Both Iola and Humboldt Middle School track teams competed at Burlington on Thursday.
Iola eighth-grade boys finished atop all eight teams with a second-place finish followed by a fourth-place finished for the seventh-grade Pony boys and eight-grade Pony girls. The seventh-grade Iola girls took seventh.
For Humboldt, the seventh-grade girls, eighth-grade girls and the eighth-grade boys took sixth and the seventh-grade boys finished eighth.
Kaster Trabuc led the Iola eighth-grade boys with a first-place finish in the 3200 (11:39).
Carter Hutton took second in the 400 with a time of 58.53 and Jesse Taylor took second in the 1600 (5:25) followed just a second later by Jake Skahan in third.
Jarrett Herrmann took third in the 100-meter dash and Kyler Mittelmeier took third in the 100-meter hurdles.
The 4×200 relay team of Drake Mathew, Mittelmeier, Cody Wille and Herrmann took second with a time of 1:52.57 and the medley relay team consisting of Mittelmeier, Justin McCullough, Mathew and Trabuc took second with a time of 2:00.28.
The seventh-grade Iola boys were led by a first-place finish in the high jump by Japeth Rutoh with a height of 48.
Korbin Cloud took third in the 1600-meter run (5:51).
First-place finishes for Caiden Cloud in the 100-meter hurdles (19.02) and Dallyn McGraw in the high jump (44) led the eighth-grade Iola girls.
Celina Caron took second in the high jump with a height of 42.
The 4×100 relay team of Abigail Hirt, Caron, McGraw and Aysha Houk took third with a time of 58.04. The 4×200 team of Hirt, Hallie McDermeit, Cloud and McGraw took third (2:07.32) and the 4×400 team of Hirt, McDermeit, Cloud and Houk took also took third with a time of 5:16.06.
The seventh-grade Iola girls were led by Emily Atwell (19.76) and Rio Lohman (20.90) who took second and third in the 100-meter hurdles.
Keira Fawson took third in the 1600 with a time of 6:58.64.
FOR HUMBOLDT, the seventh-grade girls were led by the throwing trio of Kenisyn Hottenstien, Elizabeth White and Ashlynn Works.
