Warrior boys gain experience at Anamosa, wins at Clayton Ridge
Gavin Holst won the 800-meter run at the Clayton Ridge Boys Invite, and was also part of Central’s winning distance medley relay. (Photos by Bruce Thein)
Mason Loan was the runner-up in the long jump at the Clayton Ridge Boys Invite.
Jacob Cook finished eighth in the shot put at the May 1 meet.
Tyce Zittergruen leaps over a hurdle in the meet at Clayton Ridge.
By Willis Patenaude | Times-Register
The Central boys track and field team traveled to Anamosa last week to test themselves against competition from 2A and 3A schools, coming away with several top-10 finishes and a handful of top fives.
Among the most notable results was Mason Loan finishing fourth in the long jump and 10th in the 400-meter hurdles. The Warriors also had a fifth-place run in the distance medley relay and Gavin Holst had multiple top-10 races. That included ninth place in the 800-meter run and seventh in the 3200. Holst added a 12th-place result in the 1600.
The Warriors secured several decent placements in relays, including ninth in the sprint medley, 10th in the 4x400 and 11th in the 4x800. They added a ninth-place finish in the shuttle hurdles, 17th in the 4x100 and 16th in the 4x200.
Jacob Cook and Corbyn Clark went 15th and 16th in the 100-meter dash, while Vaughn Zittergruen and Clark were 16th and 20th in the 200 and Henry Reimer and Tyce Zittergruen crossed the finish line a respective 14th and 18th in the 400.
In the 110-meter hurdles, Zane Embretson finished 18th, while Carter Krugger was right behind him in 20th.
Brandon Koth finished 20th in the discus.
The Warriors used the experience from that meet May 1, at the Clayton Ridge Boys Invite, where they amassed 11 top-five finishes and two wins across 17 events.
Involved in the victories was Holst, who won the 800-meter run by almost two seconds, and he anchored the victorious distance medley team that also included V. Zittergruen, Jesse Polkinghorn and Loan. The four won by over 10 seconds.
Loan achieved a pair of second-place results on his own, as runner-up in both the 200-meter dash and long jump.
Central secured additional second-place results in the 1600 with Ruegnitz and Michael White in the 3200, while the 4x800 relay of Ruegnitz, T. Zittergruen, Declan Finley and Polkinghorn were runners-up.
The Warriors stockpiled top-five results in the relays, with fourth place in the 4x100 with Loan, V. Zittergruen, Cook and Clark and another fourth-place run in the shuttle hurdle behind Embretson, Griffin Koehn, Breckon Holst and T. Zittergruen. The sprint medley group of Cook, Clark, V. Zittergruen and Reimer was also fourth. The team was fifth in the 4x400 with Finley, Reimer, White and T. Zittergruen.
Central achieved top fives in other individual events too, with Reimer taking fourth in the 800 and B. Holst crossing the line fifth in the 3200 and sixth in the 400 hurdles. Clark was sixth in the 400 and White came in ninth in the same race, while Polkinghorn was sixth in the 1600 and ninth in the 200. Embretson took 10th in the 100-meter dash.
In the field events, Cook finished eighth in the shot put, followed by Koth in 13th. Koth was ninth in the discus, ahead of Elias White in 10th.
The Warriors will travel to Monona twice this week, first for the MFL MarMac Boys Invite on May 5, then the Upper Iowa Conference meet on May 8, starting at 4 p.m.
