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Saturday,
April 20, 2002
City
takes relays title
By
Andy Hamilton
Iowa
City Press-Citizen
City High hurdlers Emily Triplett and Maya Monitto-Webber
said the Little Hawks wanted to put on a good show Friday
for themselves, the home crowd and their cross-town rivals,
too.
"We
definitely do mean business," Monitto-Webber said. "We've
got a lot of high hopes and big goals for this season.
... We can definitely do some really good things."
The
Little Hawks did quite a few good things Friday at the
Forwald Relays. City set a season-best in 11 events and
won the meet with 139 points.
"There
isn't really anything to look at and say, 'I wish that
would've gone better,'" City coach Terry Coleman said.
"That's exactly what we were shooting for. ... It could
barely have gone better for us, I think."
West
High, which has actually won more state titles (two) under
coach Mike Parker than Forwald Relays titles (one), finished
second with 113 points.
Parker,
though, said he was "as pleased as I've been all year."
Parker's
glee stemmed from the performance of junior Lynn Dobyns
and senior Jeni Frudden. In Frudden's case, a sub-par
2 minutes, 18.21 seconds for her in the 800, was reason
for Parker's optimism.
"We've
wondered for a month what was wrong with Jeni Frudden
and we found out on Wednesday that she's got a bacterial
infection in her lungs," Parker said. "Now we've got ahold
of that."
Frudden
and Dobyns teamed up with their younger sisters, Julia
Frudden and Janet Dobyns, to break the meet record in
the 4x800, winning in 9:25.43 to edge City by four seconds.
But
the Little Hawks got the better of the Women of Troy for
most of the night.
City's
shuttle hurdle relay team of Monitto-Webber, Triplett,
Katy Fraga and Tara Whiting broke the school record with
a state-best time of 1:03.21.
"Now
we know we have the fastest time in the state, so it makes
us go into (next weekend's Drake Relays) with high attitudes,"
Triplett said. "Not cocky attitudes, but (we'll) go in
and go after it."
City
displayed its depth in all areas, getting a pair of distance
wins from Jennie Funk in the 3,000 and 1,500. Virginia
Dreier won the 400, Jessica Elliott took the discus, and
the Little Hawks also won the distance medley, the sprint
medley and 4x400 relays.
"We're
just not a deep team, which creates for not a great invitational
team," Parker said. "I was impressed with many of (City's)
events tonight, no doubt about it. I commend them for
a great performance."
Lynn
Dobyns also won the 800 in 2:17.15, while Liz Huntley
and Alison Dirks gave West a sweep of the jumping events.
Huntley won the long jump with a leap of 16-2, while Dirks
jumped 5-4 to win the high jump.
Team
scores - 1. City High 139; 2. West High 113; 3. West
Des Moines Valley 78; 4. Muscatine 78; 5. Pleasant Valley
54; 6. North Scott 20; 7. Indianola 19; 8. Newton 11.
Winners,
City and West place-winners:
3,000
- 1. Jennie Funk (C) 10:14.43; 2. Robdu Adam (W) 10:38.34;
3. Betsy Ellsmore (C) 10:47.08; 4. Shirley Stern (W) 10:54.96.
4x800
- 1. West (Julia Frudden, Janet Dobyns, Jeni Frudden,
Lynn Dobyns) 9:25.43; 2. City (Nelle Trefz, Katie Funk,
Meggan Reed, Monica Mims) 9:29.44.
Shuttle
hurdle relay - 1. City (Emily Triplett, Tara Whiting,
Katy Fraga, Maya Monitto-Webber) 1:03.21; 5. West (Christina
Swift, Taryn Rosenquist, Kristen Schaefer, Lindsay Freeman)
1:10.06.
Distance
medley relay - 1. City (Katie Lynch, Tiffiny Belmont,
Laura Struve, Ali Kirsch) 4:25.12; 2. West (Emily Kuehl,
Kristin Jacobs, Naomi Hillsman, Nicole Novak) 4:29.00.
100
- 1. Sarah Riedel (M) 12.46; 2. Elizabeth Matzen (C) 12.59.
400
- 1. Virginia Dreier (C) 1:00.56; 2. Lindsey Windauer
(W) 1:01.87; 4. Ashton Strickland (C) 1:02.90; 5. Amanda
Judisch (W) 1:04.76.
4x200
- 1. West Des Moines Valley 1:37.34; 3. City (Whiting,
Lynch, Kerry Kamber, Patrice Jones) 1:51.57; 5. West (Jane
Ebot, Cara Montgomery, Heather Bretchtel, Jamie Castens)
1:54.46.
100
hurdles - 1. Sara Boisen (WDMV) 14.79; 2. Monitto-Webber
(C) 15.12; 3. Triplett (C) 15.34.
800
- 1. L.Dobyns (W) 2:17.15; 2. Jeni Frudden (W) 2:18.21;
3. Meggan Reed (C) 2:18.23; 5. Katie Lumpa (West Branch)
2:22.43; 6. Maggie Leyendecker (C) 2:23.33.
200
- 1. Riedel (M) 26.03; 5. Windauer (W) 27.31; 6. Strickland
(C) 27.39.
400
hurdles - 1. Boisen (WDMV) 1:05.03; 2. Fraga (C) 1:07.53;
4. Kelly Sherry (C) 1:10.03.
Sprint
medley relay - 1. City (Matzen, Heaven Tutson, Dreier,
Mims) 1:51.78; 4. West (Ebot, Montgomery, Bretchel, Hillsman)
2:00.31.
1,500
- 1. J.Funk (C) 4:47.87; 2. J.Dobyns (W) 4:53.03; 3. Julia
Frudden (W) 4:58.39; 5. Rachel Manuel (C) 5:09.96.
4x100
- 1. West Des Moines Valley 50.59; 3. City (Dreier, Tutson,
Monitto-Webber, Matzen) 51.40; 4. West (Liz Huntley, Judisch,
Castens, Kuehl) 52.00.
Shot
put - 1. Aubray Martin (M) 40-11/2; 3. Jessica Elliott
(C) 40-0; 5. Jenny Evans (W) 34-3.
Discus
- 1. Elliott (C) 126-11; 6. Stephanie Koepp (W) 103-10.
High
jump - 1. Alison Dirks (W) 5-4; 2. Veronica Dykstra (W)
5-2; 5. Jessie Branstetter (C) 5-0.
Long
jump - 1. Huntley (W) 16-2; 2. Dykstra (W) 15-81/4.
4x400
- 1. City (Kelsey Full, Katie Krei, Trefz, Mims) 4:08.21;
2. West (Novak, Jacobs, Windauer, L.Dobyns) 4:09.75.
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