Track and Field Continues to Record Season Bests

Track and Field Continues to Record Season Bests

Senior Sarah Miller records her season best throw in the shot put Tuesday night in Wapello.

The Hillcrest Academy girls track and field team recorded three season bests and one personal best Tuesday in Wapello.  Madeline Fox took five seconds off her season best time in the 400 meter hurdles to place third in the event.  Her time was 1:24.99.  Fox also placed third in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 21.25 seconds.  Sarah Miller recorded a season best throw in the shot put with a toss of twenty-five feet eleven inches.  Miller placed sixth in the event.  Samara Jimenez had a personal best shot put throw of sixteen feet seven and one half inches.  Yani Gutierrez had her best throw of the season in the discus.  Gutierrez placed seventh with a throw of seventy-seven feet eight inches.  Ivana Ebersole placed sixteenth in the discus with a throw of forty-nine feet eleven inches.

Girls Team Standings
Louisa-Muscatine                                                152.5
Durant                                                                      121.5
Wapello                                                                    112
Wilton                                                                        79
West Liberty                                                            61
Columbus                                                                48
Hillcrest Academy                                                20

Aaron Hershberger won the 400 meter hurdles in a personal best time of 1:01.24.  He was also second in the 110 meter high hurdles with a time of 17.52.  Hershberger placed fifth in the 100 meter dash with a personal best time of 12.62 seconds.  Quang Huynh placed fourteenth in the 100 meter dash in 14.87 seconds.  Huynh also ran the 200 meter dash in a personal best time of 28.94.

Boys Team Standings
Wapello                                                                    183
Columbus                                                                144
Louisa-Muscatine                                                 122
West Liberty                                                            67
Durant                                                                       52      
Hillcrest Academy                                                 22

Hillcrest Results
Girls Complete Results
Boys Complete Results

Photos by Jeff Yoder, The News.