Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

TIFFIN – In a sport like track and field the opportunities to compete at a home meet can be few and far between.

When Clear Creek Amana got that chance on Friday the Clippers made the most of the opportunity.

Clear Creek Amana won a pair of relays and had four top-three individual on its way to a third-place team finish in the Class A section of the Jane Astor Relays on a cool evening at Clipper Field in Tiffin.

“I think it’s awesome being able to run at your home meet,” Clear Creek Amana senior Elizabeth Timmerman said. “It feels so good getting all your fans around you, the people who normally can’t go to the far meets can come and watch and running at home, or jumping at our own pit, on our own track with our own blocks that we practice with all the time it makes you feel more comfortable.”

Linn-Mar won the Class A team title with 124 points, 26 in front of runner-up Williamsburg.

Clear Creek Amana won the shuttle hurdle and 4×200 relays and got a runner-up finish from Timmerman in the long jump and freshman Alison Seidl in the 3,000 while finishing third with 97.2 points.

“We decided to load a couple of things and then just get some marks and times from some kids and I am really pleased with where we are at early in the season,” Clear Creek Amana coach Ben Robison said. “We are killing it.”

The two relay wins highlighted a strong day on its home track for the Clippers.

The foursome of Payton Curtin, Bailey Simpson, Addilyn Scheetz and Timmerman won the 4×200 relay in a time of 1:45.15.

Simpson, Scheetz and Timmerman were all members of the Clipper 4×200 team that finished ninth at the 3A state meet last season in 1:43.66.

“We ran three of the four girls that we did last year and we are already very close to our time last year,” Timmerman said. “It helps having that experience and we’ve practiced with each other a lot and that helps.”

The shuttle hurdle team of Jaylin Herring, Malea Hollenbeck, Sydney Pfeiffer and Scheetz won the title in 1:08.11.

Pfeiffer, Scheetz and Herring were part of the Clear Creek Amana shuttle hurdle team that finished eighth at the state meet a year ago.

“We really want to get to Drake and we then we want to finish better at state than we did last year,” Scheetz said. “We got eighth place last year but I think we can do a lot better this year.”

Pfeiffer added a third-place finish in the 100 hurdles in 17:06 and Scheetz, Simpson and Curtin were on the Clipper sprint medley team that placed fourth on Friday in a time of 1:51.78.

“I think it really helps because we run here every single day at practice so we are comfortable and it takes away the nerves,” Scheetz said. “We did really good in our sprint medley and in the shuttle we cut off a lot of time and I think we are in a really good spot.

Seidl was runner-up in the 3,000 in 10:53.84 and added a third-place finish in the 800 in 2:28.94.

“She has started really good,” Robison said of Seidl. “She is still trying to find her stride in what’s comfortable right now and when it’s all said and done I think she’s going to be a 1,500 girl but man she is having success in the 800 right now.”

Timmerman was runner-up to defending 4A state champion Abby Mecklenburg of Linn-Mar in the long jump.

Mecklenburg won with a jump of 20-3 ¾ while Timmerman was second with a leap of 17-3 ¼.

“It was a little bit of a rocky start getting back into it but now that we’ve practice a few times I feel good about where I am right now,” Timmerman said.

Solon finished fourth in the Class A team standings with 96.2 points and West High was fifth with 89.5 points.

Tenley Levin was runner-up in the 200 in 27.15 and was fifth in the long jump for Solon while Mya Fordice was third in the 400 hurdles in 1:12.07.

Solon finished runner-up in the shuttle hurdle, 4×400 and 4×800 relays.

West High was third in the sprint medley, 4×200, 4×400 and 4×800 relays and Evelyn Cornish was runner-up in the high jump (5-0) and Amara MacLagan was third in the long jump (17-0) for the Trojans.

