MADRID — An impressive showing in the field events helped launch the Panorama girls to the team title at Tuesday’s West Central Conference meet. The Panthers scored in all 19 events, double-placing in a 7-of-12 individual races and winning three relays en route to the title.
Panorama finished with 168 points to best a strong Madrid team, who placed second at 135. AC/GC was third at 96, with Van Meter (80), Earlham (77.5), West Central Valley (60.5), Ogden (59.5), Woodward-Granger (42.5) and Des Moines Christian (18) also in action.
The Panther boys fared nowhere near so well, placing eighth with 42 team points. Madrid’s 166 points claimed the boys title, with Earlham (142), Woodward Academy (113), DMC (80) and Van Meter (60) rounding out the top five. AC/GC (52) was sixth, with Ogden (43), Panorama (42), W-G (26) and WCV (17) following.
Twelve Panorama girls set a total of 18 personal records, with the coaches tabbing Payton Douglass (four PR’s) as meet MVP. Spencer Hunt (two PR’s) was chosen boys MVP after 11 Panthers set 12 new PR’s.
Devyn Kemble set a new Tiger Stadium record by winning the girls 800 in 2 minutes, 24.66 records. She would later anchor the victorious sprint medley relay team that crossed in 1:55.13, also a new stadium record. Kemble was joined in the relay by Douglass, Carson Fisher and Brooke Halterman.
“The girls did very well,” Panther head coach Greg Thompson said. “They got off to a good start in the field events and kept rolling. The hard work paid off tonight.”
Panorama left the four field events with 51 points, 24 clear of Madrid’s 27.
Morgan Johnk and Lydia Knapp were 1-3 in the high jump with clearances of 5 feet and 4 feet, 10 inches, respectively. Bailey Beckman and Kassidy Bremer did their teammates one better with a 1-2 finish in the long jump at 16’10 and 16’1-1/2.
Knapp won the discus at 117’5, with Kennedy Andersen fourth at 96’2. Andersen was seventh in the shot put at 32’3.
Johnk and Maggie Woodvine were 2-5, in 16.04 and 17.8 seconds, in the 100 hurdles, with Douglass and Lydia Lindstrom 4-7 in the 400 hurdles in 1:13.18 and 1:16.92.
Brianna Hoffman ran to fourth place in the 1500 (5:28.15), 3000 (11:54.95) and 400 (1:06.2), with Beckman second in the 400 (1:04.32).
Bremer (28.5) and Halterman (29.63) placed 4-8 in the 200, with Fisher’s 13.2 second clocking sixth in the 100.
Beckman, Bremer, Hoffman and Kemble won the 4×400 (4:16.25) and Brooklyn Behrends, Emily Smith, Lindstrom and Kemble the 4×800 (10:30.73), with Douglass, Fisher, Johnk and Beckman second in the 4×100 (52.79) while Woodvine, Douglass, Johnk and Maddie Knapp placed second in the shuttle hurdle (1:11.67).
Placing third, in 1:54.49, in the 4×200 were Fisher, Bremer, Halterman and Maddie Knapp, with a 5:00.99 showing from Lydia Knapp, Taylor Rishel, Hope Arganbright and Kellie Prince claiming fifth in the distance medley.
Misfortune hurt the Panorama boys, with Thompson noting “a couple of boys got sick during the meet, so that affected some of what we were hoping to do. However, the boys battled and competed.”
Matthew Webner shattered his own old school record in the discus (162’8) with a second-place spin of 169’9-1/2. Dan Jensen was sixth at 127’10-1/2, with Jensen’s 48’7 shove in the shot put placing fourth.
Luke South was fifth (1:00.45) in the 400 low hurdles and seventh (16.8) in the 110 high hurdles. Hunt crossed fourth in the 200 (23.86) and Brody Rickheim eighth in the 100 (12.07), with Danny Nordquist finishing eighth in the 1600 (4:55.26).
Hunt, Rickheim, Conner Meinecke and Bryce Halterman set a new school record of 1:40.13 to place third in the sprint medley, with Norquist, Meinecke, Josh Carstens and Levi Richey seventh in the 4×800 in 9:18.65.
The foursome of Blaine Barber, Halterman, Hunt and Meinecke were sixth in the 4×100 (47.19) and seventh in the 4×200 (1:38.75) to account for the remainder of the points for the Panther boys.
