By Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

IOWA CITY – For many track and field teams, the chance to compete at a home meet is a once-a-year opportunity.

At Regina, it hasn’t even been that frequent of an occurrence for the past few seasons.

Track resurfacing work forced a change of the venue for the Regals’ home meet two years ago and last season it was weather that denied Regina a chance to compete at home.

Not even another round of rough weather last Saturday could stop Regina from hosting the Bob Brown Invitational this year.

It came a week later than scheduled, but Regina hosted its first track meet in three years on Saturday under sunny skies at Bob Brown Track at Regina.

“It’s nice to finally have one year because this is our first one here in a long time,” Regina senior Jack Jensen said. “It was disappointing not having a chance to run at home in the past so having a meet here our senior year is great.”

Regina finished fourth in both the boys and girls meets while Davenport Assumption edged Clear Creek Amana by one point for the girls team title.

Anamosa outdistanced West Liberty and Clear Creek Amana to claim the boys title in a meet rescheduled from last Saturday by weather.

“The kids were bummed last week when we told them we were going to postpone it so they were excited to compete,” Regina girls coach Chad Swope said. “They were excited to run here, a lot of teams were just excited to get out and run so we were thrilled to get it in.”

Regina won four events on Saturday, two of the wins coming from Jared Brinkman who swept the throwing events on its way to a fourth-place finish in the boys meet.

The Regals placed first and second in the shot put as Brinkman won the title by nearly 11 feet over teammate Alex Moore with a toss of 58-4 ¼.

Brinkman added a title in the discus in his first ever home meet.

“This is my first actual meet here at home so I was excited for that,” Brinkman said. “I was excited to do discus on a nice day and I threw a pr so I think that will get me to the Drake (Relays) but I need to just keep improving.”

Brinkman won the discus with a career-best toss of 151-0 ½ to outduel River Valley Conference rival Bryce Esmoil of West Liberty.

The throw by Brinkman is currently the 12th best effort in the state this season.

“His goal all along was to make discus and try to win Drake and state in the shot and his work ethic is great,” Regina coach Chris Murdock said. “He knows this is his last shot. Something with him is clicking this year and he is putting in the time.”

Jensen added a title in the 400 and Nathan Meyer won the 1,600 to pace Regina.

Meyer clocked a time of 4:55.5 to win the 1,600 while Jensen outraced the field in the 400, finishing nearly three seconds in front of Joe Fish of Anamosa.  

Jensen also ran a leg on the Regina 4×100 relay team that finished second in a time of 45.9.

“I think I ran pretty well and all of our relays ran well, so I was really happy,” Jensen said. “From the first indoor meet to now we have made a lot of improvements and we’ve had a lot of guys step up.”

Nick O’Connor won the 3,200 in 10:34.05 and Zach Kabbage won the long jump with a leap of 19-1 ½ to pace Clear Creek Amana in its first meet of the season.

Clear Creek Amana also won the shuttle hurdle relay.

“It’s good to get some early season marks in,” Clear Creek Amana coach Ben Robison said. “We are excited to get out and really start running our events that we are going to run.”  

On the girls side, Clear Creek Amana won four events and finished second behind Davenport Assumption with 67 team points.

The Clippers won three field event titles as Karsyn Stratton won the long jump (15-10 ½), Mariah Roller won the discus (107-4) and Danielle Wnek won the shot put (30-4).

Madelynn Langridge won the 100 hurdles for the Clippers.

Regina got a title from Molly Vittetoe in the 400 hurdles and Grace Swenning finished third in the 400, fifth in the 200 and ran on the Regina 4×100 relay team that placed third.  

 “We are just thrilled to get it in and we are happy to have a chance to run here,” Swope said. “We have a smaller group of girls this year but they are great kids and they are doing a great job.”

Regina Bob Brown Invitational

Boys Results

Team scores – 1. Anamosa 108; 2. West Liberty 84; 3. Clear Creek Amana 77; 4. Regina 67; 5. Davenport Assumption 44.

Individual Results

100 – 1. Tanner Iske (WL) 11.0; 2. Joe Fish (ANA) 11.4; 3. Michael Hartman (WL) 11.5; 4. Jayden Kies (ICR) 11.6; 5. Jayce Levy (DA) 11.7; 6. Grant Simpson (DA) 11.7.

200 – 1. Joe Fish (ANA) 22.81; 2. Jayce Levy (DA) 23.7; 3. Alex Cabrera (ANA) 23.8; 4. Jayden Kies (ICR) 23.9; 5. Grant Simpson (DA) 24.1; 6. Joe Kelly (WL) 24.4.

