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It was a day of improvement for West Branch at the River Valley Conference meet.

Led by a pair of runner-up finishes in field events the Bears improved their finishing position by three spots from a year ago racking up 44 points and finishing seventh on Thursday at the 14-team RVC meet in Monticello.

Ava Finley finished runner-up in the long jump and Alyssa Pierce was runner-up in the shot put on Thursday as West Branch surpassed the 32 points it scored at the conference meet last season.

Mid-Prairie easily outdistanced the field to win the team title with 149 points while Tipton was second with 87 and Northeast was third with 84.5.

Regina placed 12^th with 23 points.

The West Branch 4×200 relay team of Ava Finley, Iva Senio, JaLynn Falco and Avery Schultes finished third in 1:52.47 and the same foursome finish fourth in the 4×100 in 53.67.

Senio was fifth in the 100, Sadie Smith was sixth in the shot put and Peyton Braddock sixth in the long jump to pace the Bears.

Regina got a trio of top-eight finishes from Natalie Franklin and Peyton Naeve posted a pair of top-five efforts.

Franklin was sixth in the 3,000, seventh in the 1,500 and eighth in the 800 in a busy day while Naeve was third in the 400 in 1:04.07 and fifth in the 400 hurdles.

River Valley Conference Meet

At Monticello    

Team scores – 1. Mid-Prairie 149; 2. Tipton 87; 3. Northeast 84.5; 4. Cascade 73; 5. Monticello 72.5; 6. Camanche 47; 7. West Branch 44; 8. Wilton 37; 9. West Liberty 34; 10. Durant 32; 11. Anamosa 28; 12. Regina 23; 13. North Cedar 15; 13. Bellevue 15

Event winners; area placewinners – 1.

Long jump – 1. Macy Daufeldt (WL) 16-10 ¾; 2. Ava Finley (WB) 15-6 ¾; 6. Peyton Braddock (WB) 14-7 3/4

High jump – 1. Elizabeth Chambers (NE) 5-4

Shot put – 1. Allison Kenneavy (CAM) 35-7.5; 2. Alyssa Pierce (WB) 34-8; 6. Sadie Smith (WB) 32-4 ½

Discus – 1. Maddie Fischer (ANA) 122-5; 7. Delaynie Luneckas (WB) 92-5

100 – 1. Grace Sanderson (CAM) 13.21; 5. Iva Senio (WB) 13.68

200 – 1. Mitzi Evans (M-P) 25.52; 8. Avery Kies (ICR) 28.42

400 – 1. Molly Roling (CAS) 1:03.39; 3. Peyton Naeve (ICR) 1:04.07

800 – 1. Danielle Hostetler (M-P) 2:20.11; 8. Natalie Franklin (ICR) 2:40.92

1,500 – 1. Danielle Hostetler (M-P) 4:51.77; 7. Natalie Franklin (ICR) 5:22.67

3,000 – 1. Sydney Yoder (M-P) 10:56.94; 6. Natalie Franklin (ICR) 11:23.28

110 hurdles – 1. Ellie Rickertsen (NE) 14.64;

400 hurdles – 1. Ellie Rickertsen (NE) 1:05.85; 5. Peyton Naeve (ICR) 1:11.42

Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Cascade 1:08.2

Sprint medley relay – 1. Mid-Prairie 1:49.4; 8. Regina (Aseneta Oliver, Avery Kies, Alli Clark, Morgan Miller) 2:02.14

Distance medley relay – 1. Mid-Prairie 4:12.72; 6. West Branch (Avery Schultes, Iva Senio, Emmersen Thomas, Nina Torkelson) 4:51.19

4×100 – 1. Northeast 51.4; 4. West Branch (Ava Finley, JaLynn Falco, Avery Schultes, Iva Senio) 53.67

4×200 – 1. Wilton 1:51.72; 3. West Branch (Ava Finley, Iva Senio, JaLynn Falco, Avery Schultes) 1:52.47; 7. Regina (Peyton Naeve, Morgan Miller, Alli Clark, Avery Kies) 1:55.81

4×400 – 1. Cascade 4:12.77

4×800 – 1. Tipton 9:56.61; 6. Regina (Josie Pursley, Josie Voss, Alex Spies, Mya Whitaker) 11:35.62; 7. West Branch (Delaynie Luneckas, Amber Wolf, Nora Ziehr, Bailey Walker) 11:40.28

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