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SH piles up 12 medals, second at Ballard Invite

HUXLEY — Meet after meet this season, the South Hamilton girls’ track and field team has steadily added to its medals haul and climbed the team standings.

The Hawks continued their ascent at Friday’s Ballard Invitational.

While Iowa Falls-Alden’s biggest points producers took part in the Drake Relays’ 4×800-meter relay, South Hamilton took advantage in the middle distance events. By night’s end the Hawks had accrued 12 top-three finishes and scored 123 points to finish second in Class B behind the Cadets (132 points). No other team in the field reached triple digits.

South Hamilton won five events, including the 4×800 (11:50.83) and distance medley (4:53.00) relays — two of the events that usually go to Iowa Falls-Alden when the Juhl triplets are in attendance.

Anna Lammers, Natalie Johnson, Breanne Diersen and Paige Seaton ran on the Hawks’ 4×800. Zaielah Newman, Caleigh Hewitt, Taylor Remsburg and Yolanda Licea teamed up for the medley.

Hailey Cavan played key roles in two other gold medals. She won the 100 hurdles (16.57 seconds) and anchored the shuttle hurdle relay (1:11.59) to the finish line first. Rylee Woodall was third in the 100 hurdles (16.87) and ran the third leg of the relay, which also included Emily Greenfield and Bridgit Schlafke.

Thrower Lily Skartvedt had her most productive outing of the season. She threw a season’s best 112 feet, 8 inches to win gold in the discus and was second in the shot put (34-3).

Ballard Invitational

Friday at Huxley

Class B Team Standings

1. Iowa Falls-Alden 132; 2. South Hamilton 123; 3. Clarion-Goldfield-Dows 98; 4. Collins-Maxwell 88; 5. Southeast Valley 79; 6. Ogden 65.

South Hamilton Place Winners

Discus — 1. Lily Skartvedt 112-8.

Shot Put — 2. Skartvedt 34-3

Long Jump — 4. Emma Lewis 14-01⁄2.

High Jump — 2. Caleigh Hewitt 4-10; 4. Sydney Friest 4-6.

Sprint Medley Relay — 2. South Hamilton 2:01.35 (Hailey Cavan, Emily Greenfield, Kelbe Krumm, Abby Ervin).

4×800 Relay — 1. South Hamilton 11:50.83 (Anna Lammers, Natalie Johnson, Breanne Diersen, Paige Seaton).

Shuttle Hurdle Relay — 1. South Hamilton 1:11.59 (Greenfield, Bridgit Schlafke, Rylee Woodall, Cavan).

100 Meters — 5. Krumm 14.09.

Distance Medley Relay — 1. South Hamilton 4:53.00 (Zaielah Newman, Hewitt, Taylor Remsburg, Yolanda Licea).

400 Meters — 2. Ervin 1:05.90; 5. Emma Heeren 1:11.86.

4×200 Relay — 5. South Hamilton 1:58.15.

100 Hurdles — 1. Cavan 16.57; 3. Woodall 16.87.

800 Meters — 3. Lammers 2:47.53.

200 Meters — 6. Krumm 28.90.

1,500 Meters — 4. Seaton 6:06.61.

4×100 Relay — 3. South Hamilton 55.50 (Cavan, Krumm, Skartvedt, Greenfield).

4×400 Relay — 4. South Hamilton 4:45.23.

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