Five wins help Baxter boys finish fourth at West Marshall

STATE CENTER — Four different Bolts won an individual and the Baxter boys track and field team claimed five wins in all during the West Marshall Coed Invitational on Thursday.

The Bolts registered seven top-three finishes and placed fourth in the team standings with 91 points.

Matt Richardson

Ankeny Centennial won the meet with 182.5 points. The rest of the top five featured Lynnville-Sully (125.5), West Marshall (103.5) and East Marshall (85.5). Colfax-Mingo led the next group in sixth with 52 points, and the rest of the nine-team field included Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont (41), Colo-NESCO (32.5) and Meskwaki Settlement School (14.5).

Carter Smith led the Bolts with a pair of top-two finishes. He won the discus with a toss of 137 feet, 11 inches and was the runner-up in the shot put with a heave of 43-6.

Max Handorf

Eli Dee also won the long jump with a leap of 19-5, Matt Richardson (9:51.94) ran to a win in the 3,200 and Max Handorf (4:40.53) won the 1,600. Richardson was fourth in the 400 in 54.64 seconds.

The 4x800 team also won the race in 8:53.82. That was the team’s second-best time of the season, and the quartet featured Handorf, Logan Rainsbarger, Dee and Richardson.

Lincoln Betterton, Coy Mergen, Hayden Burdess and Maddux Tuhn placed second in the distance medley relay in 4:07.87.

Eli Dee

The Bolts were competing for the first time in more than a week after the Cardinal Invitational in Newton was canceled on April 24 and the Des Moines Christian Invitational was canceled on April 28.