship team. Two freshman went 1-2 for the Tigers in the 3,000 Meter run on Thursday. Rebekah Topham crossed the finish line in 10:33.66 to claim her first of what many expect to be several gold medals in her career.

Twenty-three seconds later, fellow freshman Alyx Flippen who is often overshadowed by Topham's impressive resume, earned a silver medal for the Tigers when she finished in 10:56.67.

The dynamic freshman duo will try to repeat the feat when they each run in the 1,500 later this week. Topham will also run in the 800 and the 400M Low Hurdles.

*Photos of Topham (left) and Flippen (right) are from Clarinda XC Meet

Click here for the comments from Rebekah Topham following the win

Class 3A 3,200

5th-Brandon Phipps, Creston, 9:41.79

24th-Trevor Turner, Winterset, 10:55.45

Class 3A 100

21st-Anthony Beyerink, 11.98

22nd-Joey Foss, Harlan, 12.05

Class 2A 100

24th-Mitch Forrester, Underwood, 12.36

Class 3A Discus

1st-Tyler Hovey, Atlantic, 187-9, *New State Record

10th-Clayton Giesting, Glenwood, 149-00

23rd-Daniel Gorman, Glenwood, 97-03

Class 2A Shotput

8th-Riley Bach, Kuemper Catholic, 49-10.75

Class 3A High Jump

7th-Austin Hudson, ADM, 6-02

20th-Andy Vial, Red Oak, 5-10

22nd-Reese Iverson, Dallas Center-Grimes, 5-08

24th-Briar Evans, Creston, 5-08

Class 3A 4X800

10th- Dallas Center-Grimes

13th-Glenwood

20th-ADM

24th-Creston

Class 2A 200

16th-Luke Webner, Panorama

23rd-Chase Hennen, Panorama

Class 3A 200

15th-Collin Bevins, Creston, 23.70

18th-Jared Grove, ADM

22nd-Joey Foss, Harlan

Class 3A 400

7th-Derek Jones, Glenwood, 49.69

11th-Adam Purdy, Winterset

18th-Alan Smith, Creston

22nd-Kinser Haselhun, ADM

Class 3A Shuttle Hurdle

9th-Harlan, 1:00.592 (Tony Dawson, Conner Clayton, Austin Mumm, Austin Hess)

10th-Carroll 1:00.595

15th-Glenwood

Class 1A Shuttle Hurdle

Treynor, 1:00.99 (advances to finals with 4th best time)

Guthrie Center 1:01.69 (advances to finals with 7th best time)

Class 1A 3,200

3rd-Josh Sindelar, St. Albert, 9:56

4th-John Gunderson, Riverside, 10:02

20th-Colton Graham, Nodaway Valley, 11:00

Class 1A 100

Greg Focht, Stanton, 11.66 (advances to finals with 6th best time)

Clayton Plowman, Adair-Casey, 11.68 (advances to finals with 7th best time)

11th-Dane Livengood, Treynor, 11.86

Class 4A 100

10th-Cleo Harris, Abraham Lincoln, 11.36

Class 1A 4X800

1st-St. Albert (Matt Vermillion, Josh Sindelar, Isaac Finn, Tucker Culjat) 8:13.46

2nd-Riverside (John Gunderson, Ean Patrick, Clay Harris, Cade Cleaveland) 8:20

20th-Griswold, 8:45

Class 1A 200

16th-Greg Focht, Stanton, 23.95

19th-Tim Schachtner, Guthrie Center, 24.11

24th-Clayton Plowman, Adair-Casey, 24.86

Class 4A 200

Cleo Harris, Abraham Lincoln, 22.80 (qualifies for finals with 7th fastest time)

Class 1A 400

6th-Quentin Keuck, Treynor, 50.95

13th-Alex Davis, Orient-Macksburg, 51.68

(Atlantic) Atlantic Senior Tyler Hovey has high goals when he steps into the Discus ring at the state track meet tommorrow morning. Hovey’s 172-04.00 throw at the state qualifying meet was the top throw in all of 3A. Last year he placed 8^th in the state meet with a toss of 151-04.00. Hovey’s exceeded his goal to throw 170-feet and now he has a chance to bring home a state title.
 