400 – 1. Jack Jensen (ICR) 51.3; 2. Joe Fish (ANA) 54.1; 3. Adrian Velez (WL) 55.4; 4. Logan Seeley (ANA) 56.7; 5. Quentin Gisleson (CCA) 57.0; 6. Jackson Gingerich (WL) 57.6.

800 – 1. Noah Sams (ANA) 2:03.9; 2. Ryan Bonthius (ICR) 2:04.4; 3. Drake Mougin (CCA) 2:05; 4. Chris Guise (DA) 2:11.7; 5. Coy Ruess (WL) 2:12.9; 6. Will Rolfstad (DA) 2:18.6.

1,600 – 1. Nathan Meyer (ICR) 4:55.5; 2. Chase Brandt (DA) 4:57.7; 3. Nick O’Connor (CCA) 4:59.1; 4. Jared Grubbs (DA) 4:59.9; 5. Daniel Miller (ANA) 5:02.2; 6. Cole Liebe (CCA) 5:05.

3,200 – 1. Nick O’Connor (CCA) 10:34.05; 2. Cole Liebe (CCA) 10:34.48; 3. Daniel Miller (ANA) 10:34.85; 4. Jack McIntosh (DA) 12:04.01.

110 hurdles – 1. Nathan Dietiker (ANA) 16.6; 2. Austin McMichael (WL) 16.9; 3. Matthew Walton (ANA) 16.9; 4. Grant Riggan (CCA) 17.5.

400 hurdles – 1. Nathan Dietiker (ANA) 1:00.8; 2. Armando Revelez (WL) 1:02.1; 3. Derek Toy (CCA) 1:02.9; 4. Dylan Rickels (ANA) 1:04.2.

Shuttle hurdle – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Matt Brimeyer, Grant Riggan, Seb Johanson, Derek Toy) 1:02.55; 2. West Liberty 1:04.93; 3. Anamosa 1:05.32.

Sprint medley – 1. Anamosa 1:40.42; 2. Clear Creek Amana (Matt Brimeyer, Seb Johanson, Nick Gerard, Drake Mougin) 1:41.36; 3. West Liberty 1:45.55; 4. Davenport Assumption 1:53.08.

Distance medley – 1. Davenport Assumption 3:52.58; 2. Regina 3:57.6; 3. Anamosa 3:58.19; 4. West Liberty 4:05.8.

4×100 – 1. West Liberty 45.2; 2. Regina (Michael Conlon, Ryan Bonthius, Jack Jensen, Jayden Kies) 45.9; 3. Clear Creek Amana (Matt Brimeyer, Seb Johanson, Nick Gerard, Dylan Sheely) 47.4; 4. Davenport Assumption 48.2; 5. Anamosa 48.6.  

4×200 – 1. West Liberty 1:33.6; 2. Davenport Assumption 1:39.8; 3. Clear Creek Amana (Dylan Sheely, Zach Kabbage, Trever Stockman, Kory DeHaan) 1:40.0; 4. Anamosa 1:43.7.

4×400 – 1. Anamosa 3:34.9; 2. West Liberty 3:45.6; 3. Davenport Assumption 3:50.4; 4. Clear Creek Amana (Drake Mougin, Kaden McAreavy, Quentin Gisleson, Derek Toy) 3:51.9.

4×800 – 1. Anamosa 8:48.72; 2. Clear Creek Amana (Kaden McAreavy, Quentin Gisleson, Jack Wingert, Jordan Wolfe) 8:49.6; 3. West Liberty 9:13.88; 4. Davenport Assumption 9:28.02.

Long jump – 1. Zach Kabbage (CCA) 19-1 ½; 2. Joe Baker (WL) 19-1; 3. Ruben Renteria (WL) 17-6 ¾; 4. Dylan Sheely (CCA) 17-0; 5. Brandon Thomson (ANA) 15-0.

High jump – 1. Zach Seehusen (ANA) 5-8; 2. Neal Eckhoff (ICR) 5-6.

Shot put – 1. Jared Brinkman (ICR) 58-4 ¼; 2. Alex Moore (ICR) 47-5; 3. Will Swenka (CCA) 43-11 ¼; 4. Luke Lasack (ANA) 42-8 ¼; 5. Bryce Esmoil (WL) 41-4 ¾; 6. Cobain Polman (WL) 37-8 ¾.

Discus – 1. Jared Brinkman (ICR) 151-0 ½; 2. Bryce Esmoil (WL) 142-8; 3. Ethan Postler (CCA) 128-7; 4. Luke Lasack (ANA) 120-10; 5. Luke Stein (ICR) 120-7; 6. Andy Lopez (WL) 114-0.

