Iola and Humboldt middle schools track seasons are in gear. Humboldt opened things with their home meet at the end of March while Iola traveled to Anderson County for a quad with Prairie View, Burlington and the host Bulldogs.
Piper Aronson took first and second in the seventh-grade girls 200- and 100-meter dashes with times of 31.95 and 15 seconds.
Keira Fawson placed second in the 800 (3:28.04) and third in the 1600 (7:10.69). Abigail Meiwes took second in the 1600 (7:06.94).
In the 100-meter hurdles, seventh-grade Ponies Emily Atwell took second (21.97) and Rio Lohman took third (22.36).
The IMS girls 4×100 relay took second (1:03.44) as did the 4×400 relay (5:27.89).
Heidi Folk took second in the long jump with a distance of 114.5.
Aysha Houk started things off for the eighth-grade girls finishing second in the 200 (30.88) and third in the 100 (14.48).
Caiden Cloud finished second in the 100-meter hurdles (19.84) and the 4×100 (58.07) relay team took second while the 4×200 (2:09.61) and the 4×400 (5:19.92) each took third.
Celina Caron won the high jump with a final leap of 4 feet and Micayla Moen took second in the shot put (2510).
The seventh-grade boys made a mark in the distance races.
Korbin Cloud (6:05.84) and Will Jay (6:26.41) took first and second in the 1600 while Japheth Rutoh took third (2:52.47) in the 800. Rutoh also won the high jump with a final height of 402.
Brian Macias took second in the 100-meter hurdles (19.05) while the 4×200 relay team took second (2:17.28).
Kolton Greathouse finished second in the shot put and the discus with distances of 2802 and 7106.
Carter Hutton started things off for the eighth-grade boys with a third-place finish in the 100-meter dash (12.93) and in the 400 (1:01.58).
Kaster Trabuc placed second in the 800 (2:35.15) and won the 3200 with a time of 11:59.36.
Jake Skahan took first in the 1600 (5:39.69).
