More than 900 youngsters from 20 schools filled Iola’s Riverside Park from stem to stern to compete in the Iola Middle School Invitational Track meet.
There were several local standouts, including Iola’s Tayton Driskel, a three-time gold medalist in the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the long jump. Meanwhile, Iola’s Olivia Taylor brought home the gold medal in the eighth-grade girls 1600-meter run, and Evan Sigg had the top honors in the eighth-grade boys discus.
Marmaton Valley’s Makayla Brooks took first in the eighth-grade girls 200-meter dash.
Results for Iola, Humboldt and Marmaton Valley follow.
Iola Invitational
Boys
Seventh Grade
1. Royster, 113; 3. Iola, 65; 8. Humboldt, 21
100 meters — 1. Tayton Driskel, I, 12.33
200 meters — 1. Driskel, I, 25.86
1600 meters — 3. Cole Regehr, I, 5:38.74; 6. Breton Plumlee, I, 5:45.70
100m hurdles — 7. Tim Komma, I, 19.16
4×200 relay — 6. Iola (David Petty, Trevor Stover, Komma, Dylan Newland), 2:09.08
4×400 relay — 2. Iola (Komma, Petty, Newland, Driskel), 4:41.02; 6. Humboldt (Ryan Sellman, Tucker Hurst, Teryn Johnson, David Watts), 5:12.06
Long jump — 1. Driskel, 17’8”
Shot put — 3. Kolt Knoblich, I, 31’4 1/4”; 8. Stover, I, 27’4”