Girls Results

Team scores – 1. Davenport Assumption 68; 2. Clear Creek Amana 67; 3. Anamosa 53; 4. Regina 48.

Individual results

100 – 1. Carly King (DA) 12.6; 2. Olivia Nebergall (ANA) 13.0; 3. Mary Grace Carroll (DA) 13.0; 4. Karysn Stratton (CCA) 13.4; 5. Emma Corkery (ICR) 13.8; 6. Taylor Zaruba (ANA) 13.9.

200 – 1. Olivia Nebergall (ANA) 26.6; 2. Mary Grace Carroll (DA) 26.9; 3. Karsyn Stratton (CCA) 27.7; 4. Olivia Lansing (DA) 27.8; 5. Grace Swenning (ICR) 28.1; 6. Madeline Adam (ICR) 28.8.

400 – 1. Joy Ripslinger (DA) 56.2; 2. Lea Nelson (DA) 1:00.0; 3. Grace Swenning (ICR) 1:03.2; 4. Claire Duncan (ANA) 1:04.4; 5. Meagan Harvey (CCA) 1:08.8; 6. Olivia Fairholm (CCA) 1:14.5.

800 – 1. Julia Schumacher (DA) 2:29.8; 2. Emma Duncan (ANA) 2:34.1; 3. Billi Marzen (DA) 2:35.1; 4. Cierra Lacina (CCA) 2:43.6; 5. Ally Loren (CCA) 3:02.7.

1,500 – 1. Joy Ripslinger (DA) 4:39; 2. Kaylie Barker (CCA) 5:48.6; 3. Mary Catherine Graff (ICR) 6:10.7; 4. Anna Stimmel (ICR) 6:11.9.

3,000 – 1. Emma Duncan (ANA) 11:54.32; 2. Mary Catherine Graff (ICR) 13:21.95; 3. Anna Stimmel (ICR) 13:31.48.

100 hurdles – 1. Madelynn Langridge (CCA) 17.9; 2. Madison Mason (CCA) 22.09.

400 hurdles – 1. Molly Vittetoe (ICR) 1:19.

Sprint medley – 1. Davenport Assumption 1:59.8; 2. Clear Creek Amana (Madelynn Langridge, Riley Hennes, Karsyn Stratton, Cierra Lacina) 1:59.36; 3. Anamosa 2:04.54; 3. Regina (Emily Nugent, Ada Zhai, Lauren Kimani, Molly Vittetoe) 2:14.28.

4×100 – 1. Anamosa 52.5; 2. Davenport Assumption 53.6; 3. Regina (Madeline Adam, Molly Vittetoe, Emma Corkery, Grace Swenning) 54.8; 4. Clear Creek Amana (Madelynn Langridge, Rylee Rummelhart, Grace DeHerrera, Andrea Roller) 55.6.

4×200 – 1. Anamosa 1:57.3; 2. Clear Creek Amana (Cierra Lacina, Riley Hennes, Rylee Rummelhart, Grace DeHerrera) 1:57.6; 3. Regina (Madline Adam, Molly Vittetoe, Lauren Kimani, Emma Corkery) 1:59.7.

4×400 – 1. Davenport Assumption 4:16.7; 2. Anamosa 4:33.1; 3. Clear Creek Amana (Cierra Lacina, Riley Hennes, Meagan Harvey, Claire Navara) 4:34.8.

4×800 – 1. Davenport Assumption 10:22.65; 2. Clear Creek Amana (Kaylie Barker, Ally Loren, Olivia Fairholm, Meagan Harvey) 11:49.02.

Long jump – 1. Karsyn Stratton (CCA) 15-10 ½; 2. Emma Corkery (ICR) 14-6 ½; 3. Lauren Kimani (ICR) 13-2 ½.

High jump – 1. Olivia Nebergall (ANA) 5-3; 2. Andrea Roller (CCA) 4-10; 3. Rayanne Zeltner (ANA) 4-10; 4. Emily Nugent (ICR) 4-0.

Shot put – 1. Danielle Wnek (CCA) 30-4; 2. Nola Murhammer (ICR) 29-3 ¾; 3. Mariah Roller (CCA) 28-7 ¾; 4. Karla Hernandez (ICR) 19-6 ¾.

Discus – 1. Mariah Roller (CCA) 107-4; 2. Nola Murhammer (ICR) 97-9 ½; 3. Danielle Wnek (CCA) 89-11; 4. Karla Hernandez (ICR) 36-7.