By Becky Walz,
The Turkey Valley boys’ track team began this week with the Ed-Co invitational Tuesday, finishing 10th with 35 points. At the top of the field was Wapsie Valley with 96.75 points.
Senior Kalvin Langreck had the best finishes of the day with a silver and bronze. Langreck cleared the high jump bar at 5 feet 10 inches to claim the runner-up spot and later sprinted to the 400-meter dash finish line in 54.08 seconds in third place.
Ryan Franzen earned a bronze in the 3200-meter run, stopping the clock at 11:41.35.
Rounding out top-five finishes was Dylan Reicks. The junior came home in the 800-meter run in 2:19.69, good for fourth place.
Back to work
The Trojans are back on the oval at Postville tonight (Thursday, April 8) at 5 p.m., and will kick off next week in a co-ed meet at Nashua-Plainfield Tuesday, April 13, at 4:30 p.m.
Ed-Co Invite team scores
1. Wapsie Valley 96.75; 2. Jesup 89.75; 3. Ed-Co 86; 4. Sumner-Fred 64; 5. MFL MarMac 55; 6. North Fayette Valley 53; 7. North Linn 48.75; 8. Beckman 48; 9. Clayton Ridge 37.50; 10. Turkey Valley 35; 11. Starmont 31; 12. East Buchanan 25.50; 13. Don Bosco 14; 14. Central Elkader 8; 15. Kee High 7.75
Boys’ individual results
High jump – 2. Kalvin Langreck, 5’10”
Discus – 28. Collin Kleppe, 79’9”; 34. Marcus Herold, 71’3”
100m – 8. Herold, 12.31; 11. Dylan Reicks, 12.58; 23. Burke Busta 13.27
200m – 10. Herold, 25.10; 28. Calvin Bodensteiner, 27.22; 32. Oliver Schmitt, 28.25
400m – 3. Kalvin Langreck, 54.08
800m – 4. Reicks, 2:19.69
1600m – 5. Ryan Franzen, 5:15.56; 16. Dale Schwamman, 5:53.22
3200m – 3. Franzen, 11:41.35; 12. Schwamman, 13:02.06
400m hurdles – 6. Langreck, 1:03.44
4×100 – 23. B. Busta, Treyton Hulbert, Troy Schmitt, Robert Kruse, 53.70
4×200 – 16. Kruse, Hulbert, T. Schmitt, Schwamman, 1:53.42
4×400 – 11. Busta, Bodensteiner, O. Schmitt, Kruse, 4:08.93
Sprint medley – 7. Busta, Bodensteiner, Reicks, Langreck, 1:44.03; 14. Hulbert, T. Schmitt, Kruse, O. Schmitt, 1:57.52
Distance medley – 9. O. Schmitt, Franzen, Reicks, Bodensteiner, 4:12.57
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