Moving on up
H-M-S crowns 4 conference champs at Hinton
Share
Tweet
MIKE PETERSEN/SENTINEL-NEWS
Anna Vander Veen focuses on clearing a hurdle in the 100-meter hurdles during the meet at Hinton.
Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn moved up two places and more than doubled its team score from a year ago at the War Eagle Conference girls' track and field meet. Hinton hosted this year's event on May 3.
H-M-S had two individuals earn all-conference honors. Emily Mutombo won the long jump with her best distance of 15'6", and Jasmine Lux won the 400-meter dash in a time of 1:02.28.
Mutombo and Lux also joined Lydia Harders and Abby Otto to win the sprint medley (1:55.17) and 4x100 (:53.12) relays.
Lux finished second in the 100-meter dash (:13.36) and Mutombo was fourth (:13.52). Harders placed third in the 200 (:28.21), while Madison Otto finished third in the 3000-meter run (12:17.88) and finished sixth in the 1500 (5:52.22).
The Hawks also scored team points in four other relays. Placing third were Abby Otto, Emily Otto, Anna Vander Veen and Kylee Schiphoff in the 4x200 (1:59.92), and Vander Veen, Abby Otto, Schiphoff and Harders in the 4x400 (4:35.17).
Schiphoff, Emily Otto, Vander Veen and Madison Otto combined for a fourth-place finish in the distance medley (4:56.09), and Kamryn Ebel, Kayla Kathman, Jocelyn Abonce and Alexis Croatt came in fifth in the 4x800 (12:35.79).
Overall, H-M-S finished third with 83 points. Last year the Hawks finished fifth with 36.
Hinton won the girls' conference title with 136 points and Unity Christian was a close second with 132. Following H-M-S were South O'Brien 74, Gehlen Catholic 70, Remsen St. Mary's 45, MMCRU 23, West Sioux 14, Akron-Westfield 7 and Trinity Christian 4.
• 2 relay wins at South O'Brien
H-M-S won two relays and had an individual champion during the Wolverine Relays at Paullina on May 5.
MIKE PETERSEN/SENTINEL-NEWS
Emily Mutombo and Abby Otto complete a baton exchange during the sprint medley relay. H-M-S was the conference champion.
Abby Otto, Emily Mutombo, Lydia Harders and Jasmine Lux combined to win the 4x100 relay (:53.16), and Otto, Kylee Schiphoff, Anna Vander Veen and Harders ran to victory in the 4x200 (1:59.16). Mutombo won the long jump with a leap of 16'3".
Runner-up finishers were Lux in the 100 (:13.52) and Harders in the 400 (1:05.18). Mutombo placed third in the 100 (:13.61); Alexis Croatt came in fourth in the 3000-meter run (13:06.16); and Vander Veen finished fifth in the 400-meter hurdles (1:18.57).
The Hawks also placed in three other relays. Harders, Abby Otto, Schiphoff and Lux were third in the 4x400 (4:26.64); and Emily Otto, Frankie Mohni, Kamryn Ebel and Madison Otto placed fourth in the distance medley (5:08.15). The sprint medley relay was an Otto family affair as Megan, Emily, Abby and Madison placed sixth (2:09.07).
H-M-S scored 68 team points to finish fifth. Other team scores were Alta-Aurelia 117, Sioux Central 116, Unity Christian 111, South O'Brien 108, West Bend-Mallard 60 and Trinity Christian 14.
