Raiderettes third at home meet
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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.

Mount Ayr’s Hayden Ruggles prepares to throw the discuss in field event action last week. PHOTO BY DARLA SOBOTKA.
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.
