Glenwood girls, boys looking to compete on last day of state track meet

 The Glenwood girls track team sits at 18 points and in a tie for seventh place heading into Saturday’s final day at the Iowa State Track and Field Meet in Des Moines.

The girls will run in the shuttle hurdle relay finals Saturday morning with a final chance at points. Assumption leads in the girls standings with 49 points.

The Glenwood boys place (36th) and team points (two) after two days at the state track meet may seem disappointing but with four final events yet to be run the Rams have plenty of chances to climb the leaders board.

Pella is the Class 3A leader with 33 team points heading into Saturday.

The Rams’ shuttle hurdle, 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relay teams along with 110-meter high hurdler Dane Kruse will have their cracks at medals in the event finals Saturday.

The Glenwood girls opened Friday strong with Jacy Embray winning second place in the shot put with a top throw of 42 feet, 7 1/2 inches. Molly Dean added  a seventh place finish  in the 400-meter hurdles. Embray had placed third on Thursday in the discus while teammate Linnaea Konfrst was seventh.

Also on Friday, the Ram girls’ 4x200-meter relay team of Devon Bomer, Kaycee Clark, Courtney Magnussen and Dean placed 13th with a time of 1:47.11.

The Glenwood girls’ 4x100-meter relay team of Ashley Konfrst, Clark, Miranda Ruth and Courtney Magnussen placed 23rd in 52.09. The 4x400-meter relay team of Ruth, Bomer, Clark and Dean also placed 23rd. The top eight teams in each event advanced to Saturday’s finals.

Miranda Ruth placed 17th in the 100-meter hurdles.

The Glenwood boys lone points on the day came from its 4x200-meter relay team. Brogan Weddum, Jon Van Scoy, Carter Von Essen and Mavrick Decker ran a 1:31.05 to place seventh.

Dane Kruse placed third in the 110-meter high hurdle preliminaries to reach Saturday’s final with a time of 14.56.

In the 400-meter hurdles, Carter Von Essen just missed out on medal placing ninth while teammate Caleb Petersen was 19th.

The Rams 4x100-meter relay team of Kruse, Josh Lee, Van Scoy and Decker placed seventh in the preliminaries to reach Saturday’s finals.

In the final event of the day Friday, the Rams’ 4x400-meter relay team of  Kruse, Petersen, Weddum and Von Essen placed second in their heat and fourth overall to advance to Saturday’s finals.

The boys’ distance medley relay placed 19th. Van Scoy, Zach Kirkpatrick, Weddum and Andrew Blum finished with a time of 3:44.48