Jane Astor Relays

At Clear Creek Amana High School

Team scores (Class A) – 1. Linn-Mar 124; 2. Williamsburg 98; 3. Clear Creek Amana 97.2; 4. Solon 96.2; 5. West High 89.5; 6. Mount Vernon 88.4; 7. Mid-Prairie 73.5; 8. Dubuque Hempstead 43.2; 9. Cedar Rapids Xavier 20; 10. Clear Creek Amana JV 7

Team scores (Class B) – 1. Pekin 174; 2. Iowa Valley 120.5; 3. English Valleys 100; 4. HLV 88; 5. Durant 70.5; 6. North Linn 66; 7. Belle Plaine 60

Individual results (Event champ; area medalists)

100 – 1. Jovi Evans (M-P) 12.17; 5. Sydney Kunkel (SOL) 13.1; 7. Anna Johnson (CCA) 13.25; 8. Piper Stahle (SOL) 13.27

200 – 1. Abby Mecklenburg (L-M) 25.22; 2. Tenley Levin (SOL) 27.15; 5. Trea Eidahl (SOL) 27.66; 7. Alexis Lovstuen (CCA) 28.12

400 – 1. Grace Hale (MV) 69.74; 4. Jillian Elijah (SOL) 1:05.51

800 – 1. Evelyn Moeller (MV) 2:16.35; 3. Alison Seidl (CCA) 2:28.94

1,500 – 1. Chloe Glosser (PEK) 4:44.29; 4. Ava Twait (ICW) 5:11.38; 5. Adrienne Hodge (ICW) 5:12.23; 6. Addison Seamans (SOL) 5:22.25; 7. Falyn Svalstad (SOL) 5:30.59

3,000 – 1. Hailey Kozloski (L-M) 10:27.78; 2. Alison Seidl (CCA) 10:53.84; 6. Ellie DeWaard (ICW) 11:45.02; 8. Kinley Mai (SOL) 12:06.98

100 hurdles – 1. Olivia Neal (CRX) 15.35; 3. Sydney Pfeiffer (CCA) 17.06; 5. Jaylin Herring (CCA) 17.11; 6. Savannah Graham (ICW) 17.42

400 hurdles – 1. Ava Hocker (WIL) 1:04.03; 3. Mya Fordice (SOL) 1:12.07; 4. Eva Willis (ICW) 1:13.03; 5. Avery Nepple (ICW) 1:13.9

Sprint medley – 1. Linn-Mar 1:48.58; 3. West High 1:50.07; 4. Clear Creek Amana 1:51.78; 5. Solon 1:52.45

Distance medley – 1. Pekin 4:30.82; 5. Clear Creek Amana 4:37.7; 6. Solon 4:37.94

Shuttle hurdle – 1. Clear Creek Amana 1:08.11; 2. Solon 1:12.38; 4. West High 1:12.74

4×100 – 1. Linn-Mar 48.97; 4. Solon 50.82; 5. West High 51.26; 7. Clear Creek Amana 52.56

4×200 – 1. Clear Creek Amana 1:45.15; 3. West High 1:46.19; 4. Solon 1:49.63

4×400 – 1. Dubuque Hempstead 4:04.81; 2. Solon 4:04.92; 3. West High 4:05.25; 5. Clear Creek Amana 4:07

4×800 – 1. Mount Vernon 9:40.81; 2. Solon 10:04.06; 3. West High 10:08.15; 7. Clear Creek Amana 11:21.52

Shot put – 1. Anna Hadley (PEK) 45-2 ½; 8. Nakia Tangang (CCA) 32-9 ½

Discus – 1. Annie Cassidy (L-M) 119-6; 4. Nakia Tangang (CCA) 111-10; 6. Piper Johnson (SOL) 107-1

Long jump – 1. Abby Mecklenburg (L-M) 20-3 ¾; 2. Elizabeth Timmerman (CCA) 17-3 ¼; 3. Amara MacLagan (ICW) 17-0; 5. Tenley Levin (SOL) 16-5 ¼; 6. Malea Hollenbeck (CCA) 16-2 ¾

High jump – 1. Nicole Gensley (HLV) 5-0; 2. Evelyn Cornish (ICW) 5-0; 6. Sophia Austen (ICW) 4-8; 6. Isla Santiago (CCA) 4-8

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