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Hovey admits he didn’t dream he would be in this spot when he started his throwing career at Atlantic High School.
 

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And it appears Tyler Hovey is peaking at the right time.
 

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Hovey’s toughest competition will be Derek Seddon, of Knoxville who finished third at the state meet last year, and Ethan Kenkel, of Storm Lake, who threw 175-feet earlier this season
 

Another interesting note, Hovey has changed his practice schedule this week. He says he had a coach suggest to him that he change his workout to around 11:30 in the morning, the same time he will be competing at the state meet. Hovey says he brought it up to his throwing Coach Roger Warne and they took that advice. Hovey said, "We will see what happens."
 

Tyler Hovey also has a great chance to score in the shot Put. His state qualifying throw of 54-3.25 ranks fifth best in Class 3A. He competes in that event at 11:30 Friday morning.

(Omaha) A couple of Iowa Hawkeye baseball players got the chance to play closer to home yesterday when the Hawkeyes defeated Creighton 5-4 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha.

Iowa reliever Taylor Kaufman who led Glenwood to the 2010 state championship and former Lewis Central prep Eric Toole each played for the Hawks in their come from behind win. Toole played centerfield and batted leadoff where he went 0-4 at the plate. Kaufman faced three batters in the 5th inning and allowed two hits, one walk, and one unearned run. Former Tri-Center Trojan Kurt Spomer is on the Creighton roster as a reliever but did not appear in the game.

Both teams have an overall record of 21-26 after yesterday’s day game.

While both Kaufman and Toole struggled in front of the closer to home crowd today, the pair of freshman are having productive seasons for the Hawks. Kaufman boasts a 3.12 ERA coming out of Iowa’s bullpen. He’s struck out 24 batters in 26 innings pitched. Eric Toole, whose brother Justin was recently promoted to Triple A in the Cleveland organization, is hitting .280 in the leadoff spot for Iowa this season.

(Oakland) Riverside enters the 2012 boys state track meet with the #1 seed in the 4X800 Meter Relay.

The Bulldogs have a total of six events that will compete on the blue oval later this week. John Gunderson, Ean Patrick (pictured), Clay Harris, and Cade Cleaveland make up the 4X800 Meter Relay group that ran an 8:16.00 at the state qualifying meet.

Two of those 4X800 Meter team members will be having a very busy weekend with Cade Cleaveland in the open 800 and 1,600. Senior John Gunderson has qualified in the 1,600 and 3,200. Cleaveland has the 2nd best time reported so far this year in both the 800 and 1,600 while Gunderson ranks 4th in the 1,600 and 11th in the 3,200.

Riverside could also get some points at the state meet in the shotput from junior Rick Williams who coach Swenson says has been consistently improving and could reach 50 feet at the state meet.

The six events this season triples the amount of events that Riverside qualified for the 2011 state meet.

Click here to listen to the interview with Riverside track coach Burke Swenson
 

Girls Team Scoring

1. Red Oak 26

T-2. Lewis Central 24

T-2. Denison-Schleswig 24

4. Glenwood 20

5. Shenandoah 17

6. Creston 10

7. Clarinda 9

8. Kuemper Catholic 7

9. Harlan 5

10. Atlantic 2

#1 Singles

1. Abby Bergsten, Lewis Central
2. Kate Walker, Red Oak
3. Kim Graf, Shenandoah
4. Carly Heese, Harlan

#2 Singles

1. Mattie Misfeldt, Lewis Central
2. Page Vannausdle, Red Oak
3. Michaela Finneran, Denison-Schleswig
4. Audry Fyock, Creston

#1 Doubles

1. Rachel Ingram/Kassidy Ipsen, Denison-Schleswig
2. Zoey Baker/Grace Blomstedt, Red Oak
3. Rachel Tucker/Grace Newman, Glenwood
4. Natalie Burton/Carly DeMarque, Lewis Central

#2 Doubles

1. Carly Sis/Megan Kinsey, Denison-Schleswig
2. Montana Crow/Brittany Rodgers, Glenwood
3. Tarynne Kinghorn/Ashton Matheyny, Shenandoah
4. Ericka Sherman, Abbey Swanson, Red Oak

