Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

TIFFIN – Every time Avery Recker gets set in the blocks the Regina junior sprinter has the singular focus of running fast.

For the first time Recker can recall that wasn’t the case on Thursday.

Running for the first time since injuring her foot on the dance floor at prom on Saturday when Recker looked down the track at Clipper Field in Tiffin on Thursday she wasn’t thinking about times or personal bests or how fast she could run.

“I didn’t really think about running fast I was just trying to get through the race,” Recker said. “I was trying to make sure I didn’t walk off the track and I just got in the blocks and zoned out.”

The result for Recker was a career-best matching 12.85 and a runner-up in the 100 to bolster a solid day for the Regals at the Pacha Relays in Tiffin.

“I knew I wanted to run today,” Recker said. “Even though I was just doing one event I really wanted to do good today.”

Recker has enjoyed a strong junior season to date but hit a snag in the most peculiar way on Saturday when she sustained a toe injury while dancing barefoot at prom.

“I was at prom with my friends and I was on the dance floor and I didn’t have my shoes on and someone with cowboy boots jumped on me,” Recker said. “That did not feel good.”

After a trip to the doctor a few days on crutches Recker returned to the track on Thursday in a limited one-event role but flourished as he matched her best time while finishing runner-up to Williamsburg senior Aliea Wetjen who won in 12.56.

“I think what has made my times a lot faster is lifting,” Recker said. “I wasn’t really in the weight room until the beginning of last season and I am really seeing results now and you can see it through my times and how they are progressing through the year.”

The runner-up finish from Recker was part of a solid day for Regina which finished sixth with 46 points at the nine-team meet.

Reese Naeve won the 100 hurdles in 15.6 while Harper Erwin finished runner-up in 800 in a career-best time of 2:36.

Host Clear Creek Amana dominated the relay events, winning five of seven relay titles, while rolling to the team title with 165 points.

Williamsburg was runner-up with 145 followed by Tipton, who got three individual titles from senior Noelle Steines, with 129 points.

Clear Creek Amana got an individual title from Elizabeth Timmerman in the long jump (17-3 ¾) and Timmerman added a runner-up finish in the 200 in 26.28.

Addilyn Scheetz, Sienna Stiltner and Jaylin Herring all added individual runner-up finishes for the Clippers who did a majority of their damage in the relays.

Scheetz was runner-up in the 100 hurdles in 16.56, Stiltner runner-up in the 400 in 1:04.35 and Herring was runner-up in the 400 hurdles 1:10.66.

Clear Creek Amana won the shuttle hurdle, sprint medley, 4×200, 4×400 and 4×800 relays and was runner-up in the 4×100 and third in the distance medley.

The foursome of Herring, Bailey Simpson, Scheetz and Timmerman won the 4×200 in 1:45.98 and Jaylin Herring, Payton Curtin, Simpson and Timmerman capped the night with a win in the 4×400 in 4:10.41.

Raegan Wyant, Sara Kinzenbaw, Stiltner and Kadence Whitmer won the 4×800 in 10:15.8 while Sydney Pfeiffer, Scheetz, Bella Behrens and Herring won the shuttle hurdle in 1:08.79.

Anna Johnson, Kennedy Stratton, Kendall Ronnfeldt and Simpson won the sprint medley in 1:53.26.

Pacha Relays

At Clear Creek Amana High School

Team scores – 1. Clear Creek Amana 165; 2. Williamsburg 145; 3. Tipton 129; 4. Benton Community 94; 5. Durant 47.5; 6. Regina 46; 7. Davenport Assumption 42.5; 8. Anamosa 37; 9. CCA JV 16

Individual results (event winners; area placewinners)

High jump – 1. Ellie Nielsen (WIL) 5-4 ¼; 2. Isobel TePoel (CCA) 4-11

Long jump – 1. Elizabeth Timmerman (CCA) 17-3 ¾

Shot put – 1. Ana Glawe (BC) 37-0 ¾; 4. Emily Henderson (CCA) 35-2; 6. Nakia Tangang (CCA) 33-5 ½; 7. Adalee Klein (ICR) 32-0 ½

Discus – 1. Ana Glawe (BC) 119-7; 3. Nakia Tangang (CCA) 115-1; 6. Emily Henderson (CCA) 100-6

100 – 1. Ailea Wetjen (WIL) 12.56; 2. Avery Recker (ICR) 12.85; 3. Anna Johnson (CCA) 13.23; 8. Olivia Webb (CCA) 13.62

200 – 1. Ailea Wetjen (WIL) 25.83; 2. Elizabeth Timmerman (CCA) 26.28; 4. Maycin Ernst (CCA) 28.62; 7. Margaret White (ICR) 29.23

400 – 1. Ella Hein (TIP) 1:00.05; 2. Sienna Stiltner (CCA) 1:04.35; 8. Emma Smith (CCA) 1:09.97

800 – 1. Noelle Steines (TIP) 2:28.72; 2. Harper Erwin (CCA) 2:36; 6. Kelsey Leathers (CCA) 2:43.66

1,500 – 1. Noelle Steines (TIP) 4:54.76; 7. Sara Kinzenbaw (CCA) 5:25.18

3,000 – 1. Noelle Steines (TIP) 10:12.35; 4. Eva Leighton-Dick (CCA) 12:23.13; 5. Kelsey Leathers (CCA) 12:28.72

100 hurdles – 1. Reese Naeve (ICR) 15.63; 2. Addilyn Scheetz (CCA) 16.56; 7. Sydney Pfeiffer (CCA) 17.9

400 hurdles – 1. Ella Hein (TIP) 1:06.49; 2. Jaylin Herring (CCA) 1:10.66; 4. Sienna Stiltner (CCA) 1:14.61;

Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Pfeiffer, Scheetz, Behrens, Herring) 1:08.79; 3. Regina (Sickels, Keune, Gavin, Naeve) 1:11.19

Sprint medley relay – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Johnson, Stratton, Ronnfeldt, Simpson) 1:53.26

Distance medley relay – 1. Tipton 4:17.45; 3. Clear Creek Amana (Stratton, Ronnfeldt, Curtin, Wyant) 4:33.1; 4. Regina (White, Keune, Sickels, Greving) 4:42.61

4×100 – 1. Williamsburg 50.06; 2. Clear Creek Amana (Johnson, Ronnfeldt, Stratton, Scheetz) 51.06

4×200 – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Herring, Simpson, Scheetz, Timmerman) 1:45.98

4×400 – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Herring, Curtin, Simpson, Timmerman) 4:10.41

4×800 – 1. Clear Creek Amana (Wyant, Kinzenbaw, Stiltner, Whitmer) 10:15.87; 4. Regina (Erwin, Bell, Eastman, Greving) 10:37.21

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