By Becky Walz,
With the weather cooperating the Turkey Valley girls’ track team competed in its second meet of the season at Postville Tuesday night, finishing with 61 points, good for sixth place. Central Elkader was crowned the Lady Pirate Relay champion with 101 points.
The Trojans finished the night with three gold medals, with Jalyssa Blazek earning two individual titles as well as a relay gold. The junior blazed the track in the 400-meter dash to break the tape in 1:01.63 and added the 800-meter run title to her night in 2:32.34. The 4×800 quartet of Josie Weber, Cambree Kruse, Jaycie Byrne and Blazek came home first in 10:05.24.
Kylie Wurzer gave Turkey Valley a silver place finish in the 100-meter hurdles, posting a time of 17.70 seconds.
Rounding out the top three performances was the 4×100 relay of Kara Reicks, J. Weber, Wurzer and Olivia Snyder, earning bronze in 56.09 seconds.
The Trojans will be on the oval tonight (Thursday, April 8) at Decorah beginning at 5 p.m. Next week, the girls will return to competition Tuesday, April 13, at Nashua-Plainfield at 4:30 p.m.
Lady Pirate Relay team scores
1. Central 101; 2. North Fayette Valley 95; 3. Kee 91; 4. Waukon 82.50; 5. Sumner-Fred 75.50; 6. Turkey Valley 61; 7. West Central 47; 8. Crestwood 28; 9. MFL MarMac 7
Individual results
Long jump – 14. Aubrey Hoffert, 11’5”; 15. Breanna Moudry, 10’7”; 19. Alayna Kuennen 8’0”
Shot put – 4. Aleah Hackman, 32’1”; 13. Jacqlyn Schmitt, 25’10”; 29. Sophia Adams, 21’2”
Discus – 6. Hackman, 82’7”; 15. J. Schmitt, 71’10”
100m – 6. Kara Reicks, 13.86; 7. Clare Courtney 13.92; 10. Hailey Elsbernd, 14.14
200m – 9. Josie Weber, 29.89; 17. Halle Weber 31.08; 21. Adams, 32.44
400m – 1. Jalyssa Blazek, 1:01.63; 8. H. Weber, 1:10.24
800m – 1. Blazek, 2:32.34; 7. Cambree Kruse, 2:53.97
1500m – 11. Elsbernd, 6:38.55
100m hurdles – 2. Kylie Wurzer, 17.70; 13. Adams, 21.27
400m hurdles – 6. Wurzer, 1:23.97; 11. Olivia Drilling, 1:29.87
4×100 – 3. Reicks, J. Weber, Wurzer, Olivia Snyder, 56.09
4×200 – 3. Reicks, Courtney, O. Drilling, Kruse, 2:00.47
4×400 – 4. Jaycie Byrne, H. Weber, Kruse, Blazek, 4:37.47
4×800 – 1. J. Weber, Kruse, Byrne, Blazek, 10:05.24
Sprint medley – 5. Reicks, Courtney, Snyder, Byrne, 2:02.71
Distance medley – 4. Snyder, Drilling, J. Weber, Byrne, 4:58.47
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