Knights complete rare Corner ‘four-peat’

TABOR - Four-peat?

The Fremont-Mills boys track team are indeed winners of their fourth straight Corner Conference title with the victory on its home track in Tabor last Tuesday.

The Knights won six events and placed in the top three in 11 other events to rack up 158 points. Sidney was the runner up with 122 points.

“This was by far the toughest of the four,” said Fremont-Mills boys coach Mike Wood.

The Fremont-Mills girls team placed second to Sidney, 163 to 155 in the team scores. The conference title was the Cowgirls’ fourth straight also.

East Mills’ Janette Schraft won all four events she entered, taking home gold in the 400-meter hurdles, the 800, 1500 and 3,000 to help the Wolverines to a third place finish.  Schraft set a new conference record in the 3,000 with a time of 10:45.50.

The Fremont-Mills boys used its depth to pull away for the team title.

The Knights won the 4x200, 4x400 and shuttle hurdle relays and finished second in the 4x800 and distance medley relays.

“We were all very excited about the victory, on paper we figured to be down 18 points to Sidney at the end of the meet,” Wood said. “Our field events scored us more points than we had figured.”

Connor Alley’s gold medals in both the shot and discus were huge, Wood said, but key points from Mathew Kirchert (second in the shot), Cooper Langfelt (sixth in the discus), Vanatta (second in the high jump) and Powers (second in the long jump) were the difference.

Vanatta also picked up a gold medal in the 400-meters.

The East Mills boys were fourth at the conference meet with 83 points.

“Our goal was to finish third or fourth,” said East Mills coach Claude Lang. “And we did that. The team really competed well, everyone was trying to earn higher places to score more points for the team.”

The Wolverines’ Dylan Schroeder won the team’s lone gold medal, taking home top honors in the 110-meter hurdles. Teammate Chris Darnold added a third place medal in the hurdles.

Schroeder added a third place medal in the long jump and ran the anchor leg on the shuttle hurdle relay team that placed second.

Trevor Glockel set a pair of personal-bests placed fourth in the discus and fifth in the shot put.
East Mills’ 4x100-meter and 4x200-meter relays both finished second.

The Fremont-Mills girls scored 68 of their 155 points in the four field events. They nearly swept the field with Sophie Phillips (shot put), Kendra Fichter (discus) and Kenna Howard (high jump) all taking home gold. Clara Schaaf was second in the long jump.

Schaaf added a third place showing in the 100-meter dash.

Corner Conference Track Meet
Girls Team Results
    1. Sidney, 163. 2. Fremont-Mills, 155. 3. East Mills, 105. 4. Stanton, 60. 5. Essex, 52. 6. Heartland Christian, 20. 7. Clarinda Academy, 13. 8. South Page, 11.

East Mills Girls Medal Winners
    100m dash – fourth place, Madison Williams, 13.74.
    200m dash – fourth place, Williams, 29.54.
    400m dash – third place, Shelby Moore, 1:08.68.
    100m hurdles – fifth place, Kassidy Croghan, 18.23.
    1500m run – first place, Janette Schraft, 5:31.36.
    3000m run – first place, Schraft, 10:45.50.
    400m hurdles – first place, Schraft, 1:09.13.
    Shot put – third place, Rachel Drake, 33’ 3.5”.
    4x100m relay – third place, East Mills, 58.68.
    4x200m relay – fifth place, East Mills, 2:14.89.
    4x400m relay – third place, East Mills, 5:20.84.
    4x800m relay – third place, East Mills, 13:01.31.
    Shuttle hurdle relay – third place, East Mills, 1:19.63.
    Sprint medley relay – third place, East Mills, 2:05.69.
    Distance medley relay – fourth place, East Mills, 5:24.99.

Fremont-Mills Girls Medal Winners
    100m dash – third place, Clara Schaaf, 13.30.
    200m dash – third place, Bailey Hauschild, 29.02.
    400m dash – fifth place, Kaylee Wright, 1:09.11.
    100m hurdles – second place, Hauschild, 17.10.
    400m hurdles – third place, Schraft, 1:13.56.
    Discus – first place, Sophie Phillips, 112’ 6”.
    High jump – first place, Kenna Howard, 5’ 1”.
    Long jump – second place, Schaaf, 15’ 6”.
    Shot put – first place, Kendra Fichter, 35’ 3”.
    4x100m relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 56.85.
    4x200m relay – second place, 2:03.50.
    4x800m relay – fourth place, Fremont-Mills, 13:10.47.
    Shuttle hurdle relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 1:13.60.
    Sprint medley relay – fourth place, Fremont-Mills, 2:07.91.
    Distance medley relay – second place, Fremont-Mills, 5:06.52.

Boys Team Results
    1. Fremont-Mills, 158. 2. Sidney, 122. 3. Clarinda Academy, 92. 4. East Mills, 83. 5. Stanton, 61. 6. Essex, 48. 7. Heartland Christian, 10. 8. South Page, 8.

East Mills Boys Medal Winners
    200m dash – sixth place, Justin Coates, 26.35.
    400m dash – sixth place, Nolan Smiley, 1:01.95.
    110m hurdles – first place, Dylan Schroeder, 16.04.
    1600m run – third place, Michael Schafer, 5:07.17.
    3200m run – sixth place, Luke Moore, 13:06.46.
    400m hurdles – third place, Nic Duysen, 1:03.29.
    Discus – fourth place, Trevor Glockel, 104’ 1”.
    Long jump – third place, Schroeder, 19’ 7.25”.
    Shot put – fifth place, Glockel, 36’.
    4x100m relay – second place, East Mills, 48.68.
    4x200m relay – second place, East Mills, 1:44.27.
    4x400m relay – third place, East Mills, 4:17.37.
    4x800m relay – fourth place, East Mills, 10:16.97.
    Shuttle hurdle relay – second place, East Mills, 1:07.31.
    Sprint medley relay – sixth place, East Mills, 1:51.70.
    Distance medley relay – sixth place, East Mills, 4:30.70.

Fremont-Mills Boys Medal Winners
    100m dash – third place, Mason Vanatta, 11.73.
    200m dash – third place, Jaeger Powers, 25.02.
    400m dash – first place, M. Vanatta, 53.39.
    800m run – fifth place, Nick Miramontes, 2:26.96.
    1600m run – fifth place, Eli Owen, 5:43.90.
    3200m run – second place, Owen, 11:53.70.
    400m hurdles – second place, James Switzer, 1:01.21.
    Discus – first place, Connor Alley, 126’ 6”.
    High jump – third place, M. Vanatta, 5’ 6”.
    Long jump – second place, Powers, 10’ 10.5”.
    Shot put – first place, Alley, 44’ 11”.
    4x100m relay – third place, Fremont-Mills, 49.63.
    4x200m relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 1:40.08.
    4x400m relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 3:46.93.
    4x800m relay – second place, Fremont-Mills, 9:37.95.
    Shuttle hurdle relay – first place, Fremont-Mills, 1:05.38.
    Sprint medley relay – third place, Fremont-Mills, 1:46.47.
    Distance medley relay – second place, Fremont-Mills, 4:13.56.