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Three of the four runners on the Glenwood girls 4x800-meter relay team celebrate its first place finish and season-best time at the Class 3A State Qualifier Meet in Glenwood Thursday. Pictured from left: Breckyn Petersen, Madelyn Berglund and Haylee Hughes.

Rams combine to qualify in 20 events for state

Glenwood placed fourth as a team with 101 points, just four points out of second place. “This was a loaded state qualifying meet that we knew was going to be a challenge,” said Glenwood coach Mark Starner. “It seemed like everything that we were good at, there were two to three other teams that...

The Fremont-Mills girls track team celebrates its state qualifying meet champinship Thursday in Woodbine.

Fremont-Mills girls wins district, send 10 to state track meet

The Fremont-Mills girls qualified in 10 events and ran away with the team title at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet in Woodbine Thursday. The Knights won eight events to notch automatic bids to this week’s Iowa State Track and Field Meet in Des Moines. The Class 1A events begin Thursday at 2:40 p...

East Mills’ Jackson Embree passes the baton to Jiri Brodigan. Embree and Brodigan, along with Cooper Stearns and Walter Seipold punched their ticket to the 4x200-meter relay at the Griswold state qualifier meet.

Wolverines punch ticket to state in 4x200-meter relay

The East Mills boys won the 4x200-meter at the Class 1A State Qualifying meet in Griswold Thursday. The quartet of Jackson Embree, Cooper Stearns, Jiri Brodigan and Walter Seipold ran a 1:33.36 to top the field as the Wolverines’ lone state qualifiers on the boys and girls teams. Riverside captured...

Glenwood’s Allison Koontz helped the Rams to a gold medal at the Hawkeye 10 Conference Track and Field meet last week.

Glenwood girls capture seventh straight H-10 title

For the seventh year in a row, the Glenwood girls track and field team left no doubt about who runs the Hawkeye 10 conference, dominating the championship meet with a display of speed, strength, and unshakable tradition. The Rams racked up five gold medals and 141.5 points to capture the team title...

Fremont-MIlls’ Hayleigh Mattox swept the shot and the discus at the Corner Conference Track and Field Meet.

Fremont-Mills girls second at SW Valley co-ed meet

Cumberland-Anita-Massena narrowly edged Fremont-Mills in the girls team standings at the Southwest Valley Co-ed Track and Field Meet in Corning Thursday. CAM tallied 96 points to the Knights 93 for the team title. Hayleigh Mattox swept the throwing events, winning the shot and the discus to lead...

Megan Hughes takes the baton handoff from Erin Dougherty in the 4x200-meter relay in Treynor last week.

Glenwood second at own Ram Relays

Council Bluffs Lewis Central edged Glenwood for the team title at the weather-shortened Girls Ram Relays at the Glenwood Activities Complex Thursday. The Titans tallied 92 points to the Rams’ 85 on night severe weather cancelled a handful of events. In all, Glenwood won three events: the 4x200,...

Carlie Chambers won one of Fremont-Mills’ eight gold medals at Shenandoah. The senior topped the field with a leap of 5-feet.

Knights win eight events at Fillie Relays

Fremont-Mills captured eight gold medals to run away with the team title at the Fillie Relays in Shenandoah Thursday. The Knights won the meet with 129 points. The host Fillies were the runner up with 106 points. “Everyone performed well,” said Fremont-Mills coach Kyler Fichter. “Some different...

Glenwood’s Grahm Newberry defeated Southwest Valley’s Jordan Bruce in No. 3 singles last week.

Glenwood tennis falls at home to Red Oak

Red Oak downed Glenwood 6-3 in a Hawkeye 10 Conference dual in Glenwood Thursday. The Tigers’ Brett Erickson, Landon Gigstad, Ethan Strunk and Jackson Perdue picked up singles wins. The No. 2 singles duo of Erickson and AJ Beeson and the No. 3 pair of Kaleb Sebeniecher and Perdue notched doubles...

Fremont-Mills’ Hannah Wilson won the 3,000-meters and the 800-meters at the Lenox Co-ed Relays last week.

Knights third, fourth at AHSTW co-ed relays

The Fremont-Mills girls were third and the boys fourth at the AHSTW Co-ed Relays Thursday in Avoca. The Riverside girls won the team title with 162 points. Fremont-Mils’ girls were third with 141 points. The Knights won six events in all, with Lana Alley capturing individual golds in the 100-meter...

Genwood sprinters (from left) Jackson Mulkins and Drew Schroeder, shown here in the 100-meters at last Monday’s Ram Relays, were a part of the Rams’ gold medal-winning 4x200-meter relay at the Sioux City Relays Saturday.

Rams win pair of gold medals at Sioux City Relays

The Glenwood boys 4x200-meter relay team and the girls 4x400-meter relay both topped the field at the Sioux City Relays Saturday at Elwood Olsen Stadium. The Rams’ quartet of Jackson Mulkins, Keaton German, Drew Schroeder and Victor Cruz raced to a time of 1:32.05 for first place in the Class B...