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The Mount Ayr girl’s track and field team hosted a 12-team co-ed meet last Thursday, May 2 in their second to last meet of the regular season.
Fresh off of a third-place finish at the Pride of Iowa Conference meet two days earlier, the Raiderettes placed third at the meet at home with 91 points.
Wayne won the meet with a team score of 131 points and Bedford was second with 100 points.
Mount Ayr was to run at a meet in Leon Monday, May 6, but the Raiderettes will be back on the track on Thursday, at a Class 1A state qualifying meet at Mount Ayr.
That meet is set to begin at 4 p.m. Teams at the meet with the Raiderettes are Diagonal, East Union, Lamoni, Martensdale-St. Mary’s, Moravia, Mormon Trail, Moulten-Udell, Murray, Nodaway Valley, Seymour, SE Warren, Stanton, and Wayne.
The state track meet is scheduled for May 16-18 in Des Moines.

Aubree Shields won the only event for Mount Ayr, cracking the 5-foot, 3-inch mark in the high jump for the second straight meet.
Hayden Ruggles added a runner-up finish in the shot put with a best throw of 31-feet, 8 inches. Ruggles also was fourth in the discus and Dannie Stewart was fourth in the long jump.

Shields captured the top Mount Ayr finish in individual events with a runner-up finish in the 400-meter dash in 1:04.35. The Raiderettes also had Ashlyn Murphy third in 1:04.49, and Anne Newton fourth in 1:05.53 in the same event. Jaxy Knight was fifth, Tatum Friedrich sixth, Keely Wasterney seventh, and Abby Eaton ninth in the 400-meter dash. MaKel Jones had a pair of top-10 finishes. Jones placed third in the 400-meter hurdles in 1:17.44 and sixth in the 100-meter hurdles.
Mount Ayr had two top-10 finishes in the 200-meter dash. Ashlyn Murphy was fifth in 28.77 and Brittlyn Nickle was seventh in 30.20.

The top relay finish for Mount Ayr came from their 4×800-meter relay. The team of Ashlynn Byer, Ava England, Abby Larson, and Addison Doolittle were runners-up in 11:22.65.
The Raiderettes also had a third-place finish in the shuttle hurdle relay in a time of 1:14.56 with the team of Dannie Stewart, MaKel Jones, Breya Nickle, and Aubree Shields.

Mount Ayr Co-Ed
Team Scores; 1. Wayne 131, 2. Bedford 100, 3. Mount Ayr 91, 4. Central Decatur 87, 5. East Union 62, 6. Lenox 58, 7. Martensdale-St. Mary’s 47, 8. Melcher-Dallas 43, 9. Murray 38, 10. Lamoni 33, 11. Seymour 18, 12. Diagonal 3.

Field Event Results:
Shot Put: 2. Hayden Ruggles 31-08, 10. Koda Henle 26-04.5, 12. Jalyn Akers 25-11.25.
Discus: 4. Hayden Ruggles 94-11, 6. Jalyn Akers 75-0, 11. Koda Henle 70-09.
High Jump: 1. Aubree Shields 5-3.
Long Jump: 4. Dannie Stewart 13-08.

Individual Event Results:
100-meter dash: 13. Anna Greenland 15.38, 16. Lacey Weeda 15.76, 20. Kynlee Still 16.03.
200-meter dash: 5. Ashlyn Murphy 28.77, 7. Brittlyn Nickle 30.20, 15. Lacey Weeda 34.05.
400-meter dash: 2. Aubree Shields 1:04.35, 3. Ashlyn Murphy 1:04.49, 4. Anne Newton 1:05.53, 5. Jaxy Knight 1:06.38, 6. Tatum Friedrich 1:08.43, 7. Keely Wasterney 1:09.99, 9. Abby Eaton 1:11.67.
800-meter run: 5. Addison Doolittle 2:47.79, 8. Kacie Larsen 2:53.86, 10. Ava England 2:55.19.
100-meter hurdles: 6. MaKel Jones 18.73.
400-meter hurdles: 3. MaKel Jones 1:17.44.
Relay Event Results:
4×100-meter relay: 5. Mount Ayr (Brittlyn Nickle, Kyleigh Conklin, Dannie Stewart, Jaxy Knight) 55.71.
4×200-meter relay: 4. Mount Ayr (Brittlyn Nickle, Janna Irving, Kyleigh Conklin, Anna Greenland) 2:04.66.
4×800-meter relay: 2. Mount Ayr (Ashlynn Byer, Ava England, Abby Larson, Addison Doolittle) 11:22.65.
Sprint Medley Relay: 10. Mount Ayr (Kynlee Still, Alexa Bailey, Anna Greenland, Kaley Murphy) 2:25.37.
Distance Medley Relay: 6. Mount Ayr (Brittlyn Nickle, Kyleigh Conklin, Dannie Stewart, Ashlynn Byer) 5:09.31.
Shuttle Hurdle Relay: 3. Mount Ayr (Dannie Stewart, MaKel Jones, Breya Nickle, Aubree Shields) 1:14.56.