District 1A Storm Lake at Lake Creek Country Club
Atlantic – 381 – Regional Qualifier
Carroll – 397 – Regional Qualifier
Harlan – 399
MOC-FV – 405
LeMars – 438
Sergeant Bluff-Luton – 453
Bishop Heelan – 455
Storm Lake – 461

Individual Qualifiers:
Sara Pettitt, Carroll – 82
Brooke Fletcher, Atlantic – 86
Kaitlynn Walter, Atlantic – 95
Bridget Blair, Bishop Heelan – 97
Rachael Van Drdweyk, Carroll – 97
Courtney Leinen, Harlan – 97
Kate Schomers, Harlan – 97

Class 3A Regional 1 will be played at Harlan Golf and Country Club. ADM and Clarke advanced from the opposite District.

District 2C Mt. Ayr at Mt. Ayr Golf and Country Club
Corning – 409 – Regional Qualifier
Nishnabotna – 481 – Regional Qualifier
Villisca – 495
Lamoni – 504
East Mills – 545

Individual Qualifiers:
Kaleigh Westlake, Corning – 90
Amber Miller, Nishnabotna – 90
Bailey Heaton, Corning – 91
Sidnee Smith, Lamoni – 92
Caitlin Giles, Mt. Ayr – 92

Next up for Corning and the rest of the qualifiers from this district will be the Boyer Valley sectional on Monday.

(Harlan) The Harlan Community Cyclones placed in ten events last year at the girls state track meet and totaled 34 points. While some seasons that may be enough to put you in contention for a top five finish, it was only enough for Harlan to finish 7th last year.

Harlan has qualified 12 events this year and Coach Bill Hosack believes the team should be able to place in at least eight of them. However, it looks again this year like that won’t be enough to compete with the top teams in Class 3A.
 

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Coach Hosack noted Dubuque Wahlert and Mount Pleasant among the favorites, but they Cyclones should be able to score well particularly in the 4X200, 4X400, 4X800, and Sprint Medley to all have a chance to place in the top five in the state.

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Regardless of how the team finishes at state, it’s been another solid season for the Cyclones who have won all but one of their meets this season and have placed a number of events into the top 10 in the schools record books. Coach Hosack thinks a couple of those school records could be broken at the state meet this week.

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KSOM and KS95.7 FM will have coverage of the state meet Thursday through Saturday with reports on both stations throughout the co-ed state meet.

Region 1 Class 1A
 

1st Round
 

Spencer over  Estherville/Lincoln Central 5/0
Spirit Lake/Okoboji over Storm Lake 5/0
Red Oak over Council Bluffs St. Albert 5/0
Harlan over Atlantic/Walnut 5/1
Shenandoah/Nishnabotna over Corning 5/0
Glenwood over Clarinda 5/1
Bishop Heelan over Cherokee/Ridge View 5/2
Denison-Schleswig over LeMars 5/4

Semi-Finals

Red Oak over Harlan 5/0
Spirit Lake/Okoboji over Spencer 5/0
Shenandoah/Nishnabotna over Glenwood 5/2
Bishop Heelan over Denison-Schleswig 5/2

Region 2 Class 1A

1st Round

Clarke/Murray over Creston /Orient-Macksburg 5/0
Norwalk over Audubon 5/0
St Edmond, Fort Dodge over Iowa Falls/Alden 5/1
Waterloo Columbus/Don Bosco over Independence 5/0
Waterloo Columbus/Don Bosco over Union 5/0
Pella over Chariton 5/0
Pella Christian over Knoxville 5/0
Boone over North Polk 5/1
Ballard over Saydel 5/0

Semi Finals

Clarke/Murray over Norwalk 5/0
Pella Christian over Pella 5/2
Ballard over Boone 5/3

Region 1 Class 2A

1st Round

Ames over Kuemper Catholic/Carroll 5/0
Sioux City North over Sioux City East 5/0
Marshalltown over Southeast Polk 5/4
Des Moines Roosevelt over Des Moines Hoover 5/0

Region 2 Class 2A

1st Round

West Des Moines Valley over Des Moines Lincoln 5/0
Council Bluffs Abe Lincoln over Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson 5/3
Urbandale over Des Moines North 5/0
Dowling Catholic over Newton/Colfax Mingo 5/1

