One of the biggest Southeast Iowa track meets of the year saw a few area track teams bring home a title last night at the Ekstrand Relays in Wayland.
The Washington boys claimed their first team title of the year by winning the A division with 177 points and running away from second place Mediapolis with 112. The throwing events is where the Demons feasted with Brayden Hartman winning the shot put (49’11’’) and Reece Mayer took home the discus crown with a personal best throw of 149’11 while fellow senior Kael Adam was second (133’3’’). Mayer tells KCII Sports everything was clicking for him. “I felt strong in warmups, had the wind at my back, and it really carried over to my first throw. Getting first place today is helping my confidence as we get set for conference and districts. All of the throwers are looking really good and we have been getting a lot better.” Washington also cleaned house in the open events with the rest of the nine event champions being Jacob
Plenty of track teams across Southeast Iowa congregated to Case Field last night for the annual Demon Relays and Washington showed out in front of the home crowd.
The Demon boys placed third out of 10 teams with 128 points while Iowa City Liberty took home the team title with 147. Seven events belonged to the Demons with three relays taking the top spot and four different individuals enjoying gold. Elijah Morris ran away with the 400m crown (50.95), Lance Sobaski in the 3200m (9:55), Kael Adam in the discus (137’9’’), and Ethan Patterson in the high jump (5’10’’). First place relays included the 4x100m relay of Spencer Sotelo, Wyatt Stout, Jacob Miller, and Patterson (45.36), the 4x200m relay of Sam Ackerman, Reece Mayer, Stout, and Aidan Ulin (1:37), and the 4x400m of Patterson, Morris, Cameron Vongpanya, and Sobaski (3:34). Five other Demon events cracked the top three. Mid-Prairie also competed and placed sixth with 40 points. Cain Brown led the team with a second pla
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