OGDEN — With the weather at last relenting, the Woodward-Granger track teams were able to participate in the WCAC track meet, which was suspended Tuesday following the girls 4×800, an event won by the Hawks.
Emma Drake, Kaitlyn Peters, Ava Petersen and Anna Tague finished in 10 minutes, 25.92 seconds to win the relay and score 10 of the 44 points their team would amass.
Panorama overwhelmed the field with a winning score of 191, with AC/GC a far distant second at 114. Van Meter (90.5), Madrid (88) and Earlham (87.5) completed the top five, with WCV (45), W-G (44), Ogden (42), Des Moines Christian (32) and the new — and quite small — Woodward Academy girls team (3) finishing the field.
Van Meter won the boys side at 135.25, with Madrid (112.25), Earlham (82), DMC (79) and Panorama (74) rounding out the top five. Woodward Academy (61.5) was sixth, followed by AC/GC (55.5), WCV (53), W-G (46) and Ogden (41.5).
The W-G girls were second in the 4×400 when Drake, Tague, Petersen and Kayley Dresback finished in 4:17.99, with the distance medley unit of Tague, Petersen, Drake and Josie Noland fourth in 4:29.17 while Chloe and Sophie David teamed with Mae Anderson and Mollie Frost to place fifth, in 1:19.93, in the shuttle hurdle.
The sprint medley foursome of Dresback, Noland, Gena Tague and Katelyn Bandstra were sixth, in 2:01.51, with the 4×200 quartet of Bandstra, Gena Tague, Sophie David and Alissa Smeltzer sixth, in 2:01.53, while the same grouping placed seventh, in 57.37, in the 4×100.
Peters placed fourth in the 1500 in 5:32.18 and Noland seventh in the 200 in 29.27 ticks while Posey Robinson placed eighth, in 13:21.77, in the 3000.
The Hawks also received a point from Janae Jones in the discus, as her spin of 93 feet, 2 inches earned eighth place.
Keith Braunschweigh and Cale Pritchett each placed for the W-G boys in the high jump, with the former third at 5’6 and the later sixth at 5’4.
Brendan Bird’s throw of 123’6 was fourth-best in the discus, with Bryce Achenbach landing fifth in the long jump at 19’3-1/2.
Pritchett was sixth in the 400 in 56.05 and Braunschweigh seventh in the 110 hurdles in 16.61 to account for the individual running points scored by the Hawks.
Achenbach was joined by Ian Thompson, Josh Saak and Chandler Cavanaugh for the 4×400 (3:35.95). The foursome was second, just 0.6 seconds behind winner WCV (3:35.35).
Achenbach, Cavanaugh, Braunschweig and Reese Jamison ran the 4×100 (5th, 46.7), Caleb Jones, ALex Bice, Jack Grell and Kaya Bowlsby the 4×800 (6th, 9:16.56) and Saak, Thompson, Cavanaugh and Jay Dorenkamp the spring medley (6th, 1:41.16).
Also scoring was the shuttle hurdle team of Braunschweig, Nick Moser, Tate Lettow and Worth Henry, with the squad finishing fourth on a clocking of 1:08.16.
