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The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk boys and girls track teams left Eddyville-Blakesburg’s state qualifier meet as champions Thursday. The Golden Hawk girls won the team championship with a score of 177, beating second place Williamsburg with 143. Mid-Prairie was dominant, automatically qualifying athletes in 13 different events, multiple qualifiers in three different events and winning six event titles. One-two finishes on the night for Mid-Prairie included the 800 with Danielle Hostetler the champ in 2:21.85 and Mitzi Evans second, the 1500 with Hostetler the champ in 4:58.96 and Sydney Yoder second and the 3000 with Hostetler taking her third gold in 11:18.75 and Yoder again second. Other titles included Mitzi Evans winning the 400 in 59.31, the sprint medley team of Maddie Edgington, Alyssa McDowell, Amber Swart and Mitzi Evans in 1:49.78 and the distance medley of Edgington, Tabitha Evans, Swart and Hostetler in 4:20.85. Other automatic state qualifiers
The Mid-Prairie boys and girls track teams make the trip to Eddyville-Blakesburg High School tonight for their class 2A state qualifier meet. The Hawks were last in action a week ago at the River Valley Conference Championship meet in Anamosa. The Mid-Prairie girls were crowned River Valley Champions with their total score of 136, beating second place Northeast Goose Lake by 46. The Golden Hawks got points from 17 of 19 competing events and brought home gold in six different events. Mitzi Evans took the title in the 800, Sydney Yoder in the 1500, Danielle Hostetler in the 3000, Tori Boyse in the shot put, Maddie Edgington, Amara Jones, Alyssa McDowell and Amber Swart in the 4×200 and Edgington, Swart, Evans and Hostetler in the distance medley.
The Mid-Prairie boys and girls track teams travel north tonight for the annual River Valley Conference Championship meet at Anamosa High School. The last time this meet was held in 2019, the Mid-Prairie girls finished as conference runners-up with 92 points, behind Cascade’s 113 points. The Mid-Prairie girls come in on a streak of three consecutive meet team championships with wins at Tipton, their home meet and Center Point-Urbana in the last few weeks. At CPU last week, the Hawks scored 124 points and had six event champions including this week’s JET Physical Therapy Athlete of the Week Mitzi Evans in the 200, Danielle Hostetler in the 800, Ana Fleming in the 3000, the 4×100 and sprint medley team of Amber Swart Amara Jones, Alyssa McDowell and Maddie Edgington and the distance medley of Edgington, McDowell, Hostetler and Evans. The Golden Hawks bring back two members of the reigning 4×100 and sprint medley RVC champs.
It was a busy week for the Mid-Prairie girls and boys track teams. After spending time in the state capital for the Drake Relays, Mid-Prairie ended the week by having the girls host their home meet on Thursday and sending the boys to Newton Friday. At the girls home meet, the Golden Hawks impressed the home crowd, taking the team championship with 154 points. Solon was second with 124.5 points. The Hawks had eight championship events on the night. Phoebe Shetler won the championship in the 3000 with a time of 11:30.16 with Abby Fleming second. Behla Schmidt led a Mid-Prairie 1-2-3 in the 100 hurdles with a time of 17.26 seconds. Amara Jones was second and Sidney Davis third. Maddie Edgington took the 200 in 26.93 seconds. Sydney Yoder won the 1500 in 5:14.92 with Ana Fleming third. Madeline Schrader won gold in long jump clearing 15’3″. Mid-Prairie had three championship relays winning the shuttle hurdle in 1:15.47, distance medley in 4:33.23 and 4×100 in 51.76 seconds. Other to