City High's girls track team scored 53½ points and took third place Wednesday and Thursday at the season-opening Quad City Indoor Meet at Augustana College.

Samantha Sidwell won the 1,600-meters for the Little Hawks, and Kelsey Mims, Caroline Mills, Krista Wiegert and Maggie Leyendecker won the 4x400 relay.

"We graduated quite a few kids," City coach Terry Coleman said. "Our freshmen and sophomores really performed like veterans, which is what we're looking for."

Team scores (top 5) -- 1. Rock Island, Ill. 86; 2. Clinton 54; 3. City High 53½; 4. Moline, Ill. 49; 5. Muscatine 22.

City place-winners:

4x800 -- 1. City High (Maggie Leyendecker, Clair Anciaux, Sarah Ziegenhorn, Annie McKay) 10:08.49; 3. City High (Emily Funk, Ruhee Arora, Cassie Panther, Tamika McCue) 10:42.31.

400 -- 5. Caroline Mills 1:05.52.

4x200 -- 2. City High (Signe Mueller, Molly Sabers, Page Gerard, Kerry Kamber) 1:54.82.

1,600 -- 1. Samantha Sidwell 5:39.63; 4. Meredith Van Natta 5:47.56.

4x400 -- 1. City High (Kelsey Mims, Mills, Krista Wiegert, Leyendecker) 4:19.42; 3. City High (Gerard, Kamber, Elise Mozena, Sabers) 4:24.11.

High jump -- 3. Tara Whiting 5-0; 5. Sidwell 5-0.

Shot put -- 5. Corrie Wagner 36-2½.

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