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.
Hottenstien (307) and White (28) took first and second in the shot put while Works finished second in the discus with a distance of 648.
