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Solon will enter the Class 3A state meet next week as one of the favorites to claim the team title.

On Thursday at the 3A state qualifying meet at Benton Community the Spartans showed why.

Solon won 14 events and automatically qualified 17 event entries for the 3A state meet while cruising to the team title at the 3A state qualifying meet in Van Horne.

Emma Bock and Kayla Young each won a pair of individual titles and the Spartans won all seven relays on Thursday while rolling up 228 team points.

Marion was second with 101 followed by Mount Vernon with 100.4 and Cedar Rapids Xavier with 80.

Bock won titles in the 400 (58.1) and 800 (2:25.5) and also anchored the Solon sprint medley and 4×400 relay teams to titles.

Young won the 1,500 in 5:16.36 and added a title in the 3,00 in 11:37.65.

Makinley Levin won the long jump with a leap of 16-4 1/2, Mia Duckett won the 100 in 13.5 and Aly Stahle won the 200 in 26.46 for the Spartans.

Senior Kaia Holtkamp earned a spot at the state meet with a runner-up finish in the 800 in 2:25.6 while Gracie Federspiel was runner-up in the 400 in 59.47 and Sophia Stahle was second in the 400 hurdles in a time of 1:08.54.

The Solon shuttle hurdle relay team of Mia Stahle, Calla Foster, Sophia Stahle and Aly Stahle won in 1:07.27 and Mia Stahle, Duckett, Sophia Stahle and Bock won the sprint medley in 1:52.

The distance medley team of Makinley Levin, Callie Levin Holtkamp and Meghan O’Neil won in 4:25.9 and Aly Stahle, Makinley Levin, Duckett and Emma Wolff won in 49.98.

Makinley Levin, Sophia Stahle, Duckett and Aly Stahle won the 4×200 in 1:47.29.

O’Neill, Holtkamp, Federspiel and Bock won the 4×400 in 4:00.93 and Holtkamp, Grace Hoeper, Anna Quillin and Federspiel won the 4×800 in 10:10.79.

Class 3A State Qualifier

At Benton Community

Team scores – 1. Solon 228; 2. Marion 101; 3. Mount Vernon 100.5; 4. Cedar Rapids Xavier 80; 5. Vinton-Shellsburg 66; 6. Benton Community 63; 7. Maquoketa 55.5; 8. Central DeWitt 47

Automatic state qualifiers; area placewinners

Long jump – 1. Makinley Levin (SOL) 16-4 ½; 2. Jaclyn Meyer (CRX) 16-2 ¼; 3. Callie Levin (SOL) 15-7 ½

High jump – 1. Soren Maricle (CD) 5-3; 2. Ava Van Berkem (CRX) 5-2; 3. Lilly Towne (SOL) 4-10; 5. Tatum Holtkamp (SOL) 4-8

Shot put – 1. Abby Bartz (V-S) 38-1; 2. Sophia Kreutner (V-S) 37-7 ½; 3. Elly Holubar (SOL) 34-4; 4. Leah Kollar (SOL) 33-11 ½

Discus – 1. Libby Dix (MV) 120-5; 2. Brylee Bruce (V-S) 109-11; 3. Elly Holubar (SOL) 103-10; 6. Abigail Felton (SOL) 91-4

100 – 1. Mia Duckett (SOL) 13.5; 2. Kenzie Lovell (MAR) 13.64; 4. Emma Wolff (SOL) 14.02

200 – 1. Aly Stahle (SOL) 26.46; 2. Leah Hendrickson (V-S) 27.42; 5. Callie Levin (SOL) 28.39

400 – 1. Emma Bock (SOL) 58.1; 2. Gracie Federspiel (SOL) 59.47

800 – 1. Emma Bock (SOL) 2:25.5; 2. Kaia Holtkamp (SOL) 2:25.6

1,500 – 1. Kayla Young (SOL) 5:16.36; 2. Kendall Orozco (MAR) 5:21.47; 3. Anna Quillin (SOL) 5:26.57

3,000 – 1. Kayla Young (SOL) 11:37.65; 2. Emrie Johnson (MV) 12:19.79; 4. Ashlyn Williams (SOL) 13:37.57

100 hurdles – 1. Alyssa Tegeler (BC) 16.66; 2. Naomi Durin (CRX) 17.06; 5. Calla Foster (SOL) 17.5

400 hurdles – 1. Emma Arnold (CRX) 1:07.39; 2. Sophia Stahle (SOL) 1:08.54; 3. Mia Stahle (SOL) 1:09.25

Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Solon (Mia Stahle, Calla Foster, Sophia Stahle, Aly Stahle) 1:07.27; 2. Benton Community 1:09.55

Sprint medley relay – 1. Solon (Mia Stahle, Mia Duckett, Sophia Stahle, Emma Bock) 1:52.1; Cedar Rapids Xavier 1:53.41

Distance medley relay – 1. Solon (Makinley Levin, Callie Levin, Kaia Holtkamp, Meghan O’Neil) 4:25.9; 2. Mount Vernon 4:28.4

4×100 – 1. Solon (Aly Stahle, Makinley Levin, Mia Duckett, Emma Wolff) 49.98; 2. Marion 51.17

4×200 – 1. Solon (Makinley Levin, Sophia Stahle, Mia Duckett, Aly Stahle) 1:47.29; 2. Marion 1:50.18

4×400 – 1. Solon (Meghan O’Neill, Kaia Holtkamp, Gracie Federspiel, Emma Bock) 4:00.93; 2. Mount Vernon 4:09.64

4×800 – 1. Solon (Kaia Holtkamp, Grace Hoeper, Anna Quillin, Gracie Federspiel) 10:10.79; 2. Mount Vernon 10:13.37

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