It was the Hiawatha boys track team and the Sabetha girl’s team winning the team crowns at the Hiawatha Invitational, yesterday by significant point margins. Their counterpart teams finished well on the day too, as the Sabetha boys took second overall and Hiawatha girls took fourth. Both the Holton boys and girls track teams took third. On the boy’s side it was the Red Hawks of Hiawatha notching a team total of 143.5 cumulative points to beat out the other teams, utilizing their seven first place finishes on the day. Sabetha Bluejays, took second place with 107 team points, winning only one event title on the day, while it was Holton taking third with 77 team points and one first place finish, too. The rest of the teams finished like this: 4th Pleasant Ridge, 5th Riverside, 6th Falls CIty, 7th Horton, 8th Immaculata, 9th ACCHS, 10th Doniphan West, 11th Muar-Hill Mount Academy and Troy 12th. Only four individuals took home multiple event crowns and two of those were from the first place team in Hiawatha, the other two were a Riverside Cylclone and a Horton Charger. Riverside's, Dylan Poirier and Hiawatha's, Cale Heinger each won the most events of the day each taking three event titles. Poirier, swept the hurdles category winning the 110 and 300-yard hurdles, while also notching a win in the field event of pole vault. Heinger swept the distance runs as he paced his way to victory in the 800, 1600 and 3200-yard runs. The other multi-event winners on the boy’s side were Hiawatha's, Denzel Chilcoat and Jacob Lott of Horton. Chilcoat sprinted his way to a swept of the 100 and 200-yard dash crowns, while Lott threw his way to victories in both the shot put and discus throw. Hiawatha saw two other first place finishers on the day as their relay team won the 4x800-yard relay and Brendon Steele won the long jump. Pleasant Ridge as a team notched three first places, as their relay team won the 4x400-yard relay, Cody Heim won the high jump and Brandon Heim took the 400-yard dash crown. ACCHS Tigers were the only other boys team to win multiple event crowns, netting first place finishing in the 4x100-yard relay throwers and javelin throw. Trent Joice won yet again another javelin throw crown for the Tigers this season. The other first place finishes went to Holton's, Cameron Karn and Sabetha's relay team. Karn took home the triple jump crown, while Sabetha's relay team won the 4x10 yard relay. For the girls it was the Sabetha Bluejays winning the team crown with a cumulative score of 142 points. Riverside Cylcones, came in second with 94 total points and Holton girls took third like their counterpart in the boys, scoring 89 points to take that third place finish. The rest of the teams finished like this: 4th Hiawatha, 5th Pleasant Ridge, 6th Falls City, 7th ACCHS, 8th Muar-Hill Mount Academy, 9th Horton, 10th Immaculata and 11th Doniphan West. Five individuals or relay teams won two events each on the girl’s side of the Hiawatha Invitational. Riverside Cylclones had two of those five, with Connor Schultz and Allie Simonin each winning two events. Schultz continued her success on this season leaping her way to yet another triple jump and long jump title this season. For Simonin she too won her respective events again this season, taking home first in the 100 and 300-yard hurdles. Sabetha, Horton and Holton featured the other three muli-event winners on the day for the girls. It was the Bluejays relay team taking to relay competations in the 4x100-yard relay throwers and 4x800-yard relay. Horton's, Leah Murata paced her way to victories in the distance runs of 1600 and 3200-yards, while Holton Wildcat, Connor Starder won both the 400-yard dash and 800-yard run. Sabetha took home three more first place finish outside of the two in the relay events, as they took three field event titles. Kayla Renyer won the discus throw, while Emily Baker vaulted her way to a win in the pole vault and their teammate Allison McNary won the high jump. Riverside too took home one more first place on top of the four Schultz and Simonin combined for, as the Cylclone relay team won the 4x400-yard relay. The Junior Ravens of Maur-Hill Mount Academy saw two first places come home to them, with Jordan Hennigh winning the shot put and Sarah Mullins winning the 100-yard dash. Immaculata, Pleasant Ridge and Hiawatha each took home one first place in the girls events. Immaculata's, Danielle Schmidt won the 200-yard dash, won Pleasant Ridge's relay team won the 4x400-yard relay and Hiawatha's, Courtney Brennan won the javelin throw.
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