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Clear Creek Amana boys, Solon girls rule 2021 Wamac track meet
Clippers pull away from Marion late; Spartans compile a whopping 175 points
May. 6, 2021 9:48 pm, Updated: May. 6, 2021 10:26 pm
INDEPENDENCE — Tom Johnson expected the final race to be a climax, a winner-take-all affair.
Instead, it was a Clipper coronation.
“It was nice to have that pressure taken off,” Johnson said after Clear Creek Amana put the finishing touches on a Wamac Conference boys’ track and field championship Thursday night at Leinbaugh Field. “We definitely shattered expectations.”
Projected in a dead heat with Marion before the race, the Clippers won in fairly comfortable fashion, winning eight events — including five relays — and compiling 144 points. Marion was the runner-up with 119.
“I just can’t describe it,” said Johnson, who won the 800-meter race solo and was on three gold-medal relays. He started the 1,600-meter relay knowing the Clippers had things in hand.
“We have the best coach in the Wamac in (Ben Robison), and we wanted to win it for him.”
Harrison Rosenberg was the 110-meter hurdles champion, Gavin Zillyette led the field in the 400 hurdles, and the Clippers had all that relay power.
“We worked so hard to get here,” Rosenberg said. “A couple of weeks after the season started, we knew we had a strong team.
“This was definitely a good effort. The bus ride home is going to be loud.”
Solon’s girls did the expected and won their portion of the competition convincingly, accumulating 175 points. Williamsburg was second with 97.5.
“Coach (Brent) Sands always tells us not to underestimate who we’re going up against,” said Solon’s Emma Bock, a four-event champion. “You never know who is going to show up.”
The Spartans obviously did, winning eight events. Bock anchored the winning sprint medley and 1,600-meter relays in addition to her 400- and 800-meter triumphs.
Kaia Holtkamp was another star, running on three winning relays.
“I like those team wins over individual wins,” she said. “That makes the whole team have success.
“They hardly announced team scores during the meet, so we were able to compete like we were still chasing (in the team race).”
Other stars from Thursday’s meet included:
- Marion’s Alex Mota, the champion of the boys’ 100 and 400.
- Benton Community’s Jacob Brecht, who won the boys’ 200 and anchored the Bobcats’ triumphant 800 relay.
- South Tama’s JoJo Tyynismaa, a girls’ triple-winner (100, 200 and 100 hurdles). She was second to Marion’s Madison Prier in the 400 hurdles.
WAMAC CONFERENCE TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
At Independence
GIRLS RESULTS
Teams — 1. Solon 175, 2. Williamsburg 97.5, 3. Mount Vernon 71, 4. Clear Creek Amana 67, 5. Center Point-Urbana 67, 6. (tie) Independence and Marion 47, 8. South Tama 45.5, 9. Vinton-Shellsburg 38, 10. Dyersville Beckman 26, 11. Maquoketa 25, 12. West Delaware 20, 13. Benton Community 20.
Shot put — 1. Lauren Pope (Wmsbg), 39-3 1/2; 2. Ava Conrad (Sol), 38-0; 3. Leah Kollar (Sol), 36-7; Discus — 1. Ava Conrad (Sol), 129-9; 2. Taylor Luscomb (CPU), 111-3; 3. Brylee Bruce (VS), 111-2 1/2; High jump — 1. Kayla Griffith (VS), 5-2; 2. Kaia Holtkamp (Sol), 5-0; 3. Ella Bartels (Mar), 4-10; Long jump — 1. Ava Maloney (CPU), 15-11 1/2; 2. Dakota Whitman (Ind), 15-11 1/2; 3. MaKinley Levin (Sol), 15-9 1/4.
Sprint medley relay — 1. Solon (Stahle, Levin, Stahle, Bock), 1:51.75; 2. Mount Vernon, 1:52.94; 3. Williamsburg, 1:54.44; 3,000 — 1. Kiersten Conway (Sol), 11:12.62; 2. Maria Kruse (Beck), 11:16.45; 3. Savanna Busch (Wmsbg), 11:58.53; 3,200 relay — 1. Solon (Holtkamp, Quillin, O’Neill, Federspiel), 9:56.86; 2. Mount Vernon, 10:00.64; 3. Benton Community, 10:16.11; Shuttle hurdle relay — 1. Clear Creek Amana (Mathis, Smiddy, Jiras, Kabolo), 1:09.34; 2. West Delaware, 1:11.84; 3. Mount Vernon, 1:12.20; 100 — 1. JoJo Tyynismaa (STC), 13.00; 2. Adeline Bowman (Maq), 13.34; 3. Gracie Ehret (Wmsbg), 13.38; Distance medley relay — 1. Solon (Barnhouse, Bachus, Stinocher, Holtkamp), 4:22.58; 2. Marion, 4:26.61; 3. Mount Vernon, 4:33.05; 400 — 1. Emma Bock (Sol), 57.95; 2. Alyssa Larson (Ind), 58.72; 3. Gracie Federspiel (Sol), 1:01.14; 800 relay — 1. Williamsburg (Frederick, Eichhorn, Dovre, Ehret), 1:47.57; 2. Solon, 1:48.96; 3. Mount Vernon, 1:49.16; 100 hurdles — 1. JoJo Tyynismaa (STC), 15.83; 2. Silvana Kabolo (CCA), 16.39; 3. Emma Mathis (CCA), 16.52; 800 — 1. Emma Bock (Sol), 2:26.83; 2. Kora Katcher (CPU), 2:27.00; 3. Jorie Randall (MtV), 2:31.06; 200 — 1. JoJo Tyynismaa (STC), 26.68; 2. Kendra Eichhorn (Wmsbg), 26.84; 3. Gracie Ehret (Wmsbg), 26.90; 400 hurdles — 1. Madison Prier (Mar), 1:07.00; 2. JoJo Tyynismaa (STC), 1:09.02; 3. Alivia Schulte (WDel), 1:10.33; 1,500 — 1. Kay Fett (CPU), 5:04.41; 2. Kiersten Conway (Sol), 5:16.64; 3. Kora Katcher (CPU), 5:16.82; 400 relay — 1. Williamsburg (Frederick, Eichhorn, DeWitt), Ehret), 50.44; 2. Solon, 51.56; 3. Clear Creek Amana, 51.70; 1,600 relay — 1. Solon (Holtkamp, Levin, Federspiel, Bock), 4:05.05; 2. Mount Vernon, 4:13.16; 3. Clear Creek Amana, 4:14.34.
BOYS RESULTS
Teams — 1. Clear Creek Amana 144, 2. Marion 119, 3. Solon 105, 4. Benton Community 77, 5. Center Point-Urbana 58, 6. Mount Vernon 50, 7. Independence 47, 8. West Delaware 33, 9. Williamsburg 26, 10. South Tama 24, 11. Dyersville Beckman 20, 12. Vinton-Shellsburg 19, 13. Maquoketa 13.
Shot put — 1. Garret Wagner (Mar), 54-2; 2. Christian Nunley (WDel), 50-7 1/2; 3. Zach Harp (Sol), 50-6; Discus — 1. Jake Sidles (Ind), 152-2; 2. Zach Harp (Sol), 3. Garret Wagner (Mar), 140-7 1/2; High jump — 1. Derek Weisskopf (Wmsbg), 6-1; 2. Colton Hoffman (Sol), 6-0; 3. Koby Beatty (Ind), 5-10; Long jump — 1. Payton Vest (STC), 20-9 3/4; 2. Alex Mota (Mar), 20-4; 3. Kyle Cole (WDel), 20-0 1/2.
Sprint medley relay — 1. Clear Creek Amana (Rosenberg, Figueroa, Freeman, Johnson), 1:36.32; 2. Benton Community, 1:36.46; 3. Solon, 1:36.95; 3,200 — 1. Shane Erb (Mar), 9:36.17; 2. Eli Larson (CPU), 9:36.67; 3. Mason Bach (CPU), 9:46.16; 3,200 relay — 1. Mount Vernon (Fall, Meeker, Fencl, Sansenbach), 8:26.74; 2. Clear Creek Amana, 8:30.97; 3. Solon, 8:34.62; Shuttle hurdle relay — 1. Clear Creek Amana (Swails, Schlemme, Rachman, Rosenberg), 1:03.22; 2. Marion, 1:03.75; 3. Benton Community, 1:04.87; 100 — 1. Alex Mota (Mar), 11.34; 2. Alex Figueroa (CCA), 11.35; 3. Jacob Brecht (BC), 11.54; Distance medley relay — 1. Clear Creek Amana (Swails, Freeman, Zillyette, Johnson), 3:44.62; 2. Mount Vernon, 3:47.09; 3. Independence, 3:56.04; 400 — 1. Alex Mota (Mar), 51.57; 2. Brayden Rickertsen (Sol), 51.60; 3. Marcus Beatty (Ind), 51.75; 800 relay — 1. Benton Community (Buch, Wallace, Thompson, Brecht), 1:32.14; 2. Solon, 1:33.46; 3. Beckman, 1:33.52; 110 hurdles — 1. Harrison Rosenberg (CCA), 15.24; 2. Brady Mullen (Sol), 16.34; 3. Bryce Sandberg (CPU), 16.95; 800 — 1. Tom Johnson (CCA), 2:01.83; 2. Aiden Harris (BC), 2:02.91; 3. Blake Smith (WDel), 2:04.41; 200 — 1. Jacob Brecht (BC), 22.49; 2. Alex Mota (Mar), 22.89; 3. Alex Figueroa (CCA), 22.99; 400 hurdles — 1. Gavin Zillyette (CCA), 56.27; 2. Colin Buch (BC), 56.60; 3. Thomas McAllister (Mar), 58.30; 1,600 — 1. Eli Larson (CPU), 4:31.29; 2. Mason Bach (CPU), 4:33.75; 3. Shane Erb (Mar), 4:37.51; 400 relay — 1. Clear Creek Amana (Rosenberg, Swails, Freeman, Figueroa), 43.79; 2. Marion, 44.93; 3. Beckman, 45.19; 1,600 relay — 1. Clear Creek Amana (Zillyette, Jensen, Gisleson, Johnson), 3:29.00; 2. Mount Vernon, 3:30.18; 3. Solon, 3:32.27.
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Clear Creek-Amana's Tom Johnson kicks to the finish line to win the 800-meter run at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
South Tama's JoJo Tyynismaa crosses the finish line during the 100-meter dash at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Solon's Kiersten Conway (right) runs on the shoulder of Beckman's Maria Kruse during the 3,000-meter run at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Benton Community's Aiden Harris (right) leads the pack with Clear Creek-Amana's Tom Johnson on his shoulder during the 800-meter run at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Solon's Colton Hoffman (center) runs against Benton Community's Sam Wallace (right) and Jacob Brecht during the 100-meter dash at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
South Tama's JoJo Tyynismaa clears a hurdle during the 100-meter hurdles at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Marion's Alex Mota crosses the finish line during the 100-meter dash at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Marion's Madison Prier clears a hurdles during the 400-meter hurdles at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Vinton-Shellsburg's Kayla Griffith approaches the bar on one of her jumps on her way to winning the high jump at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Solon's Meghan O'Neill (left) runs for an exchange with anchor runner Gracie Federspiel during the 4 x 800-meter relay at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Mount Vernon's Carson Sansenbach kicks to the finish line as he anchors the Mustangs on their way to winning the 4 x 800-meter relay at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Solon's Emma Bock (right) edges out Center Point-Urbana's Kora Katcher to win the 800-meter run at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Solon anchor runner Kaia Holtkamp takes off after getting the handoff from Ashley Stinocher during the distance medley relay at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Clear Creek-Amana's Peyton Stadler (right) hands off to anchor Brandon Barker during the 4 x 800-meter relay at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
Clear Creek-Amana's Gavin Zillyette runs during the 400-hurdles at the WaMaC Conference track and field meet at Independence High School in Independence, Iowa, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
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