GIRARD — Amid miserable weather conditions, Iola Middle School’s track teams still brought home several medals for their efforts at the Girard Middle School Invitational.
Buoyed by eighth-grader Braden Plumlee and seventh-grader Dalton Ryherd, the Ponies contended well with bitterly cold wind and soggy grounds that forced meet officials to call off all field events.
Plumlee was a two-time gold medalist, winning the 1600- and 800-meter runs.
Plumlee won the 1600 in 5 minutes, 22.2 seconds — 14 seconds ahead of his nearest competitor — and the 800 in 2:26.4. Chase Regehr was just behind in the 800, taking third with a time of 2:27.
Ryherd, meanwhile, won the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 18.15 seconds, more than a second better than the runner-up. Isaac Vink finished fourth in the same event in 20.34 seconds.
Iola’s Olivia Taylor took second in the seventh-grade girls 1600, finishing in 6:06.5. The Ponies fnished second and third in the 100-meter hurdles. Colbi Riley was second at 20.32 seconds, one-hundredth of a second qucker than Eliza Hale in third.
The seventh grade also supplied one second-place and one third-place finish among the relays. The medley relay team of Carly Cescon, Hale, Riley and Taylor finished in second at 2:16, while the 4×100-meter relay team of Ceston, Riley, Hale and Sophie Whitney finished in 1:02.2.
As a team, the eighth-grade boys finished fifth with 37 points, one point behind fourth-place finisher Frontenac. Parsons took first overall with 89 points.
The seventh-grade boys accumulated 22 points, good for fifth. Pittsburg won with 88.
The seventh-grade girls finished third with 47 points, behind Pittsburg’s 85 and Frontenac’s 52.
The eighth-grade girls scored two points with a pair of sixth-place relay finishes.
Iola now prepares to host the IMS Invitational starting at 1 p.m. Monday at Iola’s Riverside Park.
The Ponies’ results from Thursday follow.
Eighth grade boys
Medley Relay: 5. Iola (Ethan Scheibmeir, Ben Cooper, Gage Cleaver, Darius Greenawalt), 2:06.2
1600-meter run: 1. Braden Plumlee, 5:22.2
4×200-meter run: 6. Iola (Chase Regehr, Cleaver, Cooper, Garrett Wade), 1:58
800-meter run: 1. Plumlee, 2:26.4; 3. Regehr, 2:27
200-meter run: 5. Greenawalt, 28.35
4×400-meter relay: 3. Iola (Wade, Regehr, Cleaver, Greenawalt), 4:28
Seventh grade boys
100-meter hurdles: 1. Dalton Ryherd, 18.15; 4. Isaac Vink, 20.34
Medley relay: 6. Iola (Will Bath, William Winner, Austin Rehmert, Zach Slaven), 2:13
4×200-meter relay: 4. Iola (Vink, Bryce Andres, Cale Barnhart, Nick Peterson), 2:06.8
200-meter run: 6. Ryherd, 29.8
4×400-meter relay: 5. Iola (Peterson, Vink, Barnhart, Ryherd), 5:02
Eighth grade girls
Medley relay: 6. Iola (Sydney Wade, Jadyn Sigg, Riley Murry, Megan Klubek), 2:18
4×100-meter relay: 6. Iola (Alexis Heslop, Murry, Wade, Sigg), 1:02.6
Seventh grade girls
100-meter hurdles: 2. Colbi Riley, 20.32; 3. Eliza Hale, 20.33
Medley relay: 2. Iola (Carly Ceston, Hale, Riley, Olivia Taylor), 2:16
1600-meter run: 2. Taylor, 6:06.5
4×100-meter relay: 3. Iola (Cescon, Riley, Hale, Sophie Whitney), 1:02.2
4×200-meter relay: 6: Iola (Emma Weseloh, Whitney, Madison Carlin, Kylee Hunter), 2:25.9
800-meter run: 4. Taylor, 2:68
4×400-meter relay: 3. Iola (Carlin, Whitney, Katie Bauer, Hunter), 5:35
IMS track teams contend with cold
