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Tuesday,
May 7, 2002
City
High wins; West takes 3rd
City
High powers to 12 wins
By
Andy Hamilton
Iowa
City Press-Citizen
MOUNT PLEASANT - Meggan Reed said City High's distance medley
team had no thoughts of setting a state district record
prior to Monday.
In
fact, anchor Jennie Funk said she didn't even know such
a record even existed.
All
the Little Hawk squad was trying to do was reserve a spot
for itself in the fast heat at the state meet, according
to Reed.
It's
safe to pencil City into the fast heat at state. The Little
Hawk squad of Ashton Strickland, Katie Lynch, Reed and
Funk won the event in 4 minutes, 9.16 seconds, breaking
the 22-year-old state district record formerly held by
Indianola.
"I
didn't even know there was such a thing," Funk said. "But
it feels good now that we've got it."
City
got about everything it wanted Monday and felt pretty
good about taking it, too. The Little Hawks won the Class
3A district meet with 169 points. Mount Pleasant finished
a distant second with 97.
City's
12 event winners automatically qualified for the state
meet. The Little Hawks are considered to be the favorite
to win the state title after finishing second last year,
one point behind state champion West High.
"We've
been thinking about (the state meet) all season," Funk
said. "The coaches have been strategizing since the end
of cross country. They always make a lineup for state
and then they rip it up. This is just one more step toward
state and the goal of winning a state championship."
City
got individual victories Monday from Monica Mims in the
400, Katy Fraga in the 400 hurdles, Maya Monitto-Webber
in the 100 hurdles, Jessie Branstetter in the high jump
and Funk took the 3,000 and 1,500.
The
Little Hawks also won six of the seven relays. They finished
second in the 4x100 and put up state-leading times in
the sprint medley relay and 4x200.
"It's
the best I've ever seen," City coach Terry Coleman said
of his team's performance. "It wasn't just the number
of things we won, although that was nice. To be able to
throw up times we did event after event with the numbers
we ran, I've never seen anything like it. We just nailed
every event."
Mims
said the Little Hawk results should put to rest rumblings
that they had already peaked.
"We
heard rumors that people thought we had peaked and that
they were going to get us at state," Mims said. "We came
out and proved that we haven't peaked and we've still
got more and we're ready to go.
"People
are going to be gunning for us, and we know that, but
we just need to keep our eyes on the prize, like we've
been saying all year. I think we really do have a good
chance (at the state title), but nothing's a given."
The
distance medley team proved that it hadn't peaked prior
to Monday. Funk said the Little Hawks were hoping to finish
in 4:14. They were nearly five seconds faster.
Strickland
and Lynch ran 200 legs that gave City the lead. Reed ran
a 58.8 split with her 400 leg and Funk shaved a second
off her previous personal best by running the anchor 800
leg in 2:16.
"I
was just trying to get the handoff and make sure I didn't
go out of my lane or anything," Reed said.
Reed
nearly broke another district meet record in the 800.
Reed's time of 2:15.11 would've been the best time in
district history, but despite shaving three seconds off
her previous personal best, Reed was edged by Mount Pleasant's
Allison Werner.
Team
scores - 1. City High 169; 2. Mount Pleasant 97; 3.
Muscatine 75; 4. Burlington 42; 5. Davenport North 36;
6. Davenport West 34; 7. Fort Madison 22 1/2; 8. Fairfield
12; 9. Davenport Central 11; 10. Keokuk 6.
Individual
winners, City place-winners
High
jump - 1. Jessie Branstetter (C) 5-2.
Discus
- 1. Aubrey Martin (M) 137-10; 2. Jessica Elliott (C)
128-01/2.
Shot
put - 1. Martin (M) 46-21/2; 3. Elliott (C) 39-1.
Long
jump - 1. Haley Sinn (MP) 17-01/2; 4. Megan Hichwig (C)
15-101/2; 5. Ashton Strickland (C) 15-71/4.
3,000
- 1. Jennie Funk (C) 10:51.15; 2. Betsy Ellsmore (C) 11:10.34.
4x800
- 1. City (Katie Funk, Ali Kirsch, Maggie Leyendecker,
Monica Mims) 9:34.71.
Shuttle
hurdle relay - 1. City (Emily Triplett, Katy Fraga, Tara
Whiting, Maya Monitto-Webber) 1:04.12.
Distance
medley - 1. City (Strickland, Katie Lynch, Meggan Reed,
Jennie Funk) 4:09.16.
100
- 1. Sarah Riedel (M) 12.39.
400
- 1. Mims (C) 59.02; 3. Katie Krei (C) 1:00.80.
4x200
- 1. City (Virginia Dreier, Patrice Jones, Kerry Kamber,
Elizabeth Matzen) 1:46.31.
100
hurdles - 1. Monitto-Webber (C) 15.25; 2. Triplett (C)
15.28.
800
- 1. Allison Werner (MP) 2:14.49; 2. Reed (C) 2:15.11;
3. Leyendecker (C) 2:24.56.
200
- 1. Riedel (M) 25.64; 3. Strickland (C) 26.77.
400
hurdles - 1. Fraga (C) 1:06.09; 3. Kelly Sherry (C) 1:08.59.
Sprint
medley - 1. City (Matzen, Heaven Tutson, Dreier, Mims)
1:50.88.
1,500
- 1. Funk (C) 4:47.32; 2. Nelle Trefz (C) 4:52.12.
4x100
- 1. Muscatine 50.27; 2. City (Camille Jordan, Tutson,
Monitto-Webber, Matzen) 50.48.
4x400
- 1. City (Krei, Laura Struve, Tiffiney Belmont, Dreier)
4:08.70.
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