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Another individual champion was crowned and four more all-conference accolades were awarded to the Central College men’s track and field team at the American Rivers Conference Championships Saturday. The Dutch finished fourth in the team standings with 133 points. Wartburg College had a winning total of 247 points.
Brock Lewis secured an individual title with a triple jump of 46 feet, 3.5 inches, a slight improvement of his previous best effort of the season. Nate Sanders came within .39 seconds of winning the 5,000-meter run, placing second in 14:54.51.
After grabbing the last qualifying spot in the 400-meter dash Friday, Nolan Reynolds jumped all the way from eighth to third to earn all-conference accolades in a time of 49.34 seconds.
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Central’s Gray completes career pentathlon sweep
PELLA For the fourth time in as many tries, Central College women’s track and field senior Mary Gray (West Des Moines, Waukee HS) won the pentathlon title at the American Rivers Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships.
As a team, the Dutch scored 79 points and finished fifth in the standings. Wartburg College won the team title with 200 points.
“I think overall, we went out there and competed,” coach Brandon Sturman said. “Certain things just didn’t fall our way. We had some people overperform and some people struggled a little bit.”
Gray tallied 3,293 points and was a top-three finisher in all five disciplines, recording the best shot put mark of 36 feet, 4.25 inches. She now owns four indoor pentathlon conference titles and two outdoors in the heptathlon.
Final prep for conference track complete for Dutch women
PELLA The Central College women’s track and field team completed its indoor regular season Saturday afternoon in a triangular against Buena Vista University and Loras College.
Loras College won the team title with 111 points as Central finished second with 80. Buena Vista rounded it out with 72.
Central won six total events, including the 400-meter dash thanks to Hadyn Miller’s (freshman, Iowa Falls, Iowa Falls-Alden HS) winning time of 1:01.31
“Hadyn is finally making a breakthrough and feeling good,” Sturman said. “I think part of it is that she’s really getting into the training after missing some of the fall because of volleyball. She’s pumped and feeling good and we’re hopeful of what could happen at conference next week.”