Schlemme Adds To Medal Count as Clear Creek Amana Surges on Final Day of State Track and Field Meet
Ryan Murken
Your Prep Sports
DES MOINES – Clear Creek Amana got off to a solid start at the state track and field meet on Thursday and followed with strong day two on Friday.
On Saturday the Clippers put the finishing touches on what turned into a historic weekend at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.
Sophomore standout Aren Schlemme capped a breakout meet with two more top-four finishes, Isaac Sorensen set a school-record in the 800 and the Clippers posted a top-four finish in the 4×100 while placing sixth in the 3A team race to match the best finish in program history.
“It’s just fun being here running with your boys, running with your best friends,” Sorensen said. “It’s fun to run as an individual but its way more fun to run with your boys.”
With three top-five efforts on Saturday the Clippers finished tied for sixth with Center Point-Urbana in the 3A team race with 37 points.
It was the fourth top-10 finish for Clear Creek Amana in the last 10 seasons.
Western Dubuque won the 3A team title with 72 points followed by ADM with 71 and Pella with 48.
Solon was fifth with 38 points and Williamsburg was ninth with 26 giving the WAMAC Conference four of the top nine teams in 3A.
WAMAC member South Tama finished tied for 11th with 24 points.
“It’s fun because the guys in the WAMAC we are all friends,” Sorensen said. “We are out there to have fun and to have a good time and compete.”
Sorensen started the strong Saturday finish with a fifth-place finish in the 800 in a new school-record time of 1:56.16.
“I just wanted to medal,” Sorensen said. “I knew team wise the shuttle kind of fell so I knew I had to get points for the team.”
Schlemme followed with his second top-three individual performance of the weekend when he finished third in the 110 hurdles.
The sophomore won the long jump title on Friday and ran on the Clipper 4×100 relay team that finished fourth on Saturday.
“I did not think I was going to get third,” Schlemme said. “I didn’t think I had a really amazing first race, the time wasn’t bad but I thought everyone was going to pull ahead.”
Western Dubuque senior Ashton Hogrefe won the 110 hurdle title in 14.44 while Central DeWitt senior Tristan Rheingans was runner-up in 14.61.
Schlemme was third in 14.77.
“I’m getting there,” Schlemme said. “Hopefully next year I’ll be a lot faster because I’d like to be running their times. As long as I make the same jump as I did from last year to this year I’ll be good.”
The Clipper 4×100 foursome of Brayden Frank, Tay Seals, Owen Rosenberg and Schlemme closed the weekend with a fourth-place finish in a season-best time of 42.61.
Harlan won the 4×100 in a time of 41.6 followed by ADM in 41.9.
Boys Results
Class 3A State Meet
At Drake Stadium in Des Moines
Team scores (Top 10; area teams) – 1. Western Dubuque 72; 2. ADM 71; 3. Pella 48; 4. Central DeWitt 42; 5. Solon 38; 6. Clear Creek Amana 37; 6. Center Point-Urbana 37; 8. Sioux City Heelan 35; 9. Williamsburg 26; 10. Harlan 25
Individual results (Event winner; area participants)
100 – 1. Brevin Doll (ADM) 10.82
200 – 1. Brevin Doll (ADM) 21.82
800 – 1. Quentin Nauman (Western Dubuque) 1:51.6; 4. Michael Yeomans (Solon) 1:55.84; 5. Isaac Sorensen (Clear Creek Amana) 1:56.16
1,600 – 1. Quentin Nauman (Western Dubuque) 4:12.8; 6. Brick Kabela (Solon) 4:20.87; 20. Brock Hilsman (Clear Creek Amana) 4:41.28; 23. Spencer Michels (Solon) 5:00.62
110 hurdles – 1. Ashton Hogrefe (Western Dubuque) 14.44; 3. Aren Schlemme (Clear Creek Amana) 14.77
Sprint medley relay – 1. Newton 1:31.79; 16. Solon (Milo Ashbacker, Brayden Moore, Austin Knight, Rhett Mesch) 1:34.70; 18. Clear Creek Amana (Brayden Frank, Tay Seals, Owen Rosenberg, Isaac Sorensen) 1:36.91
Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. Western Dubuque 58.06
4×100 – 1. Harlan 41.6; 4. Clear Creek Amana (Brayden Frank, Tay Seals, Owen Rosenberg, Andrew Schlemme) 42.61
4×400 – 1. Ballard 3:19.93; 6. Solon (Rhett Mesch, Grant Knipper, Grant Bumsted, Michael Yeomans) 3:22.63
Girls Results
Class 3A State Meet
At Drake Stadium in Des Moines
Team scores (Top 10; area teams) – 1. ADM 48; 2. MOC-Floyd Valley 43; 2. Sioux Center 43; 4. Mount Vernon 41; 5. Gilbert 39; 6. Clear Lake 37; 6. Dubuque Wahlert 37; 8. Maquoketa 35; 9. Pella 29; 10. Solon 27; 42. Clear Creek Amana 2
Individual results (Event winner; area participants)
100 – 1. Tierney Huss (MOC-Floyd Valley) 12.25
200 – 1. Tierney Huss (MOC-Floyd Valley) 25.27
800 – 1. Marie Dea (Carroll) 2:13.09
1,500 – 1. Marissa Ferebee (Pella) 4:31.48; 18. Sydney Dee (Solon) 5:13
100 hurdles – 1. Aly Stahle (Solon) 15.35
Sprint medley relay – 1. Dubuque Wahlert 1:47.79; 4. Solon (Piper Stahle, Avery Kellen, Mia Duckett, Kolbi Lietz) 1:49.50; 16. Clear Creek Amana (Anna Johnson, Kennedy Stratton, Maycin Ernst, Elizabeth Timmerman) 1:52.6
Shuttle hurdle relay – 1. ADM 1:04.2; 5. Solon (Mia Stahle, Zoey Grimm, Trea Eidahl, Aly Stahle) 1:08.06
4×100 – 1. Western Dubuque 48.34; 8. Solon (Aly Stahle, Mia Stahle, Piper Stahle, Mia Duckett) 49.99
4×400 – 1. Dubuque Wahlert 3:54.85; 8. Solon (Jerzey Haluska, Anna Quillin, Grace Hoeper, Kobi Lietz) 4:03.07
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