Girls Soccer

Nodaway Valley/West Central Valley/Adair-Casey 4 Kuemper Catholic 2

Riverside 2 Missouri Valley 1

Boys Soccer

Riverside 7 Missouri Valley 1

Ballard 5 Nodaway Valley 1

Denison-Schleswig 4 Atlantic 0

Adair-Casey-3

Katie Clarke, 400

Anna Mulder, 400 Hurdles

4X800 (Danni McCorkel, Katie Clarke, Liz Mulder, Anna Mulder)

Audubon-7

Emma Konkler, 100

Emma Konkler, 200

Ruby Johnson, 800

Dana Johnson, 3000

Lacey Vokt, 100M Hurdles

Shuttle Hurdle Relay (Konkler, Kyra Obermeier, Emily Nelsen, Vokt)

4X100 (Carly Johnston, Konkler, Nelsen, Vokt)

AHST-4

Johnni Schueman, 100

4X100 (Courtney Kardell, Shayla Bird, Taylor Baggett, Schueman)

4X200 (Same group)

Sprint Medley (Same Group)

Exira-EHK-7

Payton Wilkenfeld, 100

Jen Neville 400

Grace Hoflen 800

4X100 (Wilkenfeld, Neville, Jessica Kautz, Sydney Parker)

Sydney Parker, Long Jump

4X800 (Taylor Petersen, Chansea Nelson, Adriel Hoflen, Grace Hoflen)

Sprint Medley (Wilkenfeld, Parker, Kautz, Neville)

Corning-8

Caitlyn Stroud 100

Caitlyn Stroud 200

Tiffany Shepherd (pictured) 800

Tiffany Shepherd 1500

Tiffany Shepherd 3000

4X100

Marie Palmer, Discus

Distance Medley

Griswold-12

Rebekah Topham, 800

Rebekah Topham 400M Low Hurdles

Rebekah Topham 1500

Rebekah Topham 3000

Alyx Flippen, 1500

Alyx Flippen, 3000

Shuttle Hurdle (Trisha Huerta, Justine Freund, Kayla Kirchhoff, Kinzey Nicklaus)

4X400 (Huerta, Fruend, Jordyn Sindt, Larissa Backhaus)

4X800 (Allison Young, Bailey Powers, Sindt, Backhaus)

Sprint Medley (Kirchhoff, Marquel Brunk, Freund, Backhaus

Distance Medley (Huerta, Freund, Backhaus, Sindt)

Candice Howell Discus

Stanton-4
Carmen Subbert, Stanton
Paige Peterson, 400M low hurdles
Shuttle Hurdle
4X100

Villisca-6
4X100
4X200
Sprint Medley
Sheri Schaaf, 100
Jill Vanderhoof shotput
Morganne Haer, Long Jump

Tri-Center-5
Kari Witt, 400
Michelle Mumm, 800
4X400 (Witt, Emily Baatz, Nikki Paulson, Mumm)
4X800 (Baatz, Ashtyn Alfers, Alex Larsen, Mumm)

Sprint Medley (Hailee Hanson, Kirsten Lehan, Paulson, Witt)

Atlantic-5

Melanie Nielsen 200

Ali Krogman 1500

Ali Krogman (pictured) 3000

Distance Medley Relay

Shuttle Hurdle Relay

Harlan-12
Mikayla Evers 200
Aisa Kloewer 400
Katrina Knudsen 400M Low Hurdles
Shuttle Hurdle (Dena Baughman, Whitney Bolden, Knudsen, Patrice Crall)
4X200 (Shelbie Jacobsen, Evers, Knudsen, Jess Feldman)
4X400 (Jacobsen, Ashley Kloewer, Aisa Kloewer, Evers)
4X800 (Bailey Kuhl, Jacobsen, Feldman, Ashley Kloewer)
Sprint Medley (Jacobsen, Craig, Lauren Larsen, Feldman)
Jess Schaben, High Jump

Dena Baughman, High Jump
Abby Sonderman, Discus
Distance Medley (Havick, Larsen, Ashely Kloewer, Kuhl)