Douglas Miles

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TIPTON – For the Clear Creek Amana girls’ track and field team, consider it a test of its depth.

The Clippers passed with flying colors.

“I am very pleased,” Clear Creek Amana Assistant Coach Megan Miller said after the Clippers won five events and claimed a share of the team title at the Tigerette Relays Thursday at Tipton City Park. “We had a lot of events kind of change throughout the meet as far as what we planned on running. Some girls were thrown into some events that they weren’t expecting. Very, very happy with it.”

With 107 points, Clear Creek Amana equaled host Tipton for the top spot in the team race.

Fighting through wind gusts of up to 45 miles per hour, the Clippers got the meet started with a victory in the sprint medley relay as the foursome of juniors Silvana Kabolo and Emma Descourouez, plus senior Emma Mathis and sophomore Bliss Beck won in 2:06.48.

It was the first time this season that Descourouez had competed in the event this season.

“That wind, definitely not fun but for what it was I think we did pretty well,” Descourouez said.

Descourouez – a multisport athlete who won the first WAMAC girls’ wrestling title for CCA this past winter – also posted an individual win when she claimed the long jump crown with a jump of 16-07.00.

“She has improved a lot over the last year,” Miller said. “She is already jumping lifetime best this early in the season. And with the weather, we haven’t been able to jump very much during practice. Her speed has improved a lot. I would say her confidence has, as well. She is running quicker times this year than she did finishing the season last year.”

Clear Creek Amana added two more relay victories to its night when seniors Bailey Olerich and Mari Cetta, plus sophomores Sam Schrage and Kiera Rogers joined together for a distance medley relay win in 4:55.09.

The Clippers closed the meet and clinched the first-place tie in the team race by winning the 4×400 relay with a time of 4:23.52.

Bolstered by the return of an anchor in Beck, starter in Rogers and second runner in Schrage from the quartet that ran the 4×400 last year, the Clippers have added freshman Kylie Koehn to the unit this season.

“The depth of our team this year has been phenomenal,” Miller said. “We can put numerous different people in relays and still run a good time. Any opens. They just push each other a lot. Knowing that if someone needs to get pulled from an event that we have plenty of other people we can put in her spot is really comforting.”

Beck – an all-conference volleyball performer for the Clippers – competed for the first time this season in the high jump and bested any of her jumps from last year by winning the meet title with a leap of 5-02.00.

“I definitely want to keep trying it out and try and just work on my form,” Beck said.

Iowa City Liberty won an individual event when sophomore Jolie Nordell claimed the shot put title with a throw of 31-0.

Tigerette Relays

At Tipton City Park

Team scores – 1. Clear Creek Amana 107; 1. Tipton 107; 3. Northeast 88.5; 4. Mid-Prairie 87.5; 5. Davis County 61.5; 6. Crestwood 59; 7. Waukon 57.5; 8. Durant 39; 8. West Branch 39; 10. Calamus-Wheatland 38.5; 11. Iowa City Liberty 29; 12. Iowa City High 24.5.

Shot put – 1. Jolie Nordell (ICL) 31-00.00; 2. Alyssa Pierce (WB) 30-08.00.

Long jump – 1. Emma Descourouez (CCA) 16-7

Discus – 1. Izzy Himes (TIP) 101-04; 2. Jolie Nordell (ICL) 100-10; 3. Tashayna Church-Roberts (ICL) 98-00; 4. Delaynie Luneckas (WB) 93-01.

High jump – 1. Bliss Beck (CCA) 5-2

100 – 1. Ellie Rickertsen (NE) 13.01; 2. Emma Mathis (CCA) 13.05

200 – 1. Paige Holst (NE) 27.49

400 – 1. Addie Nerem (TIP) 1:03.68; 5. Lucy Corbin (ICH) 1:08.96; 6. Amanda Weih (CCA) 1:09.93

800 – 1. Mitzi Evans (M-P) 2:23.29; 6. Erin Anderson (ICH) 2:43.07

1,500 – 1. Kinze Shea (CRE) 5:20.84; 5. Kalin Rotzall (CCA) 5:41.86

3,000 – 1. Noelle Steines (C-W) 10:51.77; 3. Kira Barker (CCA) 12;16.99

100 hurdles – 1. Ellie Rickertsen (NE) 14.82

400 hurdles – 1. Carlie Jo Fusco (DUR) 1:11.34

Sprint medley relay – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Silvana Kabolo, Emma Descourouez, Emma Mathis, Bliss Beck) 1:59.58

Distance medley relay – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Bailey Olerich, Mari Cetta, Sam Schrage, Kiera Rogers) 4:55.09.

Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Northeast 1:12.20; 3. Clear Creek Amana (Mari Cetta, Meghan Cullen, Kylie Koehn, Oliva Webb) 1:14.18.

4×100 relay – 1. Northeast, 52.91; 2. Clear Creek Amana (Silvana Kabolo, Bailey Olerich, Emma Mathis, Emma Descourouez) 53.11.

4×200 relay – 1. Mid-Prairie 1:55.17; 2. Clear Creek Amana (Prisca Kalala, Silvana Kabolo, Emma Mathis, Bliss Beck) 1:56.22; 3. West Branch, 1:56.50.

4×400 relay – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Kiera Rogers, Sam Schrage, Kylie Koehn, Bliss Beck) 4:23.52.

4×800 relay – 1. Tipton 10:27.97

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