Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

IOWA CITY – West High head coach TJ Craig could tell the potential was there for his 4×800 relay team to put together an impressive time.

All that was needed was the right set of circumstances.

Everything lined up on Saturday and the Trojans took advantage.

West High took nearly 10 seconds off its previous season-best time while winning the 4×800 relay title at the Eastern Iowa Track and Field Festival on Saturday at sun-splashed Trojan Field in Iowa City.

“We ran a good time indoors and we knew we had the capability of doing it and just hadn’t had a really good day to do it,” Craig said. “Today was the perfect day at our home meet to do it.”

The West High foursome of Sam Showers, Brice Wahe, Maxwell Bruss and Moustafa Tiea won the 4×800 title in 7:57.73 on Saturday, easily eclipsing their previous season-best time of 8:07.33.

“Everybody had a good race today,” Showers said. “We had Maxwell give us a good start and Brice had a breakout race and Moustafa closed it down.”

Showers, Wahe and Bruss were excellent in setting the stage for Tiea who anchored the Trojans to the title holding off Mediapolis which finished runner-up in 7:59.27.

“We were trying all year to hit it but we weren’t all firing at the same time,” Tiea said. “Today just happened to be that day.”

The 4×800 title was one of four titles for West High at the all-star formatted event that featured entries from 49 different schools from across the state.

Izaiah Loveless won the 100 and Aidan Jacobsen won the 400 hurdles for West High and the Trojans added a title in the 4×200 relay.

“I think we had 49 schools represented today and the environment is fun and it’s just a good day for this sport,” Craig said. “I am happy we can host it and be a part of it.”

Jacobsen was just off his career-best time in an impressive showing in the 400 hurdles.

He won in 52.52 in just his second time competing in the event this season.

“This year I took out a step between each hurdle, we changed up the step pattern because I just got too fast for it,” Jacobsen said. “That has really helped being aggressive and attacking that first half of the race.”

Loveless blazed to a title in the 100 in 10.95 and anchored the West High 4×200 relay team to a title.

The West High 4×200 foursome of Todd Rent, Mason Woods, Julian Manson and Loveless won in 1:28.1.

“We approach it like any other meet,” Loveless said. “It doesn’t matter what school it is or what class they are everyone is good competition at this meet and it shows that anyone can win any event and we have to put in the work.”

West High had three runner-up finishes as Waleed Ibrahim was second in the 100 hurdles, Harel Gameti was second in the 200 hurdles and the Trojans were second in the 4×100 relay.

City High got a big day from Isaac Washpun who won the 110 hurdles and finished runner-up in the long jump.

Washpun won the high hurdles in a time of 15.44 and was second in the long jump with a lead of 21-9.

“I hated the high hurdles last year but I feel like I’m a lot better this year after the offseason work,” Washpun said. “I worked hard on my form.”

Washpun also anchored the City High shuttle hurdle relay team to a runner-up finish in 1:01.48.

The City High 4×200 team of Jeremiah Madlock, Phillip Kaplan, AJ Wright and Miles Parlet was runner-up in 1:28.8.

Edwin Gangba won the 200 in 23.07 to lead Regina while Liberty High got third-place finishes from Aidan Decker in the 1,600 and Brayden Bell in the 200.

Boys Results 

Individual results (Event winner; area placers)

Shot put – 1. Ben Kampman (Solon) 52-9; 4. Marcus Richard (Solon) 50-0 ½; 5. Brady Cannon (Liberty High) 49-8

Discus – 1. Ben Kampman (Solon) 188-4 ½; 3. Colin Whitters (West High) 149-10 ½; 4. Cael Schramm (Liberty High) 148-6 ½; 5. Brady Cannon (Liberty High) 144-7

Long jump – 1. Daylin Schaefer (Lisbon) 21-11; 2. Isaac Washpun (City High) 21-9; 6. Damari Lacy (West High) 20-10

High jump – 1. Kaden Hoeper (Solon) 6-4 ½; 3. Daniel Robinson (West High) 6-0; 6. Mason Middleton (West High) 5-8; 6. Victor Nakihinga (Liberty High) 5-8

100 – 1. Izaiah Loveless (West High) 10.95; 3. AJ Wright (City High) 11.11; 6. Mason Woods (West High) 11.26; 6. Miles Parlet (City High) 11.26

200 – 1. Edwin Gangba (Regina) 23.07; 2. Harel Gameti (West High) 23.08; 3. Brayden Bell (Liberty High) 23.38; 4. Eddie Johnson (Solon) 23.6; 8. Oliver Kniss (City High) 24.16

400 – 1. Jordan Townsend (Cedar Falls) 48.3; 5. Carter Meyers (Liberty High) 49.99; 7. Rhett Mesch (Solon) 50.96; 8. Cale Baldwin (Liberty High) 52.83

800 – 1. Tommy Tyynismaa (South Tama) 1:54.12; 6. Sam Showers (West High) 2:02.68; 7. Michael Yeomans (Solon) 2:04.65

1,600 – 1. Jaden Merrick (Cedar Falls) 4:16.07; 3. Aidan Decker (Liberty High) 4:24.13; 4. Keegan Decker (Liberty High) 4:24.43; 5. Brick Kabela (Solon) 4:27.25

3,200 – 1. Ahmed Aldamak (Cedar Falls) 9:30.75; 4. Linus McRoberts (City High) 9:54.19; 5. Michael Lee (West High) 9:58.2

110 hurdles – 1. Isaac Washpun (City High) 15.44; 2. Waleed Ibrahim (West High) 15.51; 5. Dominic Roe (City High) 16.0; 6. Cole Carney (Solon) 16.3

400 hurdles – 1. Aidan Jacobsen (West High) 52.52; 5. Ely Smock (West High) 58.03; 6. Waleed Ibrahim (West High) 58.07

4×100 – 1. Cedar Falls 41.98; 2. West High (Todd Rent, Mason Woods, Julian Manson, Izaiah Loveless) 42.34; 5. Regina (Jackson Naeve, Edwin Gangba, Alex Jensen, Savion Miller) 44.31; 6. Solon (Milo Ashbacker, Brayden Moore, Eli Kampman, Austin Knight) 44.32; 7. Liberty High (Brayden Bell, Jackson Burnes, Brody Beaver, Brady Cannon) 44.5

4×200 – 1. West High (Todd Rent, Mason Woods, Julian Manson, Izaiah Loveless) 1:28.1; 2. City High (Jeremiah Madlock, Phillip Kaplan, AJ Wright, Miles Parlet) 1:28.8; 5. Solon (Milo Ashbacker, Grant Knipper, Brayden Moore, Austin Knight) 1:32.28;

4×400 – 1. Dubuque Senior 3:24.5; 3. West High (Moustafa Tiea, Julian Manson, Sam Showers, Dara Olaleye) 3:26.41; 4. Solon (Rhett Mesch, Grant Knipper, Grant Bumsted, Michael Yeomans) 3:27.22; 6. Liberty High (Cale Baldwin, Cody Nichols, Sutton Koller, Carter Meyers) 3:28.5; 8. City High (Jeremiah Madlock, Phillip Kaplan, Isaac Washpun, Miles Parlet) 3:34.6

4×800 – 1. West High (Sam Showers, Brice Wahe, Maxwell Bruss, Moustafa Tiea) 7:57.73; 3. Liberty High (Noah Gregoire, Jacob Madsen, Keegan Decker, Aidan Decker) 8:01.13; 4. City High (Emmett Palmberg, David Randall, George Karr, Maxwell McDowell) 8:09.2; 5. Solon (Grant Bumsted, Brick Kabela, Spencer Michels, Michael Yeomans) 8:09.3

Distance medley – 1. Lisbon 3:34.15; 5. West Branch (Conner Capper, Connor Rios, Lincoln Naber, Joe Hamann) 3:46.52; 6. City High (Deon Brown, Rickey Long Jr., Connor Cross, Linus McRoberts) 3:51.33; 7. West High (Karston Pietrzak, Damari Lacy, Kellen Craig, Colin Wehrle) 3:53.57

Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Solon (Charlie Brandt, Cole Carney, Ben Duckett, Nash Kotar) 1:00.9; 2. City High (Phillip Kaplan, Dominic Roe, Adams Kane, Isaac Washpun) 1:01.48; 3. West High (Jackson Seering, Quinn Abbott, Ely Smock, Waleed Ibrahim) 1:02.22; 7. Liberty High (Victor Nakihinga, Lincoln Gravel, James Eckhardt, Gavin Benton) 1:11.6

Girls Results

Individual results (Event winner; area placers)

Shot put – 1. Alyssa Pierce (West Branch) 39-5 ¾; 5. Helen Penning (West High) 36-9 ¾; 6. Rachel Haack (City High) 35-10 ¾;

Discus – 1. Libby Dix (Mount Vernon) 140-11; 2. Rachel Haack (City High) 138-2; 3. Hannah Braun (City High) 122-2

Long jump – 1. Kenna Furnald (Danville) 17-5; 6. Eva Willis (West High) 16-3; 7. Ava Bruxvoort (West High) 16-1 ½; 8. Lindsey McKane (West High) 15-11

High jump – 1. Cambel Drapeau (Dubuque Senior) 5-5; 3. Reese Naeve (Regina) 5-2; 7. Sophia Austen (West High) 4-10; 7. Evelyn Cornish (West High) 4-10; 7. Ava Bruxvoort (West High) 4-10

100 – 1. Caliana Whitaker (Mount Vernon) 12.6; 7. Natalie Steva (West High) 13.43

200 – 1. Kloe Nissen (Don Bosco) 25.88; 4. Avery Recker (Regina) 27.54; 5. Ellie Fraga (City High) 27.92; 8. Anna Dickens (West High) 28.66

400 – 1. Kadence Huck (Nashua-Plainfield) 56.79; 5. Ruth Cloyd (City High) 1:01.16; 7. Josephine LeClair (City High) 1:03.63

800 – 1. Kadence Huck (Nashua-Plainfield) 2:18.2; 6. Grace Hamann (West Branch) 2:25.28; 7. Kate Van Waning (West High) 2:26.3; 8. Ruby Greving (Regina) 2:29.54

1,500 – 1. Noelle Steines (Tipton) 4:46.83; 4. Grace Hamann (West Branch) 5:06.84; 6. Naomi Downing-Sherer (City High) 5:08.15; 8. Claire Locher (City High) 5:10

3,000 – 1. Leah Klapatauskas (Dubuque Senior) 10:27.93; 4. Abigail Burns (City High) 11:02.42; 5. Nicole Peterson (City High) 11:06.21; 8. Nina Peterson (City High) 11:15.19

100 hurdles – 1. Sierra Pruessner (City High) 15.62; 2. Sophia Olivo (West High) 16.09; 3. Reese Naeve (Regina) 16.1; 4. Eriniah Carter (West High) 16.47; 7. Alli Clark (Regina) 16.9

400 hurdles – 1. Cortney Knutson (Wayne) 1:07.33; 2. Erinn Varga (West High) 1:07.87; 4. Josephine LeClair (City High) 1:10.48; 7. Willow Schultz (City High) 1:12.83

4×100 – 1. Williamsburg 49.97; 3. West High (Natalie Steva, Miracle Stewart, Evelyn Cornish, Eriniah Carter) 51.39; 4. Regina (Avery Kies, Reese Naeve, Alli Clark, Avery Recker) 51.82

4×200 – 1. Waterloo West 1:49.14

4×400 – 1. Mount Vernon 4:04.68; 2. West High (Sophia Austen, Kate Van Waning) 4:08.7; 3. Erinn Varga, Jaylin Herring) 4:08.7; 5. City High (Sierra Pruessner, Ruth Cloyd, Abigail Burns, Josephine LeClair) 4:28.09

4×800 – 1. Tipton 9:37.61; 5. West High (Gabby Moniza, Lydia Evans, Helen Orszula, Cindy Wang) 10:31.4; 6. Regina (Harper Erwin, Caitlyn Bell, Ellie Johnson, Ruby Greving) 10:40.22;

Sprint medley – 1. Nashua-Plainfield 1:51.78

Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. West High (Erinn Varga, Jaylin Herring, Eriniah Carter, Sophia Olivo) 1:06.05; 4. City High (Willow Schultz, Gloria Konu, Mary Hamilton, Angelica Hamilton) 1:13.17

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