The Iowa High School Coed State Track & Field Championships at Drake Stadium was  completed early Saturday evening following an early afternoon weather delay that lasted two hours and 15 minutes.

Panorama led Raccoon Valley Radio listening area teams with a third place finish and 40 points in the 2A girls’ team race. The Panthers’ earned a trophy for their efforts. Listening area athletes placed in the top eight 31 times overs the three day meet and nine of those belong to the Panorama girls.

Morgan Johnk, the Panorama junior, had an outstanding State meet. She finished second in the Class 2A 100 meter hurdles race in 15.46 seconds. Johnk anchored the Panthers’ to second in the shuttle hurdle relay, and was fourth in Friday’s high jump, clearing a career best 5′ 5″.

Sadie Juergens of ADM earned the Tigers’ first points of the meet when she finished second in the 3A girls’ 800 meter run in 2:16.91. Ellie Friesen of Crestwood (Cresco) was the winner in 2:13.63. The junior will run the 1,500 later today.

Panorama’s shuttle hurdle relay was second in 2A in 1:07.53 with Shey Storesund, Maddie Knapp, Maggie Woodbine, and Morgan Johnk. Johnk had a strong anchor leg and she’ll run the 100 meter hurdles later today. Beckman (Dyersville) won the race in 1:07.10.

Nodaway Valley and Earlham were shuttle hurdle relay place winners in 1A. NV was fourth in 1:09.10 with Annie Herr, Natalie Yonker, Sadie Marnin, and Lexi Shike. Earlham was sixth in 1:10.93 with Rachel Smith, Emma Jensen, Kaitlyn Knight and Jocelyn Turnbull.

Nodaway Valley and Earlham both ran in the 1A girls portion of the sprint medley relay to start the day. NV ran 1:55.90 and Earlham 1:58.03. Jena Yonker, Sadie Marnin, Lexi Shike, and Reagan Weinheimer placed in fifteenth for NV, while Earlham had Marina Brightman, Kelcie Hale, Kaitlynn Nielsen, and Rachel Luke in 1:58.03 placed 22nd.

In 2A, West Central Valley ran Kaleb Badker, Carson Wadle, Billy Larsen, and Cole Arnburg. The foursome was eighth in section one in 1:39.82 and finished 21st.

In 3A, Winterset has Kaden Shaw, Jacob Dick, Carter Tryon, and Easton Darling. The Huskies won section one in 1:35.72 and finished eleventh. Perry ran Kato Dougan, Manesses Martinez, Reece Dunlap, and Kaleb Olejniczak and were sixth in section two in 1:36.30 and sixteenth overall.

The Earlham boys didn’t score team points, but certainly performed well in the 1A boys’ sprint medley relay. The quartet of Devin Crees, Jason Hopp, Lazarick Matchem, and Caleb Swalla won the first of the three sections in 1:37.62. They had the last (24th) qualifying time entering State, but finished in thirteenth place.

Two area girls ran the 1A 800 meters. Reagan Weinheimer of Nodaway Valley and Earlham’s Katie Noah. Weinheimer finished in seventh place in 2:22.93, and Noah was 22nd in 2:29.82. In 2A, Kate Crawford of ACGC was tenth in 2:23.68. Gwen Steffen of Panorama was eleventh in 2:24.18, and Devyn Kemble, of Panorama, was number 12 in 2:24.32.

Area boys in the 800 include Clay Billheimer and Noah Nelson, both of ACGC in 2A, along with Brandon Kenyon of Perry in 3A. Kenyon was fifteenth in 2:00.48. Billheimer was tenth in 1:59.81 and Noah Nelsen was twenty fourth in 2:05.14.

Suzanne Shoemaker of West Central Valley is in wheelchair events. She was second in the shot put, fourth in the 100 in 39.51 seconds, fourth in the 200 in 1:15.93, and fourth in the 400.

D’Angelo Dampier of Woodward Academy was fifth in the 2A boys 100 meter dash in 11.13 seconds. He was three one-thousandths of a second away from fourth place.

Lexi Shike of Nodaway Valley took a tumble on a hurdle, but alertly got up and finished without touching a hurdle with a hand, and finished eighth in 1A in 21:37. That earned her team a point.

Luke Heitz of ADM is a place winner in the 3A 110 high hurdles. The junior finished in 15.01 seconds. Those are the first ADM boys’ points of the meet.

Greene County’s Megan Durbin was sixth in the 2A 200 in :26.20. Durbin was second in Friday’s high jump.

ADM senior Keaton Kester ran the prelims of the 3A 200 and qualified for the final, but she did not run Saturday afternoon. Kester won the 100 and 200 meter races in 3A in 2017.

The 1,600 meter run has three area athletes in 1A. They are Brycen Wallace of Nodaway Valley, the 3,200 meter runner-up, Joshua Balder of Nodaway Valley, and Alex Caskey of Earlham. Wallace was third in 4:28.31, with Baudler tenth in 4:40.04, and Caskey in fourteenth with a time of 4:43.45.

Noah Nelsen and Clay Billheimer of ACGC both run in the 2A 1,600 meters. Nelson was twelfth in 4:38.41 with Billmeier in seventeenth place in 4:42.33. In 3A, Nathan Mueller of ADM, a ninth grader, finished in 4:30.08, good for seventh place.

The girls 1,500 meter race in 2A had three from our area. Kate Crawford, the 3,000 meter runner-up from ACGC, finished in fourth place in 4:49.79. Panorama’s Ella Waddle was eighth in 5:020.04. Katelyn Peters of Woodward-Granger was twenty-fourth in 5:29.87. In 3A, a 4:55.89 clocking for Sadie Juergens of ADM got her the ninth spot.