RICHMOND — Iola Middle School athletes continued their early season success, earning several medals at the Central Heights Invitational Thursday.
The IMS seventh-grade boys took second place behind Royster of Chanute. Royster racked up 125.25 points. The Ponies were second at 65. The seventh-grade girls finished with 16 points, good for seventh. Burlington won that division with a score of 86.
Meanwhile, the Iola eighth-grade boys took seventh with 35 points, behind first-place Burlington’s 1-2. The eighth-grade girls also were seventh at 16 points. Anderson County’s girls were tops at the eighth-grade level with 121 points.
Crest Middle School also competed. Eighth-grade boys finished second with 73 points. The seventh-grade girls were fourth with 42 points. The seventh-grade boys were 10th with one point.
Final results for Iola and Crest follow.
Seventh grade
Boys
Long jump — 2. Tayton Driskel, I, 17’3 3/4”
Shot put — 2. Kolt Knoblich, I, 31’
100m hurdles — 3. Tim Komma, I, 19.1; 6. Hayden Hermreck, C, 19.8
100m — 2. Driskel, I, 13.3
1600m — 2. Cole Regehr, I, 5:34.0; 6. Breton Plumlee, I, 5:52.9
200m — 1. Driskel, I, 26.9
4×400 relay — 1. Iola, 4:30.9; 6. Crest, 5:10.6
Girls
100m hurdles — 1. Camryn Strickler, C, 19.2; 3. Ashleigh Nicholas, I, 19.7; 4. Kim Madrid, C, 